Britain shuts down! Everything on ice!

Hello out there in the cyberspace of the internet. We've shut down here in Britain. Guess what? We're losing a £1 billion a day. Hey ho! The credit crunchers versus the politically correct. Which side should we put in the stocks first for snow ball throwing? Neither, actually, because that's unsafe. Health and safety, you know.

Have you heard enough? Well, I have. The weather forecasters jokingly talk about "taking care", Boris Johnson clears the London streets of buses, the schools close because chief executives want an easy life, and so on. The message is loud and clear. Nanny knows best! Margaret Morrissey, of the Parents Outloud campaign group, puts it very well when she says the school closures send the wrong signals to children "that when things get difficult, you should just stay at home and have fun". Good way to fight the credit cruch too.

To paraphrase John F Kennedy -

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch of political correctness will be passed to a new generation of Britons - born in this century, tempered by sleaze, disciplined by a hard and bitter credit crunch - unless they fight for their ancient heritage, unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which these Britons have always been committed, and to which they are committed today at home and around the world.