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The basic reason is that all the services are being slowly privatised so the money is filtered up to the top. NHS has to use private services. Rail is split up into Track maintenance, and Train rental companies.. schools are being sold off with the Academies system. Basically the conservatives started selling everything off, and labour has carried on taking it to another level; getting away with selling bits even the tories wouldn't dare to.

Why do you think Britain is failing? It seems to be one of the better countries to live in the world, certainly in the top 20%.

Perhaps it is a diatribe. But Dalrymple's point is that the numbers don't lie in this case. Birthrates in the UK--as they are in all of the West-- are on a steep decline. We are witnessing the Graying of Europe.

We are witnessing the Graying of Europe.

You mean - people are moving around?

EDIT: I just foung the phrase "Graying of Europe" to be a bit Enoch Powell, perhaps it's just me. Apologies...