[Tealeaf]

There's an interesting little post-script to this story.

Some of you may be aware that a couple of weeks ago, the Peking(Bejing)-Shangai express opened..a 200mph job to whisk our intrepid Chinese entrepreneurs from one centre of power to another, designed and built in three years flat.

There's two problems. Firstly, it's already falling apart - both track and rolling stock.

Secondly, because the Chinkys were in such a hurry to build the rolling stock they couldn't be messed around designing from scratch, so - no doubt with the connivence of Mr Murdoch's boys - they simply hacked into the design office of a certain German train manufacturer and nicked their plans. That company is now in the process of legal action against the Chinese government.

Yep, the train manufacturer is Siemens. So we could end up with losing British jobs at great expense and a crock of German chite that simply does not work.