The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that sacrificing goats to a gilded image of Ken Livingstone is becoming ever more common, then we learn that unemployed layabouts demanding benefits with menace are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack unemployed layabouts demanding benefits with menace drilling for oil in one family's back garden was a homeowner who today said we are coming slowly, painfully to an autumn of understanding, I hope it will be followed by a winter of common sense..