What have the following got in common? David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Liz Truss, Nicola Sturgeon, Matt Hancock, Sadiq Khan, Angela Rayner, Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Professor Neil Ferguson, Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard and Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the Chief of the Defence Staff.
The answer is that they were all born between 1965 and 1980, making them Generation Xers, and they have all turned Britain barking mad. I say this with a heavy heart, for to my eternal shame I also belong to Generation X.
The names I listed above are only the tip of the iceberg, a very large iceberg into which the Good Ship Britain has sailed and, as a result, is now listing badly and in danger of sinking.
In a vituperative and wholly justified article in Thursday’s Daily Telegraph Allister Heath described a Britain that is ‘descending into chaos’. He enumerated the reasons why nothing works anymore, concluding that ‘the government is so uncomfortable with having to govern that it appears desperate to give up power’.
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