Today’s Politicians WILL NOT change our future for the better

Neither this government nor the next can or will stop the coming collapse and that’s when you may well end up owning nothing and be forced to be happy about it

Yes, there are a lot of people already shouting that it’s time for a General Election and many more who genuinely believe they are already backing the horse that will win – and they might even be right.

Things are looking bleak for sure. And that’s just at the level most people are paying attention to.

Indeed, go in search; look beyond the purveyors of the narratives that we are all relentlessly expected to suck up and follow, and you will soon begin to see just how deep the problems are that the UK is facing. All set within a World where everything is the opposite of stable and a critical mass for change and whatever may follow could be reached in a range of different forms or events, in any location, or at any time.

Whilst we seem to have this ridiculous unwritten rule or shibboleth across the UK, that being upbeat and therefore blind to reality somehow means that any messaging that fails to correlate with what we believe is therefore unquestionably negative and unacceptable in some way; facing reality and speaking the truth about what we are seeing, feeling and experiencing as our own reality, is not something that any of us should be hiding from right now, in any way.

However, whilst such sentiment may be welcomed by the growing number who consider themselves to be aware of what’s really going on and therefore ‘awake’, the need to look closely at what public figures and channels are saying; why they are saying it, and whatever the outcomes they might be suggesting (if indeed they do actually have any recognisable outcomes at all) really consist of or will lead to, is just as important – if not more.

When we do take the time and make the effort to try and understand what backing any of the people who want to be in charge or take control of the UK today would lead to, we can begin to see that there are distinct commonalities that flow between all of them. No matter whether they are politicians, political parties, activists, podcasters, media figures, celebrities or anyone that we could identify as having ambition to be a future occupant of No.10.

One of the commonalities that flows between the voices that different people are still choosing to follow, is they all pay lip service to the kind of change that will be necessary in order for the UK (and World) to change course from the direction that it is now travelling in.

However, they are only putting policy suggestions on the table that add up to nothing better than it would have been to move the deck chairs around on the deck of the Titanic, with the doomed ship already on its way down.

A big problem for us all in our understanding of the problems that the UK faces – and what it will actually take to address them AND then start putting everything into place so that we all experience a system that works for us all, is that we are all bought into what we believe to be the benefits– to us, personally, of staying exactly where we are, today.

We are not only comfortable but take for granted – and often feel entitled to remain within and taking all that we can from a system of living that is and always has been unsustainable. One that we are unlikely to accept as being the biggest problem of them all, for as long as:

We aren’t feeling any direct pain from the consequences ourselves, and/or
We can find someone or something to blame when anything doesn’t appear to be working and therefore work on the assumption that removing or waiting until we can remove them will be all that it takes to rectify the fault.

Pointing the finger in the right direction, but not at the correct source

The chances are that despite the massive majority of seats that the current Labour government has, and that as I write, they have only been ‘in power’ for 14 months (and we are still the better part of 4 years until we might normally expect the next GE), the next General Election will come a lot sooner than anyone currently thinks.

As unbelievable as it may seem, the contempt that the current government has for the British People has been made very clear by the comments that a number of their ministers and politicians have made, about the prioritisation of temporary accommodation for immigrants. Not only over local people, but the existing apparatus of local government itself. Which although limited and heavily influenced by Central Government, did, until now maintain the idea that we, as British Citizens did at least have a say over our own lives.

Hard as it may be for anyone who cares about other human beings to swallow, no Country can be all things to all people and survive.

You cannot continue to help and do good for anyone if you destroy yourself or your means to do so in the process.

The utterly ridiculous situation that successive governments have all created and contributed to, where we are prioritising the wellbeing of economic migrants above our own people – that’s the people who are being expected to pick up the tab – takes the whole issue of unsustainable public policy, that’s not really about the public in any way, into a completely different league.

Destroying the fabric of society – whether it be our laws, traditions, independence, environment, countryside, industries, ability to grow and produce our own food – just so that one group of politicians or another, can have or maintain power, despite being utterly incompetent and unfit for the task; so whoever they are really working for can achieve whatever outcomes they really want, or both; are not in the interests of the British People in any way.

