We need a new party in British Politics, yesterday. But it won’t be another that’s only been Reformed

One of the greatest ills of not for profits, charities and the workings of government, is that it is ridiculously rare that organisations, projects and services stop, are wound down or brought to their end, if and when they have achieved whatever it was they were designed, set up or launched for.

An excuse to repurpose such entities and vehicles is rarely hard to find and those involved then have no reason to go in search of a new purpose, agenda or job.

The story of the political parties, all playing their part in the downfall of the today’s UK is very much the same.

The Conservatives know and understand so little about what it is to conserve anything, and have progressively overseen a 14 year gateway of what resembles irreversible societal damage and ill-considered cultural change.

The only discernible legacy of this sorry period are circumstances where an incoming Labour government has shown the true colour of its hidden ideologies, its incompetence and the quantum leap it has jumped from the days when the working class and truly beneficial change was their purpose ‘to be’, much before most of those who watch these things more closely would have bravely suggested.

The most surprising part of the uncloaking of Labour isn’t that it has happened or that it has happened quickly. It’s that Labours uncloaking has happened as quickly as it has.

The Liberals have evolved many times in the century since they were known to be a party of power. Using the gift of being within the misperceived and misplaced leftist peripheries of the centre ground to regurgitate and nudge policies that sound great to the idealistic. But have very painful consequences for anyone when their plans meet the practicalities of normal life experience as they hit the road.

Whilst the outcome now is as predictable as the general unwillingness to accept that everyone has a role to play in genuine change, the reality the UK faces is that we are now in a perfect storm of many factors and ingredients, that none of the politicians we currently have understand or are equipped in every way necessary to disperse and therefore solve.

The begrudging growth of an awareness that the UK really is now in deep shit is leading to increasing numbers of those who voted against the Conservatives in the July General Election, wondering how the Electorate can rid itself of a new government in less than 2 months. A system of below par management dressed as leadership that is already proving itself significantly worse than the desperate experience we have just had, rather than being anything like the anticipated change that was somehow considered worth embracing, because there was simply no way that different politicians could be anywhere near as bad.

Only the Tories themselves have failed to realise that people are not going to vote for them just because they are the alternative, or because they are the Conservative Party anymore. For no better reason than even those of us with minds that couldn’t be further away from politics than it would be possible to be, already intrinsically know and understand that it will take something akin to a revolution just to get the U.K. back to anywhere near where everything was when the last period of inept and self-serving leadership kicked on the understanding that they would conserve and therefore know how to preserve.

With the Greens, Lib Dems and all other players at the table likely to say and continue to do whatever is most likely to win them votes, seats and power, a politically-fatigued population is certainly entertaining the idea that the noises in the media suggesting that Reform could be a party of power in 2029 may not be as far-fetched as previously thought.

Yet this same party appeared as The Anti-Federalist League, as UKIP, as The Brexit Party and now, as what is being described as the ‘new party’, but is parading the real truth from its name, ‘Reform’.

Like the other UK political parties of today, the core essence of what Reform was all about has long since ceased to be the purpose that it once so genuinely was.

Or was for at least some of those who rallied behind or supported the anti-European Union Membership movement when it was distilled into its own recognisable forms.

The purpose behind Reform died when the European Referendum was ‘won’ and Brexit was born. And no matter how much of a mess the establishment has made for all the wrong reasons ever since, the People had their vote and decided.

The intransigence of the governing classes ever since has just exposed a whole other raft of issues that really does require a very different form of activism to address it.

A workable solution can only be a movement built around the genuine grassroots that functions from the grassroots-up. Rather than what Reform now appear to be embarking upon, which is yet another variation on the theme that has created all the problems we have: The current system where everything functions around hierarchies and the decisions that matter – whether seen or unseen, are always made and enacted from the Top-Down.

That the EU as we know it may be ending, but isn’t yet over, gives the false pretense that Reform and all those aligned with it still have unfinished business and therefore a genuine purpose. All in ways that are being carefully communicated to suggest that the Party is different than the others we have. Because it’s rolling out viable policies that will touch other important areas of life and that they really do represent reform.

They don’t. And whilst the debate over the missed opportunity that a reform of everything that The Anti-Federalist League, UKIP and The Brexit Party can actually deliver may be a long one, it only serves to create a potentially highly damaging delay.

In the case of Reform – as its seems to be with everything else, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Instead of changing the way that they do politics – as any party or movement serious about societal change will really need to, Reform are instead busy Re-Ukipping themselves and calling what they are doing ‘new’.

So many of us fail to recognise that the solution to our political, public policy and therefore our social problems MUST come from outside of the way we have always done politics.

The solution MUST be created in its very own original form and can only come by engaging and including people who have been drawn from and been supporters of all the parties and movements across the whole of today’s political Smorgasbord.

However, there can be no option for any of them to bring whatever has failed us along with them for yet another try.

It’s only through the genesis and roll out of something very new, that everything in the UK that needs to change for the better, can genuinely and meaningfully be reformed.