Wake up call: Chesham & Amersham shows us that ALL these political parties can be beaten, whilst reminding us they are fundamentally the same

Perhaps the biggest problem that exists in and because of the media age, is the perceived need on the part of those who see themselves as having a platform, to keep talking at their followers, even when for the majority of time their text, comments and conversation have the residual value of hot, rancid air.

In an age where critical thinking is at a premium, simply because what should be a media age life skill isn’t taught in schools, the vacuous bullshit that is constantly presented as an authority view certainly plays with the minds of the vulnerable. There’s as much of it as there is grass and when it exists at every turn what is there not to believe?

This isn’t just about the ‘woke enlightenment’. The oft unconscious and hollow philosophy that opinion supersedes fact dwells omnipresent amongst the realms of the mainstream pundits. The very same commentators and pollsters who have this week been falling over themselves to outdo each other with their predictions for the fate of the Conservative Party, based purely on their ‘loss’ of the Chesham & Amersham parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats in talk of red and blue walls.

The suggestion that this By Election result can foretell what will happen next is both laughable and dangerous. Both the political class and the commentariat facilitating them is completely divorced from reality.

Normal people are far too busy trying to make the best of lives that this system of Government and the stupidity that drives it to focus on what the politicians really do. The establishment has turned living for many into nothing less than a life, death or penury-inducing obstacle course, where the temptation of escape by committing crime is thrown in just to pile the pressure on a population which is being set up to fail by its leaders. There simply isn’t the time, nor the motive to even attempt to appreciate just how little the establishment really understands about real life, what real inequality looks like and how an inept political class fuels it to exist.

The devil is quite literally in the detail and the amount of detail that ‘experts’ and ‘specialists’ are throw at us. They call it ‘science’, but science is itself only as up to date and reliable as accepted contemporary thought.

The pundit-induced complexity of the result in Chesham & Amersham, the voting swing and the shock of the result makes it all seem very real. Yet all this result proves is that even the safest of parliamentary seats can be lost, depending only upon what the people of that constituency feel and think on the day when the polls are open and electors consider how or if they will even vote.

People will always vote through the lens of their own experience, whether they are looking outward to the world or inward towards their own bubble when they do so. Whilst the political class may do everything in its power to manipulate what the people outside of the Westminster bubble see and understand, politicians have little or no control over anything the public thinks. It is more often than not little more than a happy coincidence that with the creation of so many different narratives, there will be a glimmer of truth somewhere amongst them that resonates with real life and the base fears that drive it in some way close enough way to give one set of politicians the edge over what any of the others say or do.

It would be easy to throw political and electoral history on to the table and present it as conclusive evidence that the thoughts of people can be controlled even when they don’t want to be controlled. Yet the truth is that ‘it’s not what you say, it’s what people hear’ and even the lowliest pleb or member of the lowest classes that the establishment look down upon has the capacity and ability as an elector to choose based on what they know about the world and how they see it.

Whilst they may be glad-handing themselves, knocking elbows and smashing down toy walls made of blue bricks to celebrate ‘their’ success, the Liberal Democrats are not offering anything different to the Conservatives or any of the other current selection of Political Parties that they want to replace. But the different wrapping and their way of speaking was different enough to look like an alternative when it came to last Thursday when it was time for the people who really matter in Chesham & Amersham to make their choice.

For lockdown sceptics and the increasing number amongst us all who are aware that the real fallout from the last 18 months is yet to hit us from what this whole political class have done, the Chesham & Amersham result should be taken as evidence that with the right approach, motivation and support, the next general election result is by no means in anyway certain. A genuine alternative to the political clowns that we have in charge now would gain the support of the wider electorate very quickly. And if it did so, after the next General Election, it would have the ability to turn all of this mess around.

Regrettably many people think that change is as simple as changing other people’s minds about what they think. Yet the Chesham & Amersham By Election result is a textbook example that shows this is all the current crop of out-of-touch politicians does.

People want to live and experience their own truth. Not one created only to benefit others. All an alternative party or group needs to do to be taken seriously is focus on shining the light of truth across enough areas of life to create the emotional feeling that is commonality and a shared purpose. One that makes sense of what’s happened but dares to inspire a belief that things can be better only by embracing change at a personal, community and national level. The workable and considerate alternative to what we have now and will continue to receive from all of these Political Parties based on the mantra that life is too complex for normal people to be trusted to understand,  that politicians are the only adults, what’s best for them is best for everyone, and that it is not only ok but now necessary for them to use fear as the way to remain in control.