[Prodigal Son]

Britain, it seems to me, is doing precisely the correct things it needs to in order to ensure its imminent collapse.

The old railway that connected my area to the mainstream areas of Scotland and the UK was demolished long ago. But the high taxes on petrol were supposed to go to improve public transport. There is a grass roots movement in my community to have the railway brought back. They say they hope to be able to accomodate us within the next generation.

In the meantime, we have only two two laned winding roads to get back and forth to Edinburgh or to the south and England. And of course every five miles or so there are speeding cameras. So not only do we have intolerably high petrol, we have no proper route to get to where the high paying jobs are and the purpose of the higher tax (public transport) will likely not be realized in our lifetimes... Not to mention the NHS is already in a shambles and the only thing to remedy it without privatization (I wish) will be to raise taxes.

As the saying goes- "that's how they get you"...

[RightWhale]

There is a grass roots movement in my community to have the railway brought back

Do it right then. Maglev.

[dgallo51]

The environmental movement has been hijacked by persons with sinister motives. By shrouding themselves in "mother earth", with popular media mindlessly ready from prepared scripts, they intentionally tear concerned followers apart with intentional contradictions in order to manipulate them. I'm afraid our friends in the UK are about to receive a rude wake up call. Keep your biomass fuels handy!