In this week's Economist there are two powerful pieces, "It has become fashionable to say that British society is in a mess and getting worse. It isn’t" and "Crime, family break-up, drunks and drugs: the Conservatives, and apparently plenty of voters, think that Britain has a “broken society”. Does the claim stand up?" that well and truly scotch the Tories' dangerously seductive narrative of "Broken Britain" and go on to argue that in fact it could be a calamitous misdiagnosis of the state of affairs.
They go on to conclude that, "Britain has a crunched economy, an out-of-control deficit and plenty of social problems; but it is not 'broken'".
Lib Dems like me concur wholeheartedly.
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