The Basic Living Standard is a foundational guarantee that ensures every individual earning the lowest legal weekly wage can afford all essential costs of living—without falling into debt, relying on welfare, or turning to charity.
It defines the minimum threshold of financial independence, where core needs—such as food, housing, utilities, healthcare, transport, clothing, communication, and modest social participation—are fully covered by earned income alone. It also includes provision for savings, unexpected costs, and fair contributions to society.
This standard is not aspirational—it is structural. It affirms that full-time work at the lowest wage must equate to full dignity, autonomy, and security.
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No food banks. No emergency loans. No skipped prescriptions or unpaid bills. Just a life that’s livable, sustainable, and free from poverty.
A Digital Takeover of the real world is already underway
It doesn’t matter who you are; whether you have an email account, a smart phone or even a computer sat on your desktop at home. If you are a British Citizen and the UK is your legal home, you already have a digital identity somewhere.
What is more, you probably already have more than just one.
Just like the constant push towards CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) that the narrative tells us will be required to make money digital, the most alarming part of the whole story about this sudden ‘need’ for everyone to have ‘Digital ID’, so that the government can tackle illegal immigration, is that there are still many of us who also believe we need a proper digital currency.
In fact, we not only have a digital currency already. But the digital currency we already have is linked up and able to pass through any digital terminal and even our phones when we have a banking app – at any moment in time!
Yet even this 5% of the population will have details and information stored about them with organisations like the NHS, with their Bank, and with any company or supplier. Perhaps like an Electricity, Gas or Water supplier, who will certainly hold details about them in digital form of some kind.
It is ironic that as we stare into the abyss that is a fully digitised world, those who aren’t connected, are still referred to as being disadvantaged by their lack of digital connection. When there is a compelling argument to suggest that in terms of what we are facing today, the 5% may already be having the last laugh.
Digital ID is already being used to our disadvantage
The 95% of us who are digitally connected today, are already being played by a system crossing government and big business alike.
A system that uses every bit of information that can be harvested from every one of our online activities to build a picture of what we do, what we like and basically how we run our lives.
If we go to a supermarket or shop online, we will almost certainly now have a customer card. And we are ‘rewarded’ with points, vouchers, offers and perhaps even cash back, in return for having registered with the company and then using our card, codes or app on our phone, each time that we shop.
The data about what we search online, no matter where it is, the services that we use and what protections like VPN we have put in place, all finds its way into the great online smorgasbord, through the monitoring of our social media accounts, email traffic and whatever we go onto a search engine or AI system to research.
It quickly then finds its way back to our timelines as a conclusive response, through information about products, holidays, cars or services that we have been thinking about, or even organisations we have applied for jobs with.
We and our Digital ID are already being used, exploited and tracked online
Nobody likes to admit that they are being used and manipulated, because of a decision that they haven’t really thought through or knowingly made.
But the reality we, as the 95% already face, is that as a consumer and potential source of income – if any up to date data about what we are thinking about now hasn’t automatically been sold as we search or instruct AI – our digital footprint and therefore our digital ID is already all over the internet and accessible by any government agency or company that has the ability to access it, in any form that they want.
This information – that we’ve given away for nothing more in return than access to a platform where we can chat to friends, post whatever content we produce or get what might be the equivalent of 1% of every Pound that we spend with Retailers who are already charging us way too much, is worth far more than we will ever get back.
The data that we are continually giving away with every online key stroke allows anyone who can use this data and the media channels that they have open to us, to persuade us to buy their products, eat their foods, and increasingly change our behaviour and way of living so that it suits whatever they want.
Although every government organisation and those businesses and retailers we shop with or buy products or services from can identify who we are and provide anyone with a legitimate reason for asking what we like using, when we use it and how long we like to use it for, the data that we are giving away – even as we read and scroll through this Essay – will allow someone or some organisation to monitor us along with specific aspects of our behaviour or obtain a giveaway snapshot of the habits that we have.
However, the recording of our data and the ability to identify who we are at any data monitoring point or rather digital device we use to go online, hasn’t yet become a genuinely overt tool of behaviour control that can or will be used to force us to do or more importantly not do things, that whoever controls and influences these systems will want.
Unfortunately, if Starmer and his government are successful, that will change.
The Turning Point
Regrettably, the digitisation of life has already extended to the point where it has become unhealthy and counterproductive for all of us.
Today, most of us already use the information that comes to us through the digital devices that we think we own as our go-to point of external reference.
We are all giving a ridiculous level of credibility to whatever we see, read, hear or listen to through these mediums, simply because the information and its sources are online.
We don’t see the danger of any of this. Because for most of us, we have interpreted the experience as being good, or better than the past alternative.
We have fast connectivity; we can video chat with friends and family on the other side of the world; we can get food and shopping delivered in minutes with just a few clicks; we can travel without buying a ticket and just swiping our debit or credit card and we can even get massive amounts of credit, set up years-long contract payments for goods and services, or even order a brand new car that we wont see until its sat outside of our house, online.
The arrival of the latest forms of AI that we knowingly interact with – rather than the forms of AI that use algorithms or the codes that have already been monitoring and being used to judge us like we aren’t human for years before – have just made the whole situation and experience we face, much worse.
Not least of all because when we hear the stories of the AI Takeover and there soon being no need for humans to do any jobs, we all fall into the trap of assuming that those who own, manage and run all this technology that gives them wealth, influence and control, will then use it to provide a utopian dream for everyone else where none of us lift a finger and we have a lifestyle that correlates with a level of easy that would once have only featured in our wildest dreams.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The Truth that we are all avoiding
The tech that we have welcomed into our lives and actually paid the companies that own, run and programme it, to have access to and to be able to use and seemingly benefit from it, are not using it to help us, but to help themselves.
The establishment and the elites are using the tech that we are willingly embracing and failing to question the need for and purpose of to remove the functional need and requirement for potentially many millions of us to even exist.
Regrettably, the point draws ever nearer, where everyday people like you and I will wake up to the reality that it’s not us that need all of this digital technology to have very good, meaningful and freedom-driven lives.
The Technical Revolution has instead only been designed and pushed upon us to meet the needs of the establishment, the tech moguls and whoever has the means to control all these systems. The few, who can only get all they want in terms of money, power and control if we keep believing that we cannot live without the world that they have designed.
Indeed, it has become vital, if not essential for the few that the digital tools and infrastructure surrounding us and touching our lives in every way are now used to remove the ability of the mass population to make good on any of the political or behavioural threats that different people across society are now beginning to make.
Why this is happening now
Digital ID of the kind that we are now discussing has always been an elite-driven plan.
It’s why former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was always so keen on it, amongst so many other policies presented to us as being ‘progressive’ and ‘liberalising’ that have actually made life for everyone outside of politics and aligned with the establishment considerably worse.
The financial and economic systems that we have (Neoliberalism, FIAT money etc.) were also planned and then implemented with the aim that the money would enable the ‘legitimate’ take over of the ownership of everything that society needs to survive and be independent.
However, such a bogus money and the economic system that sits around it could only be created by using a system and approach that itself would eventually collapse whilst creating generations of victims – because it is basically a big con.
From the start, the architects of this legalised crime knew that there would need to be a system of tight and rigid societal control in place to stop the whole thing from unravelling, as soon as the money system was exposed for the lie that it is. Because normal people would not be happy to wake up to the reality that they have been misled and robbed in just about every conceivable material sense – in some cases, from the moment of their birth.
The inevitable collapse of the financial and economic system is happening right now.
The system is over. It just hasn’t ended yet. And that’s why there is desperation in government to implement controls over every freedom we have – before it is too late – for them to do so.
