Guardian hot and bothered

The Guardian was getting all hot and bothered earlier today about the fact that the tower block known as the Vauxhall Tower, illustrated left, is largely occupied - or to be more precise, owned but not occupied - by dodgy foreigners.

They appear to have forgotten that the sale of this tower block made a contribution of £300 million to our increasingly dire balance of payments in the year in which it was sold. What you might well call an invisible export. And as long as the Bullingdon boys fail to rebalance our economy, we need the dosh, however irritating it might be to have to be nice to dodgy foreigners.