This morning, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her pre-budget statement ahead of the Autumn Budget, scheduled for 26th November.
Despite mounting welfare costs, Reeves offered no meaningful solutions — only strong hints that taxes will rise, paired with blame deflected onto everything and everyone except the government itself.
It’s no surprise, then, that Nigel Farage rushed out a bold announcement promising welfare cuts if Reform wins the next general election yesterday, while Tory leader Kemi Badenoch quickly followed Reeves with an online broadcast that, in substance, amounted to much the same.
As the government flounders, it seems poised to announce little of substance of savings on benefits or public services — yet millions already trapped in a financial vice not of their own making will see the cost of living rise again, working harder for ever-diminishing returns.
The Tories — who helped engineer the current crisis over their 14-year tenure up to summer 2024 — and Reform — now visibly undergoing their own establishmentisation makeover — aren’t offering help to people either. They’re offering help to the economy.
And that’s precisely where the problems began for those whose lives revolve around the benefits system today.
There are hard truths here. Truths that many untouched by poverty still find just a little too uncomfortable to believe.
There will always be people who are:
• Out of work for valid reasons
• Unable to work due to illness, disability, or caring responsibilities
But there are also many people who want to work and are able to work — yet still can’t. Why? Because:
• They can’t find jobs that match their experience
• They can’t find roles that fit their qualifications
• They simply don’t “fit” the mould employers are looking for
It’s easy to assume that anyone who wants a job can get one — any job, at any time. And it’s just as easy to judge those who don’t take “any job” as lazy, entitled, or abusing the benefits system.
But those who make these judgments often haven’t experienced what it’s like to be unemployed and dependent on state support.
The Reality of Benefits
Let’s be clear: basic benefits are not enough to live on.
We’re surrounded by comforting myths — stories we rarely question unless we’re forced to confront the truth. One of the most dangerous myths is that the National Minimum Wage is enough to live on independently.
• Minimum Wage: £12.21/hour. For a 40-hour week, that’s about £2,116.40/month
• Actual cost of living: To live independently, a single person likely needs £16–£17/hour — around £2,773.33/month
That’s a shortfall of over £600/month, even for someone working full-time on minimum wage.
The Impossible Choice
Now imagine you’re unemployed, with no savings or support, and your only option is to claim £628.10/month. What do you do?
• Take a job that still doesn’t cover your basic needs?
• Or claim every benefit you can, just to survive?
For many, working full-time in a low-paid job — often under poor conditions and public judgment — while still needing benefits just doesn’t make sense.
The Myth of the “Benefits Culture”
The idea that claiming benefits is an easy ride is a myth. Genuine claimants are treated the same as those gaming the system. The rules are rigid, often making it harder — not easier — to find meaningful work.
Pushing people into low-paid jobs that still leave them reliant on benefits, food banks, or debt might reduce one type of welfare cost. But it could as easily increase the others — through the problems that an ill-considered attempt to push everyone into ‘work’ will create, like mental health issues, workplace burnout, and long-term poverty.
The AI Displacement Problem
A growing wave of joblessness is being driven not by lack of talent, but by the unnecessary and unchecked takeover of roles by artificial intelligence.
Skilled, experienced professionals — once vital to their industries — are being sidelined by automation that prioritizes cost-cutting over human value.
As more capable workers are pushed into the job queue, many will find themselves forced to claim benefits, not because they lack ability, but because the system no longer has space for them.
The Bigger Problem
Most people on benefits aren’t lazy — they’re surviving.
When life becomes a daily struggle, the benefits system can feel like the only option.
But simply cutting benefits without creating real alternatives — like jobs that pay enough to live on — risks pushing thousands into homelessness and crisis.
The Psychology of Work and Pay
Most people don’t need prestige — they need security.
If lower-paid or less challenging jobs guaranteed that workers could meet all their financial obligations and live with dignity, many would take them without hesitation.
The problem isn’t the work itself — it’s that the pay doesn’t match the cost of living.
When people know they can cover rent, bills, food, and essentials every month, they’re far more willing to contribute, even in roles that society undervalues.
What Needs to Change
We can’t fix the benefits system without fixing the economic system that creates the need for it.
If we want fewer people on benefits, we must:
• Build an economy where full-time work pays enough to live on — without top-ups
• Stop supporting a system that enriches a few by impoverishing the many.
