If nothing before now had convinced you that the Johnson Government will do whatever it wants to stay in control, the U-turn on vaccine passports and the threat of 14 years imprisonment for Journalists who embarrass them should now tell you all you need to know.
The decisions the Johnson Government has been taking stopped being about Covid a long time ago – if they really ever were. Their decisions are now all about control.
Control and maintaining it has been and is the only way that those responsible for the injustices being committed against us can be sure that their roles will not be uncovered and that they will not be held to account.
Boris, his Ministers and Advisors have grown more certain by the day that by maintaining the narrative they will ultimately keep public opinion behind them. They are continually working to ensure that all-important legacy Boris so desires, and to secure victory in the next General Election – in their minds years before it is even called.
This is a completely self-serving Government, supported and enabled to do all that it is doing by a Parliament full of MPs who all think the same way. These politicians have no doubt that with a subservient media and the whole political class ready to support them or even outdo them over Covid – any negative blowback from the public will not be meaningful and will certainly not last.
Unfortunately, for those amongst the growing numbers of sceptics lining up against this tyranny, there is a very big problem that is far too easy to overlook: Very little of the anti-Government sentiment, the words, the interpretations, the facts – resonates with anyone looking objectively or from a distance at what’s going on.
Sadly, the way that messages and information are being presented are actually damaging the argument and the chances of removing this whole political culture, right at the time when we should be focusing all of our energies positively against all of this madness. When words used publicly by the Government mean so little, the voting public will not be swayed by what looks far too much like many hundreds of tit-for-tat responses.
The anti-lockdown, anti-government sceptics and all these aligned in principle against the Johnson Government may be quite literally on the cusp of missing the chance to change this.
This is a travesty. The reasoning behind much that those messages and the experiences that people have had to go through to get there would have massive value if they were to be channelled in a helpful and engaging way. Regrettably however, frustration, anger and the desperation to make sense of everything is not being tempered and is boiling over. People with voices, platforms and passions are speaking out from their own perspectives instead of joining up and becoming a winning, measured and reassuring voice – something that is only possible when we all come together and work as one.
To be assured of impact from using logic and reason via any communication medium, you must be sure that your intended audience will listen and hear what you are saying to them. We have reached a point where the MPs in our Parliament and the Political Parties that back them do not hear our messages because they do not care. They do not even want to understand our lives. They are in politics for just one thing: themselves.
WE MUST DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY TO WIN!
I understand that many of you reading this will not want to hear, accept or work with what I have to say. But that is because I am sharing how things really are in politics, rather than how they are seen, or more importantly – how we would probably all agree they should actually be.
Boris’ 80-seat majority means that we are stuck with him or somebody who will be just like him until the next General Election – at least. Yes, there is a chance that the Conservative Party will ditch Boris as Prime Minister, but that will only because the rest of the Conservative Party will want to save their seats and save their own skins. They will replace him with someone potentially even worse, because Boris really was the best of the options for Prime Minister that any of us had.
Some believe that Labour or the Liberal Democrats will get elected and into power at the next General Election. But the reality is that neither of these political parties are offering you anything different. They are motivated in just the same ways as the Conservatives, and if given power will cause as much pain to us all, if not more. The only difference between them, each other and the Tories is that their brand of self-righteousness and self-serving government will be presented to us in a different ways.
There are no MPs in Parliament or sat on the green benches today have the promise of becoming the selfless big beasts of politics that we now need. Leaders who are driven by the promise of something better for all of the people that they collectively represent.
There are no servants of the people in the British political system today. Only those who want to manipulate and control the system so that they can force all others to serve them.
We can change this. But we have to begin work to change this now.
The results will not come overnight. It takes time and a lot of ingredients to put together a meal worth eating. This is why all the shouting and losing of shit will not cook up the end result that most people want and expect to happen right now.
I am reaching out to all of you who want to see the end of this rancid culture of politics – even those of you already aligned to groups like Reclaim and Reform UK who do recognise at least some of the wider problems, but are still focusing on very specific agendas.
Sadly, the ‘options’ currently available to us do not engage anywhere near enough voters to win. They are set to reach the other side of the next General Election in exactly the same place as UKIP and the Brexit Party did before them.
We must come together to create a new political movement. A New Party For All, that is completely fresh and has a totally different approach to politics and the people – right from the start.
The British Political system is sick. But its sick because of the people that are in it and bending it to their will for their own benefit and for the benefit of their friends.
We must get back to being human, caring about and connecting properly with all others, before anything meaningful can really begin.
Everyone has something to bring to this party. But egos are the one thing that to make us different to the politicians we already have, we all must leave behind.
It will not take many of us to get A New Party For All going. But the few who come together and become the catalyst to make it happen must be prepared to take an approach that right from the start will feel counterintuitive and not like it will be targeting the issues directly as everyone currently sees them.
Believe me, if there are enough of us ready to listen, consider and then contribute in the way it really now is possible to do this, the change that is possible will be highly visible to everyone within months.
Positive change will begin from that point thereafter. Then, when the next General Election comes or when the Johnson Government falls, we will be ready to step into the gap and stop other selfish interests from taking over and continuing to treat all of the people in this Country like they are complete and utter fools.
It really is time to put up or shut up. Taking real action and taking everyone else with us is the only way that we can now win.
Adam Tugwell 