Oh dear: 8 out of ten tempted to vote for BNP...

[mcquiggd]

Berlusconi might be selling some real estate on the cheap pretty soon....

[expat]

Have to say I somewhat agree with that.... in that the UK is no longer the country it was

It never was, and never would be. The UK that you and I grew up with was one limited view of one small part of history. Scots (just for example) didn't begin to think of themselves as "British" until about the time of Gladstone, late 19th century. They've mostly stopped thinking that way by now. The UK was short-lived, because it wasn't real.

[expat]

The UK as we know it is being destroyed - fact
There is feck all you can do about it - fact

Don't whinge, moan or complain it's pointless.

You have to make money a lot of money and if this has to be from the smoking embers of what was once a good country then so be it

OK. How do I do that? IT contracting is all I know, and I think that's a hell of a ride in its time, that's now slowing down to a stop.

[DimPrawn]

That's sort of an interesting idea.

I wonder if anyone many years ago stockpiled millions of barrels of oil somehere and it waiting for the magical $100 / barrel threshold to be reached?