Tripe like this has been responsible for the decimation of broadcasting standards in this country and has led to hoards of brain-dead disciples falling in thrall before contestants devoid of any level of interest, content or ability to inspire anything but the self-interested spectacle of individuals prostituting themselves in the name of 'celebrity'.
We will remain broken as a nation – fundamentally so - as long as people give credence to this nonsense by allowing it to pollute their television screens.
Sorry Zulu, as much as I have promised myself not to involve myself in any political thread on the OOF, I have just got to say you are rather overstating things somewhat!
We are talking about just a TV programme, that with only a few exceptions had overall low viewing ratings figures and is now to be taken off our screens due to a lack of public interest. This has nothing to do with a so called "Broken Britain", if that exists anyway!
All the time individuals make a big drama with serious words over this "Broken Britain", and especially over just a TV programme, not the outbreak of civil riots, food shortages, power outages, law & order collapse, no medical treatment due to no medications being available, oh and WW3, then we continually talk the country down.
Lighten up, and think twice about using such serious, heavy implicated language on the OOF, if no where else, as we are NOT in a country with the previous mentioned disorders. Lets think ourselves lucky we do not! 
Now I will go back into political hibernation (on the OOF) 
political thread on the OOF
I thought this was a thread about a trashy television show?
overstating things somewhat
That's somewhat subjective E - and I admire the breadth you have to embrace the current woes of the country - as far as I'm concerned we need to highlight the difference between perceived reality as depicted by such television content and the reality encountered in every day life.
overall low viewing ratings figures
Ratings are not necessarily the issue here as the trend in current television production - as well as some areas of the print media - is towards pandering to such an audience 'entertained' by such tripe. This inclination isn't fuelled by just one televission show but by many across the multi-platform network.
Broken Britain", if that exists anyway
I'm surprised to find that you don't feel we have a problem here.
big drama
Where is the big drama E? again this is subjective as I certainly remember a very big drama being made over certain events in the Middle East recently - although I held off commenting on it.
Your appreciation of what constitutes ‘drama’ certainly differs from mine.
Lighten up, and think twice about using such serious, heavy implicated language on the OOF,
Perhaps you should have considered that before starting your Israeli thread E - so it seems that I'm not the only member to use 'serious' language when posting here.
just a TV programme
This isn't just about a television programme E; it's about a general trend towards the banal, the make-believe, and the vicarious experience of life through the television screen and computer monitor.
not the outbreak of civil riots, food shortages, power outages, law & order collapse
Not yet E - and if you don't believe that any of this is possible then my view is that you're very much mistaken.
Finally, on the general point of this country being broken, we have seen over the recent past the general decline in the respect for our fellow citizens and the rule of law;
The dependence on the welfare society to get through life and the expectation of many that they are due to receive what they desire irrespective of whether they have the means to pay for it or not;
The increasing use of violence as a means to express dissatisfaction or to impress a will onto others;
The 'wide-boy' culture where anything seems to be acceptable in the quest for the individual to achieve their goals;
Incompetent government, that certainly over the recent past, seemed to be steeped in the theoretical rather than the practical;
A legal system that seems to being geared to punish by way of immediate penalty dispended by a cadre of untrained individuals only too pleased to mete out such punishments as a means of guaranteeing their jobs and a system where the notion of being innocent until proven guilty seem to have become an inconvenience for certain elements within the justice system.
The list is almost endless so I'll end this by saying that I'm only too pleased to comment on these issues as I feel that this nation and its apparatus is broken and that sentiments to the contrary - whilst valid - have been responsible for allowing, us as a nation, to have wandered doe-eyed to a point where many think that there's nothing much worrying about.
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