[Raj_Copi_Jin]

Italy announced a programme of austerity. The people now know what to expect. In England there was no such announcement and so the public thought it would always be business as usual. It's wake up time. There is no British empire and what is left of the commonwealth looks after its own first. There are many Island nations that have next to no natural resources and one only has to look how they fare in this global economy. Even the Philippines has more going for it than Brittain.