The "situation"
As the local bookies here in Jersey will not take bets on when the big thaw will set in, or who will form the next government in the UK, I asked what odds they would give on the speedy resolution of the BA industrial dispute that occupies us all on this thread.
Result: a furrowing of brows and a loud, prolonged, sucking of teeth.
I personally have no intention of making money out of others' misfortune (I leave that to a certain lady who lives far, far away), but the booky's reluctance to offer any odds spoke volumes.
Can anyone give me a price?