The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that squatting houses left empty by families on holiday is becoming ever more common, then we learn that yobs wearing hoodies and baseball caps are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack yobs wearing hoodies and baseball caps drilling for oil in one family's back garden was Vince Cable who today said I have always said if you want a speech, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman..