It Has Been A Year Since-

The BBC is part of a "conspiracy" preventing the "radical changes" needed to UK democracy, the corporation's former director general has said.

Its been a year since Greg Dyke was saying what many of us believed then and now that the State needed root and branch reform.

Dyke who was ousted in the Labour Coup de Main against the BBC in 2004 in the aftermath of the Kelly Affair knows the corruption that lies at the heart of the body politic. We have had an election in which Labour should have been decimated, but they still hold vast areas in their thrall. The Unions backing the thuggish UAF angainst the equally thuggish BNP, the BBC's overtly nightly campaigns against 'the cuts' and lastly members of their vast client quango state still sitting in place consuming vast amounts of tax money.

The State is still creating 'police forces' to deal with everything other than to check their own power. Yesterday I saw motorway warning lights on the M4 flashing 'Litter is a crime' in English and Welsh. Since when and who decided that we were to be bombarded with these messages from Big Brother using the traffic hazard system. I was caught in slow moving traffic- where was the sign 'slow moving traffic for ten miles due to road works' ?

Con-Dem out of practical coalition politics, knowing that the Lib Dems will jump into the arms of Labour at the slightest provocation, are unable to be a radical reformist movement, and are just settling for a managerial system of decline as we did in the seventies.

My fear is that the anger over the expenses scandal has been managed off the headlines and it is business as usual.

The 'Public Servants' are still running the country while the politicians bleat about telephone bugging as a sham substitute for politics.

Our 'Berlin Wall Moment', when the State quaked, has passed.

The Political Class has won its battle to control Britain. The civil service, Parliament,the political parties, the judiciary, the intelligence services and the media have all been captured or compromised. In an unannounced takeover of power, the public domain has been seized by the Political Class.

The victory is recent. It is certainly the case that key Political Class attitudes and techniques had become prevalent by the 1980's and to some extent even before. Margaret Thatcher's government contained hints of what was to come, especially in its methods of press management, warm relations with big business and centralised command structure.

Peter Oborne- The Triumph of the Political Class