The Grand Plan – Reset or New World Order (The next one after the last…)
This specific kind of Digital ID has featured in the goals and agendas of ‘world body’ or pre-emptive ‘world government’ organisations such as the WEF and United Nations for a considerable period of time with it sitting prominently within what is called Agenda 2030.*
Whilst it cannot be understated just how slavish Keir Stamer’s ‘leadership’ has been towards the delivery of whatever the WEF and Davos set have wanted from him since Labour came to power in July 2024, it is just as correct to point out that the Tories before them had done just as much, if not more.
There has been no government in the UK since the beginning of the 1970’s that hasn’t been bending or helping to bend everything towards agendas that do not and were never intended to serve the best interests of the British People.
The difficulty for the current Prime Minister is that his behaviour has become so incongruent with even the appearance of what government activity is expected to be. And so Starmer has come under increasing pressure not only from the media, but also from his own party, who realise that he is on the verge of making Labour unelectable, with the conclusion that he needs to be brought down.
We will probably never know who exactly is behind it. But what appears to have been the corruption necessary to get such a poor prime minister elected – who appears willing to do whatever he is being told to – has recently began dripping into the limelight over what seems to be different cover-ups including a sizable question of expenses.
The PM basically needed a life line or world-changing level dead cat distraction to grab everyone’s attention, that would at least temporarily hide the whole story from view.
In real terms, the whole Digital ID thing was on its way anyway. But it has probably been pushed out quickly in the hope that Starmer’s premiership will somehow remain intact.
In so far as the debate about Digital ID and Digital Life Keys is concerned however, it is far from over. And there is a chance that pushing yet another agenda into the bearpit of public opinion before everything was in place to carry it over the line, may indeed very quickly blow up in the governments face.
*Please do research this subject further and in particular the history of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which have been evolving and regularly redesignated on record since at least 1992. The Goals themselves appear sensible and considerate of many of the problems that the world not only faces but really needs to address. The problem comes with the interpretations and application of the policies and solutions which these democratically unaccountable organisations are designing and pushing upon us through receptive governments and politicians like Starmer – to ensure that they are met.
The relationship with Immigration and what it’s really about
Even though we may not even be talking about it with each other, many of us can already see and are experiencing a massive disconnect between what the government and our politicians are saying and doing – or rather telling us is going on, and what we genuinely believe or trust to be the case.
Even if it is the case that we feel conflicted by the suggestion that we alone may be seeing the real picture differently to everyone else.
Immigration, illegal immigration or what is more widely identified as the immigration across the English Channel from France by boat, has become a massively nebulous topic that most people are terrified of mentioning, even though they are living in growing fear of what it will mean.
Normal, everyday, sensible, educated or otherwise intelligent British people fear the risk of being branded as racist or being cancelled in some way that could result in the loss of their income or job, or even worse. Even though very few of us have any problem with the idea of giving a helping hand to anyone who has a genuine need to move far away from their real home.
Many of us feel this way.
Not because there is anything wrong with not wanting to lose our culture. Not wanting to experience collapsing public services. Not wanting to live in fear of violence on public transport or the streets. Not wanting to see what are actually economic migrants rather than refugees with a genuine need get help before the growing number of British People who are going without or maybe even facing life on the streets. Certainly not because there is anything wrong with not wanting to have to give up even more of the money we earn when prices are already shooting up, just to pay for someone to do nothing whilst inviting all of their extended family along.
We feel this way because the approach that the government and the establishment is taking towards immigration and the insertion of cultures and behaviours into our communities and everyday life is completely at odds with our values and way of life.
The actions being taken simply does not make any logical sense.
Or at least, it wouldn’t if we had people running everything who are putting the needs of the UK and our own People first.
The way that government is effectively doing nothing to stop thousands of people entering the UK each and every week, who will never help or benefit the UK in any productive way, doesn’t make sense. Because it cannot and will not benefit the UK or our communities, as we have known them. And it never will make sense or correlate with anything that we can conceive as being positive for any of us, because that was never the plan.
The problem we really have is that we have people running the Country who are not fit to lead, and are doing whatever they are told to do that will keep them in power. No matter what the cost will be to the Country and the communities that they were elected to represent, and certainly not to the people who put them there.
Over a period of decades, the wrong politicians have changed everything that was arguably once good about the UK or Great Britian. So that what we have, what we do, and what our future holds can be dictated and directed by people that we don’t, or won’t ever elect.
Faceless or rudderless people who have been selected for the very reason that they will do exactly whatever they are told, and will not blink at saying anything, doing anything and imposing rules, regulations and laws that will change everything as we know it – no matter the ultimate human cost.
Immigration: Just one weapon being used to save useless politicians and destroy everything good about Britain that we know
Immigration has become a weapon used against the UK on two fronts.
Immigration as a weapon No. 1
The first as a way of keeping the dubious financial and economic system that we have in the UK (and across the world) going.
A system that has been a complete con and way to legalise corporate and elite level theft from the masses. Simply because they have manipulated money and the way it is created so that life is no longer a luxury that the average wage earner or anyone earning less can genuinely afford.
Immigrants need massive amounts of cash spent on them being ‘resettled’ – which is the ideal focus for public spending for the establishment, through the building of houses, which sets off a chain reaction of financial transactions.
Money changes hands between landowners, housebuilders, banks, builders, building suppliers, all their employees and the list goes on – and every pound that get’s created by private banks at the outset is counted over and over again to demonstrate ‘growth’, so that the real size of the public debt our useless politicians have accumulated can be cleverly hidden with an accounting trick that is hidden away by what we know as GDP.
This process is in itself beginning to implode and contributing towards the financial collapse. Because the UKs ability to be genuinely productive (Through genuine production, manufacturing and industry) has already been stripped to the bone by the same system.
UK productivity has been taken from British businesses and our communities and pushed overseas.
Meanwhile, so little genuine productivity exists in the UK (which is the engine of real growth rather than a bogus version of it) that the government can no longer find the excuses or justification to borrow enough money (or what we know as bond sales to the markets) to generate enough money to keep the size of the problem hidden.
A problem that not only this Labour government, but successive governments back until before the time of Thatcher have until now all played a very active role in hiding – even when many of the politicians voting everything through were not aware of what they were being commanded to push through.
Immigration as a weapon No. 2
The second and most serious weapon being used against the UK, is the destruction of our identity and culture – using Immigration like a trojan horse so the ‘change’ seems ‘normal’ – because its perceived to be coming from ‘within’.
When people work together and are able to rely on the people around them who are in their real, offline lives, they have the ability to work together and collaborate to do and act in ways that make the world around us work. Not just well. But better than anything like what we today consider to be normal.
However, in the reality we currently have, the narratives that we accept as normal are all about division and making us focus on the differences between all of us. So that we aren’t paying attention to the real forces and actions that have been making this whole shitshow work.
DEI, crushing freedom of speech, political correctness and equality that was always about positive prejudice and switching bias from one form to another have been the most effective tools to create this disharmony and feeling of isolation that so many of us have over a long period of time.
But as history has all too often shown, British people and our communities have always been very good at getting their shit together in a time of crisis. So that we can work collaboratively together, to achieve and secure whatever we collectively need.
This ability to face down trauma and crisis at community or national level will simply not be available to us, if there is no recognisable way for community coherence to actually exist.
This is perhaps the most troubling aspect of the treacherous influx of immigrants who have no love for the UK or any desire to respect or fit in with what our Nation is or ever has been, but are – as so many already suspect – part of a fully sanctioned and deliberate invasion, that is being aided and abetted by an establishment that sees the world, its future and the role of the masses within it, in a very different and regrettably troubling way.
