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.
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