Author: Adam Tugwell

The Growing UK Food Problem

In early 2022, I embarked on the writing project ‘Levelling Level’.

The initial aim was to provide a written view of the then Tory Government Levelling Up Agenda, its genuine purpose, and to discuss what is really going on.

The published work focused the social and public policy problems the UK faces. How they came into being, and what is likely to happen if politicians, leaders and the government and/or the public sector system that they ‘lead’, think and operate, doesn’t change its approach or ‘narrative’.

The direction of Levelling Level paid particular attention to the growing possibility of a yet to come black swan event. One that most likely includes or is triggered by a financial crash and circumstances that resemble a contemporary equivalent of The Great Depression.

With future outcomes and the potential need to ‘survive and thrive’ through a coming period of unpredictable change, I wrote extensively of the need to refocus and repurpose our approach to Food Production.

If we were to adopt voluntary changes to the UK Food Chain now, it could mean the provision and supply of basic or essential foods (healthy, nutritious and grown as locally as possible) would be available, pre-crisis.

But also, that the available infrastructure and resources could be repurposed as quickly as possible to ensure that communities are fed within a future emergency period that follow unforeseen events or be available to us all through a prolonged period of instability where the availability of imported food is reduced or stopped for any reason.

The suggestions tabled within Levelling Level included the use of allotments, gardens, window boxes and home-based hydroponic systems. As home growing could provide immediate and shorter turnaround Food Production support, whilst agricultural land and facilities are repurposed for localised production and a fully transparent, short-as-possible food supply chain is implemented, that will be necessitated by such a crisis.

Levelling Level, the series of books that have followed and its more recent version ‘Days of Ends and New Beginnings’ have covered a generalist approach to the causes of problems across public policy.

However, it is clear that no matter the approach taken towards change that prioritises People, Food should be at the centre of everything. But is nonetheless taken for granted just as the air we breathe and the water we drink are, today.

Ultimately, the Books I have written work towards the proposal of using the current electoral and democratic system more effectively and democratically, with the series then proposing an entirely different, locally centric system of government. One where citizen power is embraced fully or would resemble what some are now calling ‘grassroots up’ governance.

Whilst a key takeaway of Levelling Level and the following Books was the proposal of a complete  public policy related values or ethics shift, to pivoting future policy development around the societal and economic benchmark called ‘The Basic Living Standard’, it is the ability of people to feed themselves and to be able to access healthy, nutritious, basic (or essential) foods that will become the primary indicator of whether public policy is succeeding or has succeeded in alleviating food poverty.

It is fair to say that countless societal issues are likely to be resolved quickly, if and when governance is built upon the principle of ‘getting the right outcomes for Everyone’.

Food: The difficulties we see and the problem we don’t

Awareness of a ‘food supply problem’ certainly exists within the UK Farming Industry where the National Farmers Union (NFU) has been regularly championing the supply side issue.

However, the UK is now considered to be producing around the equivalent of around only 54% of the food the UK Population consumes.

Whilst it can be argued that the issue of Food Security fragility is now in the public consciousness, because the term has made it into the common lexicon via the ‘mainstream news’, a more discerning audience will understand that this statement indicates that the UK only produces the equivalent of 54% of our food.

Indeed, stating the level of ‘self-production’ of UK Food at 54% doesn’t consider or reveal that the UK supply chain could not supply even a fraction of the food that the UK Population would need to survive, if for any reason, UK borders were to become closed for any prolonged period of time.

The Challenge that we all now face

The perception of farmers and industry is one thing.

The Food Security ‘problem’ that the general public perceives and understand is another altogether.

This is well illustrated by the 2023 Report from the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) ‘Citizens are Hungry for Change’ which provided an accurate picture of public perception.

This work was researched from amongst those members of our society who are aware of a food problem. Whatever the specifics of that food problem might appear to be, to them.

Perception is everything. And certainly so, where the potential for societal change is concerned

Where the current narrative, economic or political paradigm are concerned, the views, experience and meaning that underpin the concerns of the Farming Industry, Interest Groups and the wider general public represent many different perspectives and priorities, and just as many different truths.