The irony is that many of the people coming here are only ready and willing to do so, because of the impact and consequences that this dreadful criminal system has already had upon their Countries, their communities and all of them.
How many illegal Immigrants are there that the Government hasn’t already digitally recorded and identified?
To get some perspective on the reality of illegal immigration versus the immigration that the government knows about – and has therefore registered and identified the people concerned, in the year up to March 2025, there were 44,125 ‘irregular’ arrivals in the UK, of which 86% of these (44,125 x .86 = 37,948) arrived by boat.
This means the number of illegal immigrants that arrived during that year – of which many the government will also know about was (44,125 – 37,948) 6,177 at most or the equivalent of less than 0.0001% of the UK Population, if we work on the basis that there are 66 Million People here.
The real Agenda – a digital prison that the establishment will declare makes us safe and free
The principle of Digital ID, when fixed against the backdrop of what we already do with our data and the seeming ease with which we cand do almost anything online or with smart technology, without even having to think about it, makes all that Starmer and co are doing seem harmless enough.
And that’s the point really. Because there is nothing that the establishment and the government will do today in terms of significant policy change – particularly when it comes to freedom, control and what we are able to do now as opposed to what we soon will not be allowed to do – that they wont either hide and make seemingly irrelevant as part of another policy.
Everything a government of this kind does, where it’s real intentions are not made clear will be delivered in a series of different steps, over what might be a prolonged period of time. Where careful wording that sounds very harmless, will have given them the ability to make changes and introduce mechanisms or ways of working that would only have become necessary – perhaps for reasons of practicality, much later on and at a very different time, usually when we are expected to have forgotten what the original policy was supposedly for.
Look closely and you will see the game that is already afoot right now.
Industry ‘specialists’ and ‘experts’ are already making light of what this new form of Digital ID would mean. With the suggestions circulating, as I write, that the only time anyone would need to use an app or code that sits on our phones, will be when we start a new job.
But isn’t that what our National Insurance Numbers are already for?
Working with and understanding government, how government and the public sector works and how the system speaks and achieves its aims, is like learning an entirely new and very different language that few really get to grips with.
Just in the same way that we have a very dangerous habit of believing that because we all speak English, that US and UK culture are exactly the same.
Even experienced government officers and civil servants fall foul of the same system that they may have worked within for their entire career.
The Global World Agenda, with Starmer falling over himself to open the door
Starmer’s step towards ‘mandatory Digital ID’ is nothing less than a welcome mat to the takeover of every part of our lives.
The successful adoption of this policy and its implementation will be the creation of the requirement that each and every one of us must have and be able to present a universal Digital key, Digi-key, or Digital Life Key in everything that we do.
Indeed, the system may ultimately appear to work and operate seamlessly – especially if humans are eventually forced to be ‘chipped’ or ‘read’ by monitors and even drones that don’t interact with us.
But without that code being present and read at every point of required electronic contract at which we do something new or different each day, when our ‘Digital ID’ will need to be approved by the data that is held centrally on the system about us – everything for us will come to a very rapid and spotlighted stop.
Plans for 15 minute cities to stop us travelling far, moves to ensure we eat only what we are expected to eat, pointers to live wherever and however we are supposed to, rules that require we thing do what we are supposed to, and not to do anything that upsets or offends anyone – can and will be enforced, monitored and linked directly to our Digital ID, through a Social Credit system.
Within the social credit system that will soon follow without change, anything less than the number of points or social credits that we need to be able to do anything, will stop us from doing anything that those in charge don’t want us to, unless they have given us enough points to confirm that they approve.
Britcard is the stuff of nightmares. But communist China has been enforcing social credit for years
You only need look at and research social credit systems in China to see just how far reaching, intrusive and restrictive the systems that the establishment will have the scope to force into every part of our lives – if this dystopian and tyrannical policy should go ahead.
We must all understand that with the digital tools we already have in our pockets as well as those that are coming online, the ability of the establishment to police every one of us will be ridiculously easy for them, not least of all because of AI and the fact that everything they will need to do to control our behaviour wont need people to enforce it, because it can all be done with a computer remotely.
Once the new system of rules and regulations that govern our behaviour is in place – in all probability in response to either World War III or the coming collapse that we will later come to, where there will no doubt be a need for us to trade freedoms and things we used to take for granted, so that we can be ‘helped’ and ‘protected’ by those who rule from above, there will be nothing that we need to exist and to survive independently in life, that we will be able to access legally, without giving our phone, ID Card or chip a swipe – and having it approved.
Starmer’s Britcard or Digital ID is a system that will remove the freedom of the masses to be, do, or think independently and outside of whatever those who are in charge decide should be the rules, just so that anyone who isn’t registered – or disapproves, cannot survive.
This is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist and it’s not about solving an immigration problem at any level or of any kind.
Starmer and his Labour government are trying to open the door to a Digital Prison that will envelope us all, and that it will be almost impossible to step back from, once we have found ourselves within.
Life in the Digital Prison
If you are one of the many already self-policing what you say, when you say it and who you say it to, in order to avoid being accused of and then backlisted for doing or saying something that is wrong – when you actually know that there is nothing wrong or nothing bad intended through what you are doing in any way, you already have a clear idea of how a Key to a Digital controlled Life will make you and I do all the work for our future rulers.
If you think things are bad for us today, they will be much worse when we cannot get money, buy food, pay bills, get on a bus or train, apply for a job, get a qualification or anything that we all still take for granted as being openly available to us today.
Because when we haven’t followed their rules – which under a digital tyranny we will never be able to set – life as we know it is basically over and we will be well and truly stuffed.
The intent behind Digital ID in this ‘Britcard’ form is very sinister indeed. Because whoever has power over the system sets the rules.
Ideas like democracy and the freedom to choose will no longer exist. Because in this dystopian tyranny, somebody else – who you are unlikely to ever meet or know – will already have made all the choices that matter for you.
It won’t matter if those controlling this dystopian life are feeding us food or drink that will harm us; making us vulnerable to harmful situations; exploiting us for whatever purposes suit them; or even guiding us towards decisions about our end of life. Because once we are no longer useful and cannot financially justify our existence to their system, we are basically obstructing their view.
Starmer’s Digital ID is the welcome mat at the doorway of our very own digital prison.
Once we have crossed the threshold, we will quickly realise that all of the apparatus that has increasingly surrounded us as we have enthusiastically welcomed it into our lives, with all the devices that appear to have made everything so very easy, will give the establishment and all the companies and organisations who are on the inside of all this, the collective power to clamp down on everything we know very quickly. Whilst also sweeping aside any business or organisation that also chooses or is unable to comply.
Digital ID won’t stop Immigration, because it isn’t intended to
Whilst the reality we are awakening to may for many be the kind of story that we would associate with conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists, this perspective is yet another carefully crafted narrative that those behind this pathway to dystopia have intended all of us to believe and buy into.
If the government wanted to stop the boats tomorrow, it could and would find a way to do so. In just the same way as the Johnson Tory government was able to lock down the whole of the UK overnight and stop everything, simply because they decided that continuing normal life through the Covid ‘Pandemic’ wasn’t right.
The real twist or perhaps what we might even call the elephant in this digital jail cell is that for Starmer’s Digital ID or ‘Britcard’ to be able to identify anyone who isn’t supposed to be here – which wouldn’t include any illegal immigrant who has been processed already and rehomed anyway, and to then have the kind of impact where it would stop anyone from being able to function illegally in the UK anyway, all of the processes and procedures that police everyone and everything to ensure that we are doing whatever we are supposed to and not doing anything that we aren’t, would need to already be fully in place – including a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency – that we will come back to again shortly).
