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And we need a completely new Establishment to run and deliver everything too
Your politics, religion, ideas, background, age, education or anything else that has, can or will be used to divide us, does not matter when it comes to recognising that for every one of us, there are parts of life that simply don’t work in the UK, anymore.
Whether we are being affected and impacted directly, or the problems we recognise are just something happening to other people or different communities that we can somehow see, we all know that things aren’t working as they should. And the horrible truth is that for some of us, nothing is working at all.
We could go down the rabbit hole of trying to identify, apportion blame and then demand that politicians and government change whatever we identify as needing to be changed. Or, that they step aside so that they can be replaced by whoever we believe will do whatever it is that they either cannot or are choosing not to do.
Indeed, many are doing just that, and already expect that all it will take is just a change in government. So that we have ‘the right people’ in charge.
It’s a nice idea and it’s appealing to many of us. Because this pathway also leaves the real work, commitment and doing whatever it will take to enact change, to someone else.
Unfortunately, we’ve been here before. And very recently too.
In fact, many of us genuinely believed that the downward chaos of all the Conservative governments between 2010 and 2014, which was aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats between 2010 and 2015, would unquestionably be stopped by the election of Keir Starmer and The Labour Party in July 2024. Because Labour was supposedly offering something new and would know what to do, or in any case could never possibly be as bad as what we already had, could they…
It took just a few months to prove the point that the power of our vote can have consequences that are completely out of our control.
Whilst some seem prepared to make the very same mistakes all over again, the reality is that as things stand today, we can no longer trust anything that politicians promise or offer us as part of an election manifesto. Because they are without fail behaving the same as all the politicians we have ever known and will inevitably go on and do whatever they want to do once they hold the power, we trusted them with.
And once they are elected, they will do whatever they want to whilst telling us that it’s in our best interests, knowing there is nothing that we can do about it democratically until the time of the next election comes around, when we will hopefully by then have forgotten whatever they have done which might then be years before.
Whether we voted or not, millions of us made the mistake of electing yet another group of politicians who are out of touch with real life; are motivated by all the wrong things and above all, have no real control over the apparatus of government and the legislative devices that should be at their disposal. Either because they are too frightened; are being very badly advised or misled; are out of their depth and really have no idea what they are doing and what they could do; or a mixture of them all.
This page is not here to make excuses for this government, the Sunak government or indeed any one of many governments before them both that have harboured and given favour to the wrong politicians and what decades of poor, absent and self-serving non-leadership has given us, whilst we are somehow always the ones who are getting everything wrong.
This page is here to make clear that politicians and the political class that we have today, right across the tiers of government in the UK, are just a part of a much bigger problem. And they are the only part of problem that we cannot otherwise see.
If we need a divorce, we go to a lawyer. If we need our car fixed, we go to a mechanic. If we want and extension built, we go to a builder. If we want a load of bread, we go to a baker. If we want a beer we go to a brewer. But for decades, we have gone to the Polling Stations on election day and chosen who we vote for from a list of candidates that only Political Parties have offered up.
Specialist professionals and tradespeople like these that provide goods and services that we genuinely need, learn a very specific craft. And they get better at what they do, because they spend all their working time doing just that.
Yet when it comes to everything to do with government, governance and how every kind of public service and are systems of rules and regulations are managed and designed across the UK, we currently leave strategy, planning and everything important in the hands of a few people who are always there to represent what they Political Party wants first. So-called politicians who cannot possibly know or understand every part of life they are making decisions upon, and certainly don’t have the leadership skills, experience or awareness to listen, consider and then act appropriately on our behalf, only after referencing all the people that they really should be, whilst being sure that they are being impartial and working in the best interests of everyone at all times, too.
Anyone with a platform, the words and a great speaking voice can sound like a leader. But leadership is about the actions that genuine leaders take and in the case of politics, the actions they take when none of us are either looking or able to see what they are doing; where they are doing it and who they are doing it (for or) with.
In other words, to lead any Country properly, it takes integrity, purpose and a commitment to public service before Party or anything else.
The evidence from what we can see today, tells us that no politician or would be leader in the public eye has this purpose, spirit or a level of integrity that we can put our trust in that in power, they will always do the right thing – even when it might require that they step up and do some very difficult and perhaps unpopular things.
We can all see that genuine leadership and integrity don’t exist within UK politics today.
Unfortunately, both have been absent for so long that the whole system has been so corrupted and become self-serving that it must be completely replaced.
The system is so established with the way it works and operates that it continues appearing to function. Whilst the reality is that in whichever direction we turn and begin to look, every part of it is either dysfunctional or going completely wrong.
The illusion of effectiveness is only held in place by the reality that like everyone else, our politicians have fallen into the trap of believing that every problem can be solved with money. And that if politicians have enough public money available to spend, every problem for them can be addressed. No matter the problems their inability to lead and acts of avoidance using that money will and have meant that we and people in every UK community subsequently face as a direct result of their ineptitude and what they have(n’t) done.
This isn’t a problem that can be fixed with politics or politicians who are just about the politics.
Because politics has become all about the politics and who’s in charge of the political process. Rather than being anything to do with results, outcomes or whatever gets done.
Politics is now the biggest distraction of them all when it comes to the change and scale of change that we need. Because the way that elections and the electoral cycle work mean that we really are just going around in circles, whilst everything gets worse, and we keep waiting for the merry go round to come full circle so that the whole problematic rotation can begin all over again.
Being right does not automatically make anyone else wrong; even when you have the loudest voice
The Penny appears to finally be dropping amongst the masses that power does not necessarily mean virtue. And it’s certainly no guaranteed of integrity either.
Meanwhile, for the powerful, reality is also now dawning that position, influence and how loud they may be in public (or how many people hear them) doesn’t mean that they can do anything they want and that the power they seem to have will automatically make anything they do right.
The problem is, belief that position and being seen to have won the argument, got the result or controlled the narrative – often with words, deeds and actions that are morally apprehensible when it comes to political power, have not only convinced the political classes that ‘do as I say, not as I do’ is baked in.
Politicians really have reached the point where they believe they are right, no matter the consequences or real human cost from whatever they do or what they say.
All because they are the ones deciding what’s right and what’s wrong.
Wrong things shape our beliefs and make them feel right
It’s not only a problem that public policy that isn’t really about the public at all is damaging lives, people, communities, the environment around us and the businesses that we need to survive and thrive.
