Trying to enter a Boots the other day I had to wait to be buzzed in. According to a sign on the door this was because of a recent spate of aggressive behaviour towards its employees: as such, after 5pm, entry into the shop was controlled. This was not, may I add, in some inner-city slum, but instead in an average retail park in an average town.
An excellent summary of so many problems in one article. Thank you.
I suggest another aspect: Just as there is no respect for authority, authority has been undermined by industrial scale criminality. Criminality on such as scale is appears to be the norm. Latest scandal? Yet another HM Gov IT system open to fraud - Child Maintenance Service, which has caused not only disruption but death.
All societies coalesce around a common belief system. The Britain of yesteryear was based on Christian belief, even if many did not share the faith. Since WWII, morals have loosened as people refused to obey Christian commandments, such as loving our neighbour, and generally laughed at the concept of sin and evil. The country welcomed people of other faiths, some of which are openly hostile to Christianity, thinking that it matters not what you believe as long as you adhere to the law. Personally I consider Britain is now a pagan country that is sliding into a totalitarian communist state. For decades, Chinese Christians have prayed for persecution to come to the west in order for true believers to take a stand for Jesus as the Chinese have done. I think those days are soon to be upon us.
An excellent summary of so many problems in one article. Thank you.
I suggest another aspect: Just as there is no respect for authority, authority has been undermined by industrial scale criminality. Criminality on such as scale is appears to be the norm. Latest scandal? Yet another HM Gov IT system open to fraud - Child Maintenance Service, which has caused not only disruption but death.
All societies coalesce around a common belief system. The Britain of yesteryear was based on Christian belief, even if many did not share the faith. Since WWII, morals have loosened as people refused to obey Christian commandments, such as loving our neighbour, and generally laughed at the concept of sin and evil. The country welcomed people of other faiths, some of which are openly hostile to Christianity, thinking that it matters not what you believe as long as you adhere to the law. Personally I consider Britain is now a pagan country that is sliding into a totalitarian communist state. For decades, Chinese Christians have prayed for persecution to come to the west in order for true believers to take a stand for Jesus as the Chinese have done. I think those days are soon to be upon us.