If you borrow £500 and miss a payment, men in black t-shirts will break down the door and cart off your TV and stereo. If you borrow a few £billion, it’s the bankers who lose their tellies. You, of course, would never personally owe any money. Even your telly is probably owned by your gardener’s sister-in-law in the Cayman Islands. And, just to be clear, David Cameron did nothing wrong, it was all just friendly banter by text with Rishi and over a drink with Matt Hancock. In the words of Bruce Hornsby (kids etc), that’s just the way it is.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?