Sedayne - I didn't copy/paste the first poem (as I sometimes do to save folks time) as it is one of my "shaped" poems; and I'd appreciate it if you respect the (C) on my life's work in future. Further, of course these same social problems occur through other times and places, but things ARE worse now than say 1950s England. And most would argue over the cause of the decline - NOT the fact that there HAS been a decline in social standards. A lot of TV, me?...I never watch tele-plays or "reality" TV but, yes, I do watch a fair amount of documentaries, tennis, news, and listen to folk radio, via satellite, from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, as well as the fraction of English folk we get from Mike Harding.
Joe - English folk is, of course, just a part of English culture; and I said "or ANY OTHER (nation)", above.