British economic pundits predict that the Ebenezer Scrooges of the UK business world will create two million Bob Cratchetts and a comparable number of Tiny Tims by Christmas.
But an eleventh hour conversion and a last minute Christmas goose will not bring a God bless us all from the two million crippled little boys deprived by the worldwide economic collapse caused by the greed of international misers.
Housing market optimists are reminding the British public that the good news is that the homeless can now afford bigger and better cardboard boxes in the recession bound housing market.
