Start Me Up, Stand Me Down

After the embarrassing flop of its first attempt at penetrating those dark and intimate parts of the cosmos which are not yet marketised for Global Britain, Virgin Orbit has naturally sought to re-inflate its rampant credentials as an upstanding national representative. So confident is the company of its priapic potency that it has laid off its staff, though with the standard expectation that the human resources will come scurrying back in a week's time to place themselves once more at the company's disposal. Investors responded by lowering the company's share price by nearly a fifth, which adds a charming touch of economic Britishness to the already well-established technical, managerial and nomenclaturial manifestations.