For the investor, it does not get much tougher than this. Markets have been awful. Almost any news is interpreted as bad, and it is even regurgitated to reinforce the effects it created in the first place.
UK economic prospects look absolutely awful: Commercial development activity has collapsed, unemployment is rising and business confidence is plummeting.
"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior." Vladimir Putin
AGAIN, I'll start with a famous quote: "I cannot hear what you say when what you are thunders against me", and never has it been more apt.