At the current time, the technology for all of this exists; is available and could be inserted without our consent on our phones and could be rolled out using cards or chips. But the monitoring or registration points needed to ‘catch’ illegal immigrants and ‘exclude’ them (and therefore any of us who refuse to participate) are far enough away from being in place that the change wouldn’t be immediately apparent following the policy being implemented.
(It would be wise to ignore the suggestion that the government will wait until the whole system can be managed under the existing ‘Gov.UK One Login’ system, and that the timeline for this to be operational is at least 10 years – as this timeline itself removes the excuse for the urgency and 2029 timeline of this policy plan)
The legislation must be in place so that the legal infrastructure and requirement placed upon businesses, organisations (and in all likelihood phone airtime and data providers) to participate and act as agents of the state would make the next stages all but inevitable – if the purpose is as genuine as Starmer suggests.
All this to stop a number of people probably a lot less than 6,177 over the year to March, from having jobs?
The excuses suggesting that ‘Britcard’ is what it is being sold as will then very quickly disappear.
The role and evolution of big business to become agents of the state
If you were paying close attention to the dynamics of the government response to the Covid Pandemic, you will have noticed that it in the majority of cases, it was the big, tech-orientated and global-leaning corporate businesses that did very well out of the crisis.
Because the requirements of lockdowns and social distancing somehow turbocharged their business models and helped big businesses to thrive.
To be clear, these are the businesses that government and the wider establishment talk to when they say they are getting advice on what’s good for business and how business should work.
Yet how a genuinely good business works and what many of these companies do to conduct their business is not anywhere near to being on the same page, in the same chapter, the same book. It is certainly not the same thing.
These big businesses already have the technology on their websites and on their tills that will be able to identify you from a Digital Life Key or Digital ID app on your phone.
It will then be simple to refuse to sell you products, supply you with services or even serve you a coffee, if your social credit score doesn’t match. Because you haven’t ‘behaved’ and are tagged by the establishment to somehow be in the wrong.
Few understand that big business doesn’t care about any of us, beyond the money or profit that they can make from us.
Everything big businesses are doing and have been doing is all part of the same agenda and plan, to make the business of supplying everyone’s day to day needs as simple and as streamlined as its possible for it to be, with genuine competition removed from the marketplace, meaning that cost and effort are removed and the absolute minimum of human contact and communication involved.
Small businesses that offer alternatives and what is the remaining competition to this plan, have been or are being steadily and systematically removed – either by being bought out, overburdened by legislation or simply made unviable. Because the big businesses seem to be able to do so much more, so more cheaply, all at a time when we seem to have less and less to spend, each and every day.
What is left of small business after the Digital Life Key or Britcard role out will be unlikely to be able to survive. Primarily because small business owners who have any sense will refuse to become agents of the state by administering the new Digital Policing System first hand.
Or many small businesses simply will not be able to upgrade the technology and manpower that they have that will be necessary to make it work, against a backdrop where for most, any unforeseen expenses added to the critically fragile margins that exist due to what this system has already done will be all it will take to close them down.
The interconnectivity between Digital ID and CBDCs
Opening this very big can of worms alongside the agendas that have steadily wrecked the UK from its foundations up, wouldn’t be complete without touching on the ‘need’ for digital ID to come into being and to sit very snugly or interconnectedly alongside the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) that no normal person or business needs.
The very painful truth about the way that our world works around us today is that money and the value of money now sit at the centre of every part of life.
The value of money and what it means has become more important than people, communities, the environment and basically human life (for all others) itself.
Those within the establishment that control everything to do with money, know exactly how much power over each one of us money now has.
If money is not only digitised, but becomes digitally linked to the individual who possesses that money or to whom it has been credited, using the blockchain technology that a CBDC would be built with, thereby making today’s digital money redundant, then the easiest way to get that person to do whatever the establishment wants them to do, is to create and maintain self-contained system that requires continual digital green-light for every conceivable transaction, where anything outside full compliance means that the supply or even access to the money that the person has, can immediately be switched off.
If you’ve been unlucky enough to have experienced a banking app crashing or going out of service, or the switch machines in a coffee shop or supermarket being out of action and there being no other way of paying for what you want, you will get your head around the reality of just how easy – with the right technology – this will be for a dystopian government to achieve.
Again, we already have a fully digital system that works very well – and that existing digital money system will always continue to improve if the banks, businesses and merchant service providers can see ways to save money (and make more of it) by taking steps to invest as they do.
A CBDC that is linked through a Digital ID like Britcard is about having a money system that makes the money that we have unique and links that money directly to us and how we behave.
The existence of this system and its technology make behavioural control not only likely but guarantees that money can be switched off and kept from us, if we do anything that questioned the establishments rules for control.
We will only need a Britcard or Key to Digital Life if our lives are going to be controlled and run digitally
Starmer’s Digital ID or Britcard is about the implementation of a system that links the establishment to every device and monitoring point that we come into contact with. Creating digital turnstiles across each and every part of normal life and activity where whoever or whatever manages that data point can be used – remotely – to create walls or gates to whatever we want to buy or want to do.
In practice, the false freedom we then have will operate on the basis of ‘computer says no’ – whilst the system can also pinpoint, record and monitor where we are at any specific moment in time.
We know from the way that everything digital has been working up until now, that the system we already have operates very well and beneficially so for all the businesses that hold our data.
The system we have works very well, without there being any need for either the systems that businesses and banks use, or our identification data to be coordinated and available at the centre of government, so that those in charge can use it to do whatever they like.
Those who aren’t registered and compliant with the system that Starmer wants to introduce cannot and will not be identifiable without the infrastructure that monitors and polices this type of Digital ID system being universally rolled out and active in every part of societal life.
The numbers of people who could be identified if this system were already functional and we were all registered and being monitored today would be very low. Because the number of people in the U.K. who are here and shouldn’t be, who have not already been in contact with and therefore registered with the system in some way and therefore have access to some form of registered identification is very small. (Once again, let’s not forget that everyone coming into the UK across the English Channel by boat is registered so that they can then be moved and rehomed)
Nobody can work without a National Insurance Number now, and anyone who has applied for a job at anytime recently will know just how stringent the process is for applicants to make their background and residency status known to prospective employers.
The whole ‘you will need this to work’ story is a massive red herring, and one that has an horrific level of dishonesty and malevolence at its heart.
The benefit of Starmer’s Digital ID or Britcard system isn’t and will not be ours.
Starmer’s Britcard or Digital ID represents nothing less than the transfer of freedom at every human level, to the control of a remotely operated policing regimen that will manifests itself not through an officer of the state following us around, but through our very own electronic devices.
Once everyone is within the system – and that means the businesses that supply all our essential and basic needs too, we will have no choice but to comply with anything and everything that those in control of the system want – no matter how dark or inhuman it might turn out to be for us.
The opportunity for change may be the biggest challenge that we face
At time of writing this Essay, it has been reported that Starmer’s government intend this Digital ID system to implemented and be in place or use no later than 2029 – which of course fits with the plans of those who are really setting the Labour agenda.
Many will be alarmed by the reality that this sounds very much like its roll out is intended to beat the expected date of the next General Election- which if on time, will be the same year.
There is a lot of water set to flow by before then. Not least of all because it is very unlikely that Starmer himself will still be Prime Minister by that time.
There is also much to suggest there are many within the Labour Party itself who will act to stop this madness as soon as they have the chance.
However, the chances that we are currently within and will see the end of a normal parliamentary cycle are limited to say the least.
