The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that getting away with arson is becoming ever more common, then we learn that ravers smashed out of their tiny minds on ecstasy are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack ravers smashed out of their tiny minds on ecstasy drilling for oil in one family's back garden was Michael Howerd who today said read my lips; no new taxes.