Until the government legislates for a fairer system — one where the lowest-paid can live independently on a full day’s work — poverty will persist.
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.
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”, is a very wise and famous quote from Albert Einstein – who as the world and historically renowned Scientist that he was, had plenty of experience and empirical data to back it up.
Not that we should even question the truth anyway. Given that it really is common sense that doing the same things result in the same experiences – like driving the same route to work at the same time; ordering the same food at the same takeaway, or indeed taking exactly the same approach that we do for the things we don’t do every day, but where repeated patterns of behaviour (doing and NOT doing things) all add up to the same, over and over again.
Our approach to politics is insane; so, it’s hardly surprising that what we are experiencing today is also insane
What few really think about, and some would not willingly agree with is the reality that we are now doing the same things in our relationship with politics, elections and government, repeatedly.
Although the people we elect, the political parties we put in power and what they say and appear to do may appear to be different; when it comes to the results and outcomes we are experiencing, it all – no matter who or what we elect – is adding up to the very same thing.
The illusion of change
Getting our heads around the reality that Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and yes, even Reform are all working for the same outcomes isn’t an easy equation to wrestle with.
We do, after all, have a rather contradictory relationship with the truth, that when it suits our purposes, a different person, company, organisation or party will always be different. Whereas when it comes to everything that benefits us personally, we fall into the equally massive elephant trap of believing everyone else thinks and behaves the same.
Yet it is the case that we have politicians with different faces, different attitudes, different ‘politics’, different affiliations and different backgrounds, all delivering the same things. Because no matter what information or observation we use to make our next election choices, every Party that holds power or gets candidates elected to Parliament or our Councils are recruiting and selecting the same kinds of people who will do, say and ultimately be whatever the parties decide they want those politicians to be.
The system has a system for electing politicians
Unfortunately for us, the concept of democracy in the U.K. – no matter how celebrated and championed it may be, really is one of the biggest whoppers we fool ourselves with – especially as we are all taking part in and contributing to the lie.
Yes, if there was a General Election tomorrow, most of us would have a Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Reform candidate to choose from on the ballot paper and perhaps an SNP, Green or Plaid Cymru candidate (or other) too.
But these candidates are all people who have been assessed, considered, qualified and then put forward as the choice of their Party, then and only then to then be placed before us as an option when we make our choice, whenever the next election comes.
We don’t choose our politicians. Someone else does and that means those politicians will always (be expected to) put their loyalty to who put them on that list, first, before anyone or anything else – including the people who vote for them who they are supposedly there to represent.
The people who want to be politicians
It’s not helpful to believe that everyone in politics is there or that they got there because they are all in it for themselves.
There are certainly some very good and just as many well-intended people who put themselves forward to become candidates, for all the Political Parties, who really did step forward with every intention of doing the right thing for everyone.
However, in a political system that works and operates for the system itself, rather than the people that the political system is supposed to represent, it is inevitable that genuine public representatives will either quickly become disillusioned, once the penny drops about how politics really works once they are on the inside. Or they will be controlled with threats or punishments meted out by their party apparatus, or they will be removed (and sometimes thrown to the media wolves), if they will not agree to toe the accepted line.
To succeed in politics as it is today really does mean doing whatever you are told. Because the affiliation to the Political Parties and whoever is running them today is more important than anything – If the politicians themselves, want to stay in the limelight, keep getting rejected and therefore keep the ‘job’.
Where do the voters register in all this in so far as the party politician’s hierarchy of needs is concerned?
Well not very high – if indeed it registers in any way at all, and that’s why we only feel we matter to politicians during the run up to the election from the day whenever it has been called.
Our feelings and intuition really don’t lie. But because the election is then over, we quickly forget how we felt.
By the time the next election comes around we just go and do the same things all over again!
What happens when the wrong people get elected
You may have heard of something called the 10,000 hour rule that is the suggested time it takes anyone to achieve mastery in anything.
Whilst understanding and fluency may be achieved in somewhat less, depending on approach, natural ability and things like motivation or dedication, the point is that it takes time and effort, being immersed within whatever it is you may be trying to learn, before you have even the remotest chance of making a good job look like its natural or normal to everyone.
Where a mastery rule might more easily be applied to driving or learning the guitar, the rule also applies to becoming a great public representative too.
