I wonder if future historians will view Mr. Cameron's rather surprising election as leader of the Conservative Party as the extinction of the last, slim hope of rescuing traditional England?

The marxoid liberal left are consolidating their icy grip on power everywhere and we hear not a peep from the Tories. 

We were promised a referendum on the new European Constitution, which effectively ends our sovereignty, and it was a lie.  The promise was broken on the infantile excuse that the new constitution was not really a constitution at all, children, so don't worry your pretty little heads.  Goebbels and Stalin would have been impressed by the flattery of imitation.

The union of England and Scotland came about in 1707 because the Scots had lost all their life-savings in a reckless financial adventure which went bust (the colony at Darien).  Now the Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland have come to even greater financial disaster.  Cocky, stupid, greedy managers have lost all the banks' reserves, and partly by paying huge taxes to their chums in the Labour government who were expanding jobs in the public sector.  The U.K. government finances have been grotesquely distorted - in a way that was unimaginable before it happened - to try to pretend that all this shareholder money has not really been lost.

The obvious approach to tackling this crisis would be to start by hacking back every job created in the public sector since 1997.  In many cases, by eliminating bossy, interfering regulators, this would directly benefit the productive part of the economy.  But how is the debate couched?  In liberal elite terms of the pain to be caused by small cuts in useful services.  And, of course, the complete bollocks of treating 'foreign aid' as sacrosanct.  Forget the corruption overseas and just look at an earlier post about how this so-called 'aid' money is grossly misused in the U.K.

With the expansion of the public sector, and its powers of procurement in the private sector, it is now impossible to embark on a successful career without kowtowing to the new gods of 'equality' and 'diversity'.  If you wouldn't simply love to have your children brought up by a couple of black gays -  or rather, to pretend that you would - you are a pariah.  Don't even think of asking to train as a teacher.  Did you read about the woman who has just been sacked because she asked, only once, if the mother would like her to pray for her child. 

We have already become a police state.  Did you read about the business man charged with VAT fraud?  Before his trial, HMRC used the 'Proceeds of Crime Act' passed in 2007 to freeze his personal assets; and thus to prevent him from commissioning an expert accountant's report.  His subsequent requests for legal aid were refused.  He was sent to prison on the same day that a court was shown an accountant's report, produced free of charge, showing that there had probably been a mistake; his companies did not owe any VAT and were probably due for a rebate.  

And do you remember the man who wanted to save his wife from a burning building?  The police had arrived and an officious officer barred his way in the name of elf and safety.  Desperate, the man shoved his fingers in his pocket, said he had a gun, pushed past the startled officer and dashed inside.  He duly emerged with his wife, whose life he had manifestly saved.  He was then prosecuted and sent to prison for pretending he had a gun.  One can only hope that every public official involved in this viciously spiteful prosecution - which shows the state's utter contempt for the institution of marriage as compared with maintaining the powers of its jumped-up henchmen - suffers a painfully lingering death from natural causes.  A new law for the public execution of egregious public officials, pour encourager les autres, would of course be even better.   

And the chap just sent to prison for beating up a thug who had broken into his home and terrorised his family?  'He had taken the law into his own hands,' prattled the idiotic and pompous judge.  And who the hell does the judge think is enforcing the law against violent burglars.  The police?  The courts?  Ha, bloody ha!   The liberal elite sympathise with violent burglars (as long as they keep away from their posh homes, of course) because they are part of the deprived, drugged and depraved underclass which is the raw material for the highly lucrative and cushy (but so draining, my dear) 'caring' professions.

It is no accident that the police jumped on the opportunity of the Hungerford killings to ban hand guns.  For the protection of the public?  Jest not.  For the protection of police when they are bullying ordinary members of the public (or sometimes shooting them dead by mistake).  The Nazis were also very keen on banning guns in private hands. As others have suggested, it is difficult to imagine that gun-toting Texans would allow state officials to grab their children and herd them off in cattle trucks. 

Granted that the Conservative Party is faced with an electorate that, on three occasions, was stupid enough to elect Mr. Blair as Prime Minister.  (Although the Tories still seem to have no plans to make England independent of Scotland again; which would eliminate a large part of this blatantly obvious electoral problem.)  And perhaps it was mainly bad luck that they chose Mr. Cameron as a Blair look-alike just before Mr. Blair's reputation went up in a puff of smoke.  But what now? 

After the next election, would it perhaps be best if a Labour-Liberal coalition limped on until the scale of the disaster was plain to a large majority of voters, and whilst the Tories were conducting a bloody civil war to produce a leadership with a true grasp of the issues and solutions?

In another post, I will shortly be musing about the Conservative Party's colourful record in appointing its leaders.