England Sell, sell, sell.. Never take anything for granted. Anything could be sold . Anything could be privatised. Ordinary people have been paying for the cuts in public services, from hospitals to libraries. Those who triggered the crisis and imposed austerity have been getting richer. But I am still opitmistic that some of the £100 billion deals with our autocratic friends, the Saudis, will trickle down to the NHS, for example :) It is a kitchen of thieves, but they called a "democracy".
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51