Different truths fuel very different agendas. And as pet agendas compete for oxygen, their champions do not take into consideration the bigger picture that is at work.

Those who are emotionally tied to furthering their own solutions and agendas remain oblivious to what really motivates, drives and creates the purpose underpinning ‘The System’ itself.

This means that work like that undertaken by the FFCC and lobbying pressure tabled by membership organisations like the NFU will only be used as a political football at best.

Nobody from outside Westminster is playing the same game that Westminster is playing and Westminster plays by rules which only it has so far framed.

Like many research projects that have been completed and published over decades, ‘credible research’ targeted at the political class of today can only result in token gestures which will only be about the creation of political capital. Rather than being about real, meaningful change or outcomes that are good for us all.

It is an uncomfortable truth we have yet to accept that the politicians and ‘leaders’ we have elected to represent us, cannot and will not rationalize the danger that the UK faces. Nor will they embrace the power that they actually have to change things for the better, today.

Learned helplessness: The foolish expectation that those with responsibility will do the right thing – because they are supposed to

The hard truth

UK Farmers and Food Producers have become reliant upon financial incentives from government and contractual arrangements from big businesses which have silently worked hand in hand to destabilize UK Food Production over a period now exceeding 50 years.

The issue of UK Food Security and Food Sustainability was never questioned during our Membership of the EU regionalized global political ‘project’.

Yet this is when the real damage to UK Food Production was done.

Everyone – including Farmers, were led to believe that globalized food chains would always meet the UKs Food needs.

Indeed, a constant flow of media reports about butter mountains, wine lakes and numerous other tales about ‘overproduction’ across The Common Market, European Economic Community and then The EU itself only served to endorse the myths that had  been created suggesting that UK Farming was in decline and that UK Farmers could only thrive by ‘going with the flow’, in effect, complying with whatever they were told to grow, to produce, or to any commercial offer that seemed to provide income security of some kind.

What many who understand the wider rural community across the UK will know, is this approach is very much at odds with real life.

The UKs Farming, Rural, Fishing and Food Producing communities are culturally entrepreneurial and very creative in their approach to business, and to operational management in particular.

However, UK Farmers and Food Producers have been reprogrammed to believe that no such thing as a viable, fully-independent Food Producing Business exists.

Even though every person alive needs at least two healthy, nutritious meals every day.

Meanwhile, the conditioned position of deference to elected representatives and establishment figures has created a situation where the general population realise and understand that there are significant problems and perhaps even risks to the UK Food Supply. However, they also believe that the creation of solutions and the action it will take to deliver them are something that someone, somewhere else has the responsibility to do, and that those with that responsibility will do it too.

We are in the potentially disastrous situation where Farmers and Consumers, the two key stakeholders in the UK Food Supply Chain, do not accept that there is an alternative way that would be much better for Farmers and Consumers alike. Because every information source that is considered to be credible continues to tell us all that there isn’t any other way than the dysfunctional one that we have right now.

The risk we are running is that neither the Public nor Food Producers will accept the need for change until People across the UK are going hungry and the UK Farming Industry has been reduced to a form where it no longer has the ability to function in the alternative way that we actually need.

‘The absence of proof does not mean proof of absence.’

There is massive a massive risk of Food Shortages, if the UK waits until change is necessary before taking action.

If the UK waits to be led by events, we run the considerable risk of there being a gap in UK Food Production and Supply that could effect well in excess of 50% of the UK population.

Otherwise, it could easily reduce the access to Essential or Basic Foods for the entire UK Population.

However, most likely, the Population of the UK will experience a mixture of both. (Without considering the influence of ‘black market’ activity and the explosive levels of inflation that would appear, allowing those who have enough money to continue buying whatever they like, for as long as that money continues to hold value).

How power and influence work across the UK Food Chain today

One of the most challenging aspects of the creation or instigation of meaningful change, is getting everyone to consider the alternative, an alternative system or an alternative way of doing things that doesn’t relate to The System that we all know and believe we understand.

