Are you worried about the UK economy?

Forget the percentages, they hide the truth. Our economy is in decline. If we didn't have the market force with housing then the whole thing would go down the drain. This has already happened in America - look for the market results on the Wolsley Group - one of thie largest players in home improvement in the States. They have already layed off and are continuing a programme to lay of even more THOUSANDS of staff. In the uk the company are generally known under the names of plumbcentre and buildcentre and draincentre. Already their branches are showing signs of decline and in fact the whole industry will do so for at least three more months. This is reasonably normal given the holiday period, but it will pick up marginally due to the unfortunate/fortunate problems with flooding - every cloud has a silver lining for someone - this is reality - even though i don't particularly like this one. However, take out the housing market and what are we left with ? Investments. That's it folks! Precious little production of anything else in the UK! How many years will it take before the true tradesmen will have died off , and their skills in all sorts of production now going to China and Indonesia because of the lower labour costs, will have died with them ? In real terms no more than 30. Is this what we have become ? The greatest trading nation and the true father of democracy and with the mother of parliaments - subservient to a Europe made up of nations who allied against us or had to be freed by us at a horrendous cost to the young men and women from our once Glorious Nation ? We have been led through the nose by the masters of spin, the windbags of westminster, the smoke and mirrors of team Blair and now Brown and their ilk for too many years. None of them have or ever could run a business profitably! Yet, they would teach us all how to pay tax AGAIN, and AGAIN and AGAIN! Our economy is 'shot to hell!'