Politicians will never get anywhere near to becoming the leaders and standard bearers that we need, if they are only learning within a system and from others that is corrupted and completely warped.
Slaves to the system
Unfortunately, when the system and everything that works within that system works and operates in ways that are wrong, the new entrants to that system – no matter who they are and what they can offer, will be expected and ultimately conditioned to treat and respect the way that the system works as being normal – irrespective of whether the system really could ever be considered to be normal or not.
As our system of government has been corrupted by ideologies and agendas that don’t work for the people of the U.K. in any real or meaningful way, we really are in deep shit when it comes to changing anything.
Because everyone and everything has been corrupted and redirected so that it points in the same way.
Change means changing everything
The problem of solving all problems (and there are many of them) therefore, is that changing one thing or changing a few of them won’t make any difference. Because the size, interconnectivity and reach of everything in the public sector and government will just absorb any form of isolated change and basically change it back, meaning that we are straight back to experiencing the same things.
To change anything means changing the system itself. And for anyone who can begin to fathom what that really means, there is a dawning realisation that without an incredible form of leadership at the helm of this ship as we know and see it today, the only way that this kind of change will be possible, will be if the right kind of people are in place to pick everything up and run with it, when everything as we currently know it collapses. (which in real terms could happen at any time)
Until then, unless politicians and those who want to be in power take a very different approach and one that could lead to the kind of leadership that we now need, things will just keep getting progressively worse.
The only discernible difference will be the speed of more problems arising, as the wrong people in politics are going to keep getting everything wrong for everyone else, because the process of replacing them is also completely wrong.
Is there still any hope for Reform and a ‘coalition of the right’?
Disappointing as Reform and the opportunity they are squandering is turning out to be, there must remain at least a little hope that Farage may yet have a lucid moment and realise his controlling approach and stranglehold on the Party isn’t the stuff of what memorable legacies are made of. No form of leadership will succeed in this fight that obsessively works top-down.
Whilst the Birmingham Conference and the policy snippets that have been shared are as alarming for what they hint at, as is the over reliance Reform clearly has in Conservative politicians crossing the political floor who have track records aligned to everything that’s already wrong, it is interesting to observe that there may be some recognition that nothing in politics is going to be as easy as it seems.
Indeed, posts on social media over the weekend appear to have suggested Richard Tice has acknowledged that Reform may not be ready if an election were to be called in the immediate future. And with the genuine and growing risk that the next General Election will come much sooner than the 2027 timetable Reform have themselves talked about over the weekend, we can only hope that they are taking this all a lot more seriously than what the glitter bombing indicates.
Changing things for the better
Change of the kind we need should really be viewed in the context of being a two-stage or two environment things.
Within the context of how everything works now
Within the context of the coming collapse where people will accept the changes that will help everyone most, because they don’t feel they will be losing anything
Meaningful change, NOW
Like many of the highly intoxicating suggestions that any politician that doesn’t have power can make to an audience desperate for everything to change in ways that suit them at the flick of a switch, what we are being told can be delivered today, by whoever takes power at the next election, versus what can actually be delivered when we get there, are two VERY different things.
It is important to recognise that many of the things that are happening in politics today aren’t just as a direct result of having had Labour in power for the past 14 months – as everyone else in politics is heavily invested in convincing us all that we should believe.
Indeed, everything that is happening today is the direct result of decades of faulty government, run and brought into being by politicians from all sides working to agendas which may not even be theirs, but are certainly not ours.
The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma
In a previous post I wrote about The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma, where the issue of expectation meeting reality for an incoming government on the day after the election really hits home. Only then will the breadth, depth and full scope of the challenge that awaits any government and leader who really wants to deliver for the people be fully exposed to light.
Even with a working majority of keen and eager new MPs, determined to do everything that they have promised to the people who elected them; the morning after the election night before will offer them little more than a brick wall when it comes to understanding the real task that awaits in changing even the smallest things. When the wheels of government and all the people who work within it are anything but aligned.
Preparedness for leading through and beyond the coming collapse is an issue of our time
The mastery of politics and government, its systems, relationships and how things genuinely work at every level will be essential for anyone who is tasked with delivering and guiding any new agenda – IF there is a genuine desire to change things for the better within the system that we currently have, without very quickly precipitating a complete collapse.
