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Prospects looking grim Diary, as you know, is a fiercely apolitical and cynical beast when it comes to most issues. ‘Pretty much everything, and everyone, is crap'. That's the – probably undeserved – maxim which tends to be thrown back in the face of political lobbyists and their ‘spin, whim and cheesy grin' culture. Any press release that reaches MJ Towers is usually greeted with the hallmark cynicism of the hack: ‘What's in it for them?' Consequently, MJ Towers can be a dark and cutting house. Here, jokes abound that unions, among other lobby groups, are prone to a little bit of political and economic doom-mongering in pursuit of their goals. Still, even Diary was a little surprised when, perhaps in a bid to outdo everybody's favourite ‘Britain has gone to the dogs' lobby – the Daily Mail – the Prospect union recently issued a release expressing ‘dismay at everything everywhere'. ‘Blimey,' Diary thought. ‘There's being candid about your post-modernist and poisonous invective – and then there's being really candid.' Had the trade union finally flipped and given up on modern Britain and its millions of unemployed, poorly-educated, ASBO-ridden, tax-dodging ‘Neet' MPs and their fat cat expenses accounts hedged by evil bankers? Er, no. It clicked just before retreating inside to watch Prospect's leadership launch into its gun-toting, ‘there's nothing left to live for' Falling Down-style meltdown. ‘Everything Everywhere' is, of course, the name of a telecomms venture involving two large mobile phone firms. Apparently, they are ‘just' cutting a few jobs while they struggle against ongoing economic hardship. Shame that.

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