In the absence of an even better offer, should it decide to stay independent and perhaps seek to become a predator itself, its shareholders might yet give it sympathetic support.
Nick Clegg, who takes a lead in the coalition on constitutional affairs, has recently said he is "sympathetic" to the reform, but as yet there are no signs the government is considering it.
But while the appellate court seemed sympathetic to that argument, it noted that nobody had yet ordered Donald to jail and thus that argument was at best premature.
Yet he keeps fact and fantasy clear enough in his own head and, despite a sympathetic ear, cannot really hide the fact that this book is an extended visit to the epistemic zoo.