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Broken Britain – what happens when everything falls apart?
The self-rewarding rich fear any notion of radical change in the way that politics, government and economics works, but this is our only lifeline, warns ALAN SIMPSON

THE roof is falling in on the British economy. For over 150 schools in England this is a literal as well as a figurative truth.
On the eve of the autumn term, schools were notified they couldn’t reopen because defective concrete in their roofs put them at risk of imminent collapse.
They were thrown into a frantic replanning of where and how teaching might take place. Parents hadn’t a clue what this might mean.
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