This, and many governments before this one have not been working in our best interests.

The real outcomes from the efforts of all the so-called politicians who have been involved in the destruction of the UK are not pathways that any of us should be allowing anyone who covets the power and glory they believe they will get by climbing towards No.10 to do or continue to do, just because they say they will be different.

Nor should we open the doors to power for anyone just because they make it sound like they are going to do what we want them to, because what they are saying today when they have no power sounds just like we imagine everyone thinks.

The Money-Centric Paradigm

Being seen to work for or prioritise any person, people or group before British Citizens and arguably our wider system of governance too, is not what any government genuinely working for the People who entrusted and elected it and for which it is responsible would do.

But this is where we are today – in so far as where the news is, what it keeps telling us and what most of us are having our attention drawn to.

However, there is more and much more when it comes to the things that aren’t making much sense. Which probably becomes one of the things you may have heard in passing, once it is mentioned and you are questioned about what you might or might not think.

Not least of all these other issues is the money problem or the ‘public finance problem’ and what ‘surprises’ are likely to be included in the upcoming Budget, which has now been confirmed as set for Wednesday 26^th November 2025 (That’s 12 weeks’ time).

Watching the explosion of the Public Debt and what it is now costing Central Government to borrow the money that it needs to make everything that government does work and then service the escalating debt that years and years of overspending by governments of all kinds have racked up, is really quite frightening.

Taking on board what some of the more credible voices, that are independent of the establishment or its thinking, are saying about the unfolding fiscal drama, suggests that a point could quickly be reached where the banks, financiers and ‘markets’ will refuse to keep buying the bonds that the government sells and pays interest upon. Which in real world terms is the same thing as we understand as being a loan.

Making sense of a system we were never meant to make sense of

The mechanics of the money system that has allowed this whole situation to exist are truly alarming when understood for what they really are and just how long this whole mess and the process to create it has been underway.

Amongst the darkest and most troubling of all the factors that we as normal people need to face are that:

The money that the government is borrowing doesn’t exist
Privately owned banks are ‘printing’ or creating the money that they are ‘lending’ to the government by ‘buying bonds’ out of thin air
The government is then paying interest for money that doesn’t exist and never existed before it was loaned to it (to us)
The rules that have legalised what is arguably a completely corrupt and criminal money system have been put in place over multiple parliaments, by successive governments and generations of politicians from all sides who have ‘done what they were told’ to get where they are
The entire system and structure of rules governing business, production and services have all been twisted and manipulated to make the way that money works ‘legal’.
The payoff or benefit for government and politicians like these is that clever accounting using GDP and the obsessive capture of output data through organisations like the ONS mean that as long as more and more money is being printed and then changing hands many times very quickly, the Public Debt gets smaller, meaning that although the public debt figures are exploding, any government that continues to maintain ‘growth’ can fraction-down the debt they are accumulating through little more than poor or deliberate mismanagement
The real situation – that’s the transfer of genuine wealth – has been underway for decades – and remains hidden.

Unfortunately, that transfer of wealth also wrested away the UKs ability to produce just about everything that we were once known for.

The focus of this attack on ‘natural productivity’ recently reached our ability to grow and harvest our own food and the UK no longer has the industries and manufacturing output that we have been able to rely upon in the past to bail us out in times of national emergency and real need, so that more money can be generated from forms of real production to get us out of trouble.

Our ‘leaders’ aren’t leaders. They are glory seekers. They want the job, but not the responsibility

Whilst the Labour government we have today may be truly awful in just about every sense possible for people to consider from outside of the system of government itself – as most of us really are, we all need to understand – no matter hard it might be or unwilling we may be to do so, that no matter how bad this specific government may be, the building blocks of the crisis now unfolding have been stacked up by government after government over a period of decades – and not just a matter of months.

The problem is now so ingrained, so deeply intwined and so comprehensively embedded across every part and every level of governance and public service delivery that we have in the UK, that it cannot and will not be fixed by anyone or anything that intends or even tries to work and continue working with the system – and specifically the money system – that we currently have.

