Obama has made it to the White House.
The wheels are falling off
The worlds financial system
I feel strangely insulated from it all being in Sydney
I guess there's a few reasons for that
1) Oz seems to be about 6 months behind the rest of the world in feeling the economic impact
2) Its a long way away from home
3) Oz is coming off the back of an extended financial boom
4) The news from home sounds particularly dire
It's the first recession of my adult life
And looking at it objectively I'd say the UK is in for a hard time
We've enjoyed a standard of living since the hey day of the empire
That you can only really think is going to decrease over time
We produce nothing
We consume a lot
We've become very complacent and lazy
Which probably explains why I feel a strange optimism about things
It feels like its time to re-evaluate
Time to reset the clocks
To dust ourselves down and start again
To take a look at ourselves and move forward
See if we can fix the long term unemplyed
Irradicate that sponger, stay at home culture
Build a new sense of national identity
Try and figure out what we want being British to mean moving forward
We've been great and we can be great again
But it means recognising that we've let things go a little stale
But the potential is still there...
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