Rentierism: The Neverending Social Plague

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If there is cross-party support for any assessment of the United Kingdom, it is the contention that a small minority of people are profitting significantly from making the country an increasingly inhospitable place.

The social and cultural atomisation of preexisting towns and cities at the hands of market forces is, of course, one of the contributing reasons for this inhospitality. Very recently, Leicester has regrettably, and yet predictably, proven itself to be such a place; a place that an ostracised politician in 1968 warned towns and cities in Britain would become if immigration continued on the scale being proposed. As we know, this is a scale that has long been surpassed—most likely because of its benefits to a small consortium of financiers.