Category: Local Politics

We have the wrong politicians doing the wrong things because their reasons for being there are wrong

“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”, is a very wise and famous quote from Albert Einstein – who as the world and historically renowned Scientist that he was, had plenty of experience and empirical data to back it up.

Not that we should even question the truth anyway. Given that it really is common sense that doing the same things result in the same experiences – like driving the same route to work at the same time; ordering the same food at the same takeaway, or indeed taking exactly the same approach that we do for the things we don’t do every day, but where repeated patterns of behaviour (doing and NOT doing things) all add up to the same, over and over again.

Our approach to politics is insane; so, it’s hardly surprising that what we are experiencing today is also insane

What few really think about, and some would not willingly agree with is the reality that we are now doing the same things in our relationship with politics, elections and government, repeatedly.

Although the people we elect, the political parties we put in power and what they say and appear to do may appear to be different; when it comes to the results and outcomes we are experiencing, it all – no matter who or what we elect – is adding up to the very same thing.

The illusion of change

Getting our heads around the reality that Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and yes, even Reform are all working for the same outcomes isn’t an easy equation to wrestle with.

We do, after all, have a rather contradictory relationship with the truth, that when it suits our purposes, a different person, company, organisation or party will always be different. Whereas when it comes to everything that benefits us personally, we fall into the equally massive elephant trap of believing everyone else thinks and behaves the same.

Yet it is the case that we have politicians with different faces, different attitudes, different ‘politics’, different affiliations and different backgrounds, all delivering the same things. Because no matter what information or observation we use to make our next election choices, every Party that holds power or gets candidates elected to Parliament or our Councils are recruiting and selecting the same kinds of people who will do, say and ultimately be whatever the parties decide they want those politicians to be.

The system has a system for electing politicians

Unfortunately for us, the concept of democracy in the U.K. – no matter how celebrated and championed it may be, really is one of the biggest whoppers we fool ourselves with – especially as we are all taking part in and contributing to the lie.

Yes, if there was a General Election tomorrow, most of us would have a Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Reform candidate to choose from on the ballot paper and perhaps an SNP, Green or Plaid Cymru candidate (or other) too.

But these candidates are all people who have been assessed, considered, qualified and then put forward as the choice of their Party, then and only then to then be placed before us as an option when we make our choice, whenever the next election comes.

We don’t choose our politicians. Someone else does and that means those politicians will always (be expected to) put their loyalty to who put them on that list, first, before anyone or anything else – including the people who vote for them who they are supposedly there to represent.

The people who want to be politicians

It’s not helpful to believe that everyone in politics is there or that they got there because they are all in it for themselves.

There are certainly some very good and just as many well-intended people who put themselves forward to become candidates, for all the Political Parties, who really did step forward with every intention of doing the right thing for everyone.

However, in a political system that works and operates for the system itself, rather than the people that the political system is supposed to represent, it is inevitable that genuine public representatives will either quickly become disillusioned, once the penny drops about how politics really works once they are on the inside. Or they will be controlled with threats or punishments meted out by their party apparatus, or they will be removed (and sometimes thrown to the media wolves), if they will not agree to toe the accepted line.

To succeed in politics as it is today really does mean doing whatever you are told. Because the affiliation to the Political Parties and whoever is running them today is more important than anything – If the politicians themselves, want to stay in the limelight, keep getting rejected and therefore keep the ‘job’.

Where do the voters register in all this in so far as the party politician’s hierarchy of needs is concerned?

Well not very high – if indeed it registers in any way at all, and that’s why we only feel we matter to politicians during the run up to the election from the day whenever it has been called.

Our feelings and intuition really don’t lie. But because the election is then over, we quickly forget how we felt.

By the time the next election comes around we just go and do the same things all over again!

What happens when the wrong people get elected

You may have heard of something called the 10,000 hour rule that is the suggested time it takes anyone to achieve mastery in anything.

Whilst understanding and fluency may be achieved in somewhat less, depending on approach, natural ability and things like motivation or dedication, the point is that it takes time and effort, being immersed within whatever it is you may be trying to learn, before you have even the remotest chance of making a good job look like its natural or normal to everyone.

Where a mastery rule might more easily be applied to driving or learning the guitar, the rule also applies to becoming a great public representative too.

Politicians will never get anywhere near to becoming the leaders and standard bearers that we need, if they are only learning within a system and from others that is corrupted and completely warped.

Slaves to the system

Unfortunately, when the system and everything that works within that system works and operates in ways that are wrong, the new entrants to that system – no matter who they are and what they can offer, will be expected and ultimately conditioned to treat and respect the way that the system works as being normal – irrespective of whether the system really could ever be considered to be normal or not.

As our system of government has been corrupted by ideologies and agendas that don’t work for the people of the U.K. in any real or meaningful way, we really are in deep shit when it comes to changing anything.

Because everyone and everything has been corrupted and redirected so that it points in the same way.

Change means changing everything

The problem of solving all problems (and there are many of them) therefore, is that changing one thing or changing a few of them won’t make any difference. Because the size, interconnectivity and reach of everything in the public sector and government will just absorb any form of isolated change and basically change it back, meaning that we are straight back to experiencing the same things.

