We didn’t knowingly choose to surrender more and more of our own power to people who are abusing the power and influence they have to pursue their own agendas and how they see the world will work.

But we have acquiesced and played an important part in all that is happening, because we have not questioned the perceived benefits of everything we have collectively been given.

We have collectively failed everyone who has already suffered as a result, as the thinking we have become accustomed to has increasingly affirmed that such problems always belong to others and are therefore not our own.

A spiritual outlook upon life is not required to understand that everything is connected and that disadvantage and suffering for anyone will always have an effect on everyone else in some way – even if the events or outcomes are so far apart, that it would appear there is simply no way that we could ever logically join all the dots up.

But by accepting ideas like processed foods are better because someone somewhere else has made them seem cheap, or that we can afford everything in life as long as we are able to keep borrowing, we are actually helping to make what is for some a life that is already un-liveable, progressively even worse.

If things don’t change, if WE don’t change, the problems you see as someone else’s today, will be knocking on your front door too, very soon.

If collectively, or rather as the majority, we continue to accept that a wealth, money and material values base and everything that comes with it is normal, the reality is that what some of us still believe to be freedom, and what is left of the concept we understand as humanity is and will be completely damned.

Yet we do have a choice or an alternative. And that alternative can come to us in either one of two different ways.

Whilst the majority of us are either not aware or pour scorn on such suggestions, our collective ignorance of this collapse and process of deliberately intended change is not without considerable risk to our own futures and the generations that will follow us beyond.

That ignorance leads those of us who are unaware of what is happening to believe that the way that our lives are now constructed and all the cultural norms that we employ have been a natural progression and a beneficial choice.

We do not or will not see nor accept that hidden within the mechanics, the toys and the feelings of personal greatness that this whole age employs, lies our own voluntary acceptance of the real agendas that have and still drive all of this. Agendas and plans that are all about self-interest and the removal of anything that identifies the self and what we believe to be our remaining freedom – which is our ability to choose, or our freedom of choice.

Few will be ready to accept the direction of travel that we inevitably face, until the hurt and restriction that this grand plan or strategy reaches and then hits each and every one of us directly in the face.

It’s happening now. 15 Minute Cities & LTNs, The Trans Debate, Net Zero, Cows being fed anti-methane tablets, Central Bank Digital Currencies, Cashless Society, Cancelling People, Wokeism, Political Correctness, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and much, much more. These ARE ALL part of a deliberate attack on personal identity, on personal freedom and upon what we used to recognise as Humanity itself – and it’s all driven by selfishness, stupidity and an overwhelming desire for complete control.

It may be hard to understand and agree with. But these things are only happening and are only coming into being because we are accepting them.

We are doing nothing to stop the direction of travel itself, and where we are beginning to stand up and fight, we are doing so only when the issue itself is one that seems to be most important to us.

Deep down, even today’s politicians want someone else to solve all of the problems they supposedly got elected to their roles to sort out. Then they can simply shut off to the world and then continue to do whatever it is they actually do.

Your immediate thought could well be ‘What on earth have they got to do with me and the things that I care about?’

Whilst all of us outside of The Establishment bubble may well agree that whatever today’s politicians have on their mind, it’s certainly not anything that will be of any benefit to any of us, the rather cold and uncomfortable truth is their rejection of their own responsibility and ingrained belief that someone else will come up with solutions to life’s problems and simply step in, is the same cultural misbelief that almost everyone has been conditioned to believe – AND has accepted.

The problem that today’s politicians have is therefore one for us all and one that we all face.

We are all ridiculously vulnerable to both the ideas and the actions of anyone who understands the mechanics of this cultural and societal weakness we share.

If those who understand this are ruthless and inconsiderately inhuman enough, and have the power and influence to do so, there’s very little stopping them from inserting all sorts of trojan horse policies into the laps of the idiot savants that ‘run’ the Country today.

Led by the nose by the establishment media, the majority will warmly open their gates to these ‘amazing’, no-cost ‘gifts’, soon finding they have been fooled and yet another part of free life has been taken over or restricted ‘for our own good’ in some way. All, whilst everyone continued with a very deep and apparently happy sleep.

There’s nothing wrong with stupidity or with any person being stupid. Just as long as they don’t have responsibility for others that place their trust in them, and then the content of that trojan horse spills out into everyone’s lives and we all wake up with a hand around our necks as a very nasty and painful reality stares us in the face.

