The money has run out, and, in fact, did so some time ago. Even though the British economy was booming for 20 years, public expenditure was so obscenely high that what was once an economically dominant empire is now an island not too far from bankruptcy.
You wouldn’t know it from the crowded stores and busy high streets, but spend time in medium-sized and small towns in the north and midlands, and the pain is tangible.
It’s not that people are lazy or indifferent, but that they were told from birth that there would always be someone there to find them a job, make them feel better, pick them up if they fell, even tell them what to think.
