At a time when so much uncertainty exists, it is interesting to see and hear that the thought police have not found anything better to do than attack speakers doing video interviews for the books they have shelved in the background as they speak.

It is indeed a measure of what our society has become that people can trash any book or literary work on the basis of only what they have heard rather than reading it first.

But to then attack others because they have actually read it and then had the audacity to keep the title on the shelf speaks of a level of ignorance that makes it all the more likely that stupidity masquerading as legitimate and sanitised thinking will be something they will themselves embrace.

It is impossible to understand the problems and challenges that we can see littered across history if we ignore the causes and focus only on the easy reading which are the effects.

It is healthy to read multiple authors on the same subjects in order to learn what the genuine truths are about any subject. It’s critical thinking that sees this process through as you disregard the opinion and nuances which linger in the prose, words and structures in the way that we all differently write.

As a society we are being endangered by the tunnel vision and insularity which has presented itself as being woke or politically correct and is hiding in plain sight.

None of us wants to have a dictator like Hitler or Mussolini or something equally troubling to rise from the ashes of the chain reaction set off by the Lockdown and what is yet to come.

But if we don’t allow ourselves and others to understand all the ingredients that made such horror as the impact of World War II possible in this world as a result of events only 90 years ago, we could all very easily find ourselves on the wrong end of such troubling times again very soon indeed.

It is all too easy to sound negative when you tell the truth about what the Government is doing and what it has done. But if you can look beyond the pain and suffering that their errors and mistakes are going to cause, it is possible to visualise how things could play out to improve life for us all in the UK and also for everyone across the World beyond.

For too long, money has been the only thing of importance in every part of life and business. But since the COVID-19 Pandemic began, that shibboleth has at worst began to be changed and at best broken as we and the people in the world around us awake to what the World, our Country and our communities have actually become.

In its ignorance of the responsibilities that it actually has, our Government set off a chain reaction on the day it imposed the Lockdown and then chose to follow up with a series of measures that have really helped nobody other than to hold off the misery they have inflicted on at least some until another day.

The world that we knew up until the middle of March 2020 no longer exists. Many people have been so affected by the concept of social distancing and the mantras of ‘stay at home, save lives’ and ‘protect the NHS’, that they will not be thinking of returning to the workplace anytime soon. Others have lost jobs and lost businesses – or soon will do, and the impact of the debt that will be inevitable for so many will become all-absorbing in a culture where we have until now been conditioned to think that what we have materially is all.

Economists and academics will not admit it, but what is happening and the patterns that are emerging now are nothing like the texts or history books that have been written about economics and political history of the past.

Events that should never run concurrently or together are already taking place at the same time, and hyperinflation or more likely massive deflation is likely to hit this Country very soon. This is not something that any sensible person or business leader really wants to see happening within a Country like the UK by choice.

Instead of being worried about the inevitable changes that are set to come, we must all realise and accept that the reset that is coming offers a massive opportunity for us all, as long as we do our bit to ensure that we have the right leadership in place so that we can embrace it.

This reset will be the opportunity to make life good and affordable for all, whilst we take care of the people, the communities and the world around us – all as a positive and selfless choice.

 

I would like to say I feel heartened that voices are finally becoming louder and more frequent in their questioning of the Government and its handing of the COVID Pandemic. The choice to impose the Lockdown and the impact of the decisions that Politicians have made.

But I don’t.

What is clear from the array of names now appearing on social media streams and in articles within the mainstream news, is the fight against the Government, the damage it is doing and the damage it has done, may well end up being hijacked by opportunistic MPs, Politicians and Activists who have realised that people are waking up from the social distancing spell they have been under, and there is now an opportunity there for them to exploit.

There is a massive opportunity to change the UK for the better in the coming weeks, months and years, IF we have the right leadership in place.

That will not happen if we continue to go around in circles and allow familiar voices and the usual suspects to steal the platform of change for their own use, when they have themselves come from the same broken model as the rest of this sorry lot.

We need fresh faces and worldly perspectives underpinning the next generation of politicians and government, if they are to get us all through the crisis that the Johnson Government has created and then put everything right that needs to be corrected across our Country and our culture, once we get out of the other side.

