Is Brexit Britain Irrevocably Broken and Irreparably Damaged?

Or is it simply a sign of the times?

The symbol of the nation’s corrupt and rotten political establishment. Image via Pixabay on Pexel

It’s 6:50 am on a bitterly cold morning at Canary Wharf, Britain’s financial center.

Outside the tube station, there’s man sleeping rough without any covers in such extreme weather conditions.

To thousands of commuters who use the Jubilee line to get to their imposing and intimidating offices in the city of London, Dennis is invisible.

And guess what?

There are many more folks like Dennis around the United Kingdom.

In other train stations around London, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Cardiff, you will find men and women who have been consigned to the scrap heap of polite society; invisible to everyone around them.

While it might be intellectually dishonest to suggest that homelessness is a recent phenomenon, it is fair to point out that the numbers have risen inexorably over the last ten years.

What’s more, the numbers of those who have fallen into poverty in the last 18 months have gone up; food banks which have sprung up in vast numbers in the last decade are seriously struggling to keep up with those who need it the most.