To change anything means changing the system itself. And for anyone who can begin to fathom what that really means, there is a dawning realisation that without an incredible form of leadership at the helm of this ship as we know and see it today, the only way that this kind of change will be possible, will be if the right kind of people are in place to pick everything up and run with it, when everything as we currently know it collapses. (which in real terms could happen at any time)

Until then, unless politicians and those who want to be in power take a very different approach and one that could lead to the kind of leadership that we now need, things will just keep getting progressively worse.

The only discernible difference will be the speed of more problems arising, as the wrong people in politics are going to keep getting everything wrong for everyone else, because the process of replacing them is also completely wrong.

Is there still any hope for Reform and a ‘coalition of the right’?

Disappointing as Reform and the opportunity they are squandering is turning out to be, there must remain at least a little hope that Farage may yet have a lucid moment and realise his controlling approach and stranglehold on the Party isn’t the stuff of what memorable legacies are made of. No form of leadership will succeed in this fight that obsessively works top-down.

Whilst the Birmingham Conference and the policy snippets that have been shared are as alarming for what they hint at, as is the over reliance Reform clearly has in Conservative politicians crossing the political floor who have track records aligned to everything that’s already wrong, it is interesting to observe that there may be some recognition that nothing in politics is going to be as easy as it seems.

Indeed, posts on social media over the weekend appear to have suggested Richard Tice has acknowledged that Reform may not be ready if an election were to be called in the immediate future. And with the genuine and growing risk that the next General Election will come much sooner than the 2027 timetable Reform have themselves talked about over the weekend, we can only hope that they are taking this all a lot more seriously than what the glitter bombing indicates.

Changing things for the better

Change of the kind we need should really be viewed in the context of being a two-stage or two environment things.

  1. Within the context of how everything works now
  2. Within the context of the coming collapse where people will accept the changes that will help everyone most, because they don’t feel they will be losing anything

Meaningful change, NOW

Like many of the highly intoxicating suggestions that any politician that doesn’t have power can make to an audience desperate for everything to change in ways that suit them at  the flick of a switch, what we are being told can be delivered today, by whoever takes power at the next election, versus what can actually be delivered when we get there, are two VERY different things.

It is important to recognise that many of the things that are happening in politics today aren’t just as a direct result of having had Labour in power for the past 14 months – as everyone else in politics is heavily invested in convincing us all that we should believe.

Indeed, everything that is happening today is the direct result of decades of faulty government, run and brought into being by politicians from all sides working to agendas which may not even be theirs, but are certainly not ours.

The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma

In a previous post I wrote about The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma, where the issue of expectation meeting reality for an incoming government on the day after the election really hits home. Only then will the breadth, depth and full scope of the challenge that awaits any government and leader who really wants to deliver for the people be fully exposed to light.

Even with a working majority of keen and eager new MPs, determined to do everything that they have promised to the people who elected them; the morning after the election night before will offer them little more than a brick wall when it comes to understanding the real task that awaits in changing even the smallest things. When the wheels of government and all the people who work within it are anything but aligned.

Preparedness for leading through and beyond the coming collapse is an issue of our time

The mastery of politics and government, its systems, relationships and how things genuinely work at every level will be essential for anyone who is tasked with delivering and guiding any new agenda – IF there is a genuine desire to change things for the better within the system that we currently have, without very quickly precipitating a complete collapse.

Whereas the coming collapse may arguably prove to be the  best thing for everyone all-round, the reality we face is that if what remains of the governance structures that we do know should fail and collapse before we have the kind of leaders in place who have what it will take to navigate what will by then surely have become the most horrific mess, there is a risk – and a real risk too – that the  void that will be created will be filled by anyone and anything that can  step into it and seem credible. And this could prove to be a very dark day indeed, when it comes to delivering on the most pressing questions that people have like the supply of safety, security and the basic essentials like water and food.

Enthusiastic and perhaps even knowledgeable in other areas of life as they may be, the people who are keen to step into the breach that we can all see opening around us today, are unlikely to be able to answer the most essential questions that circumstances are quickly going to demand, when we reach the stage where everyone knows there is a clear and definable leadership need.

Yes, whilst the wheels keep turning and things hold together, they may be able to tinker around the edges and tell us that they are winning victories and delivering success, much as Reform are doing in respect of their recent local authority takeovers, right now.

However, the very best that any genuine UK and public-serving government could do for us after the next election, to begin the process of change that we need, is treat the whole situation as the emergency that it arguably already has become.

They must begin taking steps to help people whilst holding off the inevitable collapse, whilst people are put in place to lead across what is left of the system as we know it, who are not there to follow any agenda for them or the people who put them there, other than the one that actually works for us all.

Real Change: Post-Collapse

A little bit of change isn’t going to cut anything in real terms and the only circumstances under which enough people will accept that there is nothing left that benefits them that they could therefore lose, will be when the system as we know it has actually collapsed and nothing works in the way that we understand it to do so now.

It sounds bleak. But it will be much better for all of us if we have politicians today who are thinking ahead and getting ready to do the things necessary to ensure that everything works for us tomorrow.

