Follow the Numbers ; to the present political and media class

The sooner the present government leaves office the better, but anyone who takes over is likely to be or to become even less legitimate just as public distrust in media and professions plummets.

This country is in the grip of ineluctable crisis. This crisis is systemic, it touches every aspect of public policy, it is corrupting and it is growing.

There are 2.43 million people on incapacity benefit

There were 1.23 million people claiming unemployment benefit in January 2009. I think that this figure could easily rise to between three and five million within two years.

There are five million, seven hundred and sixty four thousand people in public sector employment, which has been responsible for the creation of over half a million jobs since 1997.

The incomes of many 'charities' are dependent upon government grants. Government uses such charities as fronts, thinktanks, conduits and cover.

Instead of nationalising banks, promoting local or national social ownership, cooperative societies, or mutual organisations, the government is throwing money at rich bankers, and foreign companies. The latter is partly because domestic manufacturing and industry were abandoned or sold on the advice of said bankers.

Hardworking foreign immigrants, paid less or in acceptance of far lower living conditions and debts, are getting jobs that British workers won't or can't do. They are, if they are anything like the Poles I know, diligently sending the money home and getting ready to build their own country up in decency and strength. British workers, failed by the education system and looked down on by those who live off their taxes, burdened by huge debts and taxes so that they can't live on low paying jobs, are up the creek.

The single best policy for restraining crime and improving mobility--the growth of real jobs, property, and real business--is disappearing like the grass on a cold field full of goats all around.

The whole world is contracting and the government's strategy for funding its deficit at the minute relies on borrowing vast sums of money. Indeed, the wider measure of the balance of payments for the whole economy is in deficit--not trade, not budget, but the balance of payments itself. This country at all levels cannot pay for itself.

This cannot go on. The debased and quasi-legitimate political class of this country, itself living from the public purse, and sustaining a government elected by twenty two per cent of the voters, is going to have to start printing money soon to buy time, if it is not already. It is not investing in coal. It is not investing in nuclear power. It is not fixing the public budget. It is not scaling back wasteful spending on nuclear missile delusions, nor questioning whether the higher education system is doing anything worthwhile, nor making an effort to grab hold of the runaway private finance initiative, nor questioning the expensive global warming delusion by restraining silly and onerous 'green' burdens on ordinary householders. nor is it building new prisons or making the police do their job.

In a few years, maybe months, stagflation will return; the political and media class will be whirling beyond any connection with reality; and all but the most bovine will realise how badly they have been sold out. Within a few months of that, power cuts, nativism, and protectionism could easily return.

Stop just doing anything, stop listening to aggressive loonies and parasites of all ages sexes and conditions, stop shouting and hectoring, shut out the noise, think, and then do something.