cos the UK is not in a mess?? Wake up call ppl, the UK, the US and the EU are in a right old mess.
They can keep playing, as they are doing right now, and giving advice to each other about what the other should/should not do, the reality is that they all have shit up to their neck and not one of them as any idea who to get out of all this.
Bottom line is that the world as it is today is way to difficult to control and regulate - especially by politicans like Sarkozy or Cameron.