Whilst many find it hard to believe, the agenda that has been driving politics for so long has always intended there be a societal collapse that would come after a careful and coordinated process of transferring wealth, personal power and independence from the masses to the few. So that when the collapse comes, we would all very quickly accept help on whatever terms it is offered by those who appear to be positioned best to meet our basic and essential needs.

The cost of accepting that help will be incredible for people like you and I. And the irony is that it is very unlikely that once things have actually collapsed, that any of the people who we recognise in politics and across the establishment today, will have the ability to do anything other than control us with whatever rules and governance devices they use to bribe us with – meaning that there will be very little coming other than restraint and a hard stick in return.

Opening to a different, better future

The real answer: solution and opportunity – even though it wont feel like any such thing in the immediate aftermath of the collapse – will come from decision making and leadership heading straight back to our local communities.

It is in our communities, where real people looking after the needs of the real people under their care and taking a very practical approach to governance in real time, whilst the systems and processes that we need and which will be completely localised are put in place to support everyone – that we can ensure that a new model of locally focused democracy can quickly be implemented, putting people and their communities back in control of their lives and environment – as should always have been the case.

Please take a look at Our Local Future to see the kind of governance model that might make this work.

We need to choose who we choose from at election time

In so far as future elections are concerned and electing people who can and will be the difference that we need, we can no longer accept it as being either correct or that there is any need for the process of choosing who our public representatives are to be franchised out to political parties. No matter who they are or what they have promised they will deliver and be.

It really is quite incredible that up until now, we have simply accepted that its perfectly normal for every decision that has real implications and consequences for us and for the people we care about to be made by people we don’t know, have probably never met and that we don’t have any genuine reason to trust.

Because we don’t already select, qualify and check the people we choose from at election time, we really have no reason to lose our shit over the consequences when they cause pain for us within our lives, and there doesn’t appear to be any way that we can stop or prevent the people who are in politics from doing whatever the hell they like.

We MUST select people to represent us all from within our own communities and ensure that they are always accountable to and responsible towards us all, first, as the priority and above all things – even to themselves and what they may want or believe in personally, themselves.

It is possible for us all to select candidates and even create a choice of candidates for every election that we have right now. But the reality we face on that score is that without the wider system change that we so desperately need, doing so piecemeal rather than in a fully universal or comprehensive way means that we will once again just end up banging our heads against the wall.

Flipping everything on its head

We need a very different kind of politician to be representing all of us. No matter where we currently believe our political allegiances lie.

It is because we are continuing to consider politics as being part of a tribe that falls in behind a specific set of ideas or agendas that we are in the mess that we are in right now.

Putting people first isn’t idealistic. It’s just being practical. And when it gets done the right way and with the right outcomes in mind, everything that is currently wrong with everything around us will get addressed and everything good for us will begin to fall into place.

Links:

The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma
Our Local Future | FULL TEXT
Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE | Full Text
The Wrong Politicians PDF_Vers1_8Sep25Download

Politicians are more interested in who owns a policy and rubbishing those they don’t than any outcome that will benefit us

Life is happening to people like you and I right now.

Our communities are in trouble. Crime is running out of the door from police control. People cannot afford to feed themselves or meet the basic costs to live. There is genuine discontent growing amongst us and fear that if there ever were any adults in politics, they have long since left the room and deserted us all.

Without good leadership and with no sign that we will ever have any again, we are wrestling with the reality that we are now on a doom loop of politically driven mayhem, that bears no relationship with what public representation and democracy was intended for.

Everything we are experiencing would seem desperate enough, even without the fear-driven narratives that seem set to create drama from the chaos that we are already in. Narratives that are being pushed by everyone with a platform – and not least of all, the politicians themselves.

Whilst talk for those politicians and activists without power or responsibility is certainly cheap – because they have the excuse of not being able to act, as the power to do so isn’t currently theirs, there is no longer a defining line between the words of those who can act or rather could if they wanted to, and those who don’t have any ability to’.

We have now reached the rather troubling point that anything that will be good for us, the People and that we might not only want and need, but should be able to expect our public representatives to do for us, automatically, will not get done.

Indeed, it seems to be the case that anything that would helps us, will not help them, nor do anything to get them out of the quickly deteriorating situation they are in, and which they caused themselves by playing their part in creating all of this mess in the first place.

The fact that we now have a government openly and contemptuously doing whatever it likes and whatever may serve its own purposes or that of whoever pulls their strings aside – and whenever it is not taking drastic measures to try and ward off the now inevitable collapse – is only worse than what we experienced under the Conservatives (and Lib Dems) over 14 years. And what was quietly inflicted upon us even before then, because they were at least covering up what they were doing – even if their actions were ultimately manipulative and hiding everything in plain sight.

The uncomfortable reality that awaits us all as we begin to wake up to the victimhood that so many of us are not yet even aware that we are within, is that the situation has now become so bleak, in terms of policy options that will actually benefit the British People, that politicians are now squabbling over little more than what they would do if the circumstances were different for them. All the time knowing, somewhere deep down, that the policies they are touting will be impossible to deliver now or after an election.

