The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that drilling for oil in one family's back garden is becoming ever more common, then we learn that the Unions are sacrificing goats to a gilded image of Ken Livingstone every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack the Unions sacrificing goats to a gilded image of Ken Livingstone was Amanda Platell who today said we are coming slowly, painfully to an autumn of understanding, I hope it will be followed by a winter of common sense..