Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is a self-evident truth and we know it. The absolute power of people like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il meant suffering and death for tens of millions of people. Yet these people always claim to be 'socialist', of the people.
We are conditioned to see the Left as Communism and state control and the Right as fascist, moneyed, elitist and er, state control freaks. So it is clear; they are both actually the same and only one ideology can lead to this state of affairs; the Left.
The real Right is a way of thinking that applauds achievement, that allows all to aspire and all to achieve better things by their own efforts. Naturally, it also has to have a government which, whilst promoting these things doesn't allow an over-mighty organisation to appear with an ability to crush competition.
Today's politics has been corrupted by the Left. They have infiltrated the institutions and control the Establishment. You think senior judges are idiots because they don't punish criminals? That is because they are in thrall to Left ideology. Your children uneducated? The Left indoctrinate teachers at University and they pass on the ridiculous creed to children (and also ensure they are not taught anything -an educated population asks things of its leaders).
The police, the Unions, your local council, Heath and Safety zealots, hate crimes. Do you wonder how these things now crush us and let us down? Because the Left has corrupted them. The upshot is a population that accepts what it is told, that is basically supine and cannot function without Big Government.
But we are still notionally a capitalist country and the other side of Leftist destructiveness is coming into play. The Left likes Big things, big government, big projects, big buildings, big warehouses and big companies. Big companies can tell you a lot about their market sector all at once, without having to ask 4,000 little companies the same question. Both share the same market percentage, but with one, you can have just one conversation.
Whilst chatting, the politician might ask if a political donation is a possibility, or perhaps a Directorship available. The company might ask if a little laxity in planning law might be allowed. So all in all, for a politician in power, a big, rich, powerful company is an attractive entity. If, as Industry Secretary you receive two invites, one from an electronics company in Cambridgeshire, who want to talk expansion from 50 people to 80 over a cup of coffee in a paper strewn office, and one from a chap who wants to chat about subsidies and wind farms on a yacht in the Med. which one do you go for?
Though the important thing here is not the type of corruption, but that all of it, even the seemingly innocent is corrosive. Do you think the guy in the corner shop has any say in legislation affecting his store? Cameron wakes up one day convinced that binge drinking is caused by cheap alcohol, so he wants to set a minimum price. The local guy shouts as loud as he can and prays. Tesco rock up with a threat or two; unemployment, affect on business, profits, tax, any angle as long as the politician gets the idea that they don't want it.
Surely though, the small guy benefits when Cameron loses interest and concentrates on some other dream state inspired crusade? Not when Tesco get to maintain their stranglehold and price to destroy the competition. If we are not careful, the Big State will engulf us with Big Supermarkets and Big Energy being a part of Big Government as surely as if we were a Stalinist state.
And it is not just our identikit politicians here, the EU absolutely loves big companies. In fact, they promote the evolution of ever larger entities, controlled, ultimately by them, through favours and legislation that ensures their success. Wind farms? As an idea it couldn't get off the ground, as a project of the Left they are literally guaranteed success; planning laws ignored, subsidies introduced, higher bills passed on, and legal obligations to buy their over-priced product enforced.
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