It simply will not matter who is elected and placed ‘in power’ – because there isn’t a political party, group or movement that we can see or hear from within the public sphere today, that has either the leadership capable or that has the motivation and ability to now do everything that will be necessary to do so, whilst all the time working with the very clear risk that what is necessary will mean they will not be elected again, next time.

Not unlike Labour, who we can be fairly sure had at least some MPs within its 397 sitting today who really would have liked to do all the things that they said on the doorsteps running up to 4 July 2024, any party or group that takes power at the next General Election – whenever that might be – will be faced with the same seemingly impossible quandary to address.

They will have to decide whether they either drop everything meaningful that they have promised and keep bobbing along, all the time hoping that everything doesn’t completely collapse before they leave. Or alternatively, face up to reality and get ready to lead, through the complete chaos and systemic collapse, that they will only temporarily succeed in putting off by wrecking everything anyway, and buckle down for what is going to become an exceptionally challenging ride for us all.

The reasons and excuses may well be different for every politician who is now hiding from the truth that we all face – or why they may be actively embracing or even facilitating it. But the best that they can now appear to do, is argue over the ideas for policy and change and who owns them, even though it is likely that these will be things that they will never actually be able to do, because they are all too afraid for themselves to do so.

Whilst Reform – who have this week reached a staggering 35% in the polls – can seemingly print out policy gambits with a restless public apparently hanging on every word, a good example of the level to which the ability of the political apparatus within the UK has actually fallen was well illustrated by the Conservative Leader this week suggesting that Tory Policies on tackling the immigration problem had been stolen by Farage who had been ‘copying homework’.

One uncomfortable truth we should perhaps all be reflecting upon, is that if the politicians and those who would replace them were genuinely interested in doing whatever it may be that will be best for us and for the UK, they would not care nor consider who owns, enacts or leads any policy that is going to answer the questions and deliver the outcomes which are genuinely best for all of us. Indeed, they would actually be thrilled that any policy or action was being taken that would be in the best interests of us and the UK and be happy for whoever is in power to be using it. Wouldn’t they?

Another will surely be that this reality does indeed paint a picture that makes it very hard to question the increasingly obvious similarities between every party option that we have or will have available to us at the next election being fundamentally so similar, that in practical terms – and that means delivery and outcomes, all the political options that we currently have are basically all the same.

Yes, this means that the downward trajectory will not change.

Given everything else that we have to consider too, including the very establishment-esque support that Reform are now attracting – is the only change we will notice is that the speed of the collapse will increase, whilst the outcome of this massive leadership void may arrive much sooner (if it has not by then already done so).

Whilst it may be easy to understand and empathise with the desire and wish of so many and to believe that Reform – or indeed whoever or whatever comes next, will actually do whatever they say, there is little evidence to suggest that they or anyone who we could vote for at the next General Election actually will deliver on anything that will help those who need it.

Indeed, the track record that we can now see where Reform have been ‘running’ councils across the UK since May, suggests that in terms of what they will able to achieve and deliver, that isn’t just passed back into the hands of government officers, who are a big part of today’s problems, they are wholly out of touch with the reality they face at every level; have no real plan or understanding of what change will really take; and are therefore well and truly out of their depth.

The expertise and willingness to lead us and do everything necessary to get things done certainly exists amongst the population.

But even good leaders will need to take every step available to take everyone with them.

Amongst what we have available today, there is no politician or party doing one damn thing that has even a distant hope of achieving the kind of societal cohesiveness that will be required through what will be the very challenging times ahead.

The Choice – A Waking Up Story | Full Text
Our Communities are the only place that a workable political solution can begin
The unfolding tragedy of the UKs political right
A New Political Party needs to be new in every meaningful sense. That means leaving the fixed ideas and the egos in the incompetent politics bin too
The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma
Were Labour set up to be ‘Custodians of the Collapse’?
Politicians want to own Policy but not Outcomes PDF_Vers1_31Aug25Download

Overtaxed, Overburdened, Overpowered: The role of the UK State has become all bread and no jam for too many of us, and we are fast approaching a place called stop

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.

Have you heard of Tax Freedom Day?

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.

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Playing on Fears: The self-fulfilling prophecies of today’s False Prophets will be the worst outcome from everything that’s already wrong

Critical thinking – or perhaps the significant absence of it in a world that has been taken over by a constant barrage of data from information technology, is a skill for life that could easily have stopped us all from reaching the point the U.K. is now at – had we all been using it and continued to use it throughout our adult lives.

Yes, the simple act of asking questions about anything and everything that you don’t already know or genuinely trust to be true, instead of trusting any source that doesn’t actually have direct human interaction involved, has become a critical contributor to every problem that the Country has.

Pretty much none of us have been policing the opportunity to make decisions about our lives and the people who affect them which now come at us in a near ceaseless flow.

This isn’t to say or suggest that we aren’t using filters of our own. Indeed many of us are.

But the filters we use are created, shaped and modified based upon whatever it is that we at any particular moment believe.

It is these beliefs themselves, which are too often formed by the conclusions we make about the data we consume. Data that we rarely seem to bother checking, especially when it has come from a remote source that we have only found reason to agree with or like.

