I have given a lot of thought to this situation and have a couple of points to add:
1: What a lot of people don't realise is that there are already in place numerous systems to cope with situation X's to the extent that survival
groups may not be necessary.
For instance in the UK we have the armed services and police. If a situation X occurs they can be used to restore order etc, and more particularly we
have the TA (Territorial Army) which have local bases in all the major cities. The point behind this is that when people join the armed services they
have to swear an oath to obey orders. So as long as there is some central authority to direct them (even if it just 1 MP survives) then order can be
maintained and the country rebuilt.
Now I am not saying that we defiantly won't get an authoritarian regime etc but we would have a stable central authority.
2: Distance, in the USA there are vast distances to contend with, and this can lead, in situation X's, to the fragmentation of authority (e.g. New
Orleans with hurricane Katrina). In the UK we do not have to worry so much about this, you can drive from one end of the country to the other in 10
hours. So if a situation X occurred there would not be the same issues of communications and issues with moving material around that there would be in
the US.
To conclude therefore the point I am making is that if a situation X occurred in the UK we as a country are a lot better prepared for it than people
think and would likely recover from it a lot faster than some other countries might. As such, although it does of course depend on the Situation X, we
may not even need a survival group.