The UK Population still expect ‘The System’ to provide the solutions to the societal problems that we have. Even though objective observation will almost certainly lead to the conclusion that it will not.

The majority of the UK Population, including experts, academics and many of those working in government departments or across the public sector do not understand that Public Policy is determined in ways that run completely contrary to what any of us should be able to expect.

Big Business and Big Retail have by far the biggest influence on both Government and the Food Supply Chain, either directly or indirectly. Because The System focuses on ‘growth’ as part of an economic model that prioritises profit for businesses over the needs of the Population itself.

Likewise, within the political and public sector sphere, those with influence who have ears to hear, give considerably more weight to fashionable activist and idealist causes (i.e., those with a louder voice), than the majority of the population or the Consumers themselves, who are the key stakeholders, alongside the producers themselves.

Most disconcertingly, whilst the relationship between Farmers and the Consumers they ultimately supply should be the most definable and robust of all within ‘The Sphere of UK Food Influence’, the relationship between the two Key Stakeholders is weakened to the point that it only genuinely exists beyond lip service where a local and direct farm-to-consumer ‘retail’ relationship exists.

And this itself will be subject to affordability and other accessibility factors that make it almost impossible to recognise in any meaningful way at all.

The Current Mindset or ‘Paradigm’

The System operates as it does because life is driven by the following key factors:

  • Money and wealth-based power and influence.
  • A cultural mindset that functions with a conditioned and steadily decreasing need for self-awareness and the respect for the law of consequence or law of cause and effect that this facilitates.

We are, to all intents and purposes living and existing within a Moneyocracy.

As the purpose of this work is to focus on UK Food Security issues, there is little to be gained from a diversion into the mindset or psychology that sits behind the leadership and influence-based problems that the UK faces here.

However, the distilled or filtered down version of every social and economic problem the UK faces relate to human nature. And specifically, how the majority of people without self-awareness and without an intrinsic values set behave when life revolves the financial value that can be attributed to every transaction or ‘thing’ outside of ‘the self’.

Forward Thinking and A Food Supply Solution for The Future

A Safe, Secure and Sustainable Food Supply that can service the needs of all UK Communities adequately, can only come from a refocused, repurposed, revitalised and above all Localised System of Farming and Food Production across the UK.

Regrettably, it is the case that beyond agenda-driven bubbles, of which there are indeed many, there is simply no interest in taking proactive steps to create an alternative and robust sustainable supply chain.

The need for the focus on outcomes and results is continually being lost on arguing about who runs things, or who’s solution and therefore agenda, is best.

Once we have stepped beyond the obsessive preoccupation of The Moneyocracy and are ready to embrace a People-centric economic model, we will be able to consider systems of Authentic Governance as suggested by my recent work ‘Our Local Future’. Also by The Glos Community Project, a proposal for a system of community owned and ‘franchised’ social enterprises, which I first published in July 2023, that had the creation of new, not-for-profit localised food production and retail cooperatives at its core.

The ’Glos Community’ Food Production model would sit between the two extremes that at one end is driven by regenerative, ‘sustainable’ and micro-farming principles and the extreme version where the current direction of travel is perhaps best described by bigger is better in every sense that this can mean.

The Sticking Point

The problem we face is that UK Farmers and all parts of the UK Food Chain are unlikely to embrace what is today viewed by the profit-obsessed as a backward way of thinking about advances in Farming and Food production.

This will continue until such time as the value set has shifted from money and ‘what’s important to me’, to one where basic values are restored and value is achieved in producing for the purpose of meeting basic needs, rather than what those with monetary power and influence want.

By adopting a public policy model based around Locality and Authentic Governance, all systems of business would ultimately refocus to a system that would see a localised and balanced Food Production and supply system as the most logical, sensible and practical to have. Because the motives, incentives and drivers will have fundamentally changed.

The barrier to change – that would be pivotal in so many profound ways, is that few will accept the need for this change or be willing to embrace the changes that will make it possible voluntarily.

