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 Guardian-reading do-gooders are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack Guardian-reading do-gooders drilling for oil in one family's back garden was some bloke in the pub who today said I blame all of this on stealth taxes and permissive education in the 1960s..