The surreal world we are currently operating in where everything seems possible but nothing is as it seems continues to perplex me. A clique of serially incompetent politicians have just recieved their third bloody nose inside a month, ARE THEY LISTENING NOW??? The fuel price situation continues to deteriorate, whilst not the Governments fault (just for once) their fuel taxation policies continue to add to the resultant misery that everyone is suffering.

Life in Blairs “Big Tent” is looking decidedly dodgy as the cold winds of recession tear at the guy ropes and expose the structural defects of the “New Labour Project”. As the minions face the looming  possibility of mass unemployment in the foreseeable future the search for a scapegoat intensifies. It is perversely satisfying to see the panic gather pace. Smugness has evaporated as the awful reality finally sinks in that the game is up and the gravy train is hurtling headlong towards the buffers. Fair weather friends who bankrolled the folly are deserting in droves as the disaster unfolds.

The resurgent conservatives, having suffered a well deserved 11 years in the political wilderness are beginning to exhibit signs of electability, it is sincerly hoped that the wilderness years have not been wasted and hard lessons have been learned. If indeed they manage to get elected next time the mess they inherit will test them to breaking point from day one. How ironic that last time around John Majors legacy was the strongest economy for generations, so strong that it has taken New Labour over a decade to financially self destruct.

Whilst number 10’s current incumbent is reaping the firestorm of voter wrath his predecessor initiated, he is not blamless for the parlous state of UK plc’s economy. At the outset Mr Brown the “Iron Chancellor” conducted the raid on pension funds that saw 30 years worth of mine return slightly less than the sum of the contributions when I cashed them  in recently while there was still something left. His tax and spend mentality has has come across as vindictive and wasteful, harming that industrious and productive sector of society that actually contributes the most. The feckless sroungers who produce so little and the super rich while at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum have prospered while the productive centre has been squeezed until the pips squeak.

My business, along with countless others is weighed down by red tape that saps vitality and stifles growth, health and safety has gone way beyond commonsense as a generation of beaurocrats and consultants wax fat on the spoils of the bloated empires they have spawned.

Big Government currently intrudes into our lives at an accelerating pace as the surveilance society justifies its pernicious agenda by citing the threat of terrorism. How dare they suggest that every telephone call or email is recorded permanently in case it is needed as “evidence” at some future date. The threat of terrorism whilst a clear and present danger is still infinitesimal when viewed against the cost of proposed measures to counter it financially or even more significantly the implications for individual liberty or privacy. Strangely enough the issue of identity cards has gone ominously quiet recently, is it because the financial implications are slowly beginning to register with an increasingly financially embarrassed, hopeless Chancellor?

The often voiced concern that nothing really works as it should despite the billions of taxpayers money thrown at various public services is increasingly relevant as the incompetent follies of various Government departments continually crash home to roost.

Tax credits are a case in point where the dishonest are milking a system designed undoubtedly with the best of intentions to help the underdog who works for a pittance. There are countless families who commendably choose not to become clients of the state. This is not a soft option as the breadwinner is taxed to the point where it is actualy easier not to work. The money taken is then repaid as a tax credit, surely it would be better if these unfortunate people were removed from the tax net altogether?

The problem is that the people who dream up these schemes have never experienced the real world of work where poor performance rapidly equates to no job. Politicians of all persuasions almost invariably put their own wellbeing and survival before other considerations so very few are capable of grasping the harsh realities of the real world beyond the Westminster Village. This is a hard place where there are no perks, no gold plated pensions, no subsidised mortgages or 1st class travel, A harsh environment that most Politico’s are incapable of embracing or envisaging.

The newly resurgent Tories need to take this on board now, I cannot be the only taxpayer burning with raw anger at the parlous state of our blighted divided little Nation as a result of more than a decade of hopeless innefectual leadership. The guliability of voters wallowing in the feelgood factor of obscenly inflated property values and cheap borrowing on the overinflated equity generated beggars belief.

If New Labour are to be remembered for the one thing it got right it must be the consummate ease with which it has long conned the British Electorate into believing everything in the garden was rosy when it patently was not. As with all propaganda machines the clever but deluded fools who promulgated the lies probably believed them to be true. 

It therefore necessarily follows that a generation of disengaged comatose voters actually got what they deserve and a very very hard lesson is in the process of being learned.