It is a fact. Britain rots under Brown

The Rotten State of Britain by Eamonn Butler is about to hit the streets.

These little nuggets are published in the book:

1. Britain has a quarter of the world's CCTV cameras;

2. Taxes have risen by 51 per cent since 1997;

3. National debt is running at £4.6billion, or £175,000 per household;

4. In 2006/7 - half of the 722,464 DNA samples collected by the police came from children, including a seven-month year old girl;

5. There are now 1,406 litter wardens and dog catchers who have been given powers to levy on the spot fines;

6. One in nine hospital patients picks up an infection during their stay on a ward, while the total cost of outstanding claims against the NHS is £9.2billion;

7. 30,000 of the 200,000 people who die of cancer and strokes each year would survive if they lived anywhere else in northern Europe;

8. The number of people receiving state benefits has risen from 17million people in 1997 to 21million people by 2007;

9. Nearly six million families receive £16billion-worth of child credit;

The book is published on 19 march.  It is worth highlighting the above now in case Marr is called in by Brown to help get the book banned.