In no small part due to the economically precarious circumstances the UK is now experiencing, where it has become possible that we will experience an economic collapse at any time. One that could easily see a change in government following closely along behind.
Put that alongside the increasingly likely escalation of the war rhetoric being pushed by the governments (including ours) that are aligned with the WEF and its local management in the form of the EU, and it seems just as likely that an event such as the intrusion of an EU country or nato member airspace could see a Russian plane shot down at any time. And in the hands of governments across the western world who are struggling to keep this broken system running, such an event could see us deliberately plunged into war at any time.
As many commentators and academics are also suggesting, civil war of a kind that doesn’t resemble military sides lining up against each other also seems increasingly likely. Simply because of how disillusioned and how disenfranchised from decision making most people are now feeling, and the reality that this massive undemocratic and unwanted tyrannical step on the part of the government, is likely make that bad feeling consistently worse.
Everything Local is the only good thing for you and for me
Unfortunately, many of the things that seem to make life so easy for us today only work that way because they serve somebody else’s purpose to do so.
All the things in life that seem to make everything seem so easy for us play up to all the negative parts of being human. Whilst steadily removing all of the values, systems and ways of doing everything that might not be glamorous, cheap and easy, but which ultimately creat and maintain a way of life that for everyone would be inherently healthy and good.
The real cost of fast and always accessible money, easy living, touch of a button culture – which has been developing around us as quickly as technological advances have allowed – is that we do not behave, think or even act independently of what’s externally remote to us anymore.
This is the real human tragedy of our times. Because our own greed, selfishness and absence of human values have been progressively used against us to create a situation where self sustainability and looking after ourselves, independently and on our own terms, is on the verge of becoming impossible, if not impossibly hard to do.
Centralisation and all of the tools that align with it such as globalisation, ‘big business’, the EU, World bodies (with the aim of World Government), the patriarchy, top-down hierarchies are the antithesis and polar opposite of everything and every way of life and working that is actually good for people, for communities, for the environment and mankind.
We don’t need everything to be big. We don’t need everything to relate to money. We don’t need everything available to us at the touch of a button. We certainly don’t need someone we will never know or meet to be dictating everything about our lives including what we are allowed to think.
The only way that we can stop the rot and halt this march towards digital tyranny, is to re-embrace the offline world that we are quickly forgetting; return to real life and have and enjoy a life that is built and developed around everything and everyone that we are able to interact with, communicate with or visit face to face, each and every day.
Yes, we have good reason to embrace the forms of new technology that have and are becoming available.
But their use should only ever be to improve the lives of everyone. Not to control, ruin and increasingly to replace the lives and the ability to live of everyone who those few in control no longer see any value in and dictate that the world no longer wants.
A healthy life that offers the environment and systems that everyone needs, so that nobody is ever immediately disadvantaged by factors that are outside of their control can only be offered by a system of governance that is local, community based, and operates independently of regional, national and international bodies in every conceivable way.
The only exception to the need for local governance and properly accountable decision making is where cooperation and collaboration is necessary between communities to achieve mutually agreed targets or goals which are themselves non-political and where there is no transfer of executive decision making or local powers involved.
Decision making and democracy
The only way that we will ever be certain that democracy cannot be abused and replaced by agendas that we may be told are in our best interests, but which are nothing of the sort, is for every decision that will effect the lives of the people within a community, to be made either by those people, or by representatives that those same people have chosen and appointed to represent them, themselves.
Localism in its genuine sense, based upon the return of power to people who we all know and can communicate with and question daily, is the only way that we can be sure that the people will have influence over every meaningful public policy decision, and ensure that we always have genuine public representatives – and not self-aggrandising patsies in control who have sold out to do someone else’s bidding.
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.
Everyone’s ability to work and be financially secure is vital to humanity, whereas accepting an unnecessary AI and Tech-Takeover that nobody genuinely needs will ultimately only benefit the few
The narrative now dictating to us that the Tech and AI Takeover is inevitable is tiring. Not least of all, because the whole idea that progress can and will only go one way is a myth.
Indeed, the myth that the AI and Tech Takeover is now inevitable serves only those who stand to benefit from everything being pushed this one, very specific and wholly unnecessary way.
Granted, many of us do feel that once technology has arrived and it is in our lives, there is no choice but to accept whatever the implications and outcomes of its arrival might be. Even when for increasing numbers of us it is beginning to become frighteningly clear that we and everything that we know may be about to be affected in some disastrous, life-changing way.
However, you may want to ask yourself, ‘Is this tech takeover, and what is going to change a voluntary choice that I am making?’
Did you consciously agree with the direction everything that touches your life digitally is now going?
Did you agree to changes that may quickly lead to you or people you know having no work or hope of ever getting another job?
Did you knowingly allow the parallel, digital universe and the role of arbitrary judgements about you and everything you are, do or can be, to walk in and begin the process of taking over each and every part of your life through the clever use of man-made codes which have been called algorithms?
So many of us fall into the trap of going along with the idea that jobs we know of today will no longer be required or even exist within perhaps just a matter of months because we are told that it represents progress and that the changes that the introduction of new AI-based technologies across life will be better for us all.
But when the narratives and words of politicians, tech gurus and influencers say all or everyone, just exactly who are they really referring to?
Are you going to benefit and in what way?
Are those benefits real, or are they just distractions that appear to make the very small and seemingly meaningless things that we do every day much easier?
Are those benefits really meaningful and long-lasting, or do they cover up how the small wins everything outside of us tells us we need actually covering up the real, long-term losses in our lives that unless we quickly wake up, we will never be able to replace?
Regrettably, few of us are even thinking about the impact and consequences of the changes that we have accepted for the simple reason that everything we have seen and experienced so far, whether it’s the way we shop, are able to access so much through apps or online, or are able to access whatever we believe we want in mere moments online, leaves us with the idea that AI and anything related to digital tech can and will only ever be good for us.
But what was wrong with the way things were two years ago; five years ago, or ten years ago, where the tech that we had in our lives or that we had access to was concerned?
Didn’t life work just as well, and perhaps in some ways that may seem unrelated even better then?
Have computers, smartphones and digital tech really benefitted our lives in the ways that we are led to believe? Or have they actually disadvantaged us and changed our lives in ways that make us very unhappy and create what for some are unmentionable problems, in so many other ways?
Technology and technological improvement or progress is a phenomenon that we must begin looking at in relation to ourselves, the people we care about and those who we have real face to face contact with, regularly within our communities; You know – people living in the real world that is OFFLINE!
Do we actually need a world where we and those people around us do not have jobs and cannot work, because a machine or different software systems can now do all the things that every person does at work, or once did?
Do those people who don’t have jobs really benefit from no longer having work?
Is the best use of AI and new technology to replace us? Or the best use of AI and new technology to assist us?
Surely there can be no doubt that the world around us would be a much better place to live and experience if everyone who can work, does work; and that in return for doing a full weeks work, they in turn receive enough money or remuneration of whatever kind to ensure that they can cover the cost or be able to secure all the basic essentials that give them independence, rather than a situation now evolving where the masses look like they are soon to be left behind.
Where is the drive really coming from for jobs to be lost and make it all seem necessary?
Who benefits from it appearing to be a foregone conclusion that ending jobs and mass redundancy is not a choice that is any of ours to decide?
What we can be sure of is it will not ultimately be people like you and me.
Technology and the advancement of technology and AI is like everything right across life that is being driven by the quest for greater and continuing profits, and the wealth, control, power and influence that quickly follows behind.
We don’t see it because we aren’t supposed to and that’s why what’s really changing underneath what we can see is actually leaving us, our communities and our humanity behind.
