A brilliant social analogy for the UK!... The Bird Feeder I bought a bird feeder..  I hung it on my patio and  Filled it lovingly with seed...  It was indeed a beautiful bird feeder. Within a week we had hundreds  of birds taking advantage of the Continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table,  and next to the barbecue..   Then came the bird shit.   It was everywhere;  on the patio tiles, the chairs, the table .... everywhere!   Then some of the birds turned mean.  They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And other birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore.  So I took down the bird feeder  and in three days the birds were gone.  I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be ... quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal...  Now let's see ........ our government gives out free food, subsidised housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the millions.  Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for the free services;  small flats are housing 5 or  more families;  you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by a doctor in an emergency surgery because it is filled with illegal non tax payers; your child's year 12 class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English. Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'The Union Jack' are squawking and screaming  in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Its just my opinion but: maybe, just maybe, it's time for the government to take down the damn bird feeder.