Kings award

Ah, the Queen's Award to industry. Do you remember those? 

If you were awarded one, you were presented with an rather angular plastic trophy and you gained the right to fly the Queen's Award flag outside your company premises. I wonder if all this still applies?

So: What is going to happen when King Charles III rules our country? I doubt Charles will approve of the ghastly trophy and the wretched business of rewarding the middle classes for their awful pursuit of mammon.

No. I expect the rules will be re-framed thus: 

You will need to be a company of two employees or fewer that has always made a proper product (Briar pipes, leather Armchairs, wind up Gramaphones) using the original methods (pole lathe, flint axe and spokeshave). 

So I call on you makers of Oak Commodes, Gas Mantles, Pewter Epergnes and Coal Scuttles. Step forward and claim your place in history.


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