Disaster?

We're in a right mess. The news is full of another possible banking collapse and an even greater fall in our standard of living. The politicians and pundits are not crying wolf. If the Euro goes pear shaped then in the famous words of that dour Scotsman, Private Frazer, in the comedy 'Dad's Army', "we're all doomed".

So what's to be done? Well looking after number one won't help. The 'beggar thy neighbour' approach is the quickest way to the bottom. The problem is that we are so dependent on each other, what we do affects everyone else. If Greece goes bust we all go bust!

One things for certain, we are not going to get out of this mess without helping each other. Somehow that's going to mean tempering our natural competitive nature with our natural instinct to cooperate. And that's going to require real leadership. Not just political and business leadership but each of us taking responsibility for our own actions.

So what's the chance of us pulling it off? Can we avert disaster? Well only time will tell. In the meantime we need to polish up on our team working skills and above all take note of the good advice of that other star of Dad's Army, Corporal Jones, "don't panic Captain Mainwaring".