Well I have to admit that it has been a long while since I updated the site with thoughts about the current fiscal situation in the UK.

Sadly, unemployment is now at 2 million, reposessions are at the max and we are being told that we are facing the worst recession in a hundred years - so what to do.  There is an amusing advert on TalkSport where they suggest to bankers that they put money on the 7.55 at Kempton as it would be about as  well intentioned and intelligent as many of their investments over the past 10 years or so.

Well I have not yet considered such a violent action to recover my financial status but may well soon have to consider releasing money from a locked pension fund or even selling my property abroad.

The two options fill me with dread as my pension scheme was a nice happy place to take myself to - releasing this pension to play with may be a nice idea, but is not advisable I am sure. Selling my property abroad also scares the hell out of me. I bought an off plan property may years ago and I have seen it as a long term investment - but still, in these hard times what can one do but release funds from savings and investments to carry through the long discontented financial winter we are all suffering….

Something interesting occurred to me the other day whilst thinking about extreme politics.

I was considering what would happen in a totally mad right wing scenario, I envisaged the ‘lower classes’ or those considered such being kind of harvested from their parents at birth and sent off to perform menial tasks for the state.

This was a chilling right wing scenario which, of course, has been flirted with in novels such as Huxley’s Brave New World and Burgess’ The Wanting Seed to name but a couple of examples.

Always one to enjoy irony I immediately realised that to an extent this is what the socialist dream consists of : vast state run industries where the ‘working classes’ are blinkered into building communities based around factories or mines or the suchlike; where the state creams off the profits into layer upon layer of beaurocracy .

Generally when you flip a coin you see the other side ain’t too much different than the first.