The fact that sanitised but nonetheless tyrannical behaviour is coming at us constantly through every channel and digital stream that most of us regrettably consider to be credible sources, mean that many people are becoming conditioned with the belief that behaviour that is reflective of what our so-called leaders are doing is not only correct, but good for one and all.
The Dehumanisation of Life through remote-controlled Techno-Tyranny
Regrettably, there is an urgent need for us all to recognise that the dehumanised way of life that is progressively taking over with each and every step taken towards the Tech and AI Takeover, where it seems that every need possible can be met through the tap of a finger on our phones, is feeding into the nightmarish version of an increasingly dystopian life and living environment for us all.
It’s sucking up lies from each direction, whilst simultaneously convincing us that we still have freedom and choice.
We’ve lost sight of the very principles and values that equip us to function, communicate and interact with other human beings face-to-face. All within a rapid, dehumanising transformation process, that is currently succeeding in convincing otherwise very sensible people that the only guides and directives necessary for a successful life come from a smart phone or online.
What is more, the whole process has already began removing and questioning ‘common sense’, taking everything in life backwards.
We find grown adults fighting over whether the basic tenets of life are either wrong, right, open to interpretation or that taking what should be obvious as read and thereby offending somebody over what only they might ever believe is itself enough to justify ruining the other persons life.
We are the sum of our experiences
It really doesn’t matter who we are. One thing that we can almost certainly be sure that we have in common, is that if you or I were to stop and reflect upon our current view of the world; what everything means and how we see it; we would both be right.
We would both be right, because as individuals that’s what all the experiences up until this moment have taught every one of us. Even when our experiences may have been harmful to us, been incorrect (because of what others have done) or because for whatever reason, they are basically skewed.
Experience is cumulative too. Whilst none of us may wish to admit that the understanding we have of anything can only be as much as layer-deep, or that we have only reached a certain level of knowledge about anything; such limitation of understanding can therefore mean that what we believe to be right isn’t completely right.
It can certainly be very disconcerting to reckon with the reality that reaching GCSE, then A-level, then degree level, then masters level, then doctorate level in the same very specific subject may well mean that whilst we may have a very good and correct subjective view; in objective terms, even then, as an ‘expert’ or with even a recognised level of qualification, we are still a very long way from getting it right.
Misplaced confidence based on our beliefs being ‘who we are’, when our beliefs come from those who influence us
Recognising the value that we give to others when they have been awarded academic qualifications is one thing.
Then there is also the phenomena which is the way that we give credibility to others simply because they have a role (like politicians or public officers) and most alarming today, to influencers (which can mean many things), based on nothing more than the reality that they have a platform of some kind, where the number of people watching, following, liking or subscribing gives them credibility that reaches beyond all other things.
Oddly, when anyone speaking or even writing doesn’t appear to have one or more of these status anchors, we seem to consider whatever they are sharing to not have the same legitimacy. No matter the content of what they say. And if what they say contradicts our own message and belief system in some way, there is all too often the chance that we will simply assume that whatever they offer has no value and that they are therefore ‘wrong’.
Misplaced confidence based on our beliefs being ‘who we are’, when our beliefs come from the establishment, religion and the shibboleths they impose
Perhaps more difficult to consider and accept is the role and influence that what we might otherwise call cultural or societal norms have on our beliefs and therefore behaviour. Because we can all too easily believe that these are just the things that ‘normal’ people do.
How we behave in public. How we consider some behaviour and actions to be acceptable whilst others are not. How we consider right and wrong. How we look up or look down upon others – in ways that would be called prejudices in any other terms. Increasingly how we stop and question actions and behaviours that we had previously not given a second thought to because we considered them to be normal, but now we stop and feel guilty because we thought them.
These are all based upon the belief systems that are set, adapted and increasingly forced into our lives by the organisations that we recognise as being the establishment. And for some more than others, from our religions which can become the most important source or framework for our behaviours and what we expect for ourselves and from others across our lives.
Whilst we must recognise that some of the rules and social codes that have come from our system of governance and our religions can be very good for us and for everyone in very specific contexts, we also need to understand, accept and therefore recognise that many of the rules and social cues that we live by were or have been created as forms of social control.
They have been created and are used to foster and promote fear of something that is apparently outside of our control, so that what we do have control over can in turn then be restricted and therefore controlled by someone else.
For instance, there is no need to question the existence of a God, Source, universal force or whatever we may each choose to call the focus of what we might ultimately believe in, to recognise that words and interpretations can change each time they are passed on.
We must recognise that ultimately, to further the scope, reach, influence and power of religions, the people who benefit from being in control of those religions have created compelling stories and interpretations of those stories and what they may or may not require of us. All based upon material that has itself been passed on potentially many times, each time by another person who was never actually there at the time whenever the chain of these stories first began or could be witnessed firsthand.
Genuine, voluntary and uncoerced faith in the system and faith in a religion can be the same or should be the same. In that they are most powerful, most compelling and most beneficial to us and to others, when they are left to us all to recognise what we believe to be true and in turn to then apply our understanding of everything in terms of what we know to be wrong or to be right.
There is no system in existence that seeks to control or compel others coercively that is also unquestionably right or correct
Doing anything because someone with authority or because a book says so isn’t voluntary belief or choice.
It is dogmatic servitude that excuses itself by insisting that slavish adherence to whatever it teaches, automatically makes it right – even when it is very clearly wrong.
We are indeed fortunate that what we might call the societal operating system of British Culture is based upon the secularisation that the evolution of a Christian system has allowed to develop, that was itself probably only possible because of The Reformation and the otherwise questionable parts of the reign of King Henry VIII.
However, the freedom of thought and expression that becoming unshackled from the Church has ultimately brought has also made us massively vulnerable to anyone who understands how narratives, group thinking and the tools that media offers can be used to introduce and make us subservient to contrary systems of belief.
Indeed, alien beliefs that run contrary that everything our society has been built on have been progressively introduced and are reshaping societal beliefs, leading to people questioning their own common sense, whilst others simply accept philosophies and agendas that are ultimately not offering anything that is good for anyone and least of all you or me.
Fear is today being used to disproportionately exaggerate societal problems, in ways that have created the risk that those problems may quickly become even bigger problems that we would never otherwise have experienced.
Whilst learning to stop, count to ten and then think about what is being said, who is saying it, why they are saying it and what is really happening would help every one of us to uncover the truths that are good for us all to believe.
Finding and creating beliefs that we can trust
There exists no person, no government, no establishment and no religion that has the right to insist that either you or I believe whatever they say or require of us, without question.
