Chocolate Horror

So, it finally looks like I’ve got a good excuse to give up my favourite tipple of Creme Eggs and Fruit and Nut. With, no thanks to the government owned British banks providing the massive amount of debt, the demise of the British Cadburys into Kraft’s grubby cheese flavoured hands leaves me numb and tasteless.

Let’s face the facts, with all that debt piled into the company there will be cuts – and it’s sure not to be at the American side of the business. What puzzles me is, with no cash up front, why can’t I walk into my local Barclays bank and borrow £10 billion pounds and buy, say, BMW. It’s essentially all that Kraft has done – and the British tax payer has paid for it too!

So, be prepared for smaller bars of chocolate, higher prices, lower quality chocolate and factories moved to Eastern Europe. No matter what the bosses of the company say, believe me, it will happen. Perhaps not today, but in 12 months time.

It now looks like I’ll be searching for a new brand of chocolate to enjoy instead. It’s a shame really, because it’s most likely to be Lindt – and they’re not British either!