The problems with Food Supply and Food Security are directly related to the current paradigm and the way that The Moneyocracy has effectively addicted everyone to measuring success, failure and happiness in terms of financial and material gain.

As with any genuine addiction, those addicted must accept that they are suffering an addiction before any action can be taken to address it. And when the majority of the Population are suffering from that same addiction to one or other level or degree, the voices that speak out or that are taken seriously when it comes to the process of healing, are very few and far between, indeed.

We face a reality where only an event of system-changing proportions or what would facilitate a genuine ‘paradigm shift’ will prove enough for business, communities and people to embrace the level of change necessary for a truly sustainable and secure system of UK food production to work.

How we will know when we have a Food Supply that works for us, rather than against us

The true health and wellbeing of society can be measured most effectively by everyone’s access to the supply of Basic and Essential Foods and the eradication of food poverty, where the eradication of food poverty is itself defined by access to an adequate, affordable, unhindered and properly prepared supply of Fresh, Basic, Healthy and Nutritious foods without recourse to using benefits, accessing charity or going into debt.

The current UK Food Paradigm

Whilst few will accept the reality that we currently face, we cannot and will not make progress towards the UK being genuinely ‘Food Secure’, unless and until we face up to some difficult truths:

  1. UK Agriculture and Food Producers are not capable of ‘feeding the country’ in an emergency.
  2. With the current dependence on government centric incentives and policy derived from specific interests, UK Agriculture and Food Supply will remain tied to the current narrative – no matter how destructive that will become at individual Farm Business level.
  3. UK Farmers and Food Producers will not embrace collective change voluntarily.
  4. The downward trajectory will continue until such an emergency or event takes place that makes change necessary.
  5. The immediate risk to us all is that the UK Farming Sector will reach a crisis point where it is incapable of being restored to a local supply chain model.
  6. Economic and societal change of the kind necessary to alleviate the social and financial issues experienced at the level of the individual require a values-based shift from money and profit, to one where fairness and equity to all individuals is prioritised.
  7. The most simple and effective policy tool to enable such a shift would be the implementation of a People-centric, Localised and Community-based system of Authentic Governance that places Food Production and Supply at the heart of everything.

The Future UK Food Paradigm

It is only with a realignment of values to those that will assure the self-sufficiency of every healthy, working adult, of all business systems and specifically those processes related to Food Production and Supply being Localised to support this that the UK can become ‘Food Secure’.

We must all become People-centric, rather than profit-centric, for sure.

Technological advances must not under any circumstances be allowed or encouraged to replace natural food growing and production and should be relied upon only to improve human life, health and experience.

The hard truth about UK Farming and Food Production we face today

We must regrettably consider and face up to the reality that whilst politicians, big business and the establishment will pay lip service to a growing crisis in UK Food Security, Farmers, Growers, other UK food producing sectors and those businesses aligned with them will likewise not accept that the solutions to a critical problem at both industry and Farm or Business level can come in any way other than from within the existing paradigm and mind-set itself.

The default position of the Industry today is: “it’s all about the bottom line. Government makes the rules and must therefore pay for the changes. Once they have accepted they are necessary.”

Sadly, this rather difficult truth can only lead to the conclusion that no matter how loudly those within and aligned with UK Agriculture sound the alarm and criticise those who we should all be able to expect to deliver on our behalf, Farmers and Food-producing business owners will neither accept and are not prepared to take the initiative and risk that will certainly secure the UKs Food Security, but will ultimately secure the future of many more of our farmers, and themselves too.

Economic and social change of the kind necessary that provide a safe, secure, happy and healthy environment, and with it a safe, secure accessible and affordable supply of fresh, local, nutritious and healthy food for the UK Population is therefore not possible without a paradigm shift that can only be created by a significant national or world event that ends both the ‘belief’ and with it the ‘addiction’ to the current money-based, profit-obsessed system that we are very unlucky to have.

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Understanding Perspectives: The different Layers of Truth

Do you know how the world works?

Do you know why you are here?

Do you have any idea what you need to achieve and how and what you need to do to achieve it?

