I mentioned in an earlier post that a large part of Rip off Britain is due to the Government. Well, here is something more to chew on; in the Eighties the Thatcher government sold off a number of the utilities and other nationalised entities. Now putting aside whether this was good or bad, do you feel better for it? I mean better off?
Large amounts of money was sprayed at these 'companies' as they were rarely self funding. But now we don't own British Gas, or British Railways, where is the benefit? Where the reduced taxes? Government it seems continues to need ever larger amounts of cash (our cash) to do less and less. Or more accurately to achieve less and less. To cover the gross incompetence of his administration, Blair placed more responsibilities onto local government, without the corresponding funds and Brown borrowed more.
Where does it all go? We know that, even without corruption, government is an inefficient and wasteful entity so it would make eminent sense if the government just did less. This is just one of a long list of reasons for smaller government, but our politicians shouldn't worry about their wealth and status. Those can be confirmed by bringing back powers from Brussels, which in itself can be achieved by leaving the EU and casting them adrift. An old Soviet style trading block, with rigid rules and unelected functionaries is a recipe for disaster, politically, economically and socially. And in this age of the internet, the end can be very swift when the people finally grow tired, as the Middle East is showing us.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Police And Prescott?
The Mail is today reporting that John Prescott is considering a role as a police commissioner. I think he may have misunderstood (wouldn't that be strange?), the idea is that we get better policing, not the old crony based policing of his days in 'High Office'. The idea is that people who go around fighting in the street don't get special treatment because of the position they hold.
Tony Blair had special reasons for having a half wit as a deputy, the nation and the police have their fill currently and aren't looking for any more. In fact, the new elected posts have a key remit of eradicating the stupid non-policing that is the vogue for senior officers at present.
Can you imagine how Prescott would spend his time as a police commissioner? None on things that matter, 80% out of the office, sunning himself at public expense or playing bowls and 20% insisting Labour party members don't get prosecuted.
Tony Blair had special reasons for having a half wit as a deputy, the nation and the police have their fill currently and aren't looking for any more. In fact, the new elected posts have a key remit of eradicating the stupid non-policing that is the vogue for senior officers at present.
Can you imagine how Prescott would spend his time as a police commissioner? None on things that matter, 80% out of the office, sunning himself at public expense or playing bowls and 20% insisting Labour party members don't get prosecuted.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Our Political Parties
It is well known now that the problem with politics, the reason for the disconnect with the public (and often reality), is the party system. This quite sensible idea, to draw like minded people together to form policies they all support, has been completely corrupted and is now anti-democratic. When we bother to vote, we elect politicians who merely turn up in parliament to receive their orders from party HQ and to vote on legislation as directed, rather than as their constituents may have wished.
MP's and particularly PM's are sometimes indignant when their rule is questioned, when perhaps a referendum is suggested. It is their right, they say, to govern as they have been given a mandate to rule. The people have entrusted decision making to them for 5 years. And this might be so, if the parties didn't lie so routinely before elections and then, by the control they exercise over their MP's, effectively dictate.
So, if the parties are out of control, what do they claim to want and represent as of today? Here is how they appear to me.
The Greens. Obviously an actual irrelevance, I mention the Greens because of Caroline Lucas who is the Greens (should that be Green?) Lucas is possibly an alien who has landed on Earth and learnt our ways so as not to stick out. If so, you have to say she has made a good stab at it. To many people she looks and sounds quite normal, unless she is talking about politics. Here it is clear she comes from a world where some elite group controls every action of the lesser beings that she unfortunately has to share a planet with.
Lucas is a Stalinist of the first order, by which I mean she seeks the state to own everything and the people to work for the benefit of the state. Usefully, she excludes herself from such a scheme, as, being an elite she can share the fruits of others' labour (on QT last night her disdain for the Queen was all too evident, a drain on the public purse, which presumably she doesn't think she is, an inversion of reality). This attitude is the bedrock of most current 'socialist' thought, from left wing politicians to the supposedly scientific environmental groups and race/gender communities. The state will tax you to organise how the 'nation's' wealth (definitely not yours, despite you creating it, working for it) and spend it as they see fit, being benign, intensely clever and caring people.