Such expectation is an abuse of the rights of whoever they are victimising or making a victim of. Whether that victim is aware or sees their relationship as being that of a victim under an oppressor or not.
This is not a question of those with responsibility hiding information from those under their care that would otherwise be harmful to them.
This is about those with responsibility for others abusing the trust that others have given and that has been assumed from anyone who is vulnerable and then either ignorantly or deliberately misusing that trust to abuse they very people they are there to protect from such abuse.
We are in troubling times
Regrettably, few institutions now exist where integrity can be assured from the actions, behaviour and decisions from anyone that we don’t personally know and have no good reason to belief that they are and always will be as good as their word.
The digitisation and mission creep of the online world has exacerbated this greatly and made the overall process of dehumanising everything progressively worse.
The reality we must face is that if we want to own our own beliefs and develop them using reliable and trustworthy sources, we can and must only use face-to-face relationships and the benefits of the social interactions that remain open and available to us without accessing anything that is only available to us online.
The only relationship that matters is the one that’s right in front of us
For all the benefits that we may be able to agree upon, the latest forms of digital technology and artificial intelligence are also introducing a much bigger and malevolent dark side into the world as we know it.
Almost every system that has and is being introduced into daily life for you and me, is either already or soon will be used as a tool of control.
And these tools can and only will work as effectively as they do, because we believe that what they bring or give to us is good for us in ways that make us forget or overlook the freedoms they have replaced and ultimately the non-financial price that we pay.
Yes, AI for medicine, AI for diagnostics, AI for workplace safety and purposes like these are and will always be good uses. Especially so when they are not about profit but about improving life and therefore the common good.
But AI in any form that appears to make life easier, quicker, or that replaces the need for us or any person to do anything are not and will not be good for anyone other than those who profit from it.
The AI and Tech-takeover really doesn’t offer the whole of humanity anything that any of us need in day-to-day life. But it is set to take away a massive amount from us that we do.
Of all the beliefs that we have been conditioned to have, the belief that whatever is outside of us is better than us and that it reduces our value in any way, is the worst one possible for any of us to have.
When we interact properly with others and use all of the senses and skills that we have to communicate and to read, listen to and understand communication in the circumstances that can and only will ever be offered through real one-to-ones, we will soon begin to remember or realise that these are some of the very best sources of learning – and therefore belief development that any of us could ever have.
Once you become a number, it won’t matter what you believe
Relationships – that’s real relationships, with real people, in real life, really matter.
Once all those relationships have been lost and we no longer have the ability to interact normally beyond familial or friend-based relationships in person and everything else is done without people with names online, our opinions, what makes us happy, what makes us healthy and what is actually good for us will no longer matter. Because the humanity in relationships and therefore the values that make us human will have successfully been cast aside.
The most concerning aspect of the process and steps that are now taking us towards this destination is just how quick and therefore soon we will arrive there.
Whilst most of us still don’t even question what we have unknowingly given up and that has been taken from us, because we have accepted the belief that what has been given to us or that we have often actually paid money for has been good or even better for us in some way.
Thinking for yourself isn’t about being right. It’s all about thinking the right way
Whilst we may not have used this term here until now, critical thinking is the key for all of us to unlocking the door to the pathway that leads to understanding what everything in life is all about.
Critical thinking isn’t just the magical formula that gives us back the power to define our own belief system.
Critical thinking is the golden gift that enables us to recognise and understand the value of all the experiences that have made us and therefore to self-define who we are, and who we will be.
A certain truth that we would all benefit from learning, understanding and living is that none of us are right or will be right until the time that we recognise we are all right and that being right is just the next step in learning what else is right, until we all agree that right is exactly the same thing.
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”, is a very wise and famous quote from Albert Einstein – who as the world and historically renowned Scientist that he was, had plenty of experience and empirical data to back it up.
Not that we should even question the truth anyway. Given that it really is common sense that doing the same things result in the same experiences – like driving the same route to work at the same time; ordering the same food at the same takeaway, or indeed taking exactly the same approach that we do for the things we don’t do every day, but where repeated patterns of behaviour (doing and NOT doing things) all add up to the same, over and over again.
Our approach to politics is insane; so, it’s hardly surprising that what we are experiencing today is also insane
What few really think about, and some would not willingly agree with is the reality that we are now doing the same things in our relationship with politics, elections and government, repeatedly.
Although the people we elect, the political parties we put in power and what they say and appear to do may appear to be different; when it comes to the results and outcomes we are experiencing, it all – no matter who or what we elect – is adding up to the very same thing.
The illusion of change
Getting our heads around the reality that Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and yes, even Reform are all working for the same outcomes isn’t an easy equation to wrestle with.
We do, after all, have a rather contradictory relationship with the truth, that when it suits our purposes, a different person, company, organisation or party will always be different. Whereas when it comes to everything that benefits us personally, we fall into the equally massive elephant trap of believing everyone else thinks and behaves the same.
Yet it is the case that we have politicians with different faces, different attitudes, different ‘politics’, different affiliations and different backgrounds, all delivering the same things. Because no matter what information or observation we use to make our next election choices, every Party that holds power or gets candidates elected to Parliament or our Councils are recruiting and selecting the same kinds of people who will do, say and ultimately be whatever the parties decide they want those politicians to be.
The system has a system for electing politicians
Unfortunately for us, the concept of democracy in the U.K. – no matter how celebrated and championed it may be, really is one of the biggest whoppers we fool ourselves with – especially as we are all taking part in and contributing to the lie.
Yes, if there was a General Election tomorrow, most of us would have a Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Reform candidate to choose from on the ballot paper and perhaps an SNP, Green or Plaid Cymru candidate (or other) too.
But these candidates are all people who have been assessed, considered, qualified and then put forward as the choice of their Party, then and only then to then be placed before us as an option when we make our choice, whenever the next election comes.
We don’t choose our politicians. Someone else does and that means those politicians will always (be expected to) put their loyalty to who put them on that list, first, before anyone or anything else – including the people who vote for them who they are supposedly there to represent.
The people who want to be politicians
It’s not helpful to believe that everyone in politics is there or that they got there because they are all in it for themselves.
There are certainly some very good and just as many well-intended people who put themselves forward to become candidates, for all the Political Parties, who really did step forward with every intention of doing the right thing for everyone.
However, in a political system that works and operates for the system itself, rather than the people that the political system is supposed to represent, it is inevitable that genuine public representatives will either quickly become disillusioned, once the penny drops about how politics really works once they are on the inside. Or they will be controlled with threats or punishments meted out by their party apparatus, or they will be removed (and sometimes thrown to the media wolves), if they will not agree to toe the accepted line.
