The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village is becoming ever more common, then we learn that unemployed layabouts demanding benefits with menace are being foreign and suspicious looking every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack unemployed layabouts demanding benefits with menace being foreign and suspicious looking was Michael Howerd 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..