Seizing absolute control like this, not only perpetuates their power and keeps the people in check, but also gives a reason for the state (and an enormously bloated one at that) to exist. The only 'sustainable' form of government! As Lucas proved again on QT last night she has absolutely no idea what goes on around her and still thinks we are all in thrall to her global warming scam ('the greatest threat we currently face'). She frames her output absolutely around this adolescent ideology and tries to fit reality into it. Not having a strong imagination, she fails quite spectacularly.
But this Stalinist view of ideal politics, as I said earlier, defines much of our politics and background political agitation. Hence the Labour Party are in such turmoil. Having been seduced to let a conman lead their party, just because he could get them into power, they have been seen as a very right wing party, pursuing personal wealth through the worst corruption a capitalist system can provide, where the legislators are corrupt. This pleased many like Mandelson who only like politics for the games they can play, for the power itself and the wealth it attracts. This disgusted many of the Old Labour persuasion.
Old Labour yearned for power so they could push their agenda of division and hatred through complete state control. These are the people, not just politicians, who turn up and say that capitalism is evil and causes most of the misery in the the world and can be ended by adopting regimes like those of Soviet Russia and North Korea. Despite the abject failure of these societies, the ideological Labour party cannot see or accept that they would bring such destruction and death to the UK. Though many of them do know and don't care.
Currently Labour have Ed Miliband as their figurehead, a man who was supposed to be a puppet of the Unions. Instead, he has turned out to be his own man, with no clear ideas on anything and consequently not much liked by anyone.
The Lib Dems are now a joke, a comedy party. For all my life they were always spoken of as spouting fine sounding claptrap on the sound reasoning that they would never get into power and so be tested on it. Then, oops a daisy, they found themselves in a position to share power with the Conservatives and all of a sudden they were ditching keenly held beliefs and policies like a wet dog shaking. Naturally, their long term supporters now hate them and everyone else, who previously thought them a joke, realise they are actually dangerous Stalinists.
Look at Chris Huhne. With an IQ determined by his collar size, he preens and pouts and connives, being the unreliable toad he appears on first viewing. Nick Clegg of course has clearly completed the clown training and recognising a big top when he sees one is giving us the full routine. Yes, we know that state control would be much better in your view Nick, but when do you order the extra guns for the police? When people start to realise what you are up to or earlier than that? Sometimes people just don't appreciate what you are trying to do for them, do they?
Lastly, the Conservatives. Tony Blair may have called his boastful book 'A Journey' (though maybe, 'so long and thanks for all the fish' is closer to the mark), but it is actually David Cameron who is on a journey. Having decided he quite liked the idea of socialism, but the people he generally came into contact with talked about the Conservatives, he kind of joined that gang, by accident. As PM he thought he could cure the raging predatory capitalism that New Labour had promoted to the exclusion of all else, with some cuddly Conservatism that would make everyone feel better.
But, little by little, as reality slaps him in the face like an unexpected icy wind on opening the front door, he is having to adopt genuinely Conservative thinking. Soon, he may even realise that the EU has been an enormous con and was merely an attempt to build a sovietised economy run by unelected elites for their own benefit. Which isn't really what Conservatives believe in. Over all, a Conservative is what generally considerate people would be, left to their own devices. It is really the party of small business, which is also the main driver of a (free) society. Cameron is not there yet, but he is showing some good signs, though I'm not as convinced as Fraser Nelson is, in today's Telegraph.
When Cameron starts actually shrinking the size of government and addresses the other left over issues from Blair and Brown, such as entrenched inequalities and moribund social mobility, by which much socialist strategy survives, then we will know Britain is on the way back to recovery. Don't hold your breath.
MP's and particularly PM's are sometimes indignant when their rule is questioned, when perhaps a referendum is suggested. It is their right, they say, to govern as they have been given a mandate to rule. The people have entrusted decision making to them for 5 years. And this might be so, if the parties didn't lie so routinely before elections and then, by the control they exercise over their MP's, effectively dictate.
So, if the parties are out of control, what do they claim to want and represent as of today? Here is how they appear to me.
The Greens. Obviously an actual irrelevance, I mention the Greens because of Caroline Lucas who is the Greens (should that be Green?) Lucas is possibly an alien who has landed on Earth and learnt our ways so as not to stick out. If so, you have to say she has made a good stab at it. To many people she looks and sounds quite normal, unless she is talking about politics. Here it is clear she comes from a world where some elite group controls every action of the lesser beings that she unfortunately has to share a planet with.
