The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that binge drinking on council estates is becoming ever more common, then we learn that unemployed layabouts demanding benefits with menace are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack unemployed layabouts demanding benefits with menace terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was Margaret Thatcher who today said read my lips; no new taxes.