My guess is that if I were to ask that question to one hundred different people, almost all, if not entirely all of them, will give very different answers. Even though there will be recognisable similarities and perhaps even some common ground involved.

We only know and understand the world from the perspective of life that we have right now.

Perspective comes from experience and whilst any one of us could honestly say that our perspective is objective, our perspective, or rather our truth, is only objective in so far as the subjectivity of our own life experiences will allow.

In respect of our place and understanding of the world, We are the sum of our experiences.

It is easy for us to fall into the trap of assuming and therefore believing that everyone we meet and communicate with has exactly the same perspective and truth as our own.

Our truth is right or correct for us. Because our truth is what we know, accept and is an honest reflection of everything that we understand.

However, our truth is limited by the depth and scope of the experiences that we have had.

Whilst it would be easy to look at those we might assume to be less educated, younger (and therefore less experienced) or from a background or life path that suggests that they might not be as ‘enlightened’ as we may believe ourselves to be, the reality very few of us have faced up to, is that even those of us with the richest life experience are still restricted and only see the world in terms of the experiences that we have had.

Illustrating this reality in a way that everyone can appreciate is perhaps best achieved by looking at experience of any subject and the complexities that are almost certain to accompany any part of life as being like an onion.

Life and its subjects have many different layers and the depth of our own understanding is represented by the different layers that exist.

As we peel and remove each layer from the onion, we see and understand more of the structure of the onion. But we still have what could be many further layers of increased understanding to obtain, which will only be revealed at each step and as each of the layers is taken away.

In real life and away from the onion, the difference is that at each step or level of understanding, we often fail to realise that there are further layers of understanding that need to be revealed.

We can therefore be as easily fooled into believing that we know all that we need to know after 3 or 4 layers have been revealed, as we could before we have even taken the first step. As we will not have realised that there may be a different level of understanding between ourselves and other involved.

Equally, as we progress through the different layers of understanding, it is just as easy to take for granted that everyone else must surely have the same understanding as that which we now have.

Because when we know and understand something ourselves, it must surely be just as easy for everyone else to understand the same; right?

The parts and areas of all our lives and the life experiences of others that are overlooked and misunderstood by decision makers, because those with power and influence believe that they already understand all that needs to be known, are countless.

This multilayered ignorance exists amongst academia, politics, within the leadership of business and finance and amongst all those who should know better, because they have been entrusted with so much power over us all.

This is one of the key reasons that life for everyone is increasingly becoming so bad.

However, the greatest travesty of this habit of looking at the world outside of us that we have, is that we look at so much of what is wrong in the world and around us with a lens made from our own experiences.

Our subjective perspectives make us believe that we are being objective and therefore seeing the true nature of the situation for what it is. When the reality we face is that we are actually viewing the whole thing subjectively.

We may not even realise that we are disadvantaging not only ourselves but perhaps many others. Because we are closed down to obtaining the level of objectivity that anyone who can influence anything for the better in our lives and across the world, really ought to have.

Profit from the life of others has made life about profit and nothing more

The complexity of the way that the world and our lives work make it exceptionally difficult both to explain and to understand where the real causes of the problems that we are facing really lie.

To say that the way the world works is multilayered, and that points or degrees of separation exist in just about every direction that we look, would be a considerable understatement.

Just like reading a well written book that reveals something new to the reader each time that it is read, there is certainly a reality we must face that People will only understand anything when they are ready to do so.

However. Understanding this only goes so far.

The bigger picture is that many People could understand the bigger picture that is at work and that is harming many of them, IF they were actually open to the information that is available to them. And not focused upon many of the distractions that have been purposefully placed in their way.

When you understand how any of these ‘layers’ work, its very easy to fall into the trap of believing that what you now know is easy for anyone to understand. For no better reason than you already understand it yourself.

However, those who have not reached the layer of understanding that you have, may be as blind and indeed resistant to the existence of the next layer of understanding that you yourself have to open up and access. You could well believe that there is nothing more that you could possibly need to know.