Lucas is a Stalinist of the first order, by which I mean she seeks the state to own everything and the people to work for the benefit of the state. Usefully, she excludes herself from such a scheme, as, being an elite she can share the fruits of others' labour (on QT last night her disdain for the Queen was all too evident, a drain on the public purse, which presumably she doesn't think she is, an inversion of reality). This attitude is the bedrock of most current 'socialist' thought, from left wing politicians to the supposedly scientific environmental groups and race/gender communities. The state will tax you to organise how the 'nation's' wealth (definitely not yours, despite you creating it, working for it) and spend it as they see fit, being benign, intensely clever and caring people.
Seizing absolute control like this, not only perpetuates their power and keeps the people in check, but also gives a reason for the state (and an enormously bloated one at that) to exist. The only 'sustainable' form of government! As Lucas proved again on QT last night she has absolutely no idea what goes on around her and still thinks we are all in thrall to her global warming scam ('the greatest threat we currently face'). She frames her output absolutely around this adolescent ideology and tries to fit reality into it. Not having a strong imagination, she fails quite spectacularly.
But this Stalinist view of ideal politics, as I said earlier, defines much of our politics and background political agitation. Hence the Labour Party are in such turmoil. Having been seduced to let a conman lead their party, just because he could get them into power, they have been seen as a very right wing party, pursuing personal wealth through the worst corruption a capitalist system can provide, where the legislators are corrupt. This pleased many like Mandelson who only like politics for the games they can play, for the power itself and the wealth it attracts. This disgusted many of the Old Labour persuasion.
Old Labour yearned for power so they could push their agenda of division and hatred through complete state control. These are the people, not just politicians, who turn up and say that capitalism is evil and causes most of the misery in the the world and can be ended by adopting regimes like those of Soviet Russia and North Korea. Despite the abject failure of these societies, the ideological Labour party cannot see or accept that they would bring such destruction and death to the UK. Though many of them do know and don't care.
Currently Labour have Ed Miliband as their figurehead, a man who was supposed to be a puppet of the Unions. Instead, he has turned out to be his own man, with no clear ideas on anything and consequently not much liked by anyone.
The Lib Dems are now a joke, a comedy party. For all my life they were always spoken of as spouting fine sounding claptrap on the sound reasoning that they would never get into power and so be tested on it. Then, oops a daisy, they found themselves in a position to share power with the Conservatives and all of a sudden they were ditching keenly held beliefs and policies like a wet dog shaking. Naturally, their long term supporters now hate them and everyone else, who previously thought them a joke, realise they are actually dangerous Stalinists.
Look at Chris Huhne. With an IQ determined by his collar size, he preens and pouts and connives, being the unreliable toad he appears on first viewing. Nick Clegg of course has clearly completed the clown training and recognising a big top when he sees one is giving us the full routine. Yes, we know that state control would be much better in your view Nick, but when do you order the extra guns for the police? When people start to realise what you are up to or earlier than that? Sometimes people just don't appreciate what you are trying to do for them, do they?
Lastly, the Conservatives. Tony Blair may have called his boastful book 'A Journey' (though maybe, 'so long and thanks for all the fish' is closer to the mark), but it is actually David Cameron who is on a journey. Having decided he quite liked the idea of socialism, but the people he generally came into contact with talked about the Conservatives, he kind of joined that gang, by accident. As PM he thought he could cure the raging predatory capitalism that New Labour had promoted to the exclusion of all else, with some cuddly Conservatism that would make everyone feel better.
But, little by little, as reality slaps him in the face like an unexpected icy wind on opening the front door, he is having to adopt genuinely Conservative thinking. Soon, he may even realise that the EU has been an enormous con and was merely an attempt to build a sovietised economy run by unelected elites for their own benefit. Which isn't really what Conservatives believe in. Over all, a Conservative is what generally considerate people would be, left to their own devices. It is really the party of small business, which is also the main driver of a (free) society. Cameron is not there yet, but he is showing some good signs, though I'm not as convinced as Fraser Nelson is, in today's Telegraph.
When Cameron starts actually shrinking the size of government and addresses the other left over issues from Blair and Brown, such as entrenched inequalities and moribund social mobility, by which much socialist strategy survives, then we will know Britain is on the way back to recovery. Don't hold your breath.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
This Is Life
Stunning news today that the Met police spent over £100,000 on directory enquiries and the speaking clock(!) This in an age when the accuracy of your wristwatch, or mobile phone even, is to a degree of seconds a month and phone numbers are available, free, online. These are the people who are supposed to protect us and chase down criminals. There may not have been an actual rise in crime, maybe it is just that these dimwits can't prevent or catch.
