Richard PearsonNo. I don't.

Charles Dalrymple-ChumleyLike opium trade to China?

o bAnd bankrupt the Scotch whisky industry ? Never !

o bAnd of course, you never fly using Ryanair or Easyjet, instead using State run airlines at three times the cost.

o bHere ? Which implies that neither you or any of your family have ever purchased anything on Amazon, which is probably the most cut throat and ruthless retailer out there.

o bDefine competitive and best, in your view. The standard definition for winning in commerce is delivering good quality at a competitive price.

Charles Dalrymple-ChumleyIf a competition in which the most competitive wins (not the best one necessarily) is a cut throat contest, then thanks, but no thanks. Don 't want that particularly Thatcherite characteristic of ruthlessness here.

Richard PearsonRichard, Stay away fom the hard stuff.

o bBrexit changed everything. A colossal mistake. I'm told by senior politicians that it has been revealed that people running export businesses to the EU pre-referendum voted to leave the EU. Now many of these same businesses cannot sell their goods to the EU or deliver them owing to restrictions. Especially perishable products. Thatcher's economic paradigm was for open and free markets, competitions in which the best man wins. That's commerce.

o bUpset that she got a State Funeral and Blair definitely won’t ? Diddums