The madness of King George has long resonated in the memory of the British people, largely because it is falsely associated with the loss of the American colonies, assets we could do with right now.

At the start of 2009, the madness of Gordon Brown is beginning to replace the porphyria of our mainly benign 18th-century Monarch.

I don’t need to rehearse what’s been said here for more than a year. Regular readers will have sensed long ago a profound disillusionment with our monumentally out-of-his-depth Prime Minister. Within the last week the mood has changed radically, and in a darker direction.

An edge of desperation and despair is spreading through the public prints, the online world, and people wandering aimlessly through our increasingly derelict high streets. You can feel a blistering of attitudes and settled judgements.

The sense of everything going wrong at once is neatly encapsulated by the American professor, Robert Reich, who said that current policy is “socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else”.

There’s also deep anger, an anger that could spill over into the streets sooner than we think. In a stunning blog post, SERIOUSLY ALARMED, Britain’s most accurate financial journalist on this crisis, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, nails the baby boomer generation, and by implication Gordon Brown and the government, as “blithering idiots”.

The end will come suddenly, like pulling on a brick with a rubber band. Nothing happens at first, then the brick leaps up and hits you in the face.

That moment is close.

It’s getting serious now. The last time England defaulted on its debt was under “Lord Protector” Oliver Cromwell, a role model for New Labour.

Gordon Brown must resign or call a general election. Nothing less will do.

His presence has become an insult to the nation.

John Evans

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