Writing in the Telegraph, Andrew Marr announces the end of Wind In The Willows UK. Council house sales and patchy, selective gentrification mean that the fragrant classes are leaving cheek-by-unshaven-jowl with the criminal classes on a scale previously unseen.

But at what point do middle-class people slip off and buy a reconditioned East European pistol for the glove compartment?

I don't know, but you're right, it's currently very one-sided. I recently discovered that if some chav wanders, uninvited, through my front gates, and I shoot him, it's me who'll get into trouble. Political correctness gone mad, isn't it?

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