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Peter Oborne
January 2, 2010
This Is the Decade When Britain Faces the Choice - Slow Death by the State, or a Return to Self-Reliance
Britain has emerged as the biggest loser from the first decade of the 21st century.
Our standing in the world has fallen faster than at any time since World War II.
Our economy has stagnated. Almost as important, the British reputation for honesty, fair dealing and decency has taken a number of very severe dents.
All this has been accompanied by a very perturbing moral decline.
In particular the traditional two-parent family, which more than anything else has been at the bedrock of British social and political stability since time immemorial, is in headlong collapse.
The institution was already in trouble at the start of this decade.
In 1999, just over 70 per cent of children were living with married parents. Today, that has fallen to scarcely 60 per cent, and the downward trend is deeply worrying.
Births outside marriage in 2009 stood at 460 per thousand, compared with 388 per thousand in 1999.
And, as a direct result, a lawless and amoral underclass has started to consolidate in some areas of society.
Cut off from the world of work and responsible citizenship, its existence is a destabilising social issue which poses a long-term threat to our national well-being.
The most urgent problem, however, is economic. At the dawn of the new millennium ten years ago, our nation's finances appeared to be in first-class working order.
Living standards were rising sharply, while economic growth was on a long-term upward trend.
Unemployment was low. National debt was actually being repaid to investors by a government whose finances were in healthy surplus.
All this has been thrown away.
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Socialism is the death knell of any country. The UK is dying and the US seems hell-bent on joining it. Unfortunately for the world, while the UK may actually pull itself out of its slump, I don't think the US will do it anytime soon because we seem to do EVERYTHING wrong first before we do anything right!
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Britain has emerged as the biggest loser from the first decade of the 21st century.
Is that so?
Has anyone looked at Greece lately?
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Gonna take some real nasty internal disputes before either the UK or the US gets their ducks back in a row. And I mean real nasty internal disputes with blood in the streets lighted by burning buildings, decorated lampposts, and burning vehicles. The Left is in for a rude awakening when all the B/S comes home to roost and people are in the mood for 'rough justice' and the hell with what is laughingly called the 'rule of law'.
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