I have to say that all the gloom and doom being heaped on everyone at the moment seems to me to be very counterproductive. No matter what you look at, TV, newspapers, soaps even, we're being fed a diet of gloom being heaped on doom being heaped on gloom. Surely we must now have one of the most demoralised populations in Europe? Someone ought to tell Cameron and Osborne that people don't work well when they aren't happy, when they are in fear for their jobs, and having to cope with an ever-dropping standard of living. We must have had a far worse situation in 1940 after Dunkirk, but then we had Churchill; despite his faults - and he had many - he inspired the population; this lot today would depress everyone so much they'd run up the white flag at the drop of a hat!
Why on earth can't we have something to cheer us all up? It used to be fun to watch Corrie or Emmerdale; now it's part of the diet of gloom - murder, rape, devious people, drugs; what on earth are they trying to do to us? Drive us to drink - oops, no - that'll be priced out of reach shortly. Drive us to suicide? This must surely be one of the worst countries for wallowing in a slough of despond to this extent. Have we really sunk so low that this is the best we can do?
Am I the only one to think like this?