Looking across the rather grey spectrum of ‘ideas’ about how to approach the socio-economic problems of Britain, it’s not hard to see why none of them have a great chance of working. You could think of this as a follow-on from the economic piece here recently, but in many ways the purely political incompetence within our our Establishment is based on more than just bad science and bigotry: above any other factor, our political leaders remain largely cut off from any franchise beyond Westminster in particular, and activist policy wonks in general. Such people are not so much unrepresentative as sad.

The New Cameroonian Right has reverted to the Old Right idea that we must all take responsibility for ourselves, a slightly fluffier version of Thatcherism which nevertheless suffers from the same faulty observations. That is, one, we are not a nation composed entirely of entrepreneurs; two, a quarter of a century of Nanny State has persuaded many to assume that the State is the providor not of last resort, but first call; three, most of us are not Big Community activists – nor do we want to be; and four, the assumption of mental competence and discernment across the electorate is to say the least dodgy.

This last will of course open me up to the usual charges of being a nasty elitist, but the facts bear me out. I doubt if anyone of sound discernment had failed (by the time May 2010 came around) to spot that Gordon Brown was a compulsive liar with severe socially disassociative problems, Lord Mandelson a chancer as corrupt as any 18th century borough, Harriet Harman a gender obsessive offering nightmare ideas about illiberal legislation, and Jack Straw a seedy little man whose general behaviour and demeanour suggested he was the owner of an entirely apt surname.

By the end of the election, former Labour Ministers had lined up to show off the depths of their financial degeneracy, Brown had insulted a Labour loyalist voter on air, the leadership of Unite was permanently parked in Downing Street, Mandelson had narrowly escaped an obvious lie on live television, and Ed Balls had turned up to one meeting with the LibDems behaving like a dense playground bully from start to finish. Not one of these appalling people showed the slightest sign of having the national interest at heart: they remained so many Party henchman stabbing each other in a frenzy of frustrated power.

Yet as the election results were declared, and daily polls recorded voter feelings about the Coalitionary possibilities on offer, somewhere between 35 – 40% of the electorate still preferred this shower getting into bed with the LibDems. And while this also points up what was from Day One a flawed Tory election strategy, it does tend to suggest that left to themselves, roughly 2 in 5 voters preferred excrement to putty.

In short, I think Tory ‘theory’ at the moment hugely overestimates the ability of the British people to respond to The Big Society….or indeed, anything else that requires them to sober up and get off the sofa.

The Left suffers from this problem even more deeply, but wants the State to sort out the poor dears they helped create in the first place – aka, keep passing laws to tell them what they mustn’t do, say or think.

As I’ve written on previous occasions however, the ‘progressives’ differ fundamentally from real people in believing that every individual in the country is equal by nature. They insist that a serial house-burglar, third-rate student or truculent religious maniac has exactly the same to offer as a committed charity worker, top nurse or job-creating entrepreneur.

The idea is obviously bollocks, but New Labour has turned it into a huge hypocrisy by not working towards the one way we should all be equal from birth: in a Court of law. There’s a very good reason why the Miliband of Hope & Glory don’t want that equality, and it’s this: their instinctive, unconscious conclusion in all things is that they know best. (For example, the last thing they wanted was a bunch of uppity single mothers stirring up trouble about headcases, crooks, paedophiles and dodgy Judges in the Secret Family Courts).

We’ve been here umpteen times before, so I’ll cut to the summary: the Tory (Coalition) approach will cause chaos in the end – and some unnecessary hardship, given the lean years ahead of us, among the cerebally challenged. While the Left (Labour) march remains precisely the same – a blind progress towards a nation of increasingly pauperised serfs being ordered about – and under-educated – by them.

Has the ultimate solution to this combination of disconnected delusion on the part of The Establishment changed as a result of the Coalition’s emergence, and the steady progress of economic conditions downhill? It has not: without question, there is a sense of relief at having vaguely normal people with real emotions in charge of running the country. And some bits of the legislation put forward and passed so far suggest a determination to rid us all at last of petty legal instruments, silly signs, and right-on pc drivel.

But in the important areas, the Coalition is tinkering with a busted system – it has to, because if real facts were faced, it too would be swept away in the flood of new ideas that always follow real change. In Health, Lawnsley simply hasn’t listened to everyday users of the NHS, or looked at longer-term investment needs. In education, Gove wants schools to have more freedom, but has so far left the ridiculously levelling and politically correct marking culture intact. At the Home Office, Theresa May is clearing out the legislative dross she inherited from the Mad – but leaving a cynical, undermanned and over-ambitious police force to its fate. She has neither addressed the financial meltdown at the CPS, nor has she challenged any of the ‘multicultural hate crime’ nonsense the boys in blue have taken to their sleeve-laden hearts.

In the two-year run-up to the last election, as long as Nick Clegg had nailed his colours firmly to the PR voting system mast, there was a real chance that systemic change (leading to mindset change) might be inadvertently adopted by the Political Class. But as The Slog led the field in revealing last April, once the LibDem Manifesto came out it was obvious that the centre-Party which was no longer in the centre was ready to abandon any and all principles in order to grab power. So it has proved.

I remain as ever convinced that the only answer to Britain’s problems is radical reform of the culture – ethical, commercial, financial, economic, media and political. That isn’t going to come from Parliament, and so it has to use another medium first of all. A combination of GCHQ, grubby ISPs, Murdoch and now Google are hot in their pursuit of a censored, money-biased internet. And so once again, I reiterate my warning: we must use this limited window to force change via mass electronic opposition, civil disobedience and demonstrations of the fact that we’re awake…….and are thus still the real Power in the Land.

However, I have been saying this now since 2005, and I’d imagine quite a few readers are bored of reading about it. I for sure am getting bored with writing it. The point of any site like The Slog is to have an effect, make a difference, inform, inspire, entertain and be a catalyst for better things. Anything else is called blogging, but actually its just onanism. That’s wanking to you and me.

One final repetition: the future is not 5 billion bloggers wittering on. As expected (here at least) the censors, the suits and the shits are busy carving up all the quickest news routes, reducing the rest of us to second-rate service, and blocking anything they don’t want to hear. It is a myth that the internet can’t be silenced: the hardware is already in place to do it. If we blow the one chance we have left to use a free medium to help dislodge controlling elites, then we will only have ourselves to blame.