The other is that these firms have lost out in the marketplace and are now desperately grasping at straws and trying to get the politicians to save them.
"You can't expect these parties now, who have lost confidence totally in each other, to be able to get together unless they have some outside help, " he said.
Now, one of the things that I want to emphasize that I think may getlost in this current debate is the extraordinarily strong ties between our two countries when it comes to fighting terrorism.