The problem is not left and right, the problem is the abuse of markets. In a truly free market employees are not controlled because they can move elsewhere to another company for better pay, thus ensuring their value is retained.

Some people are very rich because markets allow them to be. Look at pension funds, where the fund managers are making more than the pension is worth  - again, markets being damaged by both legislation (it suits government) and a broken market system where an effective cartel exists. Hilariously, the state had an opportunity to better control banks (scrapping nonsense fees, equalising interest on savings and loans, paying interest daily instead of monthly while taking it by the second) and the banks simply refused - at a point when they couldn't. Our government is weak, futile and pointless. It no longer serves.

On democracy - this vanished decades ago. The rise of the political class, a group of people whose sole intent was to see politics as a career instead of a service because of the endless perks, privilege and position has poisoned our government. It is this fact that allows rich, powerful organisations to control things. Who wouldn't be open to £200,000 a year for doing nothing except attending a meeting once a month? No one will ever know or link it to that statutory instrument you pushed through the commons.

To restore this we need a change of the way the state works. We need to make it a market by being able to remove the ministers and servants and stop buying the products when we are unhappy with it. Direct removal of MPs, civil servants and quango bosses, the ability to dissolve quangos on demand, complete and absolute control over their pay, pensions and positions. No more speaking tours, no profiting form their previous post, no shady deals, back door corruption "it's all within the rules' nonsense. No more cash for peerages no more budgets passed without a direct vote of approval from the public. We wouldn't be £8 trillion in debt if every single Brown budget had been halted by us, after all. Absolute transparency. Terror is the only thing that seems to control people these days.

Sadly this is our fault. We've allowed this by voting for these people. We've elected people who've lied to us. We continue to elect them because, when Gordon Brown called a woman a bigot that woman *still* voted for him because she is stupid. A slow witted twit who votes out of reflex, not understanding. Not for issues but simply for a brand even though she had genuine concerns about her local situation which came about as a direct consequence of the actions of the party she voted for! Not for politics but for a party as automatically as choosing full cream over semi skimmed.

Such behaviour is wrong because it gives them power while isolating us, their masters; from the system of government.

Why now are we seeing the press resorting to any means necessary to get a story? Because the state communicates with us by soundbite. They don't want to engage with us! Good lord! Do you really want a reflex voter making policy decisions, debating the merits of European bailouts? No, keep them out and tell them what you want them to hear through the papers!

So this isn't about left and right, it is about power. Theirs (both big industry and big government) over us. The left believe the state is the route to power - it is, but *only* through the people.

When an active, intelligent electorate, directly engaged with the government and actively controlling voting decisions - direct democracy - with a state small enough to respond effectively instead of through the leviathan bludgeon of either swamping gibberish or occluded brute force it uses now - will the state work for the people. There should be no distinction between us and them. For too long big government has worked for big business for either political or personal reasons. That must change but not by destroying both, but by changing the dynamic of power.

As individuals we're useless. Acting collectively through the government, *as the government* we can tell BigBank to clear off and do things our way, demonstrating the advantages in custom and revenue for the future, with lower taxes, higher profits and a transparent system of
business and government. It won't happen in my lifetime because we're too damned thick to understand the potential. There are too many Millwall supporters and 'Bigoted Woman' voters out there without concept of consequence  (look at Scotland - they want jobs but believe the state should provide them. It's an utter fundamental misunderstanding of economics) to truly effect the necessary changes. There are too many vested interests in actively preventing democracy: Cameron, Clegg and Milliband, the entire political class stand opposed to such sense.

So, dear readers, until we're mature enough to look above the X Factor, Big Bother and other fatuous drivel and start learning about our society, economy and begin to actively engage with the state not as a superhero solution but as merely our servant nothing will change and
we'll be fighting amongst ourselves and taxed ever more heavily while remaining ignorant and unhappy with our lot.