Fiscally Emotive

Unsuccessful gamblers employ all sorts of strategems to gain more funding for their habit, from abject begging through pie-in-the-sky promises to threats, outright robbery and occasional violence. Some corporate gamblers, whose ability to mend roofs while the sun shines seems about equal to the current national average, have hit upon a new way of plumping up the stake: the owners of the Morrisons supermarket chain have "requested" their own workers to invest in the company. The blame, as usual, rests with "developments in the geopolitical environment" and "customer sentiment," neither of which any self-respecting entrepreneur would dream of guarding against. Nevertheless, such is the ingratitude of the wage-serf class that certain pluckless and pessimistic elements are unable to see the charm in gambling their increasingly shrivelled wherewithal on the assurance of people so competent that they can't persuade real investors to oblige.