Is the UK becoming a banana republic? Is it turning into the third world? That's what I want to talk about today.

Let me explain. Look at the state of our roads. Pot holes. More potholes than the song. Have a look at our railways.

I had a nightmare journey yesterday. But it isn't just the critical infrastructure of our country.

It's things like our state broadcaster, which is becoming more and more like a North Korea

state broadcaster, totally biased against all the things that we stand for. Look at a Chris

Cabber documentary on Panorama, where basically the police were the baddies

and that foul gun-toting gangster was a hero, almost. Look at the attack on students now having to pay

more for their fees. The pensioners, the elderly, the bias in the news is Britain is the United Kingdom becoming a one-party

state because it looks like Starma could be in power for 10 years and God help us he's only

been in for the best part of 10 or 12 weeks what's you going to do in 10 years i fear

for the future of our great country what about you you know what to do send me an email john at

john gaunt com get on twitter get on facebook it's all john gaunt thank you very much indeed right

let's start with just a little example of where this thought came from.

I had to come down to Oxfordshire yesterday to see my daughter and look after her poorly dog.

So I was going to get the train. I've been bragging about how good the train system is to Oxford.

And get on the train, get off the train, integrated public transport, £2, if you want to get the bus,

brings me right to the more or less to the door of her house and her little village on the outskirts

of Oxford. But not yesterday, every blumming direct train, and it's the train line that goes

from Manchester, effectively Manchester Airport, through to Bournemouth to the cruise terminal there, run by cross-country trains. They are a disgrace. I was going to say that their trains almost as bad as somewhere in India. But to be fair with you, I've travelled quite a lot in India and at least the

trains in India run on time and they're not bad for what you pay for whereas cross country are an

absolute disgrace they never have enough carriages well yesterday they didn't even have the trains

because they've not got enough drivers so on on a Monday morning, can you believe this,

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