None of the politicians or would-be politicians lining up to take the place of the Labour government – whenever the next General Election might be, are looking to step beyond the system or money-centric paradigm that we currently have in place.

And that’s a real problem for us all.

Listen closely to what they are all saying, and they don’t have meaningful change of any kind in mind.

All this, despite so many warning signs coming from right across the UK, telling us that very little in life is working for anyone, unless:

You already have money and
Have the means to keep accumulating more

In reality, even those with money and what may appear to be guaranteed incomes may not remain safe for long, as the government has already or is about to bankrupt the UK. (Which in government terms means that they cannot ‘borrow’ any more – because those printing the cash know their own scam is going to be outed if they keep breaking their own rules).

We are in a land filled with false prophets with not one of them ready to lead

The tragedy reaching across politics now and not only the right, is the absence of publicly recognisable voices speaking the truth that not only does nothing work as it should, but there is also no longer any way that it can. Because the structure of the system that has carefully been put in place over a period exceeding 50 years was never about benefitting any of us.

It is merely the momentum that exists within a system that has been functioning in the same way and same direction for as long as it has that is keeping it going. Maintaining the illusion that everything will continue to be alright and that life as we know it will ultimately remain just the same.

Whilst there may be nothing inherently wrong with the solutions, answers and outcomes that any of today’s wider political class are suggesting within the existing framework and narrative that everyone accepts, those solutions, without fail, add up to little more than changing the wheel on a speeding bus as it leaves the road and goes straight over the cliff.

These aren’t real outcomes that are coming from any of these sources, because they have no basis or relationship with the reality of how things work, how we got to where we are, and what will happen when anyone attempts to tackle anything in isolation for ‘quick wins’ when everything is linked and things that relate to public policy are as interconnected as they are.

Whichever direction we look in, what we are experiencing is an echo chamber of what we are already thinking – and in many ways, that’s how the establishment wants us all to think.

In real terms, there is no political vehicle available to any of us to choose from at the next General Election that can or will do anything to help change anything meaningful for any of us in any long-lasting way.

For ANY political party or movement to really mean it when they say they will represent all of us properly, they would have to be ready, prepared and able to actually stop the whole bus from reaching the cliff – and none of them will.

We have to understand that they either won’t (because they have already tasted the reality of what power in the UK today really is and where it is going) or because they can’t (because when faced with the reality that the only way this mess can be fixed is to crash it all and start again anyway, they’d rather just keep playing along and taking the money, until the next politician on the gravy train comes along).

Meanwhile, whilst we wait and then change the guard once again, the direction of travel towards chaos and the darkness that follows is maintained.

The destruction of the structure of UK society and our ability to function reaches completion. And we are then left completely at the mercy and whim of the very people who have cleverly, and very patiently engineered it all through multiple generations – creating yet another covering that makes the whole reality one that is indeed very hard at first glance to believe.

How do we get out of this mess without the right people seeking election?

By now, you may have realised that the Labour government isn’t really in control of what they are doing with power, any more than they are in control of anything else.

You might also conclude that there is a game of pin the tail on the donkey to be played. One that covers experts, spads, academics, government executives, advisors, business leaders and moguls, bankers and everyone with influence in all of this. In order to try and work out where the buck really stops and who amongst all of them, who is really in charge.

But would it really matter if you or I could definitively work the whole thing out?

Are we really going to wait and see what happens once everything collapses and nobody steps up with an alternative to this ‘system’ – so that we can finally righteously say to ourselves – being happy in our misery as we realise’ ‘ah – so it was them and what they wanted that was behind all of this the whole time’, all the time knowing that because we waited on politicians, so-called leaders and false prophets to deliver on our behalf for so long, that we no longer possess the independence or power to even attempt to turn things around – just on our own behalf?

