Our text was a piece from yesterday's Guardian telling us that the tree-huggers had blocked a plot to dig a whole lot of fertilizer out of the North Yorkshire Moors. We got the impression that it was a very good plot, a plot which would have meant that we could have exported vast quantities of fertilizer to Brazil, India and China, thus raising the folding stuff needed to pay for the tree-huggers' consumer gadgets, for example their all important mobile phones.
But as things stand, our current account deficit will just keep on growing, with the result that the Chinese will, one fine day, simply buy the North Yorkshire Moors, after which they will be able to do what they like with them, without further payment. Maybe some of the tree-huggers will wind up slaving away, deep underground in the fertilizer mines, with the slave drivers imported, like their mobile phones are now, from China. With the finest hippopotamus hide whips made from sustainably harvested African hippopotami.
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