To succeed in politics as it is today really does mean doing whatever you are told. Because the affiliation to the Political Parties and whoever is running them today is more important than anything – If the politicians themselves, want to stay in the limelight, keep getting rejected and therefore keep the ‘job’.
Where do the voters register in all this in so far as the party politician’s hierarchy of needs is concerned?
Well not very high – if indeed it registers in any way at all, and that’s why we only feel we matter to politicians during the run up to the election from the day whenever it has been called.
Our feelings and intuition really don’t lie. But because the election is then over, we quickly forget how we felt.
By the time the next election comes around we just go and do the same things all over again!
What happens when the wrong people get elected
You may have heard of something called the 10,000 hour rule that is the suggested time it takes anyone to achieve mastery in anything.
Whilst understanding and fluency may be achieved in somewhat less, depending on approach, natural ability and things like motivation or dedication, the point is that it takes time and effort, being immersed within whatever it is you may be trying to learn, before you have even the remotest chance of making a good job look like its natural or normal to everyone.
Where a mastery rule might more easily be applied to driving or learning the guitar, the rule also applies to becoming a great public representative too.
Politicians will never get anywhere near to becoming the leaders and standard bearers that we need, if they are only learning within a system and from others that is corrupted and completely warped.
Slaves to the system
Unfortunately, when the system and everything that works within that system works and operates in ways that are wrong, the new entrants to that system – no matter who they are and what they can offer, will be expected and ultimately conditioned to treat and respect the way that the system works as being normal – irrespective of whether the system really could ever be considered to be normal or not.
As our system of government has been corrupted by ideologies and agendas that don’t work for the people of the U.K. in any real or meaningful way, we really are in deep shit when it comes to changing anything.
Because everyone and everything has been corrupted and redirected so that it points in the same way.
Change means changing everything
The problem of solving all problems (and there are many of them) therefore, is that changing one thing or changing a few of them won’t make any difference. Because the size, interconnectivity and reach of everything in the public sector and government will just absorb any form of isolated change and basically change it back, meaning that we are straight back to experiencing the same things.
To change anything means changing the system itself. And for anyone who can begin to fathom what that really means, there is a dawning realisation that without an incredible form of leadership at the helm of this ship as we know and see it today, the only way that this kind of change will be possible, will be if the right kind of people are in place to pick everything up and run with it, when everything as we currently know it collapses. (which in real terms could happen at any time)
Until then, unless politicians and those who want to be in power take a very different approach and one that could lead to the kind of leadership that we now need, things will just keep getting progressively worse.
The only discernible difference will be the speed of more problems arising, as the wrong people in politics are going to keep getting everything wrong for everyone else, because the process of replacing them is also completely wrong.
Is there still any hope for Reform and a ‘coalition of the right’?
Disappointing as Reform and the opportunity they are squandering is turning out to be, there must remain at least a little hope that Farage may yet have a lucid moment and realise his controlling approach and stranglehold on the Party isn’t the stuff of what memorable legacies are made of. No form of leadership will succeed in this fight that obsessively works top-down.
Whilst the Birmingham Conference and the policy snippets that have been shared are as alarming for what they hint at, as is the over reliance Reform clearly has in Conservative politicians crossing the political floor who have track records aligned to everything that’s already wrong, it is interesting to observe that there may be some recognition that nothing in politics is going to be as easy as it seems.
Indeed, posts on social media over the weekend appear to have suggested Richard Tice has acknowledged that Reform may not be ready if an election were to be called in the immediate future. And with the genuine and growing risk that the next General Election will come much sooner than the 2027 timetable Reform have themselves talked about over the weekend, we can only hope that they are taking this all a lot more seriously than what the glitter bombing indicates.
Changing things for the better
Change of the kind we need should really be viewed in the context of being a two-stage or two environment things.
Within the context of how everything works now
Within the context of the coming collapse where people will accept the changes that will help everyone most, because they don’t feel they will be losing anything
Meaningful change, NOW
Like many of the highly intoxicating suggestions that any politician that doesn’t have power can make to an audience desperate for everything to change in ways that suit them at the flick of a switch, what we are being told can be delivered today, by whoever takes power at the next election, versus what can actually be delivered when we get there, are two VERY different things.
It is important to recognise that many of the things that are happening in politics today aren’t just as a direct result of having had Labour in power for the past 14 months – as everyone else in politics is heavily invested in convincing us all that we should believe.
Indeed, everything that is happening today is the direct result of decades of faulty government, run and brought into being by politicians from all sides working to agendas which may not even be theirs, but are certainly not ours.
The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma
In a previous post I wrote about The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma, where the issue of expectation meeting reality for an incoming government on the day after the election really hits home. Only then will the breadth, depth and full scope of the challenge that awaits any government and leader who really wants to deliver for the people be fully exposed to light.
Even with a working majority of keen and eager new MPs, determined to do everything that they have promised to the people who elected them; the morning after the election night before will offer them little more than a brick wall when it comes to understanding the real task that awaits in changing even the smallest things. When the wheels of government and all the people who work within it are anything but aligned.
Preparedness for leading through and beyond the coming collapse is an issue of our time
The mastery of politics and government, its systems, relationships and how things genuinely work at every level will be essential for anyone who is tasked with delivering and guiding any new agenda – IF there is a genuine desire to change things for the better within the system that we currently have, without very quickly precipitating a complete collapse.
Whereas the coming collapse may arguably prove to be the best thing for everyone all-round, the reality we face is that if what remains of the governance structures that we do know should fail and collapse before we have the kind of leaders in place who have what it will take to navigate what will by then surely have become the most horrific mess, there is a risk – and a real risk too – that the void that will be created will be filled by anyone and anything that can step into it and seem credible. And this could prove to be a very dark day indeed, when it comes to delivering on the most pressing questions that people have like the supply of safety, security and the basic essentials like water and food.
Enthusiastic and perhaps even knowledgeable in other areas of life as they may be, the people who are keen to step into the breach that we can all see opening around us today, are unlikely to be able to answer the most essential questions that circumstances are quickly going to demand, when we reach the stage where everyone knows there is a clear and definable leadership need.
Yes, whilst the wheels keep turning and things hold together, they may be able to tinker around the edges and tell us that they are winning victories and delivering success, much as Reform are doing in respect of their recent local authority takeovers, right now.
