...bearing in mind the underlying economy, the spiralling cost of the Olympics and the current viciously stringent public spending review being prepared, they actually don't have a pot to piss in?
"It is, however, an Englishman's peculiarity that possessing some of the most interesting history, and some of the most fascinating relics in the world, he is either too modest or too dull to take account of them."*I'd venture to say the latter...
* Harold Bayley, author and antiquarian, writing in 1919.