HOLD ON TO YOUR HOLLYHOCKS FOLKS, CAMERON HAS AGAIN RENEGUED ON HIS PROMISE OF A REFERENDUM

Still the silly tomtit expects people to vote for a Con', or should that be, another Con' party?
Me? There are two or three alternatives, UKIP., BNP., or just don't bother to vote. I'll see how things look at the time. But one thing is for sure, the LibLabContrick won't get a look in.
NEXT. Have you seen the daily Express today? If so, any comments on Leo McKinstry's article on page 12 ? For those who don't read the Express, and after all, it is an acquired tast, especially if you are used to reading the Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail or the even lower orders of the print media. Still where were we?
The title of Leo Mckinstry's article is-:  "Our vain socialist elite is oblivious to suffering at home". And then it goes on -:  "The more rapidly our nation declines the more vain our ruling elite becomes. During the last twelve years, Labour has presided over the longest recession in history, an unprecedented rise in violent crime, the destruction of our national identity, two unnecessary wars, a breakdown in social cohesion, a collapse in educational standards and the degradation of our enviroment.
Yet the socialist politicians responsible are hitting new heights of self-importance. Far from showing contrition they become increasingly extravagant in their rhetoric and grandiose in their scheming. They cannot deal with benefit fiddlers or teenage yobs but they have an array of utopian plans for combating climate change, world povety and international terrorism.
Gordon Brown is a classic example of this pattern. He has proved one of the worst prime ministers in history, a bullying, neurotic incompetent who has  ruined the public finances. Yet he arrogantly struts from one summit to another, urging us to cheer him on a global mission.
Only last month, in a typically vainglorious move, he described the countdown to the forthcoming Copenhagen summit on climate change as "50 days to save the planet". Such absurd language is indicative of the mindset of the Left-wing politician, aiming to portray the summit's participants as heroic crusaders battling to rescue Earth.
Depressingly much of the media takes this bombast seriously. The Danish gabfest is a monument to political conceit. Its only achievement will be to give control freaks more power over our lives. Brown's deadline for planetary salvation is completely arbitrary, as if we are all doomed if politicians do not reach a deal by a fixed date.
As they preen and posture on the global stage the Labour Cabinet is all too reminiscent of the old Soviet politburo, which constantly trumpeted its ability toto create utopia at some distant point in the future, even though Russia was engulfed by oppression, economic crisis and bureaucratic paralysis. Like the Soviet bosses Labour ministers are full of talk about five year plans and radical social engineering projects, summed up in Harriot Harman's sinister phrase about creating "a new social order". In the present, however, they cannot even deliver a functioning postal service, clean hospitals, decent rail network, or a justice system that protects the vulnerable.
But it is precisely because our politicians are so inept that they love to indulge in delusions of grandeur. International summitry is a form of psychological displacement activity. Pontificating at conferences gives them a chance to escape the realities of failure.
Surrounded by fawning assistants, whisked between luxurious hotels, they dream they are important people rather than despised mediocrities. That is also why they adore trans-national organisations such as the UN, G20 and EU. Indeed the European Union, with its byzantine structure and cocoon of privilege, is the perfect arena for narcissists. Last week at the Brussels summit Brown and his Foreign Secretary David Miliband boasted of getting the EU. to agree to set up a new fund to help the developing world fight climate change.
But it is ridiculous to present this as a British triumph. The EU has always been eager to waste public money on politically correct causes. In this case the fund will swallow  between £20Billion and £44Billion, money that could be better spent at home, especially amid warnings of cuts in public services because the national finances are in a mess.
Vanity is the true impulse behind the drive for EU intergration. The creation of a United States of Europe is nothing to do with meeting public needs. It is all about making EU leaders and bureaucrats feel big on the diplomatic circuit. EU fanatics always speak of the need to "challenge China" as a global superpower. Personally, I would rather have my bins emptied properly and my council tax bill reduced.
In a telling comment last week, Miliband said Tony Blair  should be the first EU president because Europe needed a figure who "could stop the traffic" in the worlds capitals.
Blair is egotistical enough already. A politician who truly cared about his country would be more interested in keeping the traffic moving than halting it. It's this sort of thinking that can be seen throughout our public life.
The police talk about the fight against "organised" crime but it is the disorganised crime that really blights our lives. Instead of puffing themselves up as worriors against a global underworld network they should put more officers on patrol to tackle muggers and drug peddlers.
Similary Labour keeps telling us that blood-soaked war in Afghanistan is vital for the struggle against Islamic terrorism at home. Yet by destroying effective boarder controls it allows thousands of radical Muslims, many of them illegal immigrants, to settle here.
Instead of sacrificing brave troops in the Afgan desert  ministers should bring in a programme of deporting illegals. It is equally ridiculas to spend £8Billion a year on overseas aid, much of which props up corrupt regimes, when the neglect of the elderly is rife at home.
In a democracy the government should deal with the needs of its own people. But public service is a meaningless concept to our current bunch of grasping egomanics.

I intend to add my own postscript to this most impressive diagnosis by Leo McKinstry.
But it will have to wait until the morning. There is also material on Pages, 4 and 18, all of it to do with the absolute wastage of Taxpayers money.