Even if the whole system were to collapse tomorrow and there never was an agenda or grand plan sitting behind the levers of power, the question of who could do the fire fighting, meet the challenges that we face, deal with all of the most pressing of issues and then start putting a new structure for our society in place on our behalf will still very much exist. Because none of the politicians that we have are even talking about leading the kind of transformation and change where our governance is replaced whilst life itself remains functioning and liveable for us all.

Where we could end up if we continue going along with the way things ‘work’

If it isn’t already apparent, the one thing at the heart of every problem that we have across the UK (and the World) today, is money; how the money and currencies we have work; the role that money plays; and then how everything got effected by money this way in the first place.

The ironic part of this whole problem is there are still too few of us who are prepared to look beyond a World and way of living that has money at the heart of everything and right at its core.

Meanwhile, the belief that money can and will only continue to work as it does now is as ridiculous as most people would find it to consider living in world that puts people and our freedoms first. Especially when some believe they already do…

Money as we know it, is over. It just hasn’t ended yet.

It doesn’t matter whether its the erosion of our personal wealth and ability to function without debt. Becoming dependent upon digital tech and a universe based upon online, remote and dehumanised rules. Or because the financial system and the way we use and create money is quite literally now spent and government can only survive a little longer by stripping us of all that we have ever had:

The world and our experiences of life as we know them; are comfortable with and take for granted are over. It’s just the system hasn’t yet reached its end, yet.

If we ourselves fail to act, change the way we think, interpret priorities, and personally contribute to the change that is within our power to facilitate; the future knocking on all of our doors will be one where nobody other than those who are in control are living lives that they can afford.

Every job that can be done by a machine will be done by a machine.

Those of us who are left behind will become fully dependent upon a system which monitors every part of our lives digitally and requires us all to abide by rules that they and only they can set.

Otherwise, there will simply be no means for us to remain included and therefore to survive.

We are all boiling frogs

The money system that we know and every part of life is now based around is failing rapidly.

However, it was always the intention of the elites that by the time everything we know to have meaning has collapsed, the ownership of every bit of real, tangible wealth or what we know as businesses (that control entire marketplaces); property (such as land, houses, factories, shops and warehouses) and infrastructure (such as railways, airports, water treatment works, reservoirs, electricity generating stations, solar farms, ports), would have already been transferred to those who controlled the creation of the new system.

It is the fake FIAT money and the devices it has given life and meaning to that have enabled the seemingly legitimate transfer of all our wealth and our ability to earn and own anything again to the few, when this carefully designed and engineered process has at no point been right or correct in any way.

As things stand today, we could wake up in just a matter of months and find that we really do own nothing and that we are expected to be happy – by those who then have us all fully under their control.

We have surrendered our power whilst we were kept happy and occupied with easy living, ‘correct ways of being and doing everything’ and constantly hearing news of all these shiny material things we must have to keep up, pumped into our ears and vision in every direction that we have turned.

Everything that represented freedom and independence at every level of life has been taken away from us.

All the time, we believed that money was the only tool that could make us rich. And now, the money we have revered as a god is not worth anything to us or anyone in its current form – as has been the truth – except for our manipulated beliefs, all the way along.

Who will really have the last laugh?

In case you are wondering, we have reached the point where all those who have been advantaged by this system feel sure they don’t have to worry about money or what the currency that replaces what we believe what we believe money to be today will look like when everything changes, because they and only they appear to own everything that has any value to us.

The transfer of wealth that we have never questioned will mean that they can then rent out, sell, charge for, qualify people to use/receive anything and everything.

All because they successfully invented the wealth to do it; took it for themselves and used and exploited everyone, including the stupid fools who weren’t ever leaders but were nonetheless desperate to be recognised politicians, to make the whole thing appear legal and therefore morally correct. Right up to the point where the rather massive penny drops for us all, that we no longer have any say and there isn’t any way back.

There is no good to be had here, from looking more closely at what could happen thereafter.

But for those who genuinely think that the story being pushed at us all, that we are at the door of an inevitable Tech and AI takeover is true, they may also wish to ask themsleves ‘If this was the genuine truth and that tech (and those behind it) was about to deliver a perfect utopian world where everything is going to be provided for us and work will just be done by machines, would we already be witnessing people being left behind with the threat of potential millions being months away from losing their jobs?’

