Our banking system did collapse, our political system is in systemic chaos, we have some pretty spectacular debts of our own (and precisely zero plans to deal with them) and one of the many reasons our youth are saying "***** you old timers" is because we expect them to maintain our employment ratio by working in zero hour minimum wage jobs etc etc.
I love this country (esp Scotland where I live) but I don't wear "empire-tinted" glasses. Nor am I an ostrich - there are trouble and hard times ahead, even when someone eventually gets a grip and leads us forward.
And that's more than enough thread drift from me...I'll come back and join in again when something substantial happens...something tells me that won't be too long in the future.
By the way "swanky restaurants"...clearly you don't know me