The phrase ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ may be one that it overused. But in the sense of the hidden truths that so many of us cannot see – for reasons that in many cases are actually outside of our conscious control – the truths that lie behind so many of the lies in the lives that we live, are there and right in front of us. Often repeatedly knocking on our front door.

Whilst there are many such ‘hidden truths’ that are contributing to the disaster that is unfolding around us, there is none that would be more beneficial for all of us to understand than the ‘Money Myth’.

Or rather the many myths that have been deliberately created around money and what our relationship with money and the power, influence, social standing and control that goes with it, actually mean, as they unravel and influence just about every part of our waking lives.

The easiest truth this post can explain, is that the role of money, how money works and how money and everything that goes with it is based on a lie, is a story that could take up hundreds if not thousands of pages in well-reasoned and fact-linking writing.

And it’s a story that would certainly lose most readers very quickly along the way.

The next truth revealed is that any story of that kind, whether academically written or filtered down into easy reading or even comic book form, would still lose many People.

Because the truth or truths that surround everything that is wrong with the way that the world works today and the building blocks that got us all here, are together a pathway to understanding that we all need to be able to reach conclusions upon, ourselves.

So, for now, let’s round off this post with two questions for the reader to consider.

The first question is ‘What are businesses, organisations, government and every activity and action that we do outside of our homes really for?’

The final, ‘What is more important and where does that mean our priorities should be?

When any or all of us can answer these questions honestly, openly and without hesitation given the role that we all play, we will have already taken the biggest step towards the much better future for Everyone that awaits.

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Just like AI, the tools, actions, rules and infrastructure of tomorrow will be good or bad for us depending upon who and what is in control

Perhaps the greatest disadvantage from the absence of critical thinking as we try to absorb the constant flow of information from the world, is the assumption that words, ideas, actions, rules and tools of any and all kinds that we associate with anyone or anything that we do not like are automatically worthless. And that as damaged goods, they cannot be used for any purpose that we might consider to be correct.

This is an enigma that has significant cost for everyone. Not least of all as politicians and those with their hands on the levers of power have been consumed by this dangerous lack of objectivity too.

In a period of human history where lies, myths and narratives rule our lives, and the absence of original thinking is being excused by the manipulative story that in the near future, ‘thinking’ is something that only the new generations of AI will do, the information overload from digital devices certainly compounds the terror of anyone who tries to wrestle with solutions for the future in the same breath. Often finding themselves concluding that what we are experiencing today, is the only way.

That not-so-obvious feeling of isolated helplessness is real to many. It is no small part of the reason that ‘populism’ has been gaining momentum in the ways that it has.

People feel alone and under threat, without doing a thing wrong. Worst of all, People genuinely believe that those who should be looking after them are actually acting against them.

Yet these imposters seem to stubbornly able to remain in control.

When terms such as Great Reset, Net Zero, Sustainable Development Goals and the many straplines and sub-versions of these same narratives (like Local Traffic Neighbourhoods or ‘LTNs’) come flying out from International Organisations, Government, Councils, the Public Sector, NGOs and even Big business, it is as such unsurprising that very few People outside of them could believe that there is anything good for anyone other than the elites and beneficiaries contained within.

The problem the fear of normal People is creating, is we cannot see that many of the things that in the hands of greedy, selfish or bad people, that will certainly be used to hurt and control us, could also be highly beneficial and promote freedom and much better lives for everyone, IF they are driven and motivated by good leaders instead.

Sustainability today is all about societal control to benefit the few. In Our Local Future, Sustainable Living is a tool of liberation and freedom for ALL

Appreciating the difference in outcomes from using the same tools, actions, rules and infrastructure differently, isn’t the easiest idea for many to get their head around.

Many genuinely overlook the reality that the different uses of different things are hiding in plain sight. Depending upon what our experience or interpretation of them has or will be.

For example, a knife can be a tool for food preparation in the hands of a chef. Just as a knife can be a weapon in the hands of a violent criminal.

A rule can be used to stop one group of people from expressing their feelings, thoughts and fears about a certain issue. Whilst that very same rule can be reinterpreted to allow another group to express whatever they want to, whilst encouraging them to criticise the group that the rule has been used to ‘close down’ and control’.

