SUSPEND belief, dear reader, and imagine Rangers supporters voting Craig Whyte back into power at Ibrox.

I know it's absurd, nobody could be that daft.

Now explain this. We had 13 years of Labour mismanagement, breeding a financial apocalypse that five years on still has Britain on its knees.

So why in the name of the wee man would any sensible person in this country vote the Labour party straight back into power?

Well, the bookies will stop taking bets on just such a 2015 election certainty if the UK continues to sink under David Cameron's warring, imploding Tories.

The electorate have blindly clung to this Labour-Tory see-saw since the Liberals last gatecrashed No10 back in 1910.

Despite successive government botch-ups in the intervening 103 years, the couple's cosy cartel has hardly been threatened and the abysmal performance of the Lib-Dems in today's coalition won't do anything to foster a mood for change. But could anything change the public mood?

We are "disillusioned, disenchanted and disengaged from politics".

That unsurprising opinion comes from the annual survey of the Hansard Society, the non-partisan Westminster-based charity think-tank.

They found that 58% of people won't vote, even "if they felt strongly enough about an issue".

Only 12% of 18 to 24-year-olds say they will vote, which also doesn't augur well for Alex Salmond's move to extend voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds.

The Society predicts the General Election in two years will attract the lowest turnout in British history.

That's hardly good for democracy and creates a political schism into which slither such as the BNP and UKIP and chancers like Nigel Farage.

Of course, in a democracy it is also your right not to vote – perhaps it should be compulsory – and there are compelling reasons why we don't.

With that government see-saw, people are no longer convinced their vote makes a difference.

They're still miffed that in the middle of the worst economic crisis in history, corrupt MPs were robbing the taxpayer.

The same politicians are seen in thrall to corrupt bankers and tax-avoiding multi-nationals.

They bicker across the despatch box like schoolkids, over issues of little interest to their constituents, seemingly oblivious that the country is going to the dogs.

We have a yawning poverty gap, food banks, the bedroom tax, wholesale benefits cuts.

The perception is they have no empathy with the low paid, the unemployed, the sick and disabled.

And when some Tories don't even trust their own PM to keep his word over Europe, what chance the humble voter can believe a word they say?

Which brings us to Gordon Brown, the mastermind of all our economic woes – asleep at the wheel yet driving the bus – shuffling back into the limelight last week to say he knows what's best for Scotland.

You couldn't give any of them – Mr Brown or Mr Whyte or, come to that, Mr Green – a red face.

HIGH-rolling tax avoiders Google and Amazon have been described by an all- party Westminster committee as "nasty" and "immoral".

Google (motto: Don't be evil) paid just £6m in UK corporation tax in 2011 despite generating more than £3bn in revenues.

Amazon milked us with £4.2bn of UK sales last year and £2.4m in tax.

Don't appeal to their sense of shame, they have none.

They're doing nothing illegal, it's up to government to close loopholes.

And forget a boycott. The public may be appalled, but not that much.