This state of affairs exists because the major parties are afflicted with Mary Poppins syndrome – they won't rest until Britons are practically perfect in every way.
"Unquestionably," he told the media conference afterwards, "a dramatically better state of affairs exists than when I warned in 1986 of the threat of Australia degenerating to the status of a banana republic".
A similar state of affairs exists in England: hence the general attitude to Birmingham, the one place in the Midlands that people think they know something about – and all of it (roads, architecture, accent) negative.
If a state of affairs obtains, then an obtaining state of affairs exists, a fact exists.
Hence, states of affairs exist in virtue of the nature objects and properties.
Wittgenstein clearly states this Correspondence Theory of Truth at (4.25): "If an elementary proposition is true, the state of affairs exists; if an elementary proposition is false, the state of affairs does not exist".
Why, then, do such undesirable states of affairs exist, if there is a being who is very powerful, very knowledgeable, and very good?
What undergo "existence changes" are atomic states of affairs (configurations of objects): a state of affairs exists with respect to one world but fails to exist with respect to another.
What distinguishes states of affairs from other entities which ontologically depend on the same properties and particulars is that states of affairs exist because the properties are predicable of the particulars.
It is impossible that the 2nd order totality fact comprising all the 1st order states of affairs exist and the 3rd order totality fact comprising all the 1st and 2nd order states not exist.
