The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that using skateboards and yobbish language to molest journalists is becoming ever more common, then we learn that hoody-wearing layabouts are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack hoody-wearing layabouts drilling for oil in one family's back garden was Mr I.P.Freely of Tunbridge Wells who today said read my lips; no new taxes.