'Impending tempests charge the sky'

I commented as follows over at PB.com (151)

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(In talking about Lib-Dem/Labour pacts and other everyday party-political goings-on...)

We are rearranging the Titanic's deckchairs, blithely assuming that the political fundamentals of the past 100 years are still in place. I don't think they are, and Brown's period of humungous delusional damage is only part of it. Unthinkable economic and political circs are coming at us fairly fast. What’s more, I believe Brown knows this and is petrified but dare not let on. Well, it would account for some of the rumours. Amazingly large social bills, originally due for payment a very long way down the road will be called in much earlier than expected, especially if any major pension funds should actually fail. The grey generations will revolt in fury as they are beginning to do in Iceland. Then the 'students' and the rest of the non-accidentally-uneducated/unintegrated class war conscripts will be marshalled by the hard left. But it will just be part of - let’s call it political climate change. All our political parties will be altered internally and realigned externally. Current bets, if [political gamblers] will pardon the expression, are already off. We just don't see it yet. I fear for a real surge of the BNP, the SWP and their EU counterparts, and on the streets, not in the polling booth. We know Cameron will have to face down serious union muscle but comparison with the 70s and 80s will be very short-lived. As they say in China, chaos is very much closer than you could possibly believe. Still, you gotta larf, eh? *****************************************************

Actually, I am in a very bleak mood today.