Published by The Sunday Times on New Year's Eve, it found 40 per cent of Britons were positive about their own lives in the year just gone, with 24 per cent saying they had had a bad year. However, when quizzed about the state of the country, only seven per cent thought 2006 had been a good one for Britain, while 55 per cent thought it had been bad. Immigration, closely followed by antisocial behaviour (cited by 44 per cent) topped the list of Great British gripes. Expectations for 2007 reflected a similar disparity between the private and public realms.
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