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Andy flying high despite collapse

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I was gutted to hear that the boss of Monarch was heartbroke­n when his firm collapsed throwing 1,800 workers on the dole.

The good news for Andrew Swaffield was that his head wasn’t broken. Because the affluent polo player was using it to pocket a £583,000 salary and set up a new company days before Monarch went into administra­tion, while still assuring workers and customers all was fine.

The collapse meant 110,000 passengers needed to be brought back from abroad, funded by the British tax-payer, leading some to call it the country’s biggest re-patriation since Dunkirk. I wonder if Swaffield was thinking these Churchilli­an thoughts: “We shall strand them on the beaches, we shall jilt them on the landing grounds, we shall leave them in the fields and in the streets; we shall never give a flying fig about our customers, our workers or the tax-payers. For all my breed needs to care about is the lifeboat that sails us to another big pay-day.”

Ah yes, the Dunkirk spirit. It’s what makes Britain great you know.

I’m neither a religious nor a betting man. But I’d stake my house on a Las Vegas roulette wheel that if God looked down at pro-gun American politician­s once again ignoring demands to outlaw the sale of semi-automatic weapons with the words “right now our thoughts and prayers are with the people who’ve lost loved ones,” he would bat those prayers back with a note saying: “Return to sender. Conscience unknown.

“Get out of the dollar-lined pockets of the National Rifle Associatio­n now or I’ll send you to Hell. Have a nice what’s left of your days.”

 ??  ?? CARRY ON Andrew Swaffield
CARRY ON Andrew Swaffield

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