The last few days have felt a bit like coming out of a cinema into the daylight – bleary eyed, you stagger and squint for a few minutes until you finally readjust back to normality. The truly great films, the ones that make the most profound impression, tend to you leave you stunned and disorientated – it takes hours – sometimes days before a solid opinion about what you witnessed begins to form in your head.

So Gordon Brown takes it upon himself to apologise on behalf of all politicians everywhere for the ‘last few days,’ and at last it hits me, the floodgates open and the full impact of what’s going on hits me. I flip out – I am seething with rage at the sheer wrongheadedness of Gordon’s comments. I’m disgusted to my core. To the bitter end here is a man determined to put party politics and spin above anything and everything – for him the problem ‘of the last few days’ is what the Telegraph’s been doing, exposing the secret culture of life as an MP for what it really is. Good luck with that, Gordon.

Then there’s the haunting memory of Hazel Blears empathising with the ‘ordinary’ people. She understands we hate it – not that her intuitive understanding of ‘ordinary’ people prevented her from doing something she knew we’d hate in the first place. She insists it must be sorted out as fast as possible. She’s on our side! She agrees with us! Well, that’s alright then isn’t it?

Ordinary people. You know what, Hazel? I’ve got some news for you: I’m fucking extraordinary. I’m unique. I’m special. It’s you that’s ordinary – an ordinary, greedy, deceitful bullshit artist of a politician. When you call non-politicians ‘ordinary’ what you’re really saying is that you’re special. No, Hazel, you’re not special.  You don’t deserve the lifestyle you’ve been able to lead. You don’t deserve to keep the profits on the property deals you’ve made, all funded by us. That wasn’t the deal. You were supposed to serve us, not the other way around.

And this is it, you see – they’re finally – finally – on the back foot. All this time they’ve been changing the rules of the game, trying to bring us – the citizens – under their control. Putting us under surveillance, limiting what we can and can’t do, trying to tag and itemise us, trying to make us defend ourselves from them, to beg and plead not to have more of our civil liberties taken away from us.

What’s different now is that most people in the country – at least the ones paying attention to the news – have about the same amount of trust in you, Hazel, as I do. The agenda now is how to bring YOU under control. This is bad news for you. The whole social democratic project depends on people believing that you’re better than normal people, that because you’re not motivated by profit or greed that you can make better decisions than crass, greedy business people or selfish individuals that don’t care about other people. They want to believe that you’re extraordinary, that you’re better than us, that by entrusting you with power you can make this world a better place.

And you repay that trust extracting every single last penny you can. Not motivated by profit and greed? Better than everyone else? Ha.

Without the people’s trust the Government is powerless, lacking all authority. Without our blind faith and belief in the power and virtue of politicians, they’re nothing. They’re just an ordinary bunch of people, like everyone else, with the same faults and problems, vices and virtues. Why elevate them at the expense of others? Why put them ahead of ourselves?

It’s about Trust, Stupid. They’ve lost it – completely. It is news. It is shocking. It’s a mass shattering of illusions, and it’s the single most brilliant thing that’s happened in politics for a long time.