With their innate genius for understatement and avowed loathing for sensationalist, attention grabbing headlines, the Tories have today modestly announced that the UK is as broken down a society as that shown on The Wire.

Premature in my mind, but I admire their honesty in letting us know what to expect when they're in power.

Interesting too that the Tories are now merrily 'dissing those they claim to love: the NHS (thanks Dan Hannan), and implicitly, with today's barrage of froth, the Police.