article_snippet.sent: all beloved welfare state (which has actually created a terrible dependency culture in many parts of the country) relies on a strong, unsabotaged economy to keep their beloved welfare state (which has actually created a terrible dependency culture in many parts of the country) afloat.
article_snippet.sent: We are not a drab, depressed country, riven with class divisions and grotesque inequality, as you would think from watching films such as Pride and Billy Elliot.
article_snippet.sent: On the contrary, crime is lower, life expectancy higher and the standard of living better than at any time in our past.
article_snippet.sent: The rights of women, gays and ethnic minorities are all robustly defended by politicians of both Left and Right, and our schools and hospitals have never been better (or more lavishly funded).
article_snippet.sent: Britain now has the fastest-growing economy in the Western world, with more jobs being created last year in Yorkshire — ironically, the county where so many of these Left-wing propaganda films have been set — than in the whole of France.