Solo, How little you know.
Since the Poll Tax, the Tory's have shifted the responsibility for funding local services, from increases in national income tax, to increases in local council tax.
This is a deliberate move to absolve the role of the State just as David Cameron is doing now, and to place decision making with local authorities, but with less money.
British communities have become separated from central Government funding.
The politicians and the media refer to this as 'localism', but it's more than that, it's a removal of the roll of the State where we all pay our taxes for services to be funded.
What has happened since the Thatcher era is that taxation in this country has been reversed, no longer is income tax increased to fund local services, local tax increases have replaced income tax as the main source of funding local services, hitting the poorest people hardest.
Since Thatcher's Poll Tax, where the poor were expected to pay the same local tax as the rich, this denotes how unfair Britain has become this past 30 years, and so fairness is the crux of the matter here.
Britain has without a doubt, lost it's soul, it's Christianity, it's sense of fair play.
There is now no sense of community, or society, people are leading isolated lives and this, in my view, having read reports on the London riots, is because young people have no jobs and no hope, therefore anxiety and anger is unleashed.
Naturally, our fundamentally right-wing politicians cannot understand this anger and frustration because they lead lives of wealth and privilege.