Watching the stunts of the Hunts in the punts will give you second sight. This doesn’t make you a genius, just somebody who can add one and one to get two. This morning’s evidence to back that hypothesis is as follows:

1. Fernbridge Enquiry goes into reverse. To the dismay of detectives, the CPS is to drop four of the sex charges in play over the Elm House enquiry. They all involved one witness, because the CPS claims he is “the sole complainant about activities at the Guest House”. Wrong, but never mind. The bloke’s real problem is that he has named and identified a gentleman who was once the holder of High Office.Well, that and his Mayor is one Boris Johnson.

Exaro has the full story.

2. No insults or protests please, we’re Spanish. As reality finally starts to illuminate the New Dawn following the Night of the Long Lies, we have Camerlot’s attempts to shut up lobbyists near to elections and declare open season on suing bloggers. Then we had France’s new fines for anyone talking down French banks. Now in Spain, new laws are being introduced such that insulting the state or filming police officers could incur fines of up to €30,000..if this happens during a demo, which can also be stopped on demand as required by the mad folks. Spain has now passed this Citizens’ Security Law, which allows for fines of up to 600,000 euros ($816,000) for “unauthorized” street protests…as well as the €30,000 fine for merely having signs with “offensive” slogans against Spain. And don’t think that wearing a mask will solve your problem: that’s now illegal too.

Coming up in London: on the spot fines for anyone saying “Oooh look, there’s the Mayor shagging a Newscorp Redtop”.

3. RBS Group banks in another ‘glitch’. RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank’s payment systems went offline for several hours yesterday. Two suspicious elements here: one, Monday was predicted to be a high customer withdrawals day as Christmas shopping gets into full swing; and two, somehow it’s always payments that freeze, never deposits. During the last big ‘glitch’ earlier this year, RBS Group garnered a staggering £80m in enhanced cash flow. Let’s wait and see how much they luckily avoided having to pay out yesterday.

Meanwhile, CEO Ross McSrewem still can’t see any evidence of criminality by his b2b division under the Hester regime, but the serious fraud squad can: they have begun enquiries based on several case histories. Mr McClueless could do worse than visit blogger Ian Frazer’s guest spot at Naked Capitalism, where I suspect he will find all the evidence of industrial-scale wrongdoing he is ever going to need.

Add to this Osborne’s ‘growth surge’ bollocks (see early hours Slogpost today), yesterday’s revelations about Hunt using legal clampdowns to stifle NHS protests, and Vince Cable’s visually challenged approach to RBS bonuses, and you can see just how tediously unsurprising all of this is.

The equation runs like this: there’s a big fat furry black tail sticking out of the bag here chaps, so let’s make sure the cat has no chance of escape, OK? We don’t want every Leon, Mario, Stephen, Boris and George suddenly being found out.

So let’s sneak some nasty, illiberal laws in there, ban more of the critics, close down the pesky bloggers, and stop the few remaining straight Plods from getting on with their jobs.

This will leave us free to get on with our job of protecting the powerful, ordering more tear-gas, fitting up the BBC, manipulating our cash-flows, inventing recoveries, and covering up Treasury-owned bank raids on the citizen. We don’t want any more unfortunate mistakes like all that ‘Yeo is guilty’ nonsense now, do we?

It’s a long, slow, steady and utterly predictable slide deeper into the slime, with a massive vault door about the slam shut behind us. We’re told not to worry, we’re just going for a shower. But one day this growing politico-financial cover-up will come to light. And another day not too far down the can-strew road of life everyone’s going to get it in the wallet.

I abhor violence, but I increasingly see it these days as inevitable.

Today’s economic myth in full: That Osborne growth surge in the context of HS2