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 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 some bloke in the pub who today said read my lips; no new taxes.