The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that threatening to smash up branches of McDonalds and Starbucks is becoming ever more common, then we learn that followers of Hugo Chavez are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack followers of Hugo Chavez drilling for oil in one family's back garden was Conservative head office who today said read my lips; no new taxes.