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Fifteen weeks" strikes and "'hundreds of lesser disputes" cut Ford's expected profit by £158m to £242m last year. The company observed with the sadness of a thwarted benefactor: "Had we succeeded in reaching the £400m profit we should have made, there would have been another £80m to add to the £101m paid in taxes — that is, more money for education, housing, health and other services, which all of us want to see improved."
With this shining example of altruism before me I tried, as I made out my income-tax return, to cherish the privilege of educating millions of other people's kids, of providing cosy subsidised houses for families better off than myself and of stuffing mountains of pills down the nation's gullet.
I failed. Ford obviously has something that I lack. Money, perhaps.