Ruled by "brilliant" fools
Those in power see wine as a flibbertigibbet playtime industry powered by unicorn shit. But the way they have failed the wine industry is a thumbnail sketch of the way they’ve failed us all.
It’s tiresome to be yet another person to find themselves quoting Mr Micawber at the UK Treasury. And let’s be clear1, not specifically the current government’s Treasury. Literally every Treasury for many years:
Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds 19 shillings and sixpence, result happiness.
Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 …
