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 Guardian-reading do-gooders are binge drinking on council estates every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack Guardian-reading do-gooders binge drinking on council estates was Vince Cable 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..