It does strike me that a feeling of anger and resentment is growing across all sectors of society, and I really wouldn't be surprised to see more and more unrest spilling on to the streets.
And whilst the anarchists and their like will no doubt tag on, at the heart of this will be the average man in the street who is being slowly and mercilessly strangled by rapidly increasing taxation, rapidly decreasing value for money in terms of the returns we get from government, commerce and industry from our increasing 'investment', red tape and political correctness. And frankly, the claims of Cameron et al that they are just sorting out the mess they inherited is growing rather tiring and is simply a way to tighten the screw on middle England ever tighter.
And when the police can't cope, the fire brigades, prison services and chunks of the transport infrastructure have all gone on strike, it will be us, the military, that is called in to plug the gap. You don't need heavy armour, aircraft carriers or fast jets when all you are is a paramilitary organisation - and that is the what we are rapidly becoming. Soon we won't be doing exchange tours with US forces, we'll be off to Italy for a tour with the Carabinieri or to some other such gendarmerie. Combat tours will be a thing of the past, as we will be off to some sleepy hollow in theatre to train up a local police outpost.
Frankly, the writing is well and truly on the wall - we are rapidly heading towards an irreducible minimum.