Grey Britain
The economic outlook in the UK is looking decidedly bleak, gloomy and overcast...
In England the triple dipping stratocumulus castellanus clouds, which envelop the skies of economic oblivion, lessening economic output and reduced national beer intake, are as dire and slate grey as the paving stones in the above photograph of Blandford Forum's town centre pavement, upon which, on Freydays is visited by a job club street hoarding.
In Northern Ireland the gathering flint grey cumulonimbus clouds of a near crippled construction industry, are gaining momentum and show no signs of dispersing in the near future.
In Scotland low level pebble grey stratus clouds of stagnation are looming overhead, along with a murky fog of impending economic contraction with no immediate signs of an upturn on the horizon.
In Wales many stone grey stratocumulus clouds of over 50,000 long term unemployed young people, at a fifteen year high, occupy the day and night sky with no end in sight.
Although not part of sinking Britannia lets not forget our friends a short journey away, towards the west, across the water, in the beautiful Emerald Isle .
In Ireland 1,821,932,799,321.76€ (that's one trillion, eight hundred and twenty one billion, nine hundred and thirty two million, seven hundred and ninety nine thousand, three hundred and twenty one point seventy six euros) shades of grey altocumulus debt clouds are far beyond record storm force levels and this woeful weather shows no signs of abating, on the contrary, this raging climate can only transmute into the most tempestuous of hurricanes, flavoured with a cyclone for dismal measure.