Notes from future salad days

17th September 2026: In ruins of the lobby of Palace Of Westminster the House Of Commons’ Speaker’s Chair was placed on a pyre and burnt.  A small audience reflected upon the symbolism of its destruction: A century of universal suffrage failed to produce democracy.
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Since 2010 non-libertarians objected to Tory “sleaze” and “corruption,” they expressed opposition to denial of rights for protest, political free speech, union membership and access to justice, they made remarks that contested government’s lack of progress on tackling climate change, they demanded “fairer” elections in response to targetted voter suppression, blatant gerrymandering and rampant dishonesty in election campaigns funded by wealthy exploiters, and they criticised destruction of vital public services.  Their complaints were valid but their actions were impotent because they supported the continuing entrenchment of operating according to whims of “the free market.”
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While “opposition” politicians and liberal influencers complained but offered no change, the gradual decline in believability of politicians’ intent to pursue democracy lead inevitably to realisation that what was presented as democracy was a sham.  People who sought real change planned. 
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Planners knew their objectives and they knew how to elucidate their proposed societal structure, governance and financial system; they knew how to assure people that their methodology to achieve their objectives would be successful.  They had confidence in their strategy and tactics but were aware that setbacks would happen often and they were not dissuaded or perturbed by necessity to change tack and readjust.  Pragmatism was a constant companion but it never overwhelmed focus and determination.
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Confidence of the planners was needed to combat an emotional tendency to cling to a decrepit system, like holding a damp, mouldy, rag-like comfort-blanket, that blocked out critical thinking and, thus, dissuaded many people from considering a different path no matter how many times they were shafted, no matter how many thousands of times they were lied to, conned and duped, no matter how many smarmy parliamentarians robbed them and robbed their future income in order to enhance wealth of wealthiest.
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Reformists tried relentlessly to obstruct revolutionary analysis.  They bleated of the requirement to have broad appeal, to promote steady change, to avoid destruction of the existing system.  They chose to assume that control by the “market” was deified and could be only dampened, slightly.  Their con-trick was exposed and cast aside.  In response to being ignored they launched attacks on revolutionaries, attacks bereft of validity.  There was no further need to criticise them; they stood intellectually and morally naked.
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Ian Dunt, centrist

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Witnesses to the Chair’s demise climbed carefully over rubble and left City Of Westminster which was very quiet as a contrast to noise of demolition and removal of masonry during the day.  Whitehall, Downing Street, Palace Of Westminster and Westminster School are disappearing.  It isn’t necessary for there to be no visible reminders but, as a nod to emotional closure, they are being erased.  Some of the larger intact pieces of walls will be added to new defences against rising tides that invade the banks of the Thames.
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A couple of hundred yards south there was no need for a demolition team.  Destruction of part of Tufton Street was beyond sufficient.  Intense and relentless assault two months ago created a crater fifty feet in diameter and at least twenty feet deep that will be converted to a peace garden.  Participants took turns; everyone wanted to partake and to share responsibility.  Competition between a regiment in Tufton Street and another at Stock Exchange was a jubilant draw in July’s warm sunshine.
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Margaret Thatcher and Norman Tebbit looking ahead to their goal of libertarian destruction

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Libertarian conservatism contained within itself tools of its demise.  Charter territories, an invention borne of absolute contempt for humanity and intended as the ultimate method of capitalist exploitation and theft, were catalysts that sparked revolt.  In these territories the few remaining pretences of democracy – a system of unbiased justice; human rights; elections for administrations – were absent.  It was a tactical error by the late Lord Singham.  Bereft of the option to choose to believe that elections, justice and rights could counter wrongs people freed themselves from subjugation, saw what was in front of them and saw what could be so.
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Singham’s mistake was not as catastrophic or as fatal as the final Tory Prime Minister’s decision to send thousands of British troops to Israel and Syria.  British establishment power relied on latent certain support of armed forces.  That was lost.  Mordaunt’s coached reluctance to admit any error of judgement and her layered concoction of lies and blame-switching sat discordantly with rapidly increasing notifications of British fatalities.  However, bolstered by Starmer’s complicity, she clung on to the last moment. 
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Seemingly ignorant of societal collapse, Starmer’s ever-narrowing focus on an imagined swing-voter community of unintelligent undiverse bigotted conservatives who dwelt in a pastiche of 1980s suburbia led inexorably to his breakdown and sectioning.  
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Worthlessness of UK news media was demonstrated by 2024’s general election day front pages of Mirror and Mail with exactly the same headline – ‘Vote For Grown-Ups’ – accompanied respectively by photos of Streeting and Mordaunt, each holding a photo of the king and with a golden retriever on a lead.  It was the same dog, supplied by Westminster Dogital.
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Golden Retriever (library photo)

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Public contempt for the clown parade of the election was more than rejection of interchangeable options; it was positive action in favour of democracy.  It solidified a mass awakening.  Nearly one hundred years of being patronised, conned and defecated on was enough.  An ice-cream van ramming Streeting’s car as he was driven to Buckingham Palace to ask for King William V’s permission to form a government became an iconic image of a particularly British revolution.  The former remains adamant that he is still Prime Minister from his hideaway in Toronto.  William’s whereabouts are unknown.  He scarpered.
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In the absence of any alternative to destructive conservatism democratic leaders developed skills of clear, focussed and objective-driven thinking by necessity – the mother of revolution.  Among them there are no conservatives, no centrist melts, no careerists, no puppets of international corporations, no professional liars and no opponents of revolution.  
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Myths, inventions, con-tricks, obfuscations and distractions of presentation of capitalism, the false deities of “markets,” of “ownership,” of “fiscal debt,” of gross domestic product, of “growth of the economy” and of what money is (or isn’t), were flattened with ease via simple logic, reason and facts.  Espoused necessity of endless competition and of the inevitability of losers accompanying winners were shown to be illusions, as was the alleged unattainability of a good life for everyone.  Calm, decisive thinking, enthused with clear focus, is easier to achieve and maintain than worrisome people think it is.
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Perpetrators, identified by their actions, were stripped of their right to be given the benefit of the doubt.  Their constructed plaintive cries of victimhood, cancellation and censorship received suitable disdain and ridicule.  Amusingly, many such reprobates assumed they could leave public life, or leave UK, and enjoy their ill-gotten wealth.
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Vengeance is an energy-sapper and would be endless if all wrongdoers were pursued but much of the stolen wealth was reacquired; mechanisms that enabled its theft were destroyed.  
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Liberals, adrift from conservative moorings, wailed and complained for a while until they realised no-one was listening and no-one was paying them.  
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Dusk’s gusts dispersed the Speaker’s Chair’s ash silently.