Leadfingers, didn't the song by Roger Miller go,
"England swings like a pendulum do,
Bobbies on bicycles two by two,
Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Big Ben,
The rosy red cheeks of the little children" ?

England seems to be in a financial meltdown, the 'bobbies' are hiding in their squad cars, and the children have pasty white faces from sitting indoors at their computers! (But Westminster Abbey is still there, and the Tower of Big Ben...)