It’s been a while since my last “confession” and I’ve stolen the word “demolition” from Ian Hislop on Have I Got News for You. I’m sure he won’t mind.

So, we now have a government that not a single voter voted for. My, my, this democracy is a funny old game isn’t it? It received the same amount of votes as if tanks had rolled up Pall Mall and the country had been taken by force. None. I didn’t see a box for the Tory / Lib coalition – did you?

Saying that, I’m not all too sure what best to suggest, given that my opinion doesn’t count anywhere anyway. I would say that a referendum should be held to say “is this ok?” – but I would be worried that the popular vote would be “no” and anarachy would reign. Perhaps Gordon Brown would come back and I think even the most hardened but honest Labour supporter would not welcome that. The world is in financial chaos but it is fair to say he took a bad situation and made it much worse. Well done to the unelected previous PM – who wasn’t even elected as leader of his party! In fact, I demand a recount in his constituency as I would guess that man would always finish last in anything he ever did.

We now have Cameron and Clegg claiming that the bile that they had thrown at one another previously was all a misunderstanding and that actually, they agreed on most things all along. That’s quite unlikely, given the Liberals are probably more left wing than a large part of the Labour party. It stinks of untruth is what it does. It’s like Man United and Arsenal saying that actually, after all, they rather like one another, and given they both wear red, perhaps they can call themselves Arsenal United and claim the Premiership from the blues of Chelsea.

There are massive issues facing the country, a deficit of monumental size. People hear this, but I don’t believe the ordinary man in the street fully understands the scale of it – the interest alone is more than our spend on the NHS. Big cuts and tax increases are certain. A political party with a large majority in Parliament would, after time, after the “honeymoon” period of first returning to office would start to turn on itself. Labour was split, the last time in office (pro Blair and pro Brown), the Conservatives were bitterly split between pro Euro and anti Euro. With a coalition of two parties who ARE in general disagreement it will only be a matter of time before the national interest is put to one side and point scoring will commence. Remember, the two parties still exist separately at the ballot box and it will not be possible to vote for the same government next time – such is the mixed nature of the government now “selected” to steer us through some of the most challenging times we’re ever likely to face. This means they have a responsibility to snipe at one another and fight one another in the name of their supporters – how will this work? Simply answered, it won’t. It can’t.

There is also another issue we need to face and this is the collapse of the Federal European dream. The single currency doesn’t work. The larger sovereign nations of Euroland will not support the smaller and horrifically run nations like Greece, Italy and Spain. Countries have to be able to devalue their currencies in times of fiscal strife and they can’t when they’re joined to the same currency – exactly the same as the Exchange Rate Mechanism that did for Britain a few years ago.

The fiscal measures required leads us dangerously towards some kind of Depression – which makes fertile the plains of Europe for the rise, one again, of facism and the far right. This leads to war. This, like many other things, is cyclical and inevitable – wars of the not so distant past show this well. It’s too easy for a persuasive, yet unhinged person or group of people to rise up and offer a way out of the pain. They require only a suspension of the moral compass of a significant proportion of the population, some money and the right conditions to grow. History records this in Europe’s fairly recent past and in countries in African and Asia today.

On a more light hearted note, Britan’s Got Talent is throwing up some interesting candidates and the World Cup is near, so we can all look forward to that. It’s a perfect cover for the world to change around us.