Unfortunately this is so much so that local authorities have started to pull out by making large cuts in resources, leaving the large weightofresponsibility on the shoulders of the voluntary sector who now have the task of tackling these issues with often little resource and support.
We see Lincoln less as the noble hero and more as the wise-cracking politician here, and the broken man beneath that half-smiling exterior, crooked under the weightof tragedy and responsibility that sit upon his shoulders.
He reckons that leading his party into Germany's first ever Red-Green government lands him with a double responsibility, and he feels all the weightof it.