Libraries Are Everything

How do we know we're civilised?  Because we pool our knowledge of the world in repositories called libraries.  Because we make these places available to everyone, not just the well-off.  Because we put libraries at the heart of communities like Bispham, Grange Park and South Shore.  They're not called "the poor person's university" for nothing.

We also put libraries at the heart of our biggest institutions:  the House of Commons Library is where all major statements and parliamentary answers are stored and made available:  MPs frequently mention the Commons Library in debates. 

Universities, colleges, law firms, the NHS, government departments, schools, churches, rest homes, village pubs, hospitals, societies:  all of these have libraries of one sort or another.

And we'll know just how civilised we are at the end of the cuts the Government is making when the last best hope of a calm, civilised and educated society is whipped away just when you weren't looking.  Sure, spend the money on old people's services - but what's a life if having the bare essentials is supposed to be enough?

Sucks to be us right now!