The don’t knows don’t deserve a say; the do knows don’t serve Democracy.

The cause of welfare reform is noble but like the fallen state of mankind the remedies offered by those who should know better fall somewhat shorter than the seven vertically challenged friends of Snow White.

I will spare DC and GO from the sting of my rhetorical whip since their own tongues scourge them better than anything I can think of saying.

Sending the long term unemployed to clock in at Job Centres or pick up litter unsupervised isn’t a solution, it is an admission of terrible failure.

Spending public money ( that is yours and mine) on subsidising mortgages to the relatively well-off when there’s a limited supply of houses in the first place makes as much sense as the sub prime mortgage lending that led us into this mess.

The most extraordinary thing about us as a species is that we will survive even this gross stupidity as we have survived so many others in times past.

Whether we deserve to is entirely another matter and well outside the remit the theory of Evolution.

I know Alexander Pope told us Mankind was a work-in-progress but sometimes it is difficult not to think that it’s all work and no progress.

The Philosophes of the Enlightenment believed we were limited only by our imaginations. Edmund Burke at least believed it was too dangerous for the many to be allowed to imagine too much.

I fear in the modern conservative Party Burke would be regarded as a radical Jacobin and hanged for his dangerous presumption.