Sadly, that’s where we appear to be right now, with both a Parliament and system of political bodies and councils, filled from top-to-bottom with out-of-touch wannabies, who neither lead, nor have the vital ingredient to do so – which is the ability to think and influence for yourself.

The Politicians aren’t going to change, until we have changed the Politicians. And we can’t do that for as long as we continue to rely on a system where it’s the politicians themselves who get to choose who will be next to ‘get in’.

It’s important here to draw a focus to the reality that this is the same process being employed by the many very-well-meaning political parties, groups and movements that either believe or hope that they will soon be the holy grail of political solutions that head off all of todays problems and sets everything up to be great once we’ve all got through whatever the hell it is that happens next.

How are these ‘outsiders’ and The Establishment politicians the same? They just expect you to vote for them, because without exception, they believe that they are the real voice of the people or the ‘true’ alternative, and that when it comes around to the next election, you and I will simply see sense and cross their candidate’s box voluntarily and through deliberate choice.

A few people who have connected with specific messages from the outsiders will. The majority will not.

There is no way to name any of these groups without it sounding like calling them out or having a down on them deliberately. So, I will not.

Pretty much all of the outsiders who haven’t got a chip on their shoulder about something or in some way, most definitely could have an important role to play, IF they can step outside of their own view of everything.

Everyone who wants change must accept that everyone going in their own direction means that none of us who should be working in union, together, are actually facing the same way. And that’s the quickest way to rip any movement for change apart.

Without circumstances coming to be that would make the next system or form of government we have anything else but democratic, the only way that the majority of people in any kind of election – whether its local elections, mayoral elections or a General Election – will come together and vote for candidates that not only represent, but will then actually deliver on meaningful change, is for the people themselves to  have the opportunity to qualify and select the candidates first.

No, this is not as crazy as you might think.  It is as simple as looking at the situation we are in with a different lens and then seeing and believing that it can and will work a very different way.

It doesn’t matter who you are. Whether you are a public figure. A business owner. A volunteer in the community. Or just someone who believes the only role they will ever have is to go out and vote.

If you are reading this, you already know that our democracy isn’t working. And if you want the best for everyone from any form of future public policy, you’ll also understand that we must appoint politicians and leaders who will always put the People First.

The chances are that you are far more creative than you might think. So, imagine the government system, the politicians and their political parties and the establishment doesn’t even exist.

What would the steps be that you and the people you know would now take to ensure that the people take control and everything that happens that could affect us in some way, is always delivered with the very best outcome for everyone in mind?

You may not realise it. You may not accept it. But a Revolution of everything that we know and understand is already underway.

Begin to look closely at the news, at politics and how everything that each of us interacts with is now affecting and shaping our daily lives, and you will soon begin to understand and appreciate that there are forces of great turbulence at work.

In isolation, each and every part of ‘normal’ life is being systematically attacked, reformed and reshaped in ways that only seem unobtrusive and without harm, because we fail to see the interconnectivity of everything that is happening.

The reality we are in right now is one where an old world that has thrived loudly by quietly hurting us all is collapsing.

The powers responsible for that old world and its collapse are slowly and manipulatively controlling the creation of a new world, whilst manipulating us all into adopting systems and behaviours that will eventually mould its controlling shape.

Whilst we would probably all agree that it would be wonderful if positive change were to simply arrive, or perhaps more practically, the people we elect to represent us would always work tirelessly to ensure that’s all we will ever get, the truth of the matter is that the world we know doesn’t work that way.

In our personal and private lives, positive change usually begins with us. This troubled world we share is no different.

But in amongst this crisis, the change must begin with us all.

It’s difficult to create change without direction at any time. So when the very nature of this change or reset demands that we create, establish, evolve and develop a system that creates a framework or system of Governance for life which represents something that none of us who are alive has experienced before, we all need some ideas, suggestions and basic materials to work with, so that the meaningful and inclusive debate that we all need to happen can begin.

The Grassroots Manifesto is a game plan.

The Grassroots Manifesto is a document with a plan or strategy that is built on the principle that real change is not an evolution from what we already know but begins with what we will know.

The Grassroots Manifesto then begins the process of creating anew, or adapts that which can be adapted, so that there is a place to start from which includes everyone and builds a system from the Grassroots Up that has no biases or offers no favours, other than being equitable and considerate to the needs and experiences of us all.

The Grassroots Manifesto is a focus upon where local and public policy will be, once control has been returned to the People and their Communities, to where a sense of true Democracy exists, with power coming from the individual, to the Community, to the region, to the nation, to the world, through a process which is undoubtedly Grassroots-Up or even across.