There is nothing I would like more than for Concorde to continue rattling my windows every day, but the world is not about state subsidies or Governments making decisions on who operates what these days, - its about hard, realistic, commercial decisions. And those might not always be the favoured option by all.
Branson is just seeking publicity. That’s his trade mark, nothing wrong with that, but you need to realise it. Something for nothing. And he has achieved this very well by latching onto that he knew the British public would side with him on.
He even fibbed when he said that he had the manufactures support, something that the boss of Airbus completely refuted the very next day !