“Good health Mark thanks for you help in my daughters quest for maintenance,one of the CSA's success stories but only with your untiring help.Hope you feel better soon.”

“Wot! They trying to say they haven't got it carved up already?

"they hope the party will choose a credible local candidate for the seat, rather than parachute in a regional or national figure" - credible - ha!they have got to be kidding surely. It's bound to be a dictatorial zanu-labour, all-woman labour party yes-woman parachutist. She will be no replacement for Mark Fisher at all.”

“What I have tried to say is in the olds days it would be discribed has a poverty trap,now more like a benefits trap. Take another scenario, single man living on minimum wage, like the Council works out in all weathers, after rent, Council etc. not enough to heat & eat properly when living on one low wage. Not had an increase in tax threshold sinec Labour got in, his taxes subsidise child tax credits for those over £50k, wheres the sense in that, forget the precautions he would be better off having a few kids. You never saw a MP with a pram, now they are turning a Parliament bar into a creche, another way to fleece the poor. I have nothing against people taking to drink & drugs its there business, I feel like a drink most days but don't have one, but that boredom not from a good nightout thats the different in lifestyle today. Goodluck to Mr Fisher hope he gets well.”

“Shameless was an example, but when small children say I won't to grow uplike that, where will we be. We already have schools girls having babies for independance & the only life the expect, their mums start again, with babies in their 40s to keep the benefits coming, save signing on & to pay the rent. Several generations of families all on bebefits, with the minimum wage still people can't pay the way with, high taxes to support those extras benefits now being paid out, the extras stealth taxes thrown in. Kids not knowing or seeing a father has its better financially, or mum just wanted a baby. Parents in their 20s 30s 40s & even the grandparents with drug & drink addiction. No real employement advertised other than in the nanny state public sector, check the paper Wednesday. Broken Britain isn't about anti social behaviour because if people had a life the would right its self, its about the breakdown of family for the kids, no sure start doesn't make up for a really home life.”

“Anon, Stoke-on-Trent- so 'broken Britain' is young children stopping up late to watch 'Shameless'. Not a very comprehensive definition is it. That said, I do not wish to become too facetious about it, I think I understand your point. There is a debate to be had about parenting, how children are supported, family policy, the behaviour of individuals in society etc etc etc. Such debates and resultant actions have ALWAYS happened, this is nothing new at all. The fact that the latest 'moral panic' is being banded as evidence that we live in a 'broken Britain' is merely political propaganda on the part of the Conservative Party and does nothing to shed light on the real reasons and solutions for any alleged socio-economic decline.”

“Just put a red tea shirt on a chimp and let the chimp stand as an MP, he will get elected no problem.”

“stokiemart. A defenition of broken ( no longer working ) That could be said of a lot of people now out of work, through no fault of their own. Or how about ( no longer fit for the purpose intended ) That could be said of the Local Council. But the BEST has to be Gary Elsby. He is like a ' Broken Record ' !!!!”

“I will give a definition, try this one, primary school kids talking about TV, their favourite TV, that being Shameless, at 11.00 on a week night I don't watch that never mind under 10s seeing it has a livestyle coach. Don't say its unemployed has their young are in, the kids I heard were from families that work. You can't blame broken Britain on unemployment has its been this bad before, its a way of life now that you don't see in other Countries, that is peoples own choice & business, but not a good live for kids growing up.”

“Andy, all of my comments related directly to what you said, but never mind, I understand why you'd rather skip over them and indulge in petty name-calling instead. I'll try not to express any surprise that you have other antagonists and have a little paranoia thing going on.”

“Anon, stoke on Trent- I'm looking out my window. And? There's a broken water pipe that is being mended by Severn Trent, is that 'broken Britain' then? Definition please...”