When I went to bed last night, I lived in a country that was rudderless, tearing itself apart at the seams. Today I wake up in a brave new world to find that a new Jerusalem has indeed been builded here. We’re saved and can now sleep at night because:

David Cameron is to announce a review of every government policy following last week’s riots, to ensure they are bold enough to fix a “broken society”.

David, David, David, don’t you realise that this whole situation has come about precisely because of the continual interfering and tinkering by you and the rest of the political class? Each government in living memory has fiddled and nudged, incentivised and meddled with our society. You’ve been like painters who simply can’t stop adding to, subtracting from and re-touching their work. Where once there was a scene of rural bliss or urban majesty there is now just a big brown mess, you simply can’t leave things alone can you?

It puts in mind of the line from Sir Humphrey; ‘Something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done.’

Society is so broken that if it were a car, you’d send it to the scrap yard and go and buy a new one, but of course we can’t do that with our society. If you’re expecting me to come up with some solution, then I think you’re going to be disappointed, I don’t have it. But more importantly, neither do the politicians. Even if they did have a solution, I doubt they’d actually put it into place, you see a politician isn’t looking at the newborns of today and wondering ‘how will my policies shape them as 18 year olds?’ Their only consideration is ‘I wonder how my policies will effect my chances at the next election?’ Politicians only ever look 5 years into the future; the wealth of the country, the wellbeing of the population, the education of the children, the health of the workforce, the retirement of the old – all of them are a very poor second to their keeping hold of power. It doesn’t matter a pair of dingo’s kidneys what happens twenty years in the future, the politician behind it will have been ousted or will be retired in grand opulence by the time those particular chickens come home to roost.

I’ve heard a lot of talk from social workers in the media this last week about the parents of the sort of people who were responsible for the looting. I’ve heard talk of houses with no food, no furniture beyond squalid, stained mattresses on the floors, dysfunctional relationships between adults and children, the spectre of drugs hanging over the household as everything has been sold to fund the habit.

When Cameron talks of a “slow-motion moral collapse” later, what he fails to realise is that is the actions of him and others like and preceding him who have brought this about. He and his ilk are just as neglectful and abusive as those drug addled parents. It isn’t a collapse, that suggests some sort of strain – the result of wear and tear on a much loved old system – it is the result of a wilful vandalism, a wholesale destruction of our society that has come from the top down as vain politicians chase the fashion of the day as espoused from some think tank or asinine nu-academic institution somewhere. We’ve seen a revolution, without a shot being fired. And like all revolutions, the people in charge look at the continuing chaos under their watch and come to the conclusion, the same conclusion every time; it can’t be the system – it’s our system, so it must be the people.

I don’t need to tell you the outcome of that line of thought.

We can have enquiries which take years to complete, by then the riots will be a distant memory, we’ll have rocked to the next crisis by then, probably the one after that, or even the one after that one. But it will make them feel better, the out of touch politicians can bandy the inquest word about, the out of touch judiciary can pass sentence once the social engineering storm troopers have stood before the panel and given their sage advice on how this society should work, how it does work on paper and how it will work because it’s their plan, dammit.

We can have senior police officers blaming the politicians, we can have politicians blaming the senior police officers. They are equally as culpable – the politicians for their legacy, the police for their operating instructions. They are both bedecked in the Emperor’s new clothes. None of them will have the guts to admit it.

We can have the party leaders taking pot shots at each other on the TV and over the despatch box, each hoping beyond hope that if they can dump enough blame on the other then they’ll have a chance of pushing the buttons for five minutes. Each hoping that we don’t come to the only conclusion that there is to draw; their policies and the legacies of the rotten parties they represent are behind this.

None of it will change anything. Oh, I could come up with a list of things to do as long your arm to prevent the newborn of the day from replicating the actions of the youths and young adults now, but what to do about the current set?

As I said, if it were a car, you’d scrap it. If it were a limb, you’d amputate it. If it were a pet, you’d put it to sleep. But we can’t do that, on a legal, moral or ethical basis.

What the hell do we do?

I really don’t have the answer. We can punish, but that doesn’t solve the problem. People will talk about education – it’s too late, they’ve just come through an education system which has failed them miserably and yet turns out better and better tractor production exam figures every year. We can give them money, but that is part of what has fuelled the problem. We can take their money and kick them out of their houses, and then what? Is that supposed to cut crime? Believe me, a comprehensive review of government policy that takes 18 months to complete is not the answer. That is the politicians’ way of saying ‘search me’.

Perhaps there are two things which can be done, and it is a bit out of left field. What I see is a group of people with no aspiration. They have no need of it, there is nothing to aspire to. I also see a group of people without jobs or worthwhile jobs. I refer again to a miserable failure of an education system, plus these people’s attitude. They will have to want to change, perhaps that is the clincher, you can’t make an addict give up, they have to want to. How to make them want to change? No point in nagging and nannying them, they have to see their friends and siblings getting on, with real prospects. But how? Government can’t create jobs, not real jobs, not jobs that provide their own worth the employer and employee. Sure enough they can provide posts, but the costs, well, look at the bank balance.

No, the best thing the government can do is to let people create their own jobs. So, let’s engage in some good old business practice, under-cut the opposition. Cut corporation tax, slash it. Make it the lowest in Europe. Make it so low that companies across the world beat a path to our door to set up camp, make it so low that it isn’t worth avoiding the payment of it – we’ll collect just as much tax anyway. Make it so cheap that these companies can’t employ enough people to get their business done, and will want to plug up the holes that our education system has left. Make it so cheap that the companies will want to fund CTC‘s to ensure that school leavers have skills that are actually needed in the workplace, rather than being able to recite the warble gloamists’ latest propaganda sheet.

It would also benefit society as a whole.

This is our society to fix, no-one else’s. If we do this, we have to pull out of the EU. We can’t fix our society if others flood in to reap the rewards of our policy. We can’t fix our society if business finds that it is strangled at the root by spiteful and hateful EUro regulations. Just as with the ‘sovereign debt’ that the ECB is buying up by the billion, billions of our money, they don’t care about our society, either. They have even less regard for society than our domestic politicians.

Let us take control, let us give these people something to aspire to. It cannot come from government, their leaden hand squashes spirit, enterprise and aspiration. THAT is what these people have been saying, in their own way.

Really Dave, you can’t help them. You don’t have the skills, you don’t have the tools, but only a politician’s arrogance would assume that if he can’t help them, then no-one can.