Agenda 2019

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/12200138/Whats-inside-Marks-and-Spencer-Patrons-Lunch-hamper-for-Queens-90th-birthday-street-party.html This weekend will see a variety of celebrations to officially mark the monarch's 90th birthday The hampers for this street party did not come from the local food bank. M&S hamper that will feed 10,000 guests Today, Sunday, there will be a "Patron’s Lunch" street party for around 10,000 people in the Mall. Tickets for this "bash", the climax of the celebrations marking the queen's "official" 90th birthday, have been available for £150 each. The chosen guests will be given a hamper supplied by Marks and Spencer, (who else?), in a wicker basket, along with a turquoise plastic plate, a matching set of plastic cu tlery, a plastic wine tumbler and a napkin. Each hamper will contain: Scottish Smoked Salmon mousse with hot and cold Sandringham oak smoked Lochmuir salmo...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis- The past decade has not been kind to Marks & Spencer, and yesterday the company reported that like-for-like sales in the past quarter had fallen by 2.8 per cent. M & S have been in decline for some years. It seems to stem from the time when a television programme exposed the fact that M & S were sending labels showing "Marks and Spencer: Made in England" to third world countries to be attached to garments made in local sweat shops. There has been a significant fall in quality of the vast majority of their product range over the last few years, and control of consistency, particularly in size range is non existent. Their decline in the high street, may well be terminal, but would not come as a surprise.