How did it come to this?

Well it's year 2013, and Britain is struggling, as usual, with snowy conditions. I'm not going to bang on about our usual panic and lack of preparations, because that is pointless. I will, once again, give another mention to our flagging economy. This concerns me because I feel that we are only just beginning a voyage into total financial meltdown. Imagine if you will, the London City stock exchange. Major companies are being removed, not just from the top one hundred, but removed entirely. Look if you will at the television news, and they seem to be more worried about people losing out on now invalid gift vouchers, than why this is happening, and how many jobs are being lost. I believe that the situation is worse than we are being told, unfortunately the ignorant masses will not understand this until it is too late, as usual. One may also wonder what is happening elsewhere in the EU, it can hardly be a coincidence that the UK Independence Party is enjoying such gains in popularity. UKIP has been here a while, so one might wonder from where do they get their funding? A single policy alternative to British Nationalism, I personally don't doubt that tax payer's money has kept them afloat. Ok, so it would be great to see our nation leave the EU completely, not that I believe even UKIP would do this if elected. What we would get is a referendum, with no option to actually leave the EU. So while billions are squandered in an attempt to stop a single currency we are not subscribed to from crashing, while our money is poured down one bottomless pit after another, and we provide financial aid to countries who are probably in better financial state than ours. We could soon elect a party that is all about taking Britain out of the EU, who then won't? And just to make sure that we all understand each other on this, the United States have stressed that it would be some kind of disaster if we withdrew from the EU. Understandable seeing as we are the American's most loyal servants, (sorry - allies) within the EU, and of course the only member state that backs America where and whenever they start another conflict overseas. The biggest enemy of Great Britain is the Great British public, the vast majority of whom will never believe that this once proud nation is all but finished. The next New Year should be interesting, perhaps we should begin to stock up on tinned food and bottled water?