Between education and catastrophe...

Said the interminably optimistic H.G.Wells ...

After all, half a sixpence is better than half of nuffin' innit ?...

We are all expected to be so grateful for what we've got, that we're supposed to think that we've actually got what we wanted, and anything more than having our hopes and dreams fed to the pigs (not of the curly-tailed variety) is not for the likes of us...

Because we apparently have a bad dose of The Great Fucking Easy ...