Porcine Politics - see how they run like pigs from a gun

If New Labour, which, as we have discovered over the past decade, is more Repackaged Thatcher, were to remain true to its New Ideals of free enterprise and market forces then there ought to be two major differences in the complexion of the current state of British affairs.

Firstly, the banks which have been running on empty vaults (or more accurately, vaults which support the theoretical existence of anti-matter - as the fractional reserve system permits them to operate on theoretical terms and the existence of what can only be described as theoretical capital) should have been allowed to implode - not merely out of the schadenfreude which rolled in waves through the massed tax paying public who have seen their taxes squandered in propping them up and topping up the lard for the executive criminals who had already fleeced them twice. And not merely out of a respect for the fundamentals of economic law on which market forces are structured. But above all, because just as the forces of pressure in the atmosphere struggles perpetually towards equilibrium - creating weather - economics, to perpetuate, must maintain some form of balance. The artificial 'stimulus' which has occurred can only create a greater imbalance - a greater economic catastrophe is inevitable.

Secondly, as revelations about the obscenity of MP's expenses continue, perhaps by the next general election a new form of free market democracy could be implemented. Next to each candidate's name should be the per annum figure which the tax paying voter can expect to pay for the term of their office. On their election, MP's can spend the money as they wish but no further expenses would be met. This system has been championed by both major parties in the UK for the award of contracts ranging from the building of Olympic stadia to hospital cleaning. No doubt those who favoured this kind of economic model in the market place would raise protests identical to the opposition to the system when applied to public services. One can hear Hazel Blears and her ilk whinging to each other about how cutting costs could only lead to a reduction of the quality of service. The scandal is sickening to the point of exasperation. To some, none of this comes as a surprise and the wincing of the culprits is highly entertaining.

The vacuum of public confidence will hopefully lead to the collapse of institutional party politics and the foundation of a form of representational, accountable democracy which serves the population - not politicians, parties or corporations.