Pfizer announced this week that it will close it's R&D plant in Sandwich, Kent within 2 years. This is a (possibly THE ?) major employer in the county (2.400 high-value jobs to go) - so which is more likely: that it will cut off Manston's development of passenger services at the knees, or that the economic blow will be so severe that local/national government will have to do something significant to support the area and Manston might be well positioned to benefit from an upswing?