Coming to the place where we can understand or comprehend just how much power we genuinely have in everything we do, based upon the decision or choice to consider everything we are told, differently, to how we have done or currently do so, is no little thing.

What is more, the fact that so many of us already believe that we are thinking differently, when it is only our filters that have actually changed, means that the ‘awakening’ that so many believe to be now underway, is likely to be nothing of the sort. Just a different pathway that’s going to lead to much more of the same chaos, perhaps even more quickly than what we have already experienced before.

Acting on fear usually makes the outcome we fear more likely

Whilst the world runs upon fear at levels which some will spend entire lifetimes without feeling the need to contemplate, the irrationality of fear mongering through electronic and remote mediums that we fail to question, is disproportionate to what we would walk away with if the same stories could only come from sources or rather people that we interact with in our day to day lives.

People and news orgs with platforms, numbers of followers, subscribers and likes that give them the benefit of remote credibility are sensationalising everything more now than ever before, just to generate clicks that will lead to those numbers continually going up, when those numbers are what most of us look for when we make a cursory decision that lets us ‘know’ the source is something we can trust.

So when we willingly believe the sources online and unquestionably trust the information coming to us from whichever direction we have lowered our drawbridge, and then the only message that comes at us is one that promotes desperation and fear, we are all becoming increasingly susceptible to the creation of a self-fulfilling prophecy, because we are responding to a problem or level of problems that don’t actually exist.

The absence of real Leadership

People and public figures that we might previously have been able to trust are themselves very afraid and in many cases have no idea how to act.

This means that otherwise non-existent realities that those battling their own fears, following their own agendas and those of the platforms that share them, are spreading compelling narratives without any real understanding or cognisance of the implications or likely consequences of what they are doing, and what the fear that wouldn’t exist without them, is well on the way to delivering.

This is not to say that the UK isn’t in a very difficult place. Because it is.

But it is also vitally important to recognise that the UK is currently sat within a very dangerous situation that is getting progressively worse and will continue to do so, until we have leaders or lead ourselves through change which rejects the key pillars and shibboleths of this highly destructive status quo.

The Law of Unexpected Consequences is currently running everything

We are at a crossroads or fork where choices that we are making or refusing to make could end up taking us all towards outcomes that are poles apart.

The fear that all streams of media are now generating is causing many to want to run away. And when we are running – or thinking in that way, it means that we are indulging irrational fears, rather than questioning them or more importantly the validity of whatever is triggering them.

When we are running and hiding, we are not thinking, and we can and will only contribute to the growing mess.

Indeed, we may be about to condemn ourselves to unnecessarily experiencing a very dark place with implications for our own future – just because we took at face value whatever took us there in the first place.

It’s time to be objective

There is a very broad context to consider. However, the breadth is necessary because so many of us who see the world differently, believe different things and apply that understanding with very different filters.

We are all contributing to the growing mess that is building throughout all parts of society. Because we all believe that the positions that we currently have on everything are exclusively right.

Today, the left blames everything on the right and the right blames everything on the left in what seems like an endless focus on amplifying everything that’s either not-normal, or is massively wrong.

Meanwhile, there is not even the merest hint of acknowledging the real causes of all the problems, and certainly no time for leaders to actually try leading and begin suggesting what needs to change – no matter how hard it may be – so that we can all begin to experience a world where everything is going right for everyone and not just the few.

This is now a 360-degree problem

The political and therefore the leadership problem we are facing is that the alternatives to everything and everyone in politics that are already accepted as wrong are not alternatives at all.

We are literally plagued in every direction by False Prophets using fear to push everyone who isn’t questioning everything they say, and why they are saying it, towards their cause. No matter how similar and potentially worse than what we are already experiencing it might be.

To be clear, nothing is as it seems right now. This is an equation that works ALL ways.

Some problems, like the economic picture, the state of our political system and the motivations and influences on power are considerably worse than we might like to believe.

Whereas the realities that underpin so many of the things that we are fearful of are not anyway near as threatening as they appear.

They will only become so, if the responsibility for dealing with them is left either in the hands of those who are controlling them today, or under those who protest that they and only they have the solutions that will sort them all out – all too often presented with a very simplistic and therefore unexplained view of what they would actually do.

For as long as people refuse to take back the power they actually have, a very discombobulated reality we must also face is that any of the leaders and political parties that we currently have, could change direction and begin to do what’s genuinely good and right for all of us, at any time.

However, as time and opportunity has demonstrated time and again, they will not.

Until we accept responsibility and become accountable, we will be damned by every outcome

The uncomfortable truth that few will face up to is that the wrong choice and making the wrong choice, because it’s the only choice, is still the wrong choice – even when it may seem to be better than what we have to choose from or than whatever we have experienced before.

All of the political parties that we can choose from are completely under the sway and direction of establishment power and views, and will inevitably maintain the status quo, which is on a trajectory that can only see everything getting worse.

It will not take anyone who chooses to employ their own skill of critical thinking and the analysis that soon accompanies it to see that once the realities that accompany the rhetoric have been investigated, there is really very little to detect any difference between the motives and directions of all of our elected politicians or those who wish to be elected that will differentiate them to the degree that they are capable of delivering outcomes that are so markedly different that we will be able to tell them apart.

