Hopelessness.

Matthew Parris sums up the feeling very adequately in his column in The Times this morning, here, of which this paragraph gives a flavour: Who knows what's happening? Perhaps nothing, after all. Perhaps this will all blow over. But what unsettles me goes deeper than a sense of mystery about the future. At most junctures in history there arises the feeling of a lull before a possible storm. Heck, we were in a worse state in 1945, or 1979. Danger was more imminent in the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 posited bigger unknowns for the future. But at these crossroads the air was full of ideas: strong ideas, competing ideas, confident philosophies, angry dissent. People had policies. Ideologies clashed. Politicians and thinkers jostled to present their plans. Leaders led. David Cameron rightly comes in for his share of criticism in the column but the main point seems to me to have been missed. All day yesterday the 24 hour news programmes delighted in replaying the Daily Mirror video of Cameron breaking various traffic laws when cycling to one of his other hobbies in Parliament. It spoke volumes did it not: A 'V' sign to the law-abiding majority as he cycled the wrong way along a one way street. A 'F*** you plebs' as he shot not one but two red lights And an Oh so clear "I am above the law" as he deliberately swerved the wrong way around a traffic separation marker in the Mall. This is also the man who permitted his party a free vote, and instructed his front bench to abstain, on the supremely important matter of whether our Parliament should retain its supremacy under a New Clause 9 proposed by Bill Cash MP in the EU (Amendment) Bill that will enforce the Lisbon Treaty without the promised referendum. David Cameron thus joined with the Government and the Liberal Democrats in effectively defecating on the democracy of the nation by rejecting this amendment on which less than 50 MPs were found to vote in support. This is the same man who is asked on the Guido Fawkes blog, linked here: Why does Dave claim £20,563 for staying away from home? We all know he lives in Notting Hill, the kids go to school locally, it is his primary residence isn't it. Is he claiming the Witney constituency home is his primary residence? The same fiddle that the Yvette and Ed Balls pull? The German President estimated some 80 per cent of his country's legislation now comes from the EU so the proportion for Britain is clearly probably roughly the same. So why are MPs increasingly ripping off the electorate while at the same time throwing away the parliamentary sovereignty which is the one remaining small excuse for their continued attendance in Parliament. Matthew Parris need not feel hopeless, he, like everyone else in the country has an MP. That MP is probably in his constituency this holiday weekend, wracking up the expenses on the second home on which they have reclaimed mortgage payments and disgustingly ramped up the national house price to extreme levels to thereafter reap the maximum gain. Visit that MP, send them e-mails, ask why they have turned the best meaning for the abbreviation MP from Member of Parliament to Mendacious Parasite AND if you are a Conservative ask yourself why you continue to tolerate this shallow, worthless individual at the head of your party and the nation's opposition.