The solution isn’t pretty – IF you believe that having everything easy is key

It stands to reason that most of us believe in a future that keeps and maintains all the things that we feel good about now – but conveniently removes or drops all that things that don’t work. Preferably right now but otherwise just as soon as we’ve elected someone who thinks the same as we do, will obviously do.

If only it were that simple.

That feeling is no accident. Just like so many things that feel good about the lifestyles that we are all currently able to have – if we can afford them, that constant feeling of everything becoming easier, requiring less effort and that it’s doing us good is in fact doing anything but.

The price we are going to have to pay, is that to go back to living lives that may at first glance seem less exciting, not as clever and require us to interact with real people, real life and real responsibilities means leaving all the ‘great’ things behind us.

Because all the things we want to keep are a big part of a problem that is harming us in countless ways and are as such, not ‘great’ at all.

Money and the way money works today is the root problem or cause of every problem that humanity faces. And money or the values set that we have that are now pinned to money, are controlling every part of life and the system that governs it all.

Nothing less than Paradigm change will now do – and that needs you!

A reason that none of the politicians or those who would lead us will look at embracing something as seemingly radical, but nonetheless essential, as the need for universal change – at least in terms of governance of everything and the way that we are governed, is that this process will itself require that we leave behind the centralised, top-down hierarchical view of the world where a Prime Minister or President is the most important person in any country.

Centralisation, top-down hierarchies and a very modern interpretation of what a patriarchy really is are key components that thrive off this money model and the disruption that its adoption and application throughout every part of our lives has typically enshrined.

Localism and locality are the solution to a problem that can only be solved by rejecting everything that is built upon the money-centric model.

The existing political parties (including the new ones), their structures and the motives and ambitions that drive the politicians within them or the people within them who want to be in government and in control as part of them, are not locally orientated in any way. Just as we can be sure that very few of the politicians we have possess genuine affinity for the local areas and people that they are representing or would be only too happy to claim they represent.

People, their local communities and only the small businesses that we all need to provide and do everything for us within them are where the real answers to all the problems that we have currently lie.

It is you and people like us who need to cast aside the manufactured arguments and fights that we have with others over matters which are out of control, and which suit those behind the narratives all too well.

We must begin to work together and collaborate to create a new, appropriate, fair, balanced and just system of governance that is fundamentally restricted to the people and only the people under its specific geographical or localised area of rule.

A system that puts people, community and the environment we live in and share together firmly and securely back in front.

Fundamentally, change and changing what happens next is all about you, what you do and what people like you choose to do and accept they have responsibility to do.

It sounds hard. And the first step really is. But after that, the rest will be a lot more straightforward and ultimately rewarding than you might think.

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People need jobs more than AI and the Tech Revolution

Everyone’s ability to work and be financially secure is vital to humanity, whereas accepting an unnecessary AI and Tech-Takeover that nobody genuinely needs will ultimately only benefit the few

The narrative now dictating to us that the Tech and AI Takeover is inevitable is tiring. Not least of all, because the whole idea that progress can and will only go one way is a myth.

Indeed, the myth that the AI and Tech Takeover is now inevitable serves only those who stand to benefit from everything being pushed this one, very specific and wholly unnecessary way.

Granted, many of us do feel that once technology has arrived and it is in our lives, there is no choice but to accept whatever the implications and outcomes of its arrival might be. Even when for increasing numbers of us it is beginning to become frighteningly clear that we and everything that we know may be about to be affected in some disastrous, life-changing way.

However, you may want to ask yourself, ‘Is this tech takeover, and what is going to change a voluntary choice that I am making?’

Did you consciously agree with the direction everything that touches your life digitally is now going?

Did you agree to changes that may quickly lead to you or people you know having no work or hope of ever getting another job?

Did you knowingly allow the parallel, digital universe and the role of arbitrary judgements about you and everything you are, do or can be, to walk in and begin the process of taking over each and every part of your life through the clever use of man-made codes which have been called algorithms?