However, the very best that any genuine UK and public-serving government could do for us after the next election, to begin the process of change that we need, is treat the whole situation as the emergency that it arguably already has become.
They must begin taking steps to help people whilst holding off the inevitable collapse, whilst people are put in place to lead across what is left of the system as we know it, who are not there to follow any agenda for them or the people who put them there, other than the one that actually works for us all.
Real Change: Post-Collapse
A little bit of change isn’t going to cut anything in real terms and the only circumstances under which enough people will accept that there is nothing left that benefits them that they could therefore lose, will be when the system as we know it has actually collapsed and nothing works in the way that we understand it to do so now.
It sounds bleak. But it will be much better for all of us if we have politicians today who are thinking ahead and getting ready to do the things necessary to ensure that everything works for us tomorrow.
Whilst many find it hard to believe, the agenda that has been driving politics for so long has always intended there be a societal collapse that would come after a careful and coordinated process of transferring wealth, personal power and independence from the masses to the few. So that when the collapse comes, we would all very quickly accept help on whatever terms it is offered by those who appear to be positioned best to meet our basic and essential needs.
The cost of accepting that help will be incredible for people like you and I. And the irony is that it is very unlikely that once things have actually collapsed, that any of the people who we recognise in politics and across the establishment today, will have the ability to do anything other than control us with whatever rules and governance devices they use to bribe us with – meaning that there will be very little coming other than restraint and a hard stick in return.
Opening to a different, better future
The real answer: solution and opportunity – even though it wont feel like any such thing in the immediate aftermath of the collapse – will come from decision making and leadership heading straight back to our local communities.
It is in our communities, where real people looking after the needs of the real people under their care and taking a very practical approach to governance in real time, whilst the systems and processes that we need and which will be completely localised are put in place to support everyone – that we can ensure that a new model of locally focused democracy can quickly be implemented, putting people and their communities back in control of their lives and environment – as should always have been the case.
Please take a look at Our Local Future to see the kind of governance model that might make this work.
We need to choose who we choose from at election time
In so far as future elections are concerned and electing people who can and will be the difference that we need, we can no longer accept it as being either correct or that there is any need for the process of choosing who our public representatives are to be franchised out to political parties. No matter who they are or what they have promised they will deliver and be.
It really is quite incredible that up until now, we have simply accepted that its perfectly normal for every decision that has real implications and consequences for us and for the people we care about to be made by people we don’t know, have probably never met and that we don’t have any genuine reason to trust.
Because we don’t already select, qualify and check the people we choose from at election time, we really have no reason to lose our shit over the consequences when they cause pain for us within our lives, and there doesn’t appear to be any way that we can stop or prevent the people who are in politics from doing whatever the hell they like.
We MUST select people to represent us all from within our own communities and ensure that they are always accountable to and responsible towards us all, first, as the priority and above all things – even to themselves and what they may want or believe in personally, themselves.
We need a very different kind of politician to be representing all of us. No matter where we currently believe our political allegiances lie.
It is because we are continuing to consider politics as being part of a tribe that falls in behind a specific set of ideas or agendas that we are in the mess that we are in right now.
Putting people first isn’t idealistic. It’s just being practical. And when it gets done the right way and with the right outcomes in mind, everything that is currently wrong with everything around us will get addressed and everything good for us will begin to fall into place.
Talking about and thinking about narratives isn’t just important today. It’s essential if you are to arm yourself with the truth and ultimately stand any chance of not being driven completely mad.
Unfortunately, the reasons that make critical thinking necessary, as we absorb and digest any of the information that constantly flows towards us, usually through the digital devices that we carry, are not just as simple as working out the credibility of sources, identifying the truth, or filtering out the rampant levels of views and opinion which have regrettably become the bigger part of the content of all news.
It is increasingly necessary to identify where names and the nomenclature or branding of ideas, approaches, systems and even recognisable activities have been deliberately changed with the intention to confuse. Usually to create the misleading idea, in our minds, that somebody is doing something or selling something to us that is completely new or specialised beyond our comprehension. Just so that they can gain advantage over us until such time as we have worked it all out.
Regrettably, the establishment – that’s government, the public sector and all the big businesses and money organisations that are actually running things – has reached the point where they change the names of everything, either to make more money or benefit themselves, or increasingly to give the impression they have stopped or moved away from doing anything that has been publicly outed as being wrong. But for whatever reason that’s important to them, they intend to keep on doing it anyway and believe they need to nothing more to cover it up than change the name.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Whilst it would be foolish not to acknowledge the power for good that some forms of digital technology and artificial intelligence have – in the right hands and when being used for the right reasons, the way that so many of us have taken the coming technical or AI revolution as read, and seem to have just accepted that many will no longer have jobs as a result, does illustrate the danger that we have become to both ourselves and to our own future. All because we don’t ask questions and simply accept whatever we are being told to believe – usually because it’s come from the voice of someone remote who we don’t even know!
The rather inconvenient truth that all those creating new terminology for whatever they control, are trying to control or attempting to regain control of; is that there isn’t much going on that’s genuinely new, as we consider life in the aspect of 360 degrees around us.
It is just made to look and feel that way.
Indeed, most of us would quickly grasp this, if we were to refuse to just accept the sales pitch and ask what they are selling us, what it will do and how it works.
This approach is applicable to method as well as to machine.
We would all be wise to take time to consider everything that touches our lives in some way, in terms of the pathways that bring it to us, how it works, who benefits and why those interests have brought them to us as and when they have.
Some would say ‘Oh it’s obvious!’
But is it really? And has it ever been?
Magic only works on us, when we don’t understand whatever is happening
Sadly, many of us are all too happy to accept the premise that what we don’t know can’t hurt us.
We accept that names, memes, keywords, industry terms and abbreviations mean that whoever is using them knows things that we do not. Usually making those people more knowledgeable and therefore powerful than we are, with a somewhat strange accompanying surrender to the misplaced idea that we should simply shut up.
Exploding the very dangerous myth about people who are considered to be experts and specialists, often in ways that are taken to mean they have universal understanding of everything, when they most often have been doing just one job; have studied more about the subject than us, and have been given a qualification by someone else who is actually just like them, is now becoming essential.
Not just to stop ourselves from being played like complete fools. But because the idiocy and self-aggrandisement that blankets so many of the people in positions of power, influence, control and that we therefore revere, are hiding behind the façade of terms we don’t understand, just to benefit themselves whilst all the time creating a very unhappy and unhealthy world that for us, that is never really going to work in our favour for as long as people like this have influence and control.
