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Is there a link between the Big Society and the occult?

Cameron’s big idea – okay, his only idea – has not been without its critics, having generally been adjudged a half-arsed load of pony. A putative Big Society roadshow had to be cancelled after people laughed at the speaker at the first one at Stockport College. Even Lord Nat Wei, the man brought in to run the fourth launch of the ‘idea‘ (fourth!), quit the next day after the launch, saying it was ‘basically just hot air and bollocks woven into a tear-stained fabric of irrelevance.’

His Lordship added that he did not understand the idea, ‘even though I said I did, for which I apologise.’ (He actually said it was a ‘farce’. Same same.)

So it hasn’t gone well.

But what these critics overlook and under-estimate is the Big Society’s intimate links to Ultimate Evil.

The idea’s progenitors – via on-off Tory house philosopher Philip ‘the Red Tory’ Blond – are the arch-English writers G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. Chesterton and Belloc’s new society vision saw previously atomised citizens tilling the land and running the local pub in near-mystic communion with each other and their locality.

No big state. No big business. Just the little guy, tilling the field, running the pub. It was a quaint, villagey scene, but sadly one also ineffably tainted by diabolism.

Among Chesterton’s many questionable flirtations (Mussolini, anti-Semitism) was one with the occult. As a youth, he was addicted to Ouija boards. As a writer, he could not hide his fascination, once recommending staring at a turkey for an hour to get a glimpse of the strange demon-heart of existence. Yes: the man who stared at turkeys.

So, anyway, there it is: the direct link between David Cameron and the Hornéd One.

Typical really. Yet again, you come across people claiming to actually believe in something, but all they really want to do is fuck in the woods at night.