So many of us fall into the trap of going along with the idea that jobs we know of today will no longer be required or even exist within perhaps just a matter of months because we are told that it represents progress and that the changes that the introduction of new AI-based technologies across life will be better for us all.

But when the narratives and words of politicians, tech gurus and influencers say all or everyone, just exactly who are they really referring to?

Are you going to benefit and in what way?

Are those benefits real, or are they just distractions that appear to make the very small and seemingly meaningless things that we do every day much easier?

Are those benefits really meaningful and long-lasting, or do they cover up how the small wins everything outside of us tells us we need actually covering up the real, long-term losses in our lives that unless we quickly wake up, we will never be able to replace?

Regrettably, few of us are even thinking about the impact and consequences of the changes that we have accepted for the simple reason that everything we have seen and experienced so far, whether it’s the way we shop, are able to access so much through apps or online, or are able to access whatever we believe we want in mere moments online, leaves us with the idea that AI and anything related to digital tech can and will only ever be good for us.

But what was wrong with the way things were two years ago; five years ago, or ten years ago, where the tech that we had in our lives or that we had access to was concerned?

Didn’t life work just as well, and perhaps in some ways that may seem unrelated even better then?

Have computers, smartphones and digital tech really benefitted our lives in the ways that we are led to believe? Or have they actually disadvantaged us and changed our lives in ways that make us very unhappy and create what for some are unmentionable problems, in so many other ways?

Technology and technological improvement or progress is a phenomenon that we must begin looking at in relation to ourselves, the people we care about and those who we have real face to face contact with, regularly within our communities; You know – people living in the real world that is OFFLINE!

Do we actually need a world where we and those people around us do not have jobs and cannot work, because a machine or different software systems can now do all the things that every person does at work, or once did?

Do those people who don’t have jobs really benefit from no longer having work?

Is the best use of AI and new technology to replace us? Or the best use of AI and new technology to assist us?

Surely there can be no doubt that the world around us would be a much better place to live and experience if everyone who can work, does work; and that in return for doing a full weeks work, they in turn receive enough money or remuneration of whatever kind to ensure that they can cover the cost or be able to secure all the basic essentials that give them independence, rather than a situation now evolving where the masses look like they are soon to be left behind.

Where is the drive really coming from for jobs to be lost and make it all seem necessary?

Who benefits from it appearing to be a foregone conclusion that ending jobs and mass redundancy is not a choice that is any of ours to decide?

What we can be sure of is it will not ultimately be people like you and me.

Technology and the advancement of technology and AI is like everything right across life that is being driven by the quest for greater and continuing profits, and the wealth, control, power and influence that quickly follows behind.

We don’t see it because we aren’t supposed to and that’s why what’s really changing underneath what we can see is actually leaving us, our communities and our humanity behind.

The choices being made about the way that new technology is being rolled out and used are not being made in the best interests of the masses. Because if they were, they would not be threatening to take away jobs and resulting in outcomes like the destruction of communities and to lives that it will bring.

If the purposes driving AI and new Tech were genuinely about improving life for all, the changes underway would not be beginning to impact us all negatively, just so that business owners, tech owners and those that benefit can elevate themselves in every way, whilst their actions and choices begin to leave everyday normal people like you and I behind.

Yes, the idea that all jobs, tasks and requirements could be met by machines, software and automation will sound appealing if it means that everyone can do and have whatever they might want without ever having to do a day’s work or lift a finger in effort, ever again.

But just how real do you or anyone that you know believe that idea to be?

Do you really think that the tech companies and those who control AI and digital technology are working day and night at an incredible pace to create a utopia where we all do nothing, pay for nothing, are given everything for free and have whatever we want in our lives without paying for it or working for it?

Wouldn’t we be seeing and experiencing signs of this great giveaway already, if they really were on the altruistic pathway to greatest giveaway to everyone else ever known?

The answer is that whoever and whatever is controlling all of this only has the benefits to themselves in