Dishonesty is regrettably rampant throughout everything that the establishment now does. Not necessarily because everyone within the establishment is dishonest. But because the way that normal people like you and I are being exploited, manipulated and used, so that those doing these things can benefit in some way, is simply now accepted as being the ‘normal’ way things work and therefore as being the done thing, for everyone.
Using and abusing others at any level is not ok. And as we find ourselves transiting a tumultuous period of inevitable change, one of the things that we should all be striving for to experience in whatever new world awaits us on the other side, is that lying, manipulation and the abuse of any person for any reason by another, just so that the abuser can become advantaged in some way, should be outlawed and treated as the horrible crime that it really is.
Neither this government nor the next can or will stop the coming collapse and that’s when you may well end up owning nothing and be forced to be happy about it
Yes, there are a lot of people already shouting that it’s time for a General Election and many more who genuinely believe they are already backing the horse that will win – and they might even be right.
Things are looking bleak for sure. And that’s just at the level most people are paying attention to.
Indeed, go in search; look beyond the purveyors of the narratives that we are all relentlessly expected to suck up and follow, and you will soon begin to see just how deep the problems are that the UK is facing. All set within a World where everything is the opposite of stable and a critical mass for change and whatever may follow could be reached in a range of different forms or events, in any location, or at any time.
Whilst we seem to have this ridiculous unwritten rule or shibboleth across the UK, that being upbeat and therefore blind to reality somehow means that any messaging that fails to correlate with what we believe is therefore unquestionably negative and unacceptable in some way; facing reality and speaking the truth about what we are seeing, feeling and experiencing as our own reality, is not something that any of us should be hiding from right now, in any way.
However, whilst such sentiment may be welcomed by the growing number who consider themselves to be aware of what’s really going on and therefore ‘awake’, the need to look closely at what public figures and channels are saying; why they are saying it, and whatever the outcomes they might be suggesting (if indeed they do actually have any recognisable outcomes at all) really consist of or will lead to, is just as important – if not more.
When we do take the time and make the effort to try and understand what backing any of the people who want to be in charge or take control of the UK today would lead to, we can begin to see that there are distinct commonalities that flow between all of them. No matter whether they are politicians, political parties, activists, podcasters, media figures, celebrities or anyone that we could identify as having ambition to be a future occupant of No.10.
One of the commonalities that flows between the voices that different people are still choosing to follow, is they all pay lip service to the kind of change that will be necessary in order for the UK (and World) to change course from the direction that it is now travelling in.
However, they are only putting policy suggestions on the table that add up to nothing better than it would have been to move the deck chairs around on the deck of the Titanic, with the doomed ship already on its way down.
A big problem for us all in our understanding of the problems that the UK faces – and what it will actually take to address them AND then start putting everything into place so that we all experience a system that works for us all, is that we are all bought into what we believe to be the benefits– to us, personally, of staying exactly where we are, today.
We are not only comfortable but take for granted – and often feel entitled to remain within and taking all that we can from a system of living that is and always has been unsustainable. One that we are unlikely to accept as being the biggest problem of them all, for as long as:
We aren’t feeling any direct pain from the consequences ourselves, and/or
We can find someone or something to blame when anything doesn’t appear to be working and therefore work on the assumption that removing or waiting until we can remove them will be all that it takes to rectify the fault.
Pointing the finger in the right direction, but not at the correct source
The chances are that despite the massive majority of seats that the current Labour government has, and that as I write, they have only been ‘in power’ for 14 months (and we are still the better part of 4 years until we might normally expect the next GE), the next General Election will come a lot sooner than anyone currently thinks.
As unbelievable as it may seem, the contempt that the current government has for the British People has been made very clear by the comments that a number of their ministers and politicians have made, about the prioritisation of temporary accommodation for immigrants. Not only over local people, but the existing apparatus of local government itself. Which although limited and heavily influenced by Central Government, did, until now maintain the idea that we, as British Citizens did at least have a say over our own lives.
Hard as it may be for anyone who cares about other human beings to swallow, no Country can be all things to all people and survive.
You cannot continue to help and do good for anyone if you destroy yourself or your means to do so in the process.
The utterly ridiculous situation that successive governments have all created and contributed to, where we are prioritising the wellbeing of economic migrants above our own people – that’s the people who are being expected to pick up the tab – takes the whole issue of unsustainable public policy, that’s not really about the public in any way, into a completely different league.
Destroying the fabric of society – whether it be our laws, traditions, independence, environment, countryside, industries, ability to grow and produce our own food – just so that one group of politicians or another, can have or maintain power, despite being utterly incompetent and unfit for the task; so whoever they are really working for can achieve whatever outcomes they really want, or both; are not in the interests of the British People in any way.
This, and many governments before this one have not been working in our best interests.
The real outcomes from the efforts of all the so-called politicians who have been involved in the destruction of the UK are not pathways that any of us should be allowing anyone who covets the power and glory they believe they will get by climbing towards No.10 to do or continue to do, just because they say they will be different.
Nor should we open the doors to power for anyone just because they make it sound like they are going to do what we want them to, because what they are saying today when they have no power sounds just like we imagine everyone thinks.
The Money-Centric Paradigm
Being seen to work for or prioritise any person, people or group before British Citizens and arguably our wider system of governance too, is not what any government genuinely working for the People who entrusted and elected it and for which it is responsible would do.
But this is where we are today – in so far as where the news is, what it keeps telling us and what most of us are having our attention drawn to.
However, there is more and much more when it comes to the things that aren’t making much sense. Which probably becomes one of the things you may have heard in passing, once it is mentioned and you are questioned about what you might or might not think.
Not least of all these other issues is the money problem or the ‘public finance problem’ and what ‘surprises’ are likely to be included in the upcoming Budget, which has now been confirmed as set for Wednesday 26th November 2025 (That’s 12 weeks’ time).
Watching the explosion of the Public Debt and what it is now costing Central Government to borrow the money that it needs to make everything that government does work and then service the escalating debt that years and years of overspending by governments of all kinds have racked up, is really quite frightening.
Taking on board what some of the more credible voices, that are independent of the establishment or its thinking, are saying about the unfolding fiscal drama, suggests that a point could quickly be reached where the banks, financiers and ‘markets’ will refuse to keep buying the bonds that the government sells and pays interest upon. Which in real world terms is the same thing as we understand as being a loan.
