Whisky galore

by Irn Bru Sun Dec 22, 2013 11:45 pm

Whisky galore as exports soar: Foreign sales of the spirit are now on a par with the steel industry.

David Cameron’s recent jaunt to China to rustle up new business was met with an icy dismissal of the UK’s global standing from the Chinese Global Times.

“Britain is no longer any kind of ‘big country’,” an editorial read. “But merely a country of old Europe suitable for tourism and overseas study, with a few decent football teams.”

Whisky should also have been on that list, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. It’s a pertinent omission, given that Chinese liquor cabinets stocked with glinting bottles of Johnnie Walker, Chivas Regal and Ballantine’s played a not inconsiderable part in Scotch making it on to the ONS’s top 10 products manufactured in the UK last year – putting it, remarkably, just one place behind structural iron and steel products.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/whisky-galore-as-exports-soar-foreign-sales-of-the-spirit-are-now-on-a-par-with-the-steel-industry-9016729.html

Well we're doing our bit in helping with the UK economy and at the same time putting many of the world population into a state of inebriation.

Whas like us?

Laughing

by Guest Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:10 am

Lol, got OH a bottle of Isle of Jura to go in his stocking.

Whisky galore

Whisky galore

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