So then...
Who, ultimately, are going to end up the winners (and losers) out of all this, I wonder?
The schemers, funny-handshakers and backslappers seem to have convinced themselves that they're going to get away with it.
"How could I have been expected to know? .. It came to me in an official 'Bird in a Biplane' press-release" etc, etc.
Or, forehead-smackingly, in the Royal Navy's case, as we've just seen .. "I read it on Tracey's website - so it must be true.. Please go away!"
In spite of the public's appetite for 'flights of fancy', there is a subtle, yet significant and growing, undercurrent of distrust within
that I feel these outrageous onanists have been a little slow to pick up on.
It's going to turn around and bite you, boys.
(Camera pans to scene by crackling log fire,,)
'Don't worry fellows, they've the attention-span of gnats.'
'Another port, sir?'
'GREAT' Britain, indeed.
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