Above: Caley's Marching Chocolate. Available as either milk or plain. Very intense chocolate experience - a little overwhelming in some respects. Very strong cocoa aroma. Smooth texture. Manufactured in Norfolk at a real factory employing real people doing real work.
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Above: Irene Rosenfeld has been rewarded for her predatory raid on Cadburys. However investor Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, sold about a quarter of his holding of Kraft shares earlier this month as a verdict on the "dumb" behaviour of Kraft in taking over Cadburys. Perhaps other shareholders will punish the Kraft Board for their coup, or perhaps they will feel that the business needs to operate unconstrained by any sense of morality.
Above: there is a growing sense that globalisation is out of control. On the Today programme this morning the Chancellor George Osborne said that eventually the third world will start importing high-value goods and services and we will all be wealthier as a result. But he did not put any timescale on when this is going to happen, and in the meantime a lot of working class people are seeing their jobs evaporate.
Globalisation is yet another policy with profound and far-reaching consequences which the political elite (all three parties) has decided to impose on the United Kingdom without seeking a mandate from the people.
It might result in us all becoming richer in the long term. Or it might result in a few people becoming unimaginably rich and the rest of us becoming significantly poorer. Whatever the effect, the absence of a mandate makes globalisation undemocratic.
Personally I would like to see import controls on chocolate products - and if that means a Chocolate War with the Americans then so be it.
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