WHAT does 2011 hold for us all? I fear that it will give us a doctrinaire socialist government more extreme than any that have gone before.

The conditions are exactly right to bring this about and, if there is one word to define these conditions, the word is “instability.”

Unfortunately, it is not just that we have partial instability but the whole of our society, economy and national life is dangerously unstable.

The first symptom of this is rising prices. You must have noticed that most of the goods we need to buy – necessities, not luxuries – cost a lot more than they did last year at this time. Food prices especially have rocketed and it is when the basic stuff of life starts to be beyond people’s means that they get angry. Perhaps we can do without expensive meat and fish but bread, vegetables and fruit are now unbelievably expensive.

Last week I paid £1 for a cabbage. Tins of tomatoes that not so long since you could pick up for 20p are now priced at 95p in my local supermarket.

IWAS a country parson in Yorkshire during the winter of discontent in 1979 when, in the days of Jim Callaghan’s socialists, uncollected rubbish piled up in the streets of York and corpses piled up in the morgues because the crematorium staff were on strike.

The violent street protests towards the end of last year suggest that public disorder is going to be a lot worse in 2011.

Already it is reported that the trades unions are planning co-ordinated strikes on a grand scale in the spring.

Cuts in public services will mean redundancy for many who thought they had a job for life.

But the extent of these cuts has been wildly exaggerated and only last week it was revealed that the promised “bonfire of the quangos” has not happened. You could have predicted that: our society has become so bureaucratic that the only way it could abolish a quango would be to set up another quango to do it.

ALONG with rampant inflation, and the higher interest rates which this will necessitate, and the further deterioration in the quality of public services, we shall see the collapse of the coalition. Too many members of it are mightily dissatisfied.

Many Lib Dems complain that their leaders have sold out to the nasty Tories just so they can get themselves a taste of power.

Traditional Tories are set to rebel against what they see as the wet politics of the ruling clique of Cameron and his cronies.

At the local elections in May, both Lib Dems and Conservatives are going to lose massively. At the same time the referendum on altering the voting system will result in the decision to stay as we are. That will be the last straw for the Lib Dems and so the coalition will collapse. The result will be a general election in which an angry and disappointed people return Labour to power.

Miliband and his gang are delighted by the fact that Labour lost the last general election.

This let in the coalition who, faced with the financial ruin created by Gordon Brown, were forced to embark on a programme of cuts. People angry about rising prices, cuts, increased unemployment and higher taxes will take their revenge on the coalition.

Miliband will preside over an extreme left wing government. When that happens, I should like to revive the old slogan: “Will the last person to leave Britain please turn the lights out.”