The choices being made about the way that new technology is being rolled out and used are not being made in the best interests of the masses. Because if they were, they would not be threatening to take away jobs and resulting in outcomes like the destruction of communities and to lives that it will bring.
If the purposes driving AI and new Tech were genuinely about improving life for all, the changes underway would not be beginning to impact us all negatively, just so that business owners, tech owners and those that benefit can elevate themselves in every way, whilst their actions and choices begin to leave everyday normal people like you and I behind.
Yes, the idea that all jobs, tasks and requirements could be met by machines, software and automation will sound appealing if it means that everyone can do and have whatever they might want without ever having to do a day’s work or lift a finger in effort, ever again.
But just how real do you or anyone that you know believe that idea to be?
Do you really think that the tech companies and those who control AI and digital technology are working day and night at an incredible pace to create a utopia where we all do nothing, pay for nothing, are given everything for free and have whatever we want in our lives without paying for it or working for it?
Wouldn’t we be seeing and experiencing signs of this great giveaway already, if they really were on the altruistic pathway to greatest giveaway to everyone else ever known?
The answer is that whoever and whatever is controlling all of this only has the benefits to themselves in mind. Or they would be happy for AI, for tech and the advancements that are available to be used only to improve life and working conditions for everyone, rather than them being imposed at the head of a revolution, deliberately hidden in plain sight, that is apparently set to leave the majority of the people across the world behind.
The narrative about the role of AI is a myth and the creation of a prophecy that can and will only become true, because we believe the narratives and respond to them as if they were already true. Not Because they are actually real and the AI takeover is as complex or on its imminent way to sentience or being genuinely all-knowing in any way.
The irony is that if we continue to believe the hype; continue to be fooled into thinking AI can and will do all we are being told it will, simply because we have been blindsided by the speed that it works and what we have seen it do so far, we will walk into an elephant trap where the masses will have made themselves irrelevant and we will soon be of no use to those who are controlling all of this and believe it is their right to exploit everything and the lives of all others, if it will help them to achieve whatever they want to do.
The advances in digital technology and Artificial Intelligence are just another step in a long-term process of centralisation and power transfer by design, where the power and Personal Sovereignty that all human beings should have the right to enjoy, has slowly but surely been stolen, but with our manufactured consent.
Our independence and personal power have been progressively eroded and transferred to organisations and people who have no idea who we are, what we do and know nothing about the communities and places where we live.
Yet they now find themselves on the cusp of being able to control every part of our lives and existence through the removal of our independence, making life dependent upon them and their system, which can and will only be able to exist because we have failed to question and reject the idea that this all represents progress for humanity.
Without change, the creation of a mass sub-class of people who can do nothing more than exist – if it is indeed possible for them to continue to do so – is now inevitable and the only way our subservience to this system and what it is dictating can take us.
To be clear, the AI Takeover and technology revolution that we are being conditioned to expect is not necessary. It is not legitimate at any level or in any way.
Technology and innovation should always be used to benefit the whole of mankind. Not just those who create it, own it, regulate it or pay for it, with money they would never have even had, if they had not first corrupted and manipulated the monetary and economic systems of the world so that it would appear to have legitimately gifted them everything that they now have.
Life and what it should offer every person was never meant to be this way.
Power over us all was never meant to be concentrated within the hands of just a few.
Centralisation, remoteness and the dehumanisation of every process and function that maintains and provides for life was never meant to be funnelled into the hands of others. People who will soon have the ability to choose whether other people live or die, based on using the digital chains that our own eagerness to have more of everything has unwittingly enabled them to wrap around a lot more than just our wrists.
Walking away from a system that puts money and the technology that enables it first, as the absolute priority before the masses of people is key to creating a different future. A good future for all, where everyone once again has the opportunity to be free, to be independent and to enjoy fulfilling the functions necessary to create and maintain a genuinely good life. All the time working together and collaborating only with those strictly necessary within our communities to provide everything that is essential for life in a real, localised world where everyone and everything can be trusted, because it can always be seen.
Simplicity of life; simplicity of governance; simplicity of business models and structures; simplicity of money and the systems that only administer it are key to improving every part of life and creating the equitable experiences and opportunities that only real justice, fairness and balance in everything can provide.
Yes, the technology we have certainly has its place.
But the place of tech is to help humanity; not replace it.
People need jobs more than anyone needs a Tech Takeover. Because we all need to function in the world; to contribute to it and to what we all need from each other collectively in some way, and then in return receive whatever we need that will at the very least meet all of our essential and basic needs, so that we can function and support those we care about without ever having to seek or become reliant upon help.
We must reject the use of AI, Tech and the takeover of real life by the digital universe.
We need to get back to basics with the prioritisation of businesses and business structures that are essential to life being sustainable and maintained locally.
Businesses that employ people need to be sized in such ways that mean everyone in every community has work to do and a contribution to make within a system where everyone who can work does work and receives everything they need to be functionally independent and therefore able to meet all their own needs.
Imagine the 21st century equivalent of the village green, where every essential and basic need for members of the community is met by small businesses dedicated to meeting just the needs of the people that everyone knows and meets face to face, pretty much each and every day.
Businesses that are and only ever will be big enough to provide services and goods to the people they serve as specialists in whatever it is that they do. So that customers always have the best experience possible for them to have, and the business itself prioritises just those needs and pays all of the staff and its working shareholders fairly and justly, ensuring that retail prices will never exceed an affordable relationship with what everything genuinely costs.
This scenario is not only possible. It has now become necessary, if we want to enjoy lives that are built around values and care for everyone, for our communities and the environment that supports us. Rather than pursuing a desperate path to make life and everything we ever do about whatever material wealth, possessions and power that we have.
Money, profit and everything that prompts and promotes the greed that underpins it are the real reasons for centralisation and the transfer of control.
There is no humane reason for any person to become impoverished by the implementation of any form of technology that isn’t being used purely for the benefit of humanity or the public good.
Each of us see the problems this country is facing from different points of view.
Whilst conversations about the crisis now unfolding with a range of different people would almost certainly deliver a range of common themes, the emphasis, value or meaning of each of them will almost certainly be different.
However, the one commonality, which isn’t about anything that we all have in common at all, would be the solutions that almost all of us will have based on our own world view, that in the bigger scheme of things, may be in no way similar at all.
Ironically, because so many of us have so many interpretations of the whys, hows and whats that have got us all here, and share them with what will be a relative few, we spend next to no time – if indeed any time at all, thinking about any of the common problems that we all really do share.
We certainly don’t think about the ways we can work together to create a better way of life for everyone and then how we get the leaders and mechanisms in place that will actually get us there.
The devil is in the detail
It really is no accident that the UK is in the kind of mess that it is. Because life has become so very complicated – and deliberately so.
The more detail, the more distracting and the more impossible a solution to just about anything might seem. Even to those amongst us who really can see that the status quo cannot continue and that no matter how bought into the things we like about the way we live – which we want to keep but don’t recognise that they are actually the part of the problem that’s making everything so impossible to fix – we really do need to snap out of the fixation with noise that’s doing none of us any good.
We must recognise that the things that work well for everyone and will work even better for everyone are much simpler than what we have been convinced we need.
It is inevitable that we will keep tripping ourselves up each and every time we think of the next step as being only about putting our own self-interest first.
Unfair, Unjust and Unworkable living, demonstrated best by Tax
Perhaps the best example of how we get lost and misdirected by the detail of what needs to change for us, rather than focusing on what needs to change so that it works for everyone, relates to the question of tax, taxation and everything else that means people like you and I are stumping up cash that we could often do with being able to spend, just so we can live without debt or in some cases rely on handouts or even food banks.