Yet there isn’t any problem the UK faces that cannot genuinely be solved, if there is the will and capability of leadership to do all that will be necessary to address the problems at their root or cause.

Unfortunately, instead of leaders, we have an entire political class filled with glory seeking middle managers who believe that success is measured only through the possession of power.

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Future Economics must be tied only to people, their contribution, what is important to sustain good, fair and balanced lives, and legal currency must never again be open to speculation and manipulation

You don’t need to be a trained economist to know that the model of economics the world uses and the way economics is revered like work of the gods today is wrong.

In fact, it is probably better if you aren’t, and that you aren’t involved in economics, banking or corporate wealth creation either. As you are much more likely to be objective and untainted by ‘being in the tent’ in some way.

The misplaced ingenuity of the economic system and how it works has made it as complex as it is mind boggling. But that doesn’t give any surety or guarantee that how it works and what it achieves is in any way good.

For those actually thinking about why money is the common factor in everything across the world that is now going wrong, the complexity of the economic system is being exposed to light as the smokescreen that it is giving the hallucination of credibility to all the darkness and malevolence that has been so cleverly hidden within.

How can something so clever and complex not be real, is a question that many would employ as a riposte to counter the suggestion that there is absolutely no legitimacy to the FIAT monetary system, MMT, Free Markets, Globalisation and Neoliberal Orthodoxy that we have been subjected to for 5 decades or more.

But isn’t it the case that any good game that feels good to play is only good for those playing, because of the complexities and therefore levels for ‘the players’ that are involved?

How many carrots does it cost to buy a wheel?

To really understand why the world now has got the relationship with money so wrong – even though it was deliberately made this way by corrupt interests who have changed the laws so that their crimes have been legitimised and wiped clean – we really do need to stop for a moment, count to ten and think about what money is, or rather was really intended for.

In so far as the accepted narrative of human history goes, the whole pathway of our development has been progress that moved towards today in a linear fashion, stepping off from very primitive times when man couldn’t even speak, let alone farm for food.

The point here is not to argue whether or not any accepted version of the evolution of man is true. But to set the first picture back at a point when everything was considerably more simple. Long before more and more of those complex ideas or complexities became involved in how people trade.

Then, as now; different people did different things and produced different foods, goods and services to others as the direct result of whatever it was that they did.

For the purposes of this explanation, let’s assume that there are already fishers, farmers, growers, millers, bakers, saddlers, farriers, blacksmiths, cheese and butter makers, butchers, water carriers and pretty much someone or some small business providing all the different forms of foods, goods and services that we need to provide for life, from around a village green.

Some days a baker doesn’t want fish and a fisher certainly doesn’t want a saddle or leather goods daily. Even though they probably need something made to protect them against the elements from time to time.

However, everyone needs something regularly. Whether it’s for their own consumption, or it’s there to help them complete and provide output or goods from their own work.

Bartering and exchange, or swapping goods or even hours of work are of course a very straightforward and sensible way for two parties to make a transaction when one has something available that the other needs.

But the real benefit of bartering and exchange comes from being localised. And its weakness soon showed when the transactions were required to take place over distance, or for items – like that saddle or something equally special – which in day-to-day terms, are rather obscure.

Money, or coins of some kind used at first, created a transactional value, or to be more accurate, a medium of exchange.

The creation of a medium of exchange meant that one person’s goods or efforts could be exchanged for coins that could then be exchanged for whatever that person wanted themselves. All without there being any excessive delays or the need for a very complex or convoluted chain of different transactions to be involved.

The beauty of the system, at that point, was that the money in use could only relate to the agreed value of the transaction.

It would have been good for everyone, once the related practicalities involved were ironed out, if that system had continued without further ‘progress’. The relationship we all have with money could then have remained the same in relative terms – as that unit of exchange and nothing more.

Unfortunately for mankind, progress very quickly created wealth disparity or what we call wealth inequality today.

This imbalance was itself made progressively worse by the inter-generational transfer of property and wealth (and the power it buys) which has snowballed over time. Quite literally meaning that people can be advantaged or disadvantaged by birth, even before any one of the many other factors that skew life opportunities can come into view.

One of the most unfortunate elements of the human condition is the innate desire to always possess and accumulate more. For no better reason than the basic fear we all have of experiencing lack. With the rather perverse dimension that those who have more guard it more jealously than others, probably because they believe they have much more to lose.

The power and influence that money has given people who really weren’t fit to have the responsibility they had over the lives of others, has only got worse over time.

As industry and technology has improved and made it easier and easier to avoid genuine consideration for the consequences of their actions upon others, the human cost has become increasingly irrelevant, whenever the opportunity to make more profit was involved.

When promissory notes or what we know as cash came into being, a giant leap forward was taken towards the system that we have now, where the accepted wisdom is that the value of the money – or what we are agreeing to exchange as being representative of money – is being exchanged under a mutual understanding of trust, that is shared across society, and not just between the people where the specific transactions are involved.

