HERE are some of the unwanted records of Great Britain at the present time:
Highest teenage pregnancies per year (41,000) per population in Western world;
Highest liver disease per population for under-25s in Western world;Highest abusers of pets and children per population in Western world;Highest percentage of adults and juvenile prisoners per population in Western world;Highest divorce rate per population in Western world.
We also have housing benefit payments currently running at £20bn per year. But I am sure that this present Government will be made to fiddle statistics to bring this down.
So no wonder that there are 21,000 decent hard-working honest people leaving this country every month.
It is frightening to think what sort of people will soon be in the majority in this once great country. I live in hope that one day even one of the above records will not be there.
Stephen Hadden, Bishop Auckland.
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