Now some would say that drugs is a major contributory factor to a broken society.
David Cameron has said tackling the "broken society" is back at the top of his agenda following last week's riots.
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We dislike their Europhobic fringe and their exaggerations about Britain's broken society.
In short, all the action necessary to help mend our broken society.
First, reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society.
Fixing our broken society is not beyond our reach if we pull together, government, communities, families and each and every individual citizen in this country...
Jon Sopel: In your speech you talked about a broken society.
We need to show them that we will address our broken society, we will restore a sense of stronger sense of morality and responsibility - in every town, in every street and in every estate.
And of course, in addition to our plans to reduce the long-term demands on the state by fixing our broken society and to improve the productivity of the state by reforming public services we want to save money straight away by cutting out government waste and outdated programmes.
Why that is not about trumped-up short-term efficiency savings or thoughtless crisis cuts - but is about long-term change, long-term change that involves reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society and long term change that means increasing the productivity of the state by reforming our public services.
When Fine Gael and Labour agreed to work as coalition partners, they issued a joint document saying voters had chosen parties "to begin mending the pieces of a fractured society, a broken economy".
We need good corporate citizens to help us change society for the better, to mend the broken economy and do some healing in places like Spain, where the conference is being held.
We wanted society improved, but we worried that it might be broken.
It proved that society has the capacity to reassert norms of civilized behavior even when they appear to have permanently broken down.
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