Trust is of course belief. And as those with power and influence at the centre of the banking system realised that having currencies pinned or anchored to anything meant that they could only ever use or suggest they were able to use the money or sensible multiples of the money that they knew they either held, were owed or could earn within a certain time frame, they knew that they would have to create a new system that would release these chains. So that in terms of the money that they could create and use in the future, the only restraints would be dictated by them.

We should be under no illusion that this process of creating an economic system that could lead to limitless wealth and the control of everything for those who controlled it, wasn’t a plan that developed overnight.

The economic system that we have today was created and implemented over decades and carefully constructed so that it would make life much easier for the interests and in particular the politicians who needed to be bought. So that the useful idiots who gained power under the illusion of democracy would obligingly pave the way with system changes that have legitimised this otherwise criminal system at every step of the way therein.

When everything is about money, the answers to every question can only be found in monetary terms.

The money we have today and the way that it comes to and is taken from us – the economy – is the direct result and design of this massive, corrupt and inhuman game that the worlds wealthy, powerful and influential – the elites, decided to play.

The money we have in our pockets, bank accounts and have the ability to earn changes value quickly at the will or as a result of the actions of others.

Meanwhile, the direction of travel for the general population has always been that we are and always would become increasingly poor, as the value of the money which is typically what the poorest in society have only been able to hold, decreases faster than the rate at which our skills and experience develop or there is any chance to earn more so that we can keep up with or counteract the fall.

It was always intended to be this way. As those with wealth always knew that the real wealth was the control of assets and anything and everything that could then rented out to everyone. All as the world became increasingly poorer and their ability to grow control and rent out everything the money they created had bought them gave them even more.

It is ironic that billionaires now have so many zeros on their balance sheets. As everyone who has been a victim of what is probably mankind’s greatest con is now beginning to realise that they have been left with zero. Or if they are lucky, a diminishing amount of liquid capital that isn’t worth a lot more.

I would like to add at this stage that this essay is not an attack on any individual for whatever it is that they may believe they possess, control or have influence over today. Many of those with excessive wealth, power and influence today have just played along with the rules of a very clever game. One that has removed the balance, Justice and morality from every part of life and has done it so successfully that the poison it has replaced values with is embedded across cultures and normal life to the point that even the academics and leaders in finance and economics believe in the legitimacy and correctness of an entire system which is bewilderingly anti-human at its very core.

In simple terms

The simplicity of the mechanics of an economic system and more specifically a monetary system that revolves around private banks creating money from nothing – a process which is carefully hidden from view – so that government always looks like it is borrowing  or rather selling bonds to private interests to finance everything, whilst those banks also lend money that doesn’t exist to us through loans, finance, credit cards and even pay day loans, really do make it horrendously difficult to accept that this is one massive confidence scam. Especially as everything is hidden in plain sight by little more than the disinterest that we typically have in anything that goes beyond having our perceived needs met.

However, let’s think about it as if we were reading a story about two friends at the start of their working lives; one with the motivation to work hard and deliver through their own industry, whilst the other has had life easy and just wants to find another easy way to get more, and we can then perhaps see how this gargantuan scam rolls out when exposed to light.

The diligent and easy living friends talk one day, looking at property that they would both like to own.

The diligent friend commits to working hard and earning the money to buy what they would like to own and leaves, promising to catch up when this outcome has been achieved.

Meanwhile, the easy living friend knows that he has the contacts and ideas necessary to go away and print enough of the money he needs to buy that same property today. And that he can do this from nothing, which will work out well for him but not his friend, so long as he doesn’t speak openly about what he’s doing. Uses his contacts to change a few rules so that what he’s doing is legal. And he doesn’t keep printing more money to buy everything else so that it becomes obvious what he’s been doing all along. Afterall, nobody will know if he uses the money he then earns from renting out that property to pay all that money back…

The money that the easy living friend has created, has just increased the amount of money that exists.

This means that because there isn’t actually any more property, production or anything else with ‘real’ value that corresponds to the increasing  pool of money, all of the money that’s available is now worth much less than it was.

The real world impact of this fantasy being made reality is that the diligent friend will have to worker harder, longer or both, to pay for the property that the easy living friend has just taken without effort.

What is more, the easy living friend is now offering to rent the property he’s bought to the diligent friend who now realises that he may never be able to afford to buy it.

If you can see and understand the basic mechanics of how this situation works, you only need scale up the same principles to understand how the massive, growing amount of money – and the ridiculous inflation and the growing cost of living problem we are all facing, has been created and is now growing at a ridiculous rate.

It is an unavoidable, inescapable fact that if one person or set of people are able to buy real, tangible things that have value to us – whatever those things might be – with money that doesn’t actually exist, they can take lawful possession of those things and do with them whatever they so choose – as any legitimate owner would be able to do so.

However, the illegitimate creation of the money and the legitimised theft of assets, businesses, infrastructure and everything else imaginable that it has financed means what they have been doing is just one part of a multifaceted crime against everyone else.

The crimes that follow the created money pathways include the impoverishment of the masses.

Yet they become even worse when we consider that public services and infrastructure such as utility companies have been bought up with fake money.