Making sense of a system we were never meant to make sense of
The mechanics of the money system that has allowed this whole situation to exist are truly alarming when understood for what they really are and just how long this whole mess and the process to create it has been underway.
Amongst the darkest and most troubling of all the factors that we as normal people need to face are that:
The money that the government is borrowing doesn’t exist
Privately owned banks are ‘printing’ or creating the money that they are ‘lending’ to the government by ‘buying bonds’ out of thin air
The government is then paying interest for money that doesn’t exist and never existed before it was loaned to it (to us)
The rules that have legalised what is arguably a completely corrupt and criminal money system have been put in place over multiple parliaments, by successive governments and generations of politicians from all sides who have ‘done what they were told’ to get where they are
The entire system and structure of rules governing business, production and services have all been twisted and manipulated to make the way that money works ‘legal’.
The payoff or benefit for government and politicians like these is that clever accounting using GDP and the obsessive capture of output data through organisations like the ONS mean that as long as more and more money is being printed and then changing hands many times very quickly, the Public Debt gets smaller, meaning that although the public debt figures are exploding, any government that continues to maintain ‘growth’ can fraction-down the debt they are accumulating through little more than poor or deliberate mismanagement
The real situation – that’s the transfer of genuine wealth – has been underway for decades – and remains hidden.
Unfortunately, that transfer of wealth also wrested away the UKs ability to produce just about everything that we were once known for.
The focus of this attack on ‘natural productivity’ recently reached our ability to grow and harvest our own food and the UK no longer has the industries and manufacturing output that we have been able to rely upon in the past to bail us out in times of national emergency and real need, so that more money can be generated from forms of real production to get us out of trouble.
Our ‘leaders’ aren’t leaders. They are glory seekers. They want the job, but not the responsibility
Whilst the Labour government we have today may be truly awful in just about every sense possible for people to consider from outside of the system of government itself – as most of us really are, we all need to understand – no matter hard it might be or unwilling we may be to do so, that no matter how bad this specific government may be, the building blocks of the crisis now unfolding have been stacked up by government after government over a period of decades – and not just a matter of months.
The problem is now so ingrained, so deeply intwined and so comprehensively embedded across every part and every level of governance and public service delivery that we have in the UK, that it cannot and will not be fixed by anyone or anything that intends or even tries to work and continue working with the system – and specifically the money system – that we currently have.
None of the politicians or would-be politicians lining up to take the place of the Labour government – whenever the next General Election might be, are looking to step beyond the system or money-centric paradigm that we currently have in place.
And that’s a real problem for us all.
Listen closely to what they are all saying, and they don’t have meaningful change of any kind in mind.
All this, despite so many warning signs coming from right across the UK, telling us that very little in life is working for anyone, unless:
You already have money and
Have the means to keep accumulating more
In reality, even those with money and what may appear to be guaranteed incomes may not remain safe for long, as the government has already or is about to bankrupt the UK. (Which in government terms means that they cannot ‘borrow’ any more – because those printing the cash know their own scam is going to be outed if they keep breaking their own rules).
We are in a land filled with false prophets with not one of them ready to lead
The tragedy reaching across politics now and not only the right, is the absence of publicly recognisable voices speaking the truth that not only does nothing work as it should, but there is also no longer any way that it can. Because the structure of the system that has carefully been put in place over a period exceeding 50 years was never about benefitting any of us.
It is merely the momentum that exists within a system that has been functioning in the same way and same direction for as long as it has that is keeping it going. Maintaining the illusion that everything will continue to be alright and that life as we know it will ultimately remain just the same.
Whilst there may be nothing inherently wrong with the solutions, answers and outcomes that any of today’s wider political class are suggesting within the existing framework and narrative that everyone accepts, those solutions, without fail, add up to little more than changing the wheel on a speeding bus as it leaves the road and goes straight over the cliff.
These aren’t real outcomes that are coming from any of these sources, because they have no basis or relationship with the reality of how things work, how we got to where we are, and what will happen when anyone attempts to tackle anything in isolation for ‘quick wins’ when everything is linked and things that relate to public policy are as interconnected as they are.
Whichever direction we look in, what we are experiencing is an echo chamber of what we are already thinking – and in many ways, that’s how the establishment wants us all to think.
In real terms, there is no political vehicle available to any of us to choose from at the next General Election that can or will do anything to help change anything meaningful for any of us in any long-lasting way.
For ANY political party or movement to really mean it when they say they will represent all of us properly, they would have to be ready, prepared and able to actually stop the whole bus from reaching the cliff – and none of them will.
We have to understand that they either won’t (because they have already tasted the reality of what power in the UK today really is and where it is going) or because they can’t (because when faced with the reality that the only way this mess can be fixed is to crash it all and start again anyway, they’d rather just keep playing along and taking the money, until the next politician on the gravy train comes along).
Meanwhile, whilst we wait and then change the guard once again, the direction of travel towards chaos and the darkness that follows is maintained.
The destruction of the structure of UK society and our ability to function reaches completion. And we are then left completely at the mercy and whim of the very people who have cleverly, and very patiently engineered it all through multiple generations – creating yet another covering that makes the whole reality one that is indeed very hard at first glance to believe.
How do we get out of this mess without the right people seeking election?
By now, you may have realised that the Labour government isn’t really in control of what they are doing with power, any more than they are in control of anything else.
You might also conclude that there is a game of pin the tail on the donkey to be played. One that covers experts, spads, academics, government executives, advisors, business leaders and moguls, bankers and everyone with influence in all of this. In order to try and work out where the buck really stops and who amongst all of them, who is really in charge.
But would it really matter if you or I could definitively work the whole thing out?
Are we really going to wait and see what happens once everything collapses and nobody steps up with an alternative to this ‘system’ – so that we can finally righteously say to ourselves – being happy in our misery as we realise’ ‘ah – so it was them and what they wanted that was behind all of this the whole time’, all the time knowing that because we waited on politicians, so-called leaders and false prophets to deliver on our behalf for so long, that we no longer possess the independence or power to even attempt to turn things around – just on our own behalf?
Even if the whole system were to collapse tomorrow and there never was an agenda or grand plan sitting behind the levers of power, the question of who could do the fire fighting, meet the challenges that we face, deal with all of the most pressing of issues and then start putting a new structure for our society in place on our behalf will still very much exist. Because none of the politicians that we have are even talking about leading the kind of transformation and change where our governance is replaced whilst life itself remains functioning and liveable for us all.
