The first rumblings of recession based anger

That is what Max Hasting's believes writing in this morning's Guardian.

According to Max,

Seldom in peacetime has change come upon a society so rapidly and brutally. In a matter of months, the assumptions on which we have run our lives for decades, above all that of national prosperity, are out of the window. Yet, although reason tells us the game is up and that almost anything could happen, it remains hard to acknowledge how dramatically our lives must alter.

The worry is how this change will manifest itslef in society after all he says

For two decades, while we have been a greedy society, we have also flattered ourselves that we were a compassionate one. We threw money at all sorts of supposedly deserving causes, because we thought we could afford it. In future, Britain will have to become harsher and nastier, because there will be no money to be anything else.

I do beleive that this is going to be the big issue of 2009.How as a society we react to the crisis,for a crisis it is