Yes, even framing the ‘tax issue’ this way will make some prickly – and that really is the point.
The UK Tax code is today thought to be over 21,000 pages and 10 million words long, giving everyone the distinct impression that the subject of how the bill for government action and delivery gets paid for (ostensibly on our behalf), needs to be tailored specially to everyone as if bespoke governance is the only kind of governance that’s really fair to everyone.
This is ‘The day when Britons stop paying tax and start putting their earnings into their own pocket’. Or alternatively, the final day of the year when every penny we’ve earned goes to the government – if we start counting on January 1st, which was this year (2025) calculated as being June 11th by the Adam Smith Institute.
The reason I’m using this figure isn’t to piss anyone off by drawing attention to the fact that as an average, we arguably all work for no other reason than to keep the wheels of government turning every year for at least 5 months.
I’m doing so because it may be the only way to look at the relationship all taxpayers have with the government in the same way. Given how easy it is to get sidetracked by the question of what everyone earns!
June 11th 2025 was the 162nd day of the year (as 2025 is not a leap year), and with 365 days in 2025, this means that in comparative terms, people are giving over 44% of their earnings (162 days divided by 365 days), before they can even begin to think about what they need to spend money on, in turn before anything that they might actually want.
For a moment, let’s forget the amount anyone is actually earning for themselves, as we know that some have considerably more than others, whilst many just don’t have anywhere near what it takes to live without struggling to make ends meet, and then take it as read that everyone is giving up 44 Pence in every Pound they earn (£0.44).
After realising just how much of everything we do have taken from wages and then what we pay for that includes some form of tax, it doesn’t take much to realise that government or rather the model of government that we have is simply unaffordable, unsustainable and that we must do everything we can to find a different and much better way to pay for the things that we share.
Regrettably, the complexity of rules and regulations supposedly there to benefit and protect us don’t stop at taxation.
One of the reasons that every part of life, that doesn’t already relate to the question of financial affordability in some way, seems so difficult or restricted, is because our freedoms and therefore our independence from the system and government are already being actively controlled in many different silent rules that have deliberately been put there using the excuses like health and safety, and protecting us or someone in some way.
Even if we aren’t actively being followed around by a police officer all the time the fact that we are aware of and abiding by these rules usually adds up to being the same.
Government isn’t what it should or was ever supposed to be
Whilst many would actually like to see the wealthiest in our society directly paying at least 44% of their income to the government to help run everything outside of our front doors, we still need to keep some perspective when it comes to the obvious question we will come back to in a moment about who pays and begin with the question, ‘Does government actually work?’
Government certainly functions. Even the deepest or most vocally critical of what government in the UK does will find it difficult to argue otherwise.
Because no matter the organisation or service that comes under the rather large umbrella of government, they all continue to do something. Even if they are not delivering what we might agree to be the correct results. And that’s the only reason it can be argued that it all works.
However, functioning and succeeding are not the same thing.
The time is long overdue that we all took a very hard and questioning look at every part of government and decided what, if anything, public services should or could be; just exactly where the scope and reach of government should end, and then and only then, what many believe to be the most important question of all, ‘How whatever government and the public sector does is paid for and by whom’.
Whilst it remains the case that there are services, infrastructure and even public facing roles that every modern society needs to be provided by the community, so that everyone can have universal experiences and opportunities which will always be the same, no matter who, where or what you are, the practical approach to not-for-profit service delivery – which this really should in almost all cases be, is not the same as the public sector and system of governance that we have today.
Every part of government and the public sector that we have today is focused on delivering (political) and therefore biased agendas which will inevitably advantage some people more than others in some way. Or is all about the jobs, terms and conditions for whoever the incumbent employees are who currently have the jobs.
There have always been politicians, officers and suppliers who for many reasons have chosen to advantage themselves in some way, if and where they failed to have the integrity to exercise their roles properly. And regrettably, it’s the position of trust we gave them all that enabled them to behave in such questionable ways.
Yet even more shocking reality that we all face today is that the whole public sector and everything that runs within it is now dysfunctional in terms of delivery in some of the most critical ways.
It has only been able to become this way because decisions have either been made (or not made) at the very top by people who really should have known better, and whose actions have allowed or facilitated everything that serves the public unwinding in this way.
Money before People
Regrettably, like so many areas of life today, the role of money – which stretches far beyond the scope of the tax question that we’ve already considered – is also the key element within the dysfunctionality of government and public services across the UK. Because the poor leaders that we have are obsessed with the idea that the only way any problem can and will be fixed is by having enough money to spend – no matter where it comes from, which is itself is these days even better for some politicians who dare not do anything which could restrict what they are already committed to spend.
Idealism and agendas cost a lot of money. Because their implementation requires the creation of systems, rules and infrastructure somebody wants but nobody needs.
The very perverse outcome from decades of government and the public sector serving itself, its people and whoever or whatever influences them, is that the changes that have been made in every way imaginable to support this are now costing too much for either the Taxpayer or government itself to sustain.
We have a VERY BIG problem. Because nobody in government or who wishes to form one either can or will be honest about the true depth and breadth of the mess that the UK is now in.
With Tax rises thought to be well on their way this coming Autumn, the reality that too many of us face is the 44% (or probably much more) that we are already contributing to this public sector black hole through so many of the things that we buy, pay for or earn, are set to keep going up.
All to cover the exploding costs of incompetence, waste and the furtherance of playing up to what are very dangerous egos. Because somewhere in amongst all of this the point has been lost that government does not and never did have the right to exist over the people that it was created to represent.
For any kind of government to be unrepresentative of the people it represents, would by its very nature and intended purpose mean that it represents someone or something else.
Money: The drug wrecking everything to enrich and empower the few
The way that money actually works, how it is controlled and worst but not least, how it is actually created at will, is the truth that sits behind everything bad, that few of us will willingly believe.
It’s much easier to believe that it is all good rather than even having the potential to be bad – even when almost everyone can see the destruction that money or the lack of it is causing to everyone in some way or form.
At the heart of the money tree and its root and branch system sits the mechanisms that supposedly fund government, but actually do so by doing everything to help grow the volume of money that is in circulation, so that the public spending – and the only way that politicians know how to get themselves out of trouble, can leverage ‘growth’ so that the entire shitshow can be hid.
Unfortunately for all of us, the exponential growth of the ‘money’ that has entered circulation, particularly since the responses of government to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Covid Pandemic of 2020, has wildly contributed to the inflationary spiral that accompanies such an expansion of available cash.
The creation of money that doesn’t relate to anything else like productivity or output devalues the money and incomes that normal people already have, as well as what they have the ability to earn.
It does so at breakneck speed whilst the real value of everything is funnelled towards those who control and benefit from what is a fully legal, legitimised but nevertheless completely corrupt system that appears real, because they have typically become millionaires and billionaires in the process.
Put simply, the lowest paid and most vulnerable now have zero chance of ever being able to earn enough to live independently of benefits, charity, debt or worse.
For as long as the money madness continues, the bubble containing all of those who are branded as being a drain on the system will rapidly continue to expand.
The leadership void or black hole
When a country has such shit, incompetent leadership, and has done for the period of time that the UK has, it wouldn’t be unfair for any of us to be asking, ‘How did we get them?’ and ‘How did they get to where they are?’.
However, as we all need to realise, very few of us do ask these questions or indeed any questions that are like them. And because we don’t, each time an election takes place locally or nationally, we are, as a majority, making the same mistakes over and over again.
We are chewing at the very same shit sandwich with the bits just wrapped differently with words, rosettes and faces – all hiding the same miserable self-interested and dangerously incompetent content that always delivers outcomes that are the same.
