The rising levels of disaffection

For the past eight months a set of figures has been working a hole in my mind. On April 16th New Politics published a letter from a famous political pundit saying that many of the worlds democracies “are not shrinking but in fact are growing…87% of democratic nations studied by the World Democracy Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland have been growing since 1980”. His letter was instantly taken up by the usual deniers and it began to worry me that a wrong and dangerous message was spreading like wildfire faster that the forces of realism and education could stamp them out.

Academics, political scientists, historical statistics and observation all prove without a shadow of doubt that democracy is in decline. More to the point the people, and particularly the poor and vulnerable, all know the truth. The truth that if we do not finally get a grip and reduce the emissions coming from the many thousands of politicians across the globe, the Worlds very existence will be in danger.

The concentration of disaffection in our atmosphere is growing rapidly year on year, a situation not helped by the greedy and wealthy who insist on expounding upon the subject of politics whenever the opportunity arises. It’s not necessary and the cost of this self indulgence will be borne by future generations.

The worst offenders, the very exemplar of the selfish and corrupt abusers of our natural resources of time and reason are the unbalanced devolutionists. The emissions these individuals are responsible for directly increase the disaffection concentration in the air we breathe to the extent that the instances of disaffection, especially among the young and the elderly, are increasing on a virtually instantaneous basis.

Of course the deniers are always there, chipping away, talking about more powers for this Assembly, more law by that Parliament and they do so without shame and in the open air. It’s good for us, they declare, but not good for everyone. And there! Another disaffected youth is created.

Figures show, and this is undeniable, that at the current rate of disaffection Great Britain will look like this within fifty years:

Is that what we want for our children? Well, is it?