"Have you ever seen someone cut up, the legs here, the head over there?" asked a youth brandishing a rusty spanner.
On the coasts, where its exporting factories are clustered, bosses are short of workers, and workers short of patience. A spate of strikes has thrown a spanner into the workshop of the world.
A further spanner was thrown into the works by Turkey's refusal to allow use of its territory - meaning that the British had to hurriedly retool for an invasion from Kuwait.