 

The first three weeks of the Lockdown were a novelty. The second set has been taken by many straight on the chin. But as the days and weeks have passed, more and more people and business owners have awoken to the reality that the Government and its advisors really have no idea what they are doing, are failing us all seriously and are doing more harm than good.

Contrary to what our political class might think of us together, very few of us are as stupid as their words and actions suggest. Many people are working out for themselves that the points made by the different mantras simply don’t join up and social distancing has now become a tool that is being used to control people and stop them thinking about the growing gaps in what the Government is doing and what it has already done.

The Government no longer has the legitimacy to impose the restrictions that they are doing so by choice, because the damage that they have already done and will continue to do to jobs, businesses, quality of life and much more, far outweighs any benefit that could ever come in the comparatively small number of lives that might be saved as a result of shutting everything down.

The reckoning that is coming is a long time overdue. This political class and the system that created and keeps it running needs to be removed.

The people of this Country will break the Lockdown as they awaken to what the Government has done, and momentum will build amongst us all for leadership that will manage this horrid pandemic whilst providing a life for everyone that is liveable for us all.

 

 

Lone voices shout against the crowd, trying to stop everyone walking onto the beach to see the spectacle of a disappearing sea before the overwhelming horror and force of the tsunami returns, overwhelms and destroys everything whilst it kills or injures people indiscriminately and at will.

No, this is not the tragedy and disaster of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean. This is what we are experiencing and living through right now. Albeit within what feels like a parallel universe where it has become necessary to attempt communication in metaphorical terms because it has become too difficult to communicate with people who have been taken in by the Government narrative in any other way.

You will either get it or you won’t. But just because you don’t get it doesn’t make it untrue.

Those that do understand the crisis that the UK is facing and has faced from the moment that the Lockdown began and are prepared to speak or act publicly even now, some 6 weeks in, remain very few in number. But that isn’t to say that a great many more don’t agree at least in part with what is being said.

Yes, the momentum appears to be completely behind the Government.

So successful has their media campaign been based on propaganda and the misuse of behavioural insights, that terms such as ‘social distancing’, ‘stay at home, save lives’ and ‘protect the NHS’ have turned the general population into a zombie nation . One that has become progressively more fearful of catching this virus since the COVID-19 Pandemic began.

Not only has the Government imposed an unnecessary and dubious Lockdown with physical distancing measures that has seen social distancing becoming common parlance and accepted terminology for the 2020 police state in the UK. They have failed spectacularly to mitigate and insulate our businesses and jobs against the fallout from their mistake. They are now consolidating the problems they have caused and are in the process of causing by doubling down on the steps they have already taken, using lie after lie in the form of hollow advice and directives to give credibility to the giant ones they issued to coerce the British Public to accept the Lockdown in the first place.

Of those speakers and lone voices I have already talked about, names such as Peter Hitchens who writes for The Mail on Sunday and Laura Perrins who is co-editor of the website Conservative Woman have consistently questioned the actions or motives of the Government over recent weeks, often receiving much vitriol and scorn from the usual suspects on platforms such as Twitter in response.

Such commentary appearing on my own Facebook feed via a friend who was commenting yesterday drew my attention to the Court Action and related crowd-funding request that is being initiated by businessman Simon Dolan.

Mr Dolan has instructed Solicitors Wedlake Bell and Barrister Francis Hoar to begin proceedings to sue the Government over the imposition of the Lockdown and already drawn much derision for doing so.

Having seen it suggested by the twitterati that Ms Perrins was experiencing a mental breakdown when she Tweeted that (as an experienced barrister herself) she might well initiate proceedings against the Government in the future on a similar if not the same basis, its not difficult to picture how the court of public opinion is feeling about anything that goes against the official narrative that still remains in place – no matter how wrong or how damaging it is or will soon turn out to be.

The difficulty for Mr Dolan, Laura Perrins or anyone else who wants to tackle the ineptitude and ignorance of the politicians our system tells us we must call a government, is that the tide of groupthink that is carrying the establishment will continue to convince everyone who is travelling with it that both the Government and they are right until the very moment of impact when it is too late to head off the disaster that is now destined to come.

Suing the Government and its abuse of its responsibilities and powers to impose the Lockdown upon us all is certainly justified.

