Wherever we look at the moment, stealth bombers are dropping napalm on Britain’s community spirit.

Let’s start with education. Widely reported in the UK media today are plans for foreign pupils to be charged thousands of Pounds to attend British state schools under a controversial plan backed by David Cameron. Despite warnings of a growing shortage of school places, a leaked Downing Street memo reveals a plan is being hatched to open up the education system to more children from overseas.

Three days ago, further DfE leaks showed that, under plans being put forward by Education Secretary Michael Gove, academies and free schools should become profit-making businesses using hedge funds and venture capitalists to raise money. Details of discussions on the proposed redesign of academy regulations were leaked to The Independent by Department for Education insiders who are concerned that Mr Gove is going too fast and too far in his ambition to convert all 30,000 schools in England to academies.

Or how about the Royal Mail. The government hopes to launch the stock market flotation of the country’s 497 year-old postal service later this year, saying the Royal Mail needs to access private capital to modernise. The not entirely British banks Goldman Sachs and UBS, have been awarded the handling of the float. Their offices will be the focal point of protests against the privatisation planned for next week.

Our experience of letting the private sector into the postal market has been that new competitors cherry-pick the lucrative channels, but the ideal of a ‘social weal’ 100% delivery guarantee goes by the board. So we can expect to see more of that, I assume. Once again, moneeee comes first.

And then there’s University Student loans. A secret internal government report has revealed Coalition plans to sell student loan debt to private investors. An estimated £40 billion of debt is being targeted, comprising loans to students between 1998 and 2012, according to a document seen by the Guardian . So then, all those with large student debt amounts, prepare to be fleeced.

We have seen the oddities of the Search and Rescue privatisation. And new plans from fire minister Brandon Lewis to privatise the whole of Britain’s Fire and Rescue Service.

All these privatisations are passing over the State’s duties to protect our citizens from attack in the water, distribute all mail reliably,  provide a universal system of State education, and shield citizens from fire in the land.

In terms of rail, water and electricity, even as a non-Leftie I am hard-pushed to argue against the obvious reality that – after privatisation – costs to the consumer have gone up….and the infrastructural investment has gone down.

But the Government presses ahead anyway. This is the triumph of decadent theology over practical  experience.