Timing is Everything

Why would they allow such a thing to happen? A major Anglo-Dutch steel company sold to Indians! Outrageous! Doesn't sound a very wise move, considering that steel is vital to any industrialized country. And then there's the old imperial in the breast of every Brit, lamenting the sale of a national icon. British destroyers and carriers once ruled this world. The sun never sets on the British Empire. Oh, what have we lost today!

Then, on the other hand, I wonder about that purest of imperial motivations: profit. Every share sold for 608 pence. The capitalist trumps the imperialist apparently. Someone stands to do really well out of this deal; I wonder who? Do these mystery shareholders know something the rest of us don't? Is the steel industry about to collapse? Or something bigger? Why not get what you can while the going's good?

I just have this sneaking feeling that this move is the first gust of an ill wind. Something to ponder anyway.