Coulrophobia – a condition we should all fear developing.

So, it’s over, the Clowns to left of me have won and won big.

The Jokers to the right have been rejected wholesale, mainly for what seems negative reasons.

In pursuit of the aim to simply remove the Conservatives from office, the electorate have given Labour a majority of 172. Effectively a licence to do what ever they please. A licence granted with very little insight into what it will be used for based on one third of the cast votes of less than 60% of the electorate.

Put simply Labour now hold unassailable power for the next five years that is based in the positive affirmation of just 20% of the population eligible to vote and the smallest winning vote share in modern parliamentary history.

Democracy in action or apathy?

Either way the choice has been made – the seats have been booked and the show is about to start with a cast list that confirms that at heart it’s a revival of an old show, the Blair Project, with some distracting comic additions such as David Lammy as Foreign Secretary and, Rayner as Deputy PM serving to take the focus off the serious returning performers who were in the original shows Westminster cast.

So, what’s in store? Here’s a few possibilities:

The emasculation Parliament by further transfer of powers to “Experts”, single topic quangos and regional assemblies all of which populated with nominees and disciples?

The further empowerment of the Supreme Court, whose Judges are appointed by the King on the recommendation of the Prime Minster ( in real world affect BY the Prime Minister) - effectively allowing the governing executive to overrule and frustrate the will of Parliament?

Further transfers of powers to the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved governments?

The completion of the movement of the counties political centre of gravity to the left?

In short the completion of the mission commenced by Blair and Brown to dismantle our unwritten constitution in a way that will make it extremely difficult if not impossible for any future government of the centre right to unravel.

And whilst this is happening, as a distraction, we will face an avalanche of legislation on green adoptions and net zero that anyone who can count can see cannot be delivered or funded. New employment legislation that will further tip the scales against the small traders and self employed in favour of Labour’s client estate of public sector employees and those trapped in the maze of state benefits. Further growth in the mountain of future debt for public sector pensions and much, much more – all of which will require funding by increases in the taxation of the ever-shrinking pool of wealth creators and the assets of those who have them.

Increased taxation on property, investments, private pensions, motoring, local services will all be in the script as, in the style of the 1984 guidebook, we are spoken to in the approved New Speak and walked towards voluntary collectivisation under the paternal guidance of our Clowns in chief and offered ice creams by the supporting Liberal Party during the intervals.

The hope?

That once again the performers over act and lose the audience in the first half of their performance leading to the show once again closing early, as did Blair’s original. Those who have seen this play before can only hope that like Cromwell’s protectorate a restitution follows a premature curtain call. If not, future generations may find they are growing up in a country plagued by a strain of  Coulrophobia for which no vaccination exists. Children find clowns scary for a very good reason - they understand you cannot see the real face behind the paint