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 thugs are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack thugs terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was Anne Widdecombe who today said read my lips; no new taxes.