No one has crossed my palm with silver yet *evil cackle*.
I can foresee this: Global economic collapse at worst, U.K. declared bankrupt at best (look at the size of the current national debt, and it's getting bigger!).
With companies going under daily, mail volumes will freefall, until there will only be a handful of us left ..
The debate about who takes us over will be irrelevant.
And even when they became discontented, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
George Orwell 1984