But when you are dealing with a Government and an establishment that is drunk on its own power and obsessed with the sound of its own voice, doing the right thing and in this case attempting to use the very legal system against it that we know it controls is not going to achieve the result that those of us who are awake already want, even though it is precisely what all of us – including those who are currently blind the realities of the Government’s actions – so desperately need.

Every day that this Lockdown and any form of the complete injustice that is ‘social distancing’ continues will be another day too many that has added damage to real lives, our economy and our Country.

It was avoidable at the start, but has for many already become irreparable harm.

The false populism that the Government created with the Media’s help has ensured that too many people believe everything they say. The same people will regrettably not see it differently until the tsunami hits them personally.

In the same way, the majority of us will not hear the alternative message, reality and truth – that opposes the one the Government is foolishly doing everything that it can to reinforce and to repeat – until the physical impact of that message has actually arrived in our lives.

Using the Courts to tackle a Government that is failing in its job whilst legitimising stupidity is neither playing the same game, nor playing by the same rules.

Court action will regrettably fail in delivering any beneficial purpose – even if the action wins, simply because it will come too late to turn that tide. It will only succeed in making an already inept Government lie to us again and say they will do things differently if the same thing were to happen again. It will not change the people we have in power nor the way that they think in any way.

With the Lockdown now having been running for 6 weeks already, the options for anyone who arrives in power to clean up the mess that the Johnson Government has created are becoming fewer and harder by the day.

Domestic abuse, suicides, evictions, debt, job losses, unemployment, abuse, safeguarding issues, divorces, anxiety, depression, long-term mental health issues, deaths, reduced standards of living, poverty, hunger and much more besides are already inevitable. They will not be changed or headed off in ways that they could have been if we had good politicians and a responsible Government from the start – One that would not have opted for the Lockdown as the route out of the COVID emergency in the first place.

To limit the pain from the problems the Johnson Government and the political culture they are part of has created, we need different leadership right now.

Democracy will not solve the crisis. Democracy cannot repair the damage that has already been done. Democracy will not put the UK back together and rediscover our place in the World once the fight against Covid is won. Because democracy in this Country has become a lie.

We need a government that will literally impose all the changes and direction across all areas of public policy that will be in the best interests of all, rather than trying to court public opinion and that of a media that will only appreciate the steps that have genuinely been taken in the best interests of all once we have weathered the storm. That can only come when everything has been fixed and the changes made have had adequate time to run their course.

The regrettable reality is that it is too late for this Government and the Politicians that we have to get any of this right. They are not wired the right way. We need people taking the lead who will weather this storm for us and on our behalf who really are ‘in the same room’.

Whilst we should wish Mr Dolan and his legal team all the very best with what they plan to do, the reality is that we will need the money that we have and our time and our support will be better spent placing focus and effort elsewhere.

We will only see the end of this narcissistic Government and stop the process of damage and harm this political culture is doing to us all once they are removed from power. They and the kind they represent must never given the opportunity to return to pay lip service to responsibility in the way that they are doing now.

Rioting, violence and public unrest will serve no purpose in the fight for our freedom and justice for all.

That doesn’t mean we have to continue to maintain our consent for the politicians we have to continue to lead.

We have to recognise and then break the herd mentality that we have all unwittingly become part of that has given legitimacy to the Lockdown and everything wrong with what the Government has done and will continue to do.

Their words mean nothing. They have no value to us all.

It is only by embracing herd immunity and the process that it will take to get us there that we can together again become strong.

So when you see local businesses reopening in whatever form the might choose, or see people out and about walking or in their cars in whatever way or at whatever time of the day they choose, support them. Applaud them. Encourage them to do more. Even if you are not yet ready to do it yourself.

The only way that we can be rid of this Lockdown, the police state known as social distancing and begin to turn all the problems in the UK around, is to ignore the politicians who no longer have legitimacy in power to lead us and ignore all of the ridiculous messages, actions and rules that this out-of-touch establishment continues to impose.

We need leadership that respects the realities of public consent rather than abusing it to extend their own purposes and selfish cause.

There was a time when it didn’t feel like it really mattered who was in charge because everything would always stay the same.

Now we know different.

We must withdraw our consent for politicians, who through a process of self-gratification, are masquerading as our leaders whilst getting way with treating us all like fools.

Let’s focus all our energies on doing what needs to be done to limit the damage before the tsunami that has swallowed the sea that is the Covid emergency returns.