Everybody lives in Hollywood (and it's looking really sinister)...

We knew New Labour were ruddy awful and that they are the worst nightmare of civil liberties and human rights manifest... but now even the United Nations agrees.

The Guardian and The Independent take up the story.

What can one say? When the United Nations condemns Britain, we really have reached a sorry state of affairs.

Maybe the United Nations is a conspiracy theorist organisation. Or maybe they know untoward things have been going on and that we no longer live in a free and fair democracy, but we're actually living out the nightmare scenes of a Hollywood movie.

We have no sympathy with anyone who hates Britain and the British way of life and all of our gloriously quirky traditions, customs and eccentricities.

No sympathy whether those opposed to us are nutcases from within or without, or people who abuse and degrade and insult the notion of democracy.

However, in neither case would we support rendition and torture.

That cannot be the way a civilised society deals with problems.

I mean, what can anyone say, really? There comes a time when disbelief is so much the prevailing response to a news story that words simply escape you.

But how did our beautiful country come to this? And how can we restore our country to the way we were?

Certainly, we have to stop voting for the same old political parties. And we need to forget the false-left-right paradigm that depends on class tribalism to tie us all in.

James Whale, the UK radio broadcaster, has long advocated that we should vote every single current MP out and start all over again. One cannot help think that his plan is the start of something that everyone needs to give serious consideration to.

Dear me!