Whereas the coming collapse may arguably prove to be the best thing for everyone all-round, the reality we face is that if what remains of the governance structures that we do know should fail and collapse before we have the kind of leaders in place who have what it will take to navigate what will by then surely have become the most horrific mess, there is a risk – and a real risk too – that the void that will be created will be filled by anyone and anything that can step into it and seem credible. And this could prove to be a very dark day indeed, when it comes to delivering on the most pressing questions that people have like the supply of safety, security and the basic essentials like water and food.
Enthusiastic and perhaps even knowledgeable in other areas of life as they may be, the people who are keen to step into the breach that we can all see opening around us today, are unlikely to be able to answer the most essential questions that circumstances are quickly going to demand, when we reach the stage where everyone knows there is a clear and definable leadership need.
Yes, whilst the wheels keep turning and things hold together, they may be able to tinker around the edges and tell us that they are winning victories and delivering success, much as Reform are doing in respect of their recent local authority takeovers, right now.
However, the very best that any genuine UK and public-serving government could do for us after the next election, to begin the process of change that we need, is treat the whole situation as the emergency that it arguably already has become.
They must begin taking steps to help people whilst holding off the inevitable collapse, whilst people are put in place to lead across what is left of the system as we know it, who are not there to follow any agenda for them or the people who put them there, other than the one that actually works for us all.
Real Change: Post-Collapse
A little bit of change isn’t going to cut anything in real terms and the only circumstances under which enough people will accept that there is nothing left that benefits them that they could therefore lose, will be when the system as we know it has actually collapsed and nothing works in the way that we understand it to do so now.
It sounds bleak. But it will be much better for all of us if we have politicians today who are thinking ahead and getting ready to do the things necessary to ensure that everything works for us tomorrow.
Whilst many find it hard to believe, the agenda that has been driving politics for so long has always intended there be a societal collapse that would come after a careful and coordinated process of transferring wealth, personal power and independence from the masses to the few. So that when the collapse comes, we would all very quickly accept help on whatever terms it is offered by those who appear to be positioned best to meet our basic and essential needs.
The cost of accepting that help will be incredible for people like you and I. And the irony is that it is very unlikely that once things have actually collapsed, that any of the people who we recognise in politics and across the establishment today, will have the ability to do anything other than control us with whatever rules and governance devices they use to bribe us with – meaning that there will be very little coming other than restraint and a hard stick in return.
Opening to a different, better future
The real answer: solution and opportunity – even though it wont feel like any such thing in the immediate aftermath of the collapse – will come from decision making and leadership heading straight back to our local communities.
It is in our communities, where real people looking after the needs of the real people under their care and taking a very practical approach to governance in real time, whilst the systems and processes that we need and which will be completely localised are put in place to support everyone – that we can ensure that a new model of locally focused democracy can quickly be implemented, putting people and their communities back in control of their lives and environment – as should always have been the case.
Please take a look at Our Local Future to see the kind of governance model that might make this work.
We need to choose who we choose from at election time
In so far as future elections are concerned and electing people who can and will be the difference that we need, we can no longer accept it as being either correct or that there is any need for the process of choosing who our public representatives are to be franchised out to political parties. No matter who they are or what they have promised they will deliver and be.
It really is quite incredible that up until now, we have simply accepted that its perfectly normal for every decision that has real implications and consequences for us and for the people we care about to be made by people we don’t know, have probably never met and that we don’t have any genuine reason to trust.
Because we don’t already select, qualify and check the people we choose from at election time, we really have no reason to lose our shit over the consequences when they cause pain for us within our lives, and there doesn’t appear to be any way that we can stop or prevent the people who are in politics from doing whatever the hell they like.
We MUST select people to represent us all from within our own communities and ensure that they are always accountable to and responsible towards us all, first, as the priority and above all things – even to themselves and what they may want or believe in personally, themselves.
We need a very different kind of politician to be representing all of us. No matter where we currently believe our political allegiances lie.
It is because we are continuing to consider politics as being part of a tribe that falls in behind a specific set of ideas or agendas that we are in the mess that we are in right now.
Putting people first isn’t idealistic. It’s just being practical. And when it gets done the right way and with the right outcomes in mind, everything that is currently wrong with everything around us will get addressed and everything good for us will begin to fall into place.
Adam Tugwell 