UK - RIP?

I fear that given the inherent cancers at the heart of UK society the recent riots in England are no more than part of a continuing trend. In recent months we have seen the corruption at the very heart of British society exposed and dragged blinking into the light of day. Even though I am a unashamed advocate of a free Welsh state it is painful to witness the unravelling of a society hopelessly compromised by inequality and corruption. In the vacuum left by an ineffectual British state it is hardly surprising that there are fervent cries for a English parliament and I think those cries will grow ever louder.

The harm done to British society by consecutive right of centre governments (both Tory and Labour) have served to eat away at the cement of social cohesion that used to bind us. Inequality between the greedy rich and the rest are approaching Victorian levels and we seem inexorably to be approaching a tipping point. On the one hand the public rightly bay for the perpetrators of the riots to be punished. Sadly, it is atypical of a British state controlled by and for the very rich that those people who bankrupted this country have got away with impunity! The Bankers and fund managers who gambled us into debt still pay themselves seven figure salaries and lottery sized bonuses. 

There are no signs that those in power are willing to confront the demons within the heart of British society. With what I see as undue haste we are already witnessing those with a vested interest earnestly preaching that these problems are not signs of what most people se as Broken Britain. The siren voices claim that it has nothing to do with poverty or the crushing inequalities at the heart of British society. But I think we know different. If a society is unwilling to evolve and even admit its shortcomings then it doesn't deserve to survive.