I was posting last year about the demolition of High Street shops......the situation has got even worse in the last two weeks - so in the mail today we get :

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250214...ns-high-streets.html

The real picture outside London is that outside of the "main" shopping street in most towns the others are empty of all but pound shops and charity shops. Two Thirds of shops are now closed. Once prosperous towns and cities are like morgues instead of shopping centres.

This is not suprising seeing as MILLIONS have been put out of work ( but have escaped getting onto the jobless total by New Labour's incredible statistical spin systems )

The REAL PICTURE of the UK is of a MASSIVE SLUMP at least DOUBLE that of the terrible 1980s recession. Only in central London where foreign money keeps the place alive is there any prosperity left in the UK. The rest of the UK especially the midlands and north - are finished.

With Cadburys closing down factories and many others about to do the same - hundreds of thousands more are ending up without jobs living off redundancy which is skewing the economic figures. In about two years time the REAL PICTURE will become clear once the redundancy money has run out.

Despite living in one of London's wealthiest areas my local High Street still has empty shops.

The High Street of my home town is thriving. We did have a few empty shops at the height of the recession but things have picked over the last year and everything is buzzing again. Even the shops on the side streets are doing okay now. So this bad news isn't right across the board.

this is mirrored everywhere especially in the US where giant WalMarts etc have decimated lovely little mom and pop town centres.

I predict a revival though as people tire of giant Westfields ect.

Buy a little shop now BR in your local village high street and set up a store devoted to exposing the NWO

High Streets have been dying for over 40 years,due mainly to changing shopping habits.Out of town centres with ample parking make more sense to today's suburban shoppers than crowded town centres with traffic bottlenecks & expensive parking.

Some centres have done better than others.It depends on the locasl area.Of course these have been affected by the recession,but it is not a good example to use to judge the economy as a whole.

John Peel's son Tom did a rather sweet little feature on the decline of high street record shops on BBC East last week.