Nicely said chuks, we might just get our juju and sharmen to practice their mind control acts on these colonialist.
However, you have to wonder why the United kingdom ( and Uncle Sam) still pay their local airlines to fly uneconomical routes e.g. from Dublin to Knock, Galway, Kerry, Sligo, Donegal and City of Derry, locally in the name of PSO (public servie obligation) essential service programmes. had to get congress to pass the "fly America act", as well as defend why the pump cash in Boeing and Northrop grumman in the name of R&D.
Sometimes, it's the arrogance that they can skew the model when it suits them that makes this just laughable. Still the under-dogs need to hone their act up to perfection or it may be a long cold winter of discontent.