Third Man

One effect of the coalition of the wilful damage seems to me really apparent in the media. Daily announcement of huge cuts to public sector/ bonuses to bank staff owned by same public - cue Cameron, cue Clegg, cue Harry Lime.

You may percieve a differnce from last year where it would have been Brown, then Cameron then (a little bit of balance bit to keep the Mail off our backs) that nice Mr Clegg who comes across great on TV in his ten seconds.

This is why Clegg's Faust was deperate for his Mephistopheles: he knew that the agenda is now completely Condem with Labour playing third spear carrier.

If you recall the Third Man denouement: in the sewers of a a ruined city state occupied by overseas forces (IMF, Spanish airport owners, French energy providers) we discover the black marketeer of medicines -Harry Lime- who defends his assault on decency with a lecture on Darwinian competition as a  catalyst of great deeds. We have waited more than 90 per cent of the film for him to make his entrance and what an impact he has. It is Orson Welles no less who casts a huge shadow over this film - Ed Miliband lacks his presence but seems determined to delay his entrance until the last minute. He could still save the show though :

Cue wierd zither music - swirling fog - the sewer underneath parliament

"...Switzerland has had peace for hundreds of years and what have they given the world - corrupt money laundering, tax dodging banking services - let's treat them like the profiteers and spivs of WW2: the hearest lamp-post".