Britain is Broken.
Yes, “Broken Britain” has finally annoyed me enough to write about it.
So, let me tell you what’s broken about Britain.
- The assumption that anybody taking photographs of a child is a paedophile.
- The assumption that anybody who’s a Muslim might be a terrorist.
- The assumption that a group of youths standing around chatting must be a gang.
- The assumption that anybody on incapacity benefit or is long-term unemployed is a scrounger.
- The assumption that anybody from Eastern Europe is either a scrounger or here to take our jobs.
- The assumption that anybody accused of any serious crime must be guilty from the moment they’re charged (and irrespective of what they’re actually charged with).
- The assumption that anybody who downloads anything distributed illicitly on the Internet is screwing the creative industries.
You will spot a trend here. I do not contend that these are universally-held. Indeed, it might even be the case that it’s actually the preponderance of certain portions of mainstream media to scream about these things which is the problem, rather than any particular levels of public feeling.
So perhaps it boils down to this: taking a truthful aspect of any subject, extrapolating it into wildly-exaggerated hyperbole and calling it news is damaging both our society and our relationships with the rest of the world. Fucking stop it.
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