> Okey dokey. Would the Government be able to pull the plug earlier or
> would they then lose the entire telephone system at the same time ?
>
But they are all doomed anyway so it's academic. See some of the back
to nature/suvivalist yahoo groups for more panic spreading already than
you would get in the Survivors scenario.

To misquote the Germans of '44 and '45 "Enjoy the plague because the
survival will be terrible."

" Come on everybody,
Gather round friends.
This is the day
Civilisation ends.
Let's get together and do Death's dance
And go loot."

Credit for the above and another take on the END in "The Texts of
Festival" by Mick Farren, 1973,

Edwin