Doctors are planning to strike, for the first time in 30 years. It is tough today for the medical profession, as politics takes up so much of their time. Not just the meddling of central government, but their own wheeling and dealing for advantage. No longer the preening Consultants who demand respect and sweep through hospitals like gods, but salary seekers, ever concerned with their pay, the new arbiter of prestige. GP's are formidably better off now than ever before and offer the lowest service ever.
Hospitals can no longer treat patients, or in fact even see them. Nurses are too important to actually do the job they are employed for and doctors sit in little specialisms, warring with each other and with management, with no application of the principle of treating the 'whole patient'.
And now we hear of the latest turmoil in the financial world. Well the political/financial world. The markets aren't too sure about the IMF's $1 trillion fund. We seem to have a strange disconnect as we are constantly told what the politico's think should be done and then 'the market' gives its reaction as if a) it were sage (no pun intended) and b) not self serving. The market can make money by betting on failure as much as saying 'ooh, that's a good idea'.
Because papers don't pay journalists to think and most of them seem happy to oblige, we are led to believe a great many contradictory things. So let's keep it simple. The EU is destroying world finances because you cannot have independent countries tying their currencies together. The ignorant approach of politicians in France and Germany trying to prop up a political empire is pure farce. Whilst the Euro is held as an ideal state for European finances there can be no resolution.
The IMF and the World Bank are irrelevant. The sums they talk of don't exist in a single place and it isn't a credible stance. Countries supposedly 'supplying' their share, simply won't. They haven't over Greece and they won't ever. Printing banknotes is a cover, not a cure. There are way too many idiots in politics today and politicians just talk to themselves, they have forgotten what their real role is, whilst concentrating on their own importance.
Until these people come back into the real world nothing will improve and both predatory capitalists and socialists will stalk their prey. Which is you and me. Socialists seek to control, over money, lives and every aspect of life. Capitalists just want to get rich and the more chaotic society is, as a result of socialism trying to take over, the better they like it. No one is watching them.
Doctors are planning to strike, for the first time in 30 years. It is tough today for the medical profession, as politics takes up so much of their time. Not just the meddling of central government, but their own wheeling and dealing for advantage. No longer the preening Consultants who demand respect and sweep through hospitals like gods, but salary seekers, ever concerned with their pay, the new arbiter of prestige. GP's are formidably better off now than ever before and offer the lowest service ever.
Hospitals can no longer treat patients, or in fact even see them. Nurses are too important to actually do the job they are employed for and doctors sit in little specialisms, warring with each other and with management, with no application of the principle of treating the 'whole patient'.
And now we hear of the latest turmoil in the financial world. Well the political/financial world. The markets aren't too sure about the IMF's $1 trillion fund. We seem to have a strange disconnect as we are constantly told what the politico's think should be done and then 'the market' gives its reaction as if a) it were sage (no pun intended) and b) not self serving. The market can make money by betting on failure as much as saying 'ooh, that's a good idea'.
Because papers don't pay journalists to think and most of them seem happy to oblige, we are led to believe a great many contradictory things. So let's keep it simple. The EU is destroying world finances because you cannot have independent countries tying their currencies together. The ignorant approach of politicians in France and Germany trying to prop up a political empire is pure farce. Whilst the Euro is held as an ideal state for European finances there can be no resolution.
The IMF and the World Bank are irrelevant. The sums they talk of don't exist in a single place and it isn't a credible stance. Countries supposedly 'supplying' their share, simply won't. They haven't over Greece and they won't ever. Printing banknotes is a cover, not a cure. There are way too many idiots in politics today and politicians just talk to themselves, they have forgotten what their real role is, whilst concentrating on their own importance.
Until these people come back into the real world nothing will improve and both predatory capitalists and socialists will stalk their prey. Which is you and me. Socialists seek to control, over money, lives and every aspect of life. Capitalists just want to get rich and the more chaotic society is, as a result of socialism trying to take over, the better they like it. No one is watching them.
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
In The News Today
Ed Miliband, who is apparently the leader of the Labour party, says today that his new crusade is against rip-off Britain, which is I think an old New Labour chant that they didn't do anything about when they could. His targets don't seem to include the real rip-off artists such as the utilities companies, railways, local and central government. These are all things the government is already involved in, as could be guessed by the fact that they are all out of control.
