Our leaders are sociopaths and we're asleep at the remote

There's a simple yet devastating equation that aptly sums up the state of modern Britain. For those involved in the equation, I doubt it all matters that much. For those, like me and you, whom it does not involve but who it affects, it matters much.

Simply put, what we face is thus.

Sociopaths + political power - the democratic process (20) x the average British adult (100) = national terminal decline.

Here's an image of your average member of the Great British Public.

"X-Factor or Strictly. X Factor or Strictly...fuck it, I'm a Celeb. That'll do... ZZZzzzzz"

You might be forgiven for thinking that it is of little or no consequence that so many people are addicted to junk TV and vacuous, pointless, empty existences. Their lives, right? Well, this isn't quite so. Because you see, back in the day, freedoms and liberties were fought for and won by regular punters against the powerful land owning masses.

Emancipation, right to vote, the Magna Carta, English Common Law, Habeas Corpus, property rights, freedom to roam and live in peace and civility. These things weren't achieved because a handful of bored people took political power and decided they were nice ideas. They were gained because of pressure from below, not above.

The trouble with modern Britain, is that people are so wrapped up in their own weird house-bound, TV obsessed lives, they don't even realise that essential basic freedoms and norms were once achieved and that to hold onto them, you need to hold leaders to account.

This means becoming politically aware and astute, and more active, and it certainly means voting and insisting that politicians maintain their promises and their integrity.

What we have now is mass apathy, a total lack of interest in politics and what political decisions mean for people and it means basic standards in political life are left to rot.

I'm not talking about the Expenses row. As far as I'm concerned, all that became hot news because information was leaked to the Telegraph. Anyone who seriously thinks that expenses abuses weren't happening for eons before the recent scandal are naive in the utmost extreme.

What I am talking about here is the bottom line. The core, basic fundamental essentials, before everything else, that our senior political leaders must possess if the country is capable of functioning on a base level, morally and economically.

Over the last decade, we have seen two Prime Ministers. Anthony Blair and Gordon Brown. It has come to pass that both men are quite possibly the most damaging, sociopathic leaders this country has seen in the last century.

Anthony Blair decided to throw all our political and moral capital into the cauldron that was George W. Bush's neo-con brand of corrupt and vile imperialist politics. In other words, he wavered not for a moment in declaring war against a country that had no nukes and no immediate foreign ambitions. He sent a massive portion of our armed forces and huge amounts of military hardware into a country essentially at peace, and proceeded to help the Americans blow the living shit out of it, directly and indirectly leading to the deaths of countless thousands of people.

When people talk about Anthony Blair as a 'war criminal', I don't believe they are being unreasonable. This morning, Michael Howard was pressed by a Radio 4 journalist on whether he thought Blair should face proceedings for war crimes. Howard gutlessly fudged the question, obviously, because all politicians these days seem to have this sort of 'code of the club'.

I won't 'go there', if you don't 'go there'. It's called 'consensus politics' in the trade, which is a euphemism for 'we can both get along quite well if we ignore the will of the people and leave certain tricky issues alone'. It's why we have experienced slightly diluted socialism for the last 6 decades, unhindered.

But look closer at this issue. Blair launched a dodgy war that led to many deaths. He broke international law in doing so. Ergo, he is a war criminal. Yet how many people out there really give that much of a shit?

If that is not worrying enough, let's look at our current mad man. Not only does he insist on Afghanistan like a recalcitrant junkie insists on his afternoon fix, he insists he is the saviour of the world, despite being the man largely responsible for the total collapse of the British economy and the bankruptcy of the country.

Even Mervyn King has come out and spoken out against his former colleague and cosy mate.

Let's not forget a couple of simple facts here. Brown spent most of the early part of this decade cultivating a false, hugely inflated property boom and debt bubble, because it helped to spur on public receipts of taxation and it helped make him look like the master of the economy. When it collapsed, he stepped aside and flapped about by blaming the bankers.

What we face are years and years of high tax, poor services, crap job opportunities and low pay. The haves will be fewer and richer, the rest of us will founder, except those who have been designated as the beneficiaries of the massive wealth redistribution schemes. Labour's underclass heartland, in other words. People bribed to get that dick out of the throat and go vote.

Brown won't hear a word of criticism. He is incapable of taking blame or admitting error. The bloke is a sociopath. A highly temperamental, brooding, moody, angry, stubborn, dark-minded, dim witted, cold, uncaring and dogmatic sociopath. I doubt he really cares deep down that he has fucked it all (and at least a large part of him deep down will undoubtedly realise that he fucked it).

He believes that the top job is his by right, and if it all goes to shit, then fuck everyone for not doing enough to make it go right for him. He divests himself of all responsibility (despite the gigantic stakes) in the face of massive evidence that he messed up and in the face of continued opinion polls showing that he is unwanted.

It takes some doing, to run a country so badly that you bankrupt it and send the majority of the people and their off spring into long term serfdom. It takes a great deal of stupidity and short sightedness to blow a financial surplus and a great economy on a huge, cash obsessed gamble, in some vain hope that social democracy can take root for generations to come - and to consider these plans at all sustainable beyond a period of 5-10 years.

The two Labour leaders we have had (Blair, Brown) are so bad in every way, that one has to wonder - why did the British put up with it?

Well, it might have something to do with the fact that all anyone seems to really care about, while Rome burns are this and this.

So when people like me turn on Question Time, and see Labour politicians like Phil Woolas use the word 'unfair' on more than half a dozen occasions to describe his and his party's treatment by those who dare to question them, I despair.

"My plan for Labour success is to go for the sympathy vote. Why not? It worked for Jedward"

I was amazed that no-one picked him up on it. Last Thursday on QT, Woolas just kept saying that people were being 'unfair' on him and Labour. Unfair? Is that not a weird choice of word to describe a situation where people hold the ruling power to account?

Oh, I'm sorry Phil, how rude of people to ask questions and expect answers from the government and its ministers. How appalling. How, er, 'unfair'. Yes, that's right. We're all bullying you and it is very sad and unkind how people are so horrid to Gordon Brown.

I think you deserve another go. In fact, all this talk of unfairness has convinced me that Labour are fit for a fourth term.

The sad thing is, even in the hilariously fantastical event that the masses switched over from their shite, dumbed-down, low brow ITV bullshit and watched Question Time for a bit, they would fail to pick up on Woolas's disgraceful attempt at 'pity poor me' martyrdom.

Because most people, like the blubbing idiots on these non-talent contests and reality TV wank fests, operate on this very level. Responsibility, you see, is something other people do. And politics is for the boring grey suits.

Will they wake up when the repo man comes for the Plasma?

No, I say, because they are too stupid and apathetic to even appreciate what is about to befall this country.