Here comes the crash!

[PurpleGorilla]

Oh really? That's why Germany is per capita the largest exporter in the world by a long margin?
And the only Western country with surpluses?

Germany is not the EU.

[vetran]

In hindsight, history will record the fact that Brexit was when Britian subsided into obscurity, irrelevance and relative penury.

so it will join You & Scooter soon?

[northernladyuk]

This reminds me of those winkers that sold up before the millenuim and bought a smallholding in Scotland from where they could ride out the zombie apocalypse.

I wonder what happened to them.

BBC News | SCOTLAND | Millennium bug bites couple

Sunday, 14 May, 2000

An English couple who fled to Scotland with their two children to escape Y2K meltdown have finally been bitten by the millennium bug.
Angela and Jeremy Perron have admitted they are to divorce nearly two years after moving to Forres, Morayshire, from their previous home in Wiltshire.

They said the media spotlight and the strain of stockpiling three weeks' worth of food put unbearable strain on their marriage.

Mr Perron, who did not enjoy the publicity their lifestyle had attracted, has moved out of the family home.

[northernladyuk]

BBC News | SCOTLAND | Millennium bug bites couple

Pulling up the drawbridge - Telegraph

27 Oct 2001

Jeremy and Angela Perron were another couple who anticipated the trend. Two years before the millennium, they sold their home in Wiltshire and headed for a self-sufficient cottage in isolated Forres, Morayshire.
Not only did they stock up on rice and pulses, but they made sure that the cottage they bought had its own water supply and generator in case essential services collapsed.
The Perrons have since separated but are still living in Forres, where there is quite a large self-sufficient community. Jeremy Perron, a computer supremo, now lives on a nearby country estate. "Although there was no millennium bug disaster, I have no regrets about our move up here," he says. "We wanted to get away from the panic that is created every time something comes to threaten our lives.
"The south of England is like a powder keg - everyone is waiting for something to happen. With our community bartering system, we are self-sufficient on a wide scale."
Once upon a time, such self-reliant dreams were confined to the beards-and-sandals brigade. Now, Utopia is beginning to look like common sense.

[northernladyuk]

Pulling up the drawbridge - Telegraph

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-perron-33561b23

So ends the ballad of Jeremy Perron.