“Everything started collapsing inwards because [Amazon] piled too much on, they put people in charge who didn’t know anything about the project and they oversold … just so many promises that can’t be kept.”

From closing, then re-opening departments, and making more than a hundred employees redundant, while others tucked into beer in the morning, it would appear the operation has some work to do – unless, of course, it is “winding down” its UK drone delivery dream.