The only people who won't be feeling the pinch (economically wise) right now are the corporate leaders and CEO's of the world. Sure, on paper it looks like they're suffering, but they've separated their personal assets years ago, obviously because they could afford sound advice.

I and Chris had a dream years back, we'd make a million or so, move somewhere with a fairer legal system, a sense of community, a culture, France say, and we'd become self-sufficient. We'd raise some kids and animals, I'd paint, she'd plant, design and write. Things would be just peachy.

The problem is the price of freedom, or rather escape from the sceptic isle is rising everyday. Americans don't for the main part care about the value of the dollar ,perhaps they should take a look at Zeitgeist: Addendum, by Peter Joseph, essentially money is debt. However most Americans will never leave their shores, but unlike a lot of cultural snobs I don't blame them, sure it's filled with guns, but at least they've got some space there, a Bill of Rights, mountains, countryside where it isn't desert, even a few ghost towns to haunt when you're repossessed. What do we have in the UK?

Well we have a CCTV camera per 14 people, practically a police state i.e a collective of more than a dozen people can be classed as public disorder, no money, no prospects, no natural resources (unless you count some wind in Scotland and the sea - that happens when you live on an island). We're over-populated, probably up there with Japan by now, and most of us seem to insist on living in the South East. There are laws and guidelines for everything, Labour just released rules on how to look after pets I believe. We have no bill of rights, no constitution, we aren't citizens, we are subjects of the Queen, who by the way is one of the richest people in the world? We are polluted, we have a lack of infrastructural funding, in fact Thatcher sold most of it off and what was left Blair and Brown took loans of the rest i.e PFI - a 'partnership' which means that companies and corporations will end up owning every new school and hospital in Britain.

The list is endless but the worst of all is our innate disrespect for the Arts. At school over 90% of the kids there would end up in an office job, mainly banking, some would have a knack for science and go on to Oxford or Cambridge, if their parents had the money. The few of us with an artistic talent were forced to study subjects they knew we'd fail, I had to take two sciences and German, I failed them all. Now the joke is, and not a very funny one, the arts industry, the music industry, the film and TV industry, writers, poets, illustrators, designers, artists in general collectively make as much if not more in tax revenue for the UK as the precious Square Mile, Gordon Brown's beloved financial sector.

Has Obama got a brother? We could do with ousting our current unelected dictator and vote someone in young enough to understand that Britain needs a serious overhaul. The Industrial Revolution, The Empire, Our History, it's done and dusted. We have nothing but our imagination and that for the main part is being supressed by a new dictat, a pseudo-fascist regime, what's sadder still is they, however evil, don't actually have any form of vision, good nor bad. It's all based on fear, fear of failure, and as I have suspected for a while now, fear of social unrest.

How long will it take, how much more will the British public be pushed before they rise up, most likely it won't even happen in my lifetime, maybe not yours, but one day this place is going to completely fall apart and then it won't be so much a Blitz spirit as a Blitzkrieg spirit. I can't imagine every generation of this land bending over one after another and taking it where the sun don't shine.

I know it's revolutionary talk, I don't really mean it, honest guv, please don't attach those electrodes to my arrggghhhh...