Miles Kington once famously wrote a column that consisted of only two sentences – going on and on and on through all the piece:
If we didn’t sell them, someone else would.
It creates lots of jobs in Britain.
The trade was obviously arms trade, disputed with new force in the wake of fresh controversies betwen India and Pakistan at some point in 1998.
Just a couple of days ago I heard nearly the same phrases used as an excuse of mass sales of bad credits… by former building societies and banks proper.
Your mortgage as a destructive force, working by stealth against you – that was a disaster waiting to happen – and here it is, at long last.