Can’t say with honesty I disagree with her sentiments. Do you ? I was also, again, particularly shocked at the image yesterday of a youth at the Carnival brazenly weilding a massive machety with no apparent Police intervention.
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I have not read the article (and have no intention of doing so) but find it unlikely that I would agree with any opinions proffered by Sarah Vine…
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Ugh someone I follow on Twitter linked Vine’s comments to Brexit so I bit the bullet and read some of the article… Attached is a PDF copy so you don’t have to access the site or increase their ad revenue 
My thoughts: she’s even more self-entitled than I thought she was.
dailymail.co.uk-SARAH VINE Basket case Britain is starting to feel like a Third World country.pdf (358.8 KB)
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I think you are a lone voice. She is only voicing what the majority in UK now think. The DM and Telegraph articles today covering the events at NHG Carnival might sway your firm opinion ?
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Thanks, Gareth. What a curious article. In my view, most of the things of which she complains are a direct consequence of the policies instigated and implemented by the Mail/Telegraph/Sun-following conservative governments of the last 13 years.
So if she’s admitting that Britain has been governed very badly for over a decade, then for perhaps the first time in my life, I agree with her.
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Yes, she is right, but until relatively recently she was living with one of the chief architects of the descent into disaster. He was schmoozing with his oily “oh so reasonable” voice on the radio yesterday explaining why he (and the odious Coffey) are relaxing pollution rules even as river pollution (as Vine mentions) have reached catastrophic levels. He says relaxing rules will reduce pollution. 
When my wife and heard I him, we looked at one another and said “the UK’s out of control”.
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Notting Hill Carnival has always been rife with criminal activity.
The violence is just more blatant now as the home-grown ferals butcher each other over the drug-dealing rights of certain post codes.
If I was King, the NHC would be held in the middle of Salisbury ranges with a HIMARs battery keeping watch over it.
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That photo of the yob with the machete is frightening and he obviously dosn’t care because he will be traced by his full view face but probably just a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again. I don’t know who this lady journalist is or her connection to “one of the chief architects” but some of the points she raises I can relate to from speaking to my brother and sisters who live in the UK and although they all seem to have voted for brexit (another story) are very worried about how anarchy, poverty, greed and complacency has become the norm now. I think they would all get out if they could but even that is now unsurmountable to most brits thanks to signing away their freedoms. You couldn’t make it up the rubbish being spouted by so called caring tories and other politicians and yes, its a me,me,me society now and everyone else can sod off.
Haven’t been for many years but Notting Hill Carnival was something I liked. Always have been pockets of trouble, and some violence, and so maybe that has got worse? Stronger drugs, more youth unemployment, lots of reasons but until the government really does something about disenfranchised youth it won’t change.
Brilliant cartoon. Worth framing 
Or perhaps there are more people with cameras in their phones so the violence is more likely to be captured?
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No idea who Sarah Vine is, but if she is related to Jeremy I don’t want to know what she says.
On the other hand, if she is, she may also be related to Tim, and I find him quite funny. 
She was, until fairly recently, married to Michael Gove.
Not as far as I know but she was married to Michael Gove… (snap @Gareth)
Were she related to Jeremy she’d definitely be related to Tim as they are brothers.
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Oh my gawd.
@_Brian I know, but in the way these things are mixed and matched in today’s world, anything can happen. I mean would you guess they were brothers, seeing them side by side? For a long time I thought it was just one of his jokes. 
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I agree entirely. Chalk and cheese. Jeremy makes my skin crawl and while I don’t particularly enjoy Tim’s style of humour he seems a decent sort - and he was excellent on Taskmaster.
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Mine too, I have never forgiven him for taking over Jimmie Young’s prog after he was unceremoniously dumped on grounds of age. I like a good quiz but I can’t watch Eggheads, entirely because of his sycophantic presence there.
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I had a stand up row with him at a live event where he made a “funny” comment about older women having no need to wear burqas, etc Wrong on so many levels.
,(hosting an industry award dinner that was 80% men).
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