Think Greece is in a mess? Wait till the UK’s debt mountain explodes in our face
By PETER HITCHENS
DailyMail.com
1 February 2015
Would we cope with misery as well as the Greeks? If our great fat cushion of state-backed jobs, welfare payments, tax credits and easy loans were whipped away one morning, how would we get on?
I think we would do very badly. In Greece, the suddenly poor and destitute turned to their strong extended families.
And if those families had not taken them in and supported them, there would have been nothing else. Fortunately, they did.
This country doesn’t have strong extended families any more. In many cases, it doesn’t really have families at all.
In too many places, it has gangs instead. And those that survive are weakest just where they would be needed most in a crisis – among the poor.
This country lives on the edge of serious disorder. The misnamed ‘riots’ of August 2011 were nothing of the kind.
They had no political pretext, no wider aim. I suspect many thought of joining in, but didn’t quite.
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