Political consitutional party and country in crisis

Jon Snow blogs over at Channel 4 on the current crisis in government and reminds us that

We have a country whose banking system is in turmoil; a parliament reduced to the dust of ages, where the swathes of women who arrived in 1997 appear to have had little impact; an army dispersed in foreign fields; a relationship with Europe unexplained and left to wither; and local communities, most of whose funding and resource is hostage to the spending whims of central government.
And now the electorate is being asked to vote in an election that does not immediately affect this crisis. Its outcome will stoke the pressure, but not necessarily resolve anything.