we are all suffering from gaps in our personal security by losing thousands of police, prison staff, and probation officers. we are less secure when our health service is barely functioning in many parts and - in the long term - when our education services are starved of cash and schools forced into ridiculous academy chains. i feel more secure when we aren't threatening vulnerable people with cutting their meagre resources and when there are less homeless or hungry children.

at a more local level i don't feel too secure when i see idiots going round with a pumped up bodies with beer bellies (odd that, eh?) and tattoos expecting me to talk seriously about trump, JRM or tommy robinson.

i was more secure when this was a kinder nation and even tories used to pretend to have concern for the less well-off. when ken clarke was a nasty right wing bogey man - now he seems like the last sane voice in the tory party - the 'centre ground' has moved a long way