Originally Posted by
beardy
Perhaps the time has come for the British Government to buy (nationalise) Sir Richard Brandon's interest in the company thus fulfilling his sincere desire to see the company survive. If he wished to continue to participate he could, of course, be taken on as an employee.
I think the problem with nationalisation is that it could then be seen as unfair competition to BA given that once nationalised its access to funding would be much easier and cheaper through the government than the commercial markets that BA would have to rely on.