[danielf]

Originally Posted by Derek S

Aye if it wasn't for those greeks, italians and yanks everything would be just rosy in the UK.

Try extracting your head from the sand and you'll see that the economy is in the toilet and regardless of who eventually gets into power things will be painful for a long time to repair the damage caused by the mismanagment of the last government.

I think it's a fair point that most Western economies are in the toilet due to a global financial crisis. There are many countries will have to make massive cuts over the coming years, and I'm not talking about Greece.