Elsewhere reports of severe cuts to the RAF and the Ghurkas mention these as 'MoD cuts', when in fact they are front line cuts. I bet the MoD in Whitehall haven't been touched, as they continue to order kit we don't want from companies that can't supply, but charge anyway. Oh and award themselves bonuses for turning up, or not. When did it become impossible to get rid of the bit that doesn't work?
The Scottish civil service chief says that the Scots should prepare for independence. Presumably he will be issuing advice on how to treat yourself for a range of injuries once the hospitals have to close, how to avoid cholera when the bins aren't emptied and that it is still illegal to burn itinerants or even family members who have passed away, no matter how cold you get. At least it will stop the nation being a welfare state, as they also won't be paying any benefits, after what money they can borrow has been spent on essentials like a fleet of limousines for Alex, a private jet, a refurbished palace and hot dinners.
And the captain of the Italian cruise liner currently reposing on its side in the Ligurean Sea seems to be preparing to defend his actions, by saying that it was dark. Captain Tremulous left the ship as soon as he thought he might be in danger and figured that his job was to be in charge of the ship only while it was sailing, not while it was sinking. Had he left it much longer, he would have had to push women and children out of his way to escape and how unseemly would that have been?
The coastguard ordered him back on board to collate information about those in peril, but Captain Jelly countered that it was dark and he felt he could help much better by being on a rescue boat. It was interesting to hear the exchange with the coastguard, gabbling in that excited way we expect of Italians and the captain maintaining the calm demeanour of one who knows he has just dodged a dangerous situation by leaving, at the earliest possible opportunity. To say the man is a disgrace and a stain on the Italian nation, is to promote him.
Elsewhere reports of severe cuts to the RAF and the Ghurkas mention these as 'MoD cuts', when in fact they are front line cuts. I bet the MoD in Whitehall haven't been touched, as they continue to order kit we don't want from companies that can't supply, but charge anyway. Oh and award themselves bonuses for turning up, or not. When did it become impossible to get rid of the bit that doesn't work?
The Scottish civil service chief says that the Scots should prepare for independence. Presumably he will be issuing advice on how to treat yourself for a range of injuries once the hospitals have to close, how to avoid cholera when the bins aren't emptied and that it is still illegal to burn itinerants or even family members who have passed away, no matter how cold you get. At least it will stop the nation being a welfare state, as they also won't be paying any benefits, after what money they can borrow has been spent on essentials like a fleet of limousines for Alex, a private jet, a refurbished palace and hot dinners.
And the captain of the Italian cruise liner currently reposing on its side in the Ligurean Sea seems to be preparing to defend his actions, by saying that it was dark. Captain Tremulous left the ship as soon as he thought he might be in danger and figured that his job was to be in charge of the ship only while it was sailing, not while it was sinking. Had he left it much longer, he would have had to push women and children out of his way to escape and how unseemly would that have been?
The coastguard ordered him back on board to collate information about those in peril, but Captain Jelly countered that it was dark and he felt he could help much better by being on a rescue boat. It was interesting to hear the exchange with the coastguard, gabbling in that excited way we expect of Italians and the captain maintaining the calm demeanour of one who knows he has just dodged a dangerous situation by leaving, at the earliest possible opportunity. To say the man is a disgrace and a stain on the Italian nation, is to promote him.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Scotland
The tourist destination, Scotland is being pushed by radical socialists towards 'independence'. Like most of the recent decisions by its comedy parliament, this is not something it can afford, nor is it being cried out for by the Scottish people. It speaks volumes, I think, when a larger percentage of the English want rid of the whining region than Scots want independence.
But then, the not-very-trustworthy Alex Salmond isn't actually offering independence as such. He just wants a bigger role for himself and the actual running of the country will be handed over to the EU, if he is allowed to join. And he also seems keen to adopt the Euro. The strategy, if such a grand word can be used in the context of this ignorant man, is for Scotland to become more like Ireland and Iceland. It is an old strategy.
You may notice that there is no 'I' in Scotland, but fear not Salmond is resolving that personally. I think that Scotland should be proud of its place in the United Kingdom and its people should stop believing the lies they have been fed by socialists for so long. Scotland has been reduced to a dependency status by politicians who want to keep them down, in their place to allow easier political control. And these are Scottish politicians.