Entire business sectors like the pub trade and small, local shops have also all become unviable because fake money has financed industry expansion of big retail and all their centralised supply chains, that would not otherwise have been possible.

To cap that all off, markets and the practices of big business and finance have been deregulated through the drive for ‘Free Markets’. So that those making money can make more and more, because the rules that once protected us all and small independent businesses have been removed, whilst regulations that cost us, exclude us and disqualify us from our own independence and from taking part have instead been imposed under the pretence that they help and protect us.

The whole pathway of illegitimate money creation using the FIAT system leads or rather has led to the doorstep of nothing less than worldwide system control.

The only thing that now gives us the opportunity to save ourselves from a very challenging fate is the reality that those with their hands in the till have already broken too many of the rules of their own game.

The whole system is starting to collapse before the great reset or imposition of the next new world order has conclusively been imposed.

The Future of Money

I could stop there. But in lifting the stone or exposing what lies beneath it to light I am certainly not alone.

Before continuing further, I would encourage anyone who has read this far to do their own research and use as many different sources and mediums as they can to uncover and draw their own conclusions about all of this and what is really going on.

My real interest and passion is what happens next for us and for our future. Once we have got through this horrid time and whatever turbulence and challenges that we now face, once we have got to the other side and left them all behind.

Whilst I have written extensively about what a good working model for our future society would look like in Our Local Future, I have also spent time sharing thoughts and ideas about the way money and commerce would work, in books from Levelling Level, to An Economy for the Common Good and The Basic Living Standard too.

What we should perhaps all be able to conclude – once we have dealt with our own addictions and attachment to the way that endless money supposedly works for us all now – is that money should never hold its own value. Should never be speculated upon, and the power of its creation and policing should never be under private control.

What is more, the value of legal currency should never be pinned to anything that can itself vary in value, especially when whatever that currency is pinned to is in short supply or can be controlled manipulatively or otherwise at will.

People are the only legitimate economic constant

If everyone did what they do, only took what they need and were happy to share or exchange what they didn’t with whoever needed it in return for something they did in return, there would never be need of money of any kind, ever again.

Whilst I can see that to many the idea that everyone just does what they do today for nothing and that in return, they get just enough of what they need of everything else in return might seem fanciful, this suggestion does nonetheless make a very important point about everyone only taking or expecting to have access to what they actually need.

Need is NOT the same thing as want.

Too much want is what has led to a situation where there are people right across the world today who don’t have access just to the things that they need.

An economy – a legitimate economy – will function only to provide for the needs of people within it.

There isn’t an argument that can counter this legitimately. Any argument made against this, no matter how compelling or well elucidated, is inevitably built upon one person being able to obtain or accumulate more things than others. Because the alternative system favours their interests more.

These are the fundamental basics of greed.

Locality based economies and economics

Everyone who can, should play their part or contribute to the function of a legitimate economy, in whatever role they are able. So that everyone who is active, then comes together to become the sum of all the parts – with the sum of those parts being the community, which because of what members can do together collaboratively, will be greater than what everyone would be able to do by working alone.

The value of a legitimate economy should therefore be based upon the number of people who are active within it and include what they input or contribute to that economy individually and therefore collectively.

If every member of the community does what they should be doing, and the needs of everyone being met are always prioritised and planned for or budgeted for as they should be, the whole system will move closely towards self-containment, with the amount of money in circulation always being closely related to the number of heads within the population.

A localised and online local market exchange system that focuses on bartering and exchange for foods, goods, services and work being made universally available alongside cash and digitally transferable money, should also exist so that everything works in a circular fashion and everyone’s particular needs are always met in ways that favour everyone.

The needs for public service, infrastructure, community activities and everything beyond should be met by everyone who is able to work volunteering the equivalent of 1/10 of their working week and their skills or experience to the community. Thereby meeting whatever needs and community income generation requirement there may then be.

Excess goods produced, surplus service capacity and over production which is specialist to the community would also be traded with other communities and traded where any additional requirements beyond the scope of community production exist.

The blight of greed-driven thinking

The only reason that an economic system that will work like this, which promotes freedom and financial independence of the masses, would not work, is because those who would no longer be able to define themselves as being different to others through the accumulation of additional and unnecessary wealth will argue that it isn’t practical and cannot work.

Even within a genuinely egalitarian approach to economics based along these lines, it is a fact that some could always do better, because they choose to do so through their own industry. Whilst many others – and the majority at that, would be happy to just make the contribution that was absolutely necessary, knowing that they would be happy, healthy, safe and secure because all of their basic and essential needs were being met.

It is part of the capitalist myth that entrepreneurialism and creativity in commerce cannot exist when the ability to earn or rather profit is capped.

The real truth of the matter is that everyone will be productive and make a valuable contribution when anything that goes beyond what it takes to look after themselves and those who depend on them is a choice and the ability to just live a normal life without dependency on anything beyond themselves hasn’t been denied by the actions of others.

Nobody has the right to take or have more than they need and certainly not when it can only come to them through the exploitation and infliction of pain and suffering of any kind upon others.

Links:

Our Local Future | FULL TEXT
Levelling Level | Full Text
An Economy for the Common Good | Full Text
The Basic Living Standard | Full Text
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