A Picture of Britain

 The United Kingdom's economic status is portrayed  in the Financial Times.  Credit Suisse has brought down the picture from the attic. Go and take a good look.

The diversionary, propaganda tactics consisting of pointing at any economy but the UK economy, of self-congratulation on not using the Euro currency, the articles on the economic problems of other countries which are not even accurate - Italy regularly gets an undeserved bad press for instance - cannot hold the line for much longer.

Nowhere else in Europe is a country in such economic distress as is  Labour Britain with its falling living standards and its rooted worklessness.

 Many have wanted the Cameron-led Conservatives to attack this dreadful failure with greater vigour, even viciousness and exposure of all the wrong-doing known to have been perpetrated.  There is no hope for some kind of orderly reconstruction to be found there.  It is, fortunately, a characteristic of one-nation Conservatism to build alliance and consent, not confrontation and defeat for any of the people caught up in this disaster.

Strikes and lockouts are the epitome of collapsed economic and social relations; but  lower levels of confrontation rather than co-operation - the singling out of particular groups for vilification and inappropriate levels of blame - all share the common purpose of producing confontation which, in the crippled thinking which hasn't gone away you know, within the Labour party, will generate realised socialism in its new, technically competent, form.

A vote is a blunt instrument:  it cannot offer access to the heart's desire of every individual.  But it is just the bludgeon with which to defend market capitalism and the rich and varied society that thrives and grows with the individualism and democracy which is capitalism's political counterpart.