The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that defacing statues in Trafalgar Square is becoming ever more common, then we learn that chavs are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack chavs terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was a homeowner 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..