*sigh*

That's not a title, more a long drawn out resigned shrug.

It would seem that the "I can't be trusted with a fucking vote" census exceeded 700,000 registrants earlier this evening.

Inequality at pre-WW1 levels, civil liberties eroded, our national assets being sold off so that all the benefits of an economic upsurge scoot straight into the pockets of foreign owners in the shape of dividends, the "greenest government ever" still failing to deliver on ecological and strategic sustainability issues and the world generally going all fuck-up, and the thing that agitates everyone is a professional wind-up-merchant throwing a punch at work and getting nailed for it.

If we dug up George Orwell, wrapped him in copper wire and stuck him between a couple of magnets, the energy crisis would be solved at a fucking stroke.