The Way We Live Now

"Strangely, it was Nick Clegg rather than some bar-room demagogue who predicted riots on the streets after the election campaign was over. Whether or not his prophesy comes true, we are already seeing a different kind of riot: a revolt of the elite, a class war from above" -

Nick Cohen, today's 'Observer'.

"It is a revolution from above. The cupboard is not only bare, but it will never be filled again...the government will simply do less and encourage us to do more. Only the poorest will be helped" -

Martin Ivens, today's dead tree 'Sunday Times'.

"Class wars, as Mrs. Thatcher reminded us, are usually conducted with more rancour from the top than from the bottom" -

Eric Hobsbawn, 'On History', page 341.

I have never been more grateful to be a Catholic than I am now, because I find that the hope and promise of eternal life lets one just rise above the kind of pathologically backward crap, two centuries' worth of mental manure composted to the point of fermentation, that Snotter Bullingdon poured out over the House of Commons last week. There is no greater advertisement for religion than watching human beings trying to sort out the world by themselves. I am a Catholic - Deo Gratias!