Just eating is not enough, to save the UK economy you must buy useless tat made by child slaves in Vietnam.
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Permit me a metaphor. The Pangolin has no fingers, but if it had, it would place one or two of them on the pulsing arteries (markets) of the nation’s beating heart (economy); checking regularly for arterial congestion (over-regulation) and never willingly donating blood to the weakly (avoiding tax).
Clever metaphor, hey – that’s just the kind of thing you come up with when you’re a clever, ambitious, value-oriented businessperson.
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