Given these people are foremost politicians, it has been far more pernicious, corrupt and more worthy of revolution – to me at least- that the de-facto belief of these people has become a sense of immunity from representing voters’ political beliefs; seeing office as the opportunity to act out narrow, oft-flawed personal pet ideologies and agendas instead. Therefore, on matters spanning crime, policing, immigration, education etc, the public opinion has been ignored – or ever treated contemptuously – by our rulers. The vacuous, oft-politically-correct guff that accompanies such behaviour has been the pretence of some higher argument.

To me therefore, the assumptions which allow politicians to put one’s hand in the public purse and take a elicit gratuity or two is only a sub-set of this meta-arrogance. Political office exists for self-propagation; decisions exist as opportunities for alliance building; needy causes exist as opportunities to demonstrate levels of personal virtue which win one further corporate opportunities.

So, why at present do we not – in mass – vote for those “common sense” parties that put national values and sentiments first? A couple of reasons would be, (1) a fundamental lack of trust in their competence, (2) an unpleasant connotation of voting for nationalists, the strength of which depends on which nationalists you vote for.

That said, as ages pass and stigmas fade, I wonder if there will at some point be a tipping point, where these reasons are no longer there.