Because we have a very bad, self-destructive habit of going along with the idea that the political fairies come along and give us all a genuine choice at election time – as all good democracies surely would, we have not only accepted that government after government and council after council has worked on all of our behalf. We have also jumped into an elephant trap of our own making that tells us these same fairies will deliver the politicians to choose from at the next election, who will sort out and solve the very same mess that they and their own kind created (with a little help from their friends) in the first place.
Sadly, there are no exceptions to the reality that we must face that there are no real leaders in politics today.
The so-called leadership we see, and what the people we identify as leaders say, is much more likely to be aligned with us hearing and seeing whatever we need to fuel our own confirmation biases than it either is or ever will be about the solutions and outcomes that we might not be ready to hear about, but nonetheless actually need.
Victim or Victimiser: There is no longer an in between
As a society and culture, we are collectively suffering what might be the worst type of addiction of all. Simply because it is majority of us are addicted rather than the few.
Meaning that that same majority is completely out of touch with the realities of what that addiction does and will remain so, until the supply runs out – which is where all those who cannot afford to live independently within the current system have or are beginning to find out.
Money, or rather the way that money is used by those who control the system – and that means government and politicians, who are very much under their control too, has become the key factor in every equation and consideration in our lives.
The role of money and its reach has dehumanised everything to the point where money and the power, influence and control it is perceived to give at every level of life has become more important than the value of life and community itself.
Few realise just how their lives are completely at the mercy of the ability to spend, borrow and achieve the momentary of transitory hit that this money centric, Moneyocracy we inhabit demands of everyone and which is enforced by the barrage of non stop marketing and remote, typical digital pressure which comes at us constantly and demands that we all conform.
Money; what it does, what it can do and what it says about you is the qualification and gatekeeper that runs through every part of functional life and if you are in, you are in and if you are out, you really are all the way out and fully at the mercy of those who continue to be ‘in’.
The tragedy of the system is the ruthless and methodical way that human behaviour has been used against the masses by the few and the experts they pay who understand it.
The sweeties and trinkets that have been flowing towards for decades have only been bettered by what has appeared to be the endless ability to secure more and more credit to buy it with, all the time becoming more and more essential to secure as real earnings and wealth have been stripped by the printing of all this extra ‘pretend’ or non existent money that even relatively wealthy people have no chance of keeping up with.
The irony is that those of us who continue to believe we benefit from what the establishment is doing and therefore acquiesce or go along with it are – through our actions – making those who cannot the victims.
All for no better reason than this whole situation could not exist without the elites treating the masses as a resource that is not real. But is instead just like oil, coal, precious metals, forests, farms, land and even animals – and just something else for those who ‘own them’ to exploit.
We all need to contribute to what we share in life. But real life cannot continue if we are required to contribute everything we have
Whilst we must all accept it is correct for everyone to contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of the systems and infrastructure that serve us all, from the moment we step onto the pavement or road outside of our homes, what we share is not and never should become more important than the right to have a fully independent, functioning and self supported life experience.
The system that we have discussed is at breaking point and cannot continue as it has, or as it is today.
Those in charge don’t know how to do anything other than borrow or tax us. And as the system can no longer sustain the borrowing that idealism and agendas have made necessary, the current government are now looking at everything they can tax beyond everything they already do.
One way or another, the system is going to collapse. Because we are all living unsustainably in a system that itself is unsustainable and at the centre of which is a plague which is the absence of real leadership, replaced with what is instead no better than incompetent management that makes it the most unsustainable part of it all.
Real life and a money-centric economy are mutually exclusive outcomes
Government already costs us way too much – even at 44%.
That’s before we even begin to consider the work and additional value to public service that charities and other nonprofit organisations bring, that we are all in one way or another contributing to too.
The whole model of economics needs to be restructured and redeveloped so that it supports life, rather than feeding off it like the giant parasite that the financial system and the role that government plays in it now is.
A realistic level for everyone to contribute to ‘the community’ would be around 10% – without any form of exception for anyone.
We should also be considering the added requirement that everyone able to work also contributes the equivalent of 10% of their working time and the skills and experience they offer, to help make our communities, their governance and infrastructure work.
Thereby creating real buy-in and ownership for what we all share, whilst drastically cutting the scope and influence of an out-of-control sector, and the ballooning costs that are actually paying for lots of agendas snd idealistic ideas, but very little that is actually about people and certainly nothing that’s doing everyone equally any good.
The identity, qualification and process of finding good leaders
Good public leaders, public representatives and public servants, would not facilitate or contribute to the creation, implementation and furtherance of agendas, ideologies and idealism that doesn’t serve the genuine best interests of those who they have been elected, appointed or recruited to serve.
Yet we have been experiencing decades of exactly that. And we have no hope that this will change if we continue to rely on a system that needs to change giving us the leaders who will then do the right thing when it comes to the delivery of that change.
Contrary to accepted thought, we do not need money to play the role across society that it has been deliberately engineered to do.
Power and control are certainly not a gift that should be secured within the hands of a distant, faceless, unanswerable few who we will never meet and whether intended or not, are treating humanity as a resource and no better than a numbers game that they can do with as they like. All as if they are now, as the result of decades of manipulating the system and bending it to their will, the new gods of everything with everyone else’s destiny theirs and only theirs to decide.
The truth that few see is that the centralisation and push for remote control of everything that globalisation and everything that walks alongside it has been, has been the active and complete restructuring of our society and culture, so that nothing can or will work without the say so and direction of those who make all the decisions.
None of this was accidental. Locality, local relationships, local businesses, local supply chains, local decision making and everything that goes with it promotes sovereignty and independence. It encourages and grows a living environment and cultural model that is good for everyone other than those who want to advantage themselves and be in power or control.
Meanwhile, the downsides of centralisation and everything that goes with it are the for every one of us to see.
However, despite the various attempts, compelling rhetoric and highly credible narratives that work so well when playing up to the addiction for material living that we currently have, there is an alternative and much better alternative to running life and everything that we and our communities need. And the real upside of this real alternative is that it centres completely around putting normal people and our local communities back in control.
The fact that generations of political leaders and those they favour or are influenced by have misused and abused their position to create a system with faux legitimacy – simply by legalising immorality to make it appear moral and therefore unquestionable, doesn’t make it right. And it certainly doesn’t become right, just because those in power today continue to insist and behave as if it is so.
We have a legitimate right to hold power and control over our own destiny.
The power of collective decision making should sit as part of a new structure of governance within our communities, amongst people and representatives who we ourselves select and know we can trust.
A moral obligation arguably also exists to reset the entire system and the various devices such as money and the tools of governance the existing system uses, so that we once again bring the focus of everything in life back to people, to humanity and to creating the best kind of environment that we can to ensure that every person has the life experience that everyone – and not just a selective few should have.
However, nobody else will step up or step in to do this for us – no matter how compelling or necessary this might seem.
Whether addicted or not, the choice and the steps necessary to return power to people and to our communities, and with it the creation of a genuine democracy we can all trust and believe in, are ours and only ours to take.
Nobody in the public sphere today can or will do this. None of them will give us back the influence that is rightly ours. Because they all imagine themselves as leaders who can only lead by having absolute control over everyone and everything else.
We don’t have a roadmap agreed for the future.
But there are plenty of ideas we can share about the outcomes that will serve all of us equally well and in a balanced, fair and just way.
This is where the conversation should start.
The one thing we can be sure of is that real leaders do actually lead. But also know that it is real equality, balance, fairness and justice that applies equally to everyone where the pathway to everything good for everyone really starts.
Adam Tugwell 