Feb 8, 2010
What Broken Society?
Cameron and his fellow scaremongers can’t stop their insistent refrain of “broken Britain” – The Economist exposes the lies.
Less crime, less killing, fewer teenage mums, far fewer fags, perhaps a bit less drink and drugs: why is it that the idea of “broken Britain” rings true with so many, when it seems far from reality? Partly, it is because people’s ideas about the state of society are simply inaccurate: the average voter reckons that four out of ten teenagers have children, for instance, whereas in fact perhaps three in a hundred do. Official statistics to the contrary are viewed with suspicion after successive governments have relentlessly massaged them. The Economist.
I’m not saying there aren’t problems there are – just not those that Cameron would have us believe.

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