Will F1 Lose It's Heart?

In what has, sadly, become a perennial late-season tradition, F1 grand poobah Bernie Ecclestone is threatening to keep the British Grand Prix off next year's schedule. The current venue, Silverstone, hosted the first F1 race of the modern era and the British GP has been a fixture on the schedule ever since. There are, in my mind, three European circuits that must be on the F1 calendar: Spa, the last of the true driver's tracks; Monza, home event for Ferrari and the soul of F1; and Silverstone, home race for the majority of the teams and the heart of F1. Bernie's already dicked around with Spa (on again off again on again) in his pursuit of bigger pay days in Asia. Will it come to the point that, without Sliverstone and on the heals of Ford/Cosworth's pull out, that the other powers in the sport finally tell Bernie to go fuck himself and go it on their own?