It’s not Great being British

If being the same species as Jade Goodie was not humiliation enough, looters – or should I say losers – on the Devon coast seem intent on showing Britain as a nation of cons.

Despite a series of warnings, people are plundering through containers of private property and heading for the hills with whatever they fancy.

Images of these idiots (who probably should be at work) are being beamed around the world, and making us look like an island of lower-class thieves.

But, as if that wasn’t enough, those of us who should know better as sitting back and supporting them. “Oh, aren’t they cheeky,” journalists and viewers alike seem to be saying, as Wayne from Exeter runs off to dry out his new motorbike.

Do my eyes deceive me or have we really sunk to such a low level of morality and poor judgement?

Was being branded a nation of inarticulate bigots not enough?