Where we could end up if we continue going along with the way things ‘work’
If it isn’t already apparent, the one thing at the heart of every problem that we have across the UK (and the World) today, is money; how the money and currencies we have work; the role that money plays; and then how everything got effected by money this way in the first place.
The ironic part of this whole problem is there are still too few of us who are prepared to look beyond a World and way of living that has money at the heart of everything and right at its core.
Meanwhile, the belief that money can and will only continue to work as it does now is as ridiculous as most people would find it to consider living in world that puts people and our freedoms first. Especially when some believe they already do…
Money as we know it, is over. It just hasn’t ended yet.
It doesn’t matter whether its the erosion of our personal wealth and ability to function without debt. Becoming dependent upon digital tech and a universe based upon online, remote and dehumanised rules. Or because the financial system and the way we use and create money is quite literally now spent and government can only survive a little longer by stripping us of all that we have ever had:
The world and our experiences of life as we know them; are comfortable with and take for granted are over. It’s just the system hasn’t yet reached its end, yet.
If we ourselves fail to act, change the way we think, interpret priorities, and personally contribute to the change that is within our power to facilitate; the future knocking on all of our doors will be one where nobody other than those who are in control are living lives that they can afford.
Every job that can be done by a machine will be done by a machine.
Those of us who are left behind will become fully dependent upon a system which monitors every part of our lives digitally and requires us all to abide by rules that they and only they can set.
Otherwise, there will simply be no means for us to remain included and therefore to survive.
We are all boiling frogs
The money system that we know and every part of life is now based around is failing rapidly.
However, it was always the intention of the elites that by the time everything we know to have meaning has collapsed, the ownership of every bit of real, tangible wealth or what we know as businesses (that control entire marketplaces); property (such as land, houses, factories, shops and warehouses) and infrastructure (such as railways, airports, water treatment works, reservoirs, electricity generating stations, solar farms, ports), would have already been transferred to those who controlled the creation of the new system.
It is the fake FIAT money and the devices it has given life and meaning to that have enabled the seemingly legitimate transfer of all our wealth and our ability to earn and own anything again to the few, when this carefully designed and engineered process has at no point been right or correct in any way.
As things stand today, we could wake up in just a matter of months and find that we really do own nothing and that we are expected to be happy – by those who then have us all fully under their control.
We have surrendered our power whilst we were kept happy and occupied with easy living, ‘correct ways of being and doing everything’ and constantly hearing news of all these shiny material things we must have to keep up, pumped into our ears and vision in every direction that we have turned.
Everything that represented freedom and independence at every level of life has been taken away from us.
All the time, we believed that money was the only tool that could make us rich. And now, the money we have revered as a god is not worth anything to us or anyone in its current form – as has been the truth – except for our manipulated beliefs, all the way along.
Who will really have the last laugh?
In case you are wondering, we have reached the point where all those who have been advantaged by this system feel sure they don’t have to worry about money or what the currency that replaces what we believe what we believe money to be today will look like when everything changes, because they and only they appear to own everything that has any value to us.
The transfer of wealth that we have never questioned will mean that they can then rent out, sell, charge for, qualify people to use/receive anything and everything.
All because they successfully invented the wealth to do it; took it for themselves and used and exploited everyone, including the stupid fools who weren’t ever leaders but were nonetheless desperate to be recognised politicians, to make the whole thing appear legal and therefore morally correct. Right up to the point where the rather massive penny drops for us all, that we no longer have any say and there isn’t any way back.
There is no good to be had here, from looking more closely at what could happen thereafter.
But for those who genuinely think that the story being pushed at us all, that we are at the door of an inevitable Tech and AI takeover is true, they may also wish to ask themsleves ‘If this was the genuine truth and that tech (and those behind it) was about to deliver a perfect utopian world where everything is going to be provided for us and work will just be done by machines, would we already be witnessing people being left behind with the threat of potential millions being months away from losing their jobs?’
The solution isn’t pretty – IF you believe that having everything easy is key
It stands to reason that most of us believe in a future that keeps and maintains all the things that we feel good about now – but conveniently removes or drops all that things that don’t work. Preferably right now but otherwise just as soon as we’ve elected someone who thinks the same as we do, will obviously do.
If only it were that simple.
That feeling is no accident. Just like so many things that feel good about the lifestyles that we are all currently able to have – if we can afford them, that constant feeling of everything becoming easier, requiring less effort and that it’s doing us good is in fact doing anything but.
The price we are going to have to pay, is that to go back to living lives that may at first glance seem less exciting, not as clever and require us to interact with real people, real life and real responsibilities means leaving all the ‘great’ things behind us.
Because all the things we want to keep are a big part of a problem that is harming us in countless ways and are as such, not ‘great’ at all.
Money and the way money works today is the root problem or cause of every problem that humanity faces. And money or the values set that we have that are now pinned to money, are controlling every part of life and the system that governs it all.
Nothing less than Paradigm change will now do – and that needs you!
A reason that none of the politicians or those who would lead us will look at embracing something as seemingly radical, but nonetheless essential, as the need for universal change – at least in terms of governance of everything and the way that we are governed, is that this process will itself require that we leave behind the centralised, top-down hierarchical view of the world where a Prime Minister or President is the most important person in any country.
Centralisation, top-down hierarchies and a very modern interpretation of what a patriarchy really is are key components that thrive off this money model and the disruption that its adoption and application throughout every part of our lives has typically enshrined.
Localism and locality are the solution to a problem that can only be solved by rejecting everything that is built upon the money-centric model.
The existing political parties (including the new ones), their structures and the motives and ambitions that drive the politicians within them or the people within them who want to be in government and in control as part of them, are not locally orientated in any way. Just as we can be sure that very few of the politicians we have possess genuine affinity for the local areas and people that they are representing or would be only too happy to claim they represent.
People, their local communities and only the small businesses that we all need to provide and do everything for us within them are where the real answers to all the problems that we have currently lie.
It is you and people like us who need to cast aside the manufactured arguments and fights that we have with others over matters which are out of control, and which suit those behind the narratives all too well.
We must begin to work together and collaborate to create a new, appropriate, fair, balanced and just system of governance that is fundamentally restricted to the people and only the people under its specific geographical or localised area of rule.
A system that puts people, community and the environment we live in and share together firmly and securely back in front.
Fundamentally, change and changing what happens next is all about you, what you do and what people like you choose to do and accept they have responsibility to do.
It sounds hard. And the first step really is. But after that, the rest will be a lot more straightforward and ultimately rewarding than you might think.
Adam Tugwell 