Scottish people are better than that, we know this as a historical fact, but they have been prone to listening to whinging, left wing rabble-rousers, who like Scargill with the miners have no interest in the people they mislead. Such people as Salmond are responsible, directly for much of the industrial wastelands and poverty in Scotland, both financial and moral poverty.
But then, the not-very-trustworthy Alex Salmond isn't actually offering independence as such. He just wants a bigger role for himself and the actual running of the country will be handed over to the EU, if he is allowed to join. And he also seems keen to adopt the Euro. The strategy, if such a grand word can be used in the context of this ignorant man, is for Scotland to become more like Ireland and Iceland. It is an old strategy.
You may notice that there is no 'I' in Scotland, but fear not Salmond is resolving that personally. I think that Scotland should be proud of its place in the United Kingdom and its people should stop believing the lies they have been fed by socialists for so long. Scotland has been reduced to a dependency status by politicians who want to keep them down, in their place to allow easier political control. And these are Scottish politicians.
Scottish people are better than that, we know this as a historical fact, but they have been prone to listening to whinging, left wing rabble-rousers, who like Scargill with the miners have no interest in the people they mislead. Such people as Salmond are responsible, directly for much of the industrial wastelands and poverty in Scotland, both financial and moral poverty.
Murder On The Sales Floor
The bad news from retailers continues to roll in and the papers continue to pump it up. But is it so bad? Round here the shops looked as busy as ever. M&S and JL's report decent trading. So what does that tell us? That when things get a little tight, people look for quality. They do not want to risk their money with rock bottom retailers but want stuff that will last.
Those suffering are those that don't pay attention to this. Obviously Argos and Comet, but strangely Dixons too. Why, in their position would a company decide to ignore the evidence and pursue a rush to the bottom? Is it because they have a Tesco mentality? OK so they are not as cynical in dealing with their customers as 'the nations favourite grocer', but they do love the word 'sale'.
Personally, I probably get caught by the 'half price' tag that is routinely used as much as anyone, but then get really annoyed when it is half a price they made up and pretty much the same as everyone else charges. But me being annoyed doesn't register. If the con works sometimes then stick with it, they seem to be thinking. If the annoyed move away from that retailer, then something happens that they hadn't contemplated.
It appears that there is an entrenched mindset at Dixons and nothing will cause it to change. 'Well, we've always done it like that'. I see that part of the success at Dixons has been Dr Dre headphones, which are basically over-hyped, over-priced mediocrity, so how to explain the sales? Might be that brand image and suggestion of higher quality (they aren't crap, but you can get better sound cheaper -though not with the image admittedly!)? But Dixons move up market and address their core customers? Wow! What a lot for a retailer to take in.
No, the rudderless ship continues on its way, though hardly alone. The current breed of CEO's seem to be focussed on grand schemes for European expansion (without realising what a bad idea 'Europe' is), borrowing exorbitantly and rather less on raising their game as a functioning business.
Those suffering are those that don't pay attention to this. Obviously Argos and Comet, but strangely Dixons too. Why, in their position would a company decide to ignore the evidence and pursue a rush to the bottom? Is it because they have a Tesco mentality? OK so they are not as cynical in dealing with their customers as 'the nations favourite grocer', but they do love the word 'sale'.
Personally, I probably get caught by the 'half price' tag that is routinely used as much as anyone, but then get really annoyed when it is half a price they made up and pretty much the same as everyone else charges. But me being annoyed doesn't register. If the con works sometimes then stick with it, they seem to be thinking. If the annoyed move away from that retailer, then something happens that they hadn't contemplated.
It appears that there is an entrenched mindset at Dixons and nothing will cause it to change. 'Well, we've always done it like that'. I see that part of the success at Dixons has been Dr Dre headphones, which are basically over-hyped, over-priced mediocrity, so how to explain the sales? Might be that brand image and suggestion of higher quality (they aren't crap, but you can get better sound cheaper -though not with the image admittedly!)? But Dixons move up market and address their core customers? Wow! What a lot for a retailer to take in.
No, the rudderless ship continues on its way, though hardly alone. The current breed of CEO's seem to be focussed on grand schemes for European expansion (without realising what a bad idea 'Europe' is), borrowing exorbitantly and rather less on raising their game as a functioning business.
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