Likewise, AI could be one of the greatest tools ever created to improve and benefit life for all of mankind. Or it will be used to destroy employment opportunities, devalue human life, and as a tool of fear and control – as will be the outcome from what businesses and government are doing and saying right now.

Reinterpretation of what is important. Rediscovering Values and Changing the way that We Think

Yes, it is exceptionally difficult to see that so much good can be hidden behind so much that we now know to be bad.

But darkness is always extinguished by light. And this is perhaps the simplest way to begin thinking about using much of what we have available to us today, for the better of everyone, by using it in Our Local Future in a very different way.

We don’t need to travel across the world, to have our own car, to have the latest fashion or gadget, to have a big public following, or to have anything that makes us believe we are better than others in some way, to have great lives and great experiences that are available to All.

Happiness is a gift that comes from within. It is an experience that can never be bought.

Sadly, the Old World of today is completely obsessed with making profit. Whilst nobody with responsibility has stopped to calculate the real cost.

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Demystifying the Money Myth: How the Monetary System Devalues Your Wealth

Inflation is a word we hear lots about. Not least of all because every month, the government uses the term to gaslight many of us into believing that because the inflation rate is dropping, we will once again be able to experience a life that everyone can afford.

Unfortunately, it’s a con and for as long as inflation of any kind exists within an economy, prices will continue to rise, and they certainly will not fall.

The way that money works today is an even bigger con. Not least of all because Money doesn’t have any value of its own.

Yet we have been conditioned to believe that everything in life has a monetary or financial value at its essence or core.

Money is a unit of exchange and nothing more.

But we have been led to believe that money or currency is the only thing that has value. And that everything that once had real value, doesn’t have value anymore.

The Money system is corrupt. We live and exist in a Moneyocracy.

This Moneyocracy is controlled by private interests rather than governments (As we have also been deliberately led to believe). And the most rotten part of the whole deal is that those in control of money don’t borrow money or sell anything to make money when there’s a shortage.

They simply press a button or quite literally go through the process of printing more.

Money is quite literally created from nothing.

The Moneyocracy is the closest thing you could have to the whole economic system being one giant game of Monopoly being played with the entire World as a board. With the only difference being that the lives, wellbeing and futures of real people are involved.

The money myth is a problem for anyone who:

  1. Doesn’t understand it, and
  2. Doesn’t have a constant flow of money finding its way to them beyond what they can themselves physically earn

For those who don’t understand The Moneyocracy, money is a problem. Because the creation or printing of money devalues the money that already exists.

So, anyone who relies on their earnings or what they are given every month and doesn’t have assets or property that they themselves fully own, will then find that the value of their money goes down whilst they sleep. Because someone has created more of it.

The ‘ad hoc’ creation or printing of money means that the value of the money available in proportion to property and assets available that accumulate exchangeable value has automatically gone down.

We could easily go down a rabbit hole here, and those who gain from the way that money works would happily push us down one by suggesting that the money system isn’t that simple.

No, the money ‘system’ isn’t simple. And it’s because the money system is deliberately complicated that the unethical behaviour that underpins and drives it can be hidden as easily as it is.

The money in circulation IS devalued every time that the government borrows, banks lend, financiers speculate in some way and the whole system ends up with more.

Let’s look more closely at the detail to see how the creation of money devalues the money that you earn and the money that you already have:

How money Printing effects the money that lower earners and those without property and assets of their own have:

Let’s say that everything that has value which increases such as property, resources, assets etc, always has a fixed value.

We will call these Value Accumulating Goods, Resources and Assets (VAGRA)

For the purposes of this example, we will say that this list doesn’t grow (As we are looking at the role of money and we will look at VAGRA elsewhere)

Let’s say that today, all of the VAGRA available in the World is worth £200.00 and there is also £200.00 in money in circulation that directly corresponds to it.

Of that £200.00 available today, you hold £1.00 of it in your pocket as cash or in your bank account as a digital entry on your online banking app or a monthly bank statement.

At 1am tomorrow morning, the government ‘borrows’ another £100.00 which it will tell us is being used to pay for public services or similar.

Myth Buster 1:

Banks do not lend out money that they have piled up or that they hold for other ‘customers’.

To lend the government this ‘new’ £100.00 means the banks create or print that additional £100.00.

The new or additional £100.00 is then added to the money in circulation so that there is a total of £300.00.– including the £1.00 you possess.

Myth Buster 2:

The value of all the money in circulation today is not tied to anything with real value.

What many don’t realise or see at this point is there was no change to the amount of VAGRA whilst the amount of money in circulation was extended by 50%.

This means that in direct relationship to the VAGRA that exists – which very few of us own, there is now £300.00 that corresponds to it, instead of the £200.00 that was there only today.

In one moment, whilst you were sleeping, the face value of the £1.00 you possess, hasn’t changed. But the true value or purchase power of the £1.00 you possess has dropped by 1/3 (a third).

Meanwhile, the face value of the VAGRA that the few and the elites own has just risen by 50%.

Please Note: Technically speaking, if an economic system was working without constant manipulation, the value of the money in circulation would ‘naturally’ grow as assets and resources are added. However, there would also be ‘natural’ loss, as assets are destroyed, become unusable and are replaced or resources are depleted.

However, FIAT or the money system that we have today, bears no relationship with a system where money or currency directly tied to the ‘real value’ in ‘the system’. That’s why it was always destined to hurt some and not others by being out of balance and why it was always going to go wrong.

The impact of ‘new’ money that isn’t linked to existing ‘Value’

The additional money that is created from nothing has knock on effects in many ways.

Not least of all because every financial transaction where goods, property and assets are concerned is pushed up. Before the next part of a very big problem begins to unfold.

Myth Buster 3:

Businesses now charge more than they need to, to increase their profits. Not because they have to. But because they can.

Yes, businesses of all kinds really do believe that it’s ok just to push prices up and use the news and narratives that politicians survive on to justify price rises that very few of us can actually afford.

The BIG problem is that this process of profiteering is also accumulative and with everyone in unnecessarily long supply chains adding more to already artificially inflated prices, the real cost of everything is significantly less than any end customer is required to pay.

Prices rise. That means the government and everyone else needs to print more Money, with the net gain or benefit from all that printing going to the same few and the elites who own everything.

Worse still, these are the same people who are charging all of us massive amounts of interest for mortgages, credit cards and other forms of borrowing money that they didn’t even posses in the first place. Before they pressed a button or switched a printer on and then gave it to us in the form of a loan.

The Truth IS Stranger than Fiction

The whole situation seems incredible and hard to believe. Because money does appear to buy things when we use it.

However, many regrettably still believe that governments, big businesses, banks, financiers and the people who own or influence them can be trusted to do the right thing for everyone. Rather than doing the right thing just for them.

Myth Buster 4:

Money flows to those who control it. Money flows to the top.

We have a hierarchical or top-down power structure. Fueled by the way that money is used to manipulate everything.

Money is at the heart of everything that is wrong with the way that the World works today.

Our Ignorance is Their Power

The biggest problem we have is that so many of us don’t understand how money really works.

To a certain degree, our governing and political classes also don’t understand how money works.

Where they do, they have completely lost sight of what printing or creating money means for those who don’t have a lot of it.

Because printing money it is an easy way for politicians to appear to solve problems, and when it comes to winning elections – to make it sound like they are doing good.

When politicians being seen to be doing good means more and more of us are having an experience which is very bad, it should be clear that the system is broken, is unsustainable and is getting nearer and nearer to a complete collapse.

In Our Local Future, People are the ONLY Economic Capital

We recognise that People, Community and The Environment are far more important than profit, power and influence for the few.

Money is a tool. Not a reason.

People, Community and The Environment are the reason that creates an incalculable number of benefits across every part of life.

Because an economy can only be Fair, Balanced and Just, when it is unwaveringly focused on doing the right thing.