It’s the ‘great noticing’, as rightwingers accept that ‘Britain is broken’. But their fixes won’t make it any better | Nesrine Malik

There is a lot of hearing of things that were previously said, just not by the right people.

The Spectator, the Telegraph and the Sun have declared “ Broken Britain’s broken” The timing for that acceleration seems to be the precise moment the joint Brexit/Boris Johnson project folded.

There can be no admission that Britian 's decline has a history, or that if it does, it must be very short.

The consequences of government policy do not become apparent overnight, but certainly begin to take shape over more than a decade .

Defunding community centres and youth services does not turn those who needed them feral in a day, but transfers the burden of injured and vulnerable children to schools and hospitals.

Those on the right, braced for defeat, are now primed and prepared to carry their new complaint of a country that does not work to the doors of a Labour government.