How the hell is David CaMoron still prime minister this morning? Leaving aside the fact that he didn’t deserve to be pm in the first place, he should have come clean about his father’s tax dodging last night and offered his resignation. I know he might not be personally culpable – and I stress ‘might’ – but the way he tried to swat questions away as ‘a personal matter’ tells us all we need to know about the man. He sees himself as above the rest of us; to him, members of the aristocracy don’t have to pay tax because they are of superior breeding. They don’t use state schools or the NHS, so why should they contribute to them? And why should they have to tell us plebs about their financial affairs? It’s an arrogant, elitist frame of mind which I’d hoped had been dying out, but was there to behold in CaMoron last night, as it is in most tories. We deserve better than this bunch of toffs looking down on us, destroying the welfare state, letting their rich friends evade tax while people who need help stave.

I’m not alone in my anger, of course. More and more people, I sense, have had enough: the rage and fury is growing; it’s becoming almost palpable. We can see what the tories are doing, and hate it. The problem is, we have no way of channeling or releasing that anger, no way of getting together and forcing the tories out. This leaves us susceptible to being manipulated: they distract us with things like the EU referendum, diverting our anger, leaving them free to get away with murder.

There is a similar level of anger in America: there it has found it’s voice in Trump. People are fed up with politics, fed up of being spoken down to by the elite, so they support a man who purports to be outside of politics. Trump panders to people’s gut instinct and urge to scapegoat; his boisterous, hate-filled shouting gives vent to their frustration. Nigel farage is doing something similar here by presenting himself as an outsider and giving people scapegoats to blame. This divides us and distracts us. There are now huge amounts of poverty in the uk; the tories are destroying the nhs and welfare state. We are suffering, but instead of getting together and dealing with our real oppressors, many are fooled into hating other things, such as immigration. This diverts the anger, allowing the real sources of our discontent to carry on. We are all getting angrier, but that anger is meaningless if we cannot focus it, as one people, onto the real sources of our problems. That’s why the tories want this referendum: they knew it would split opinion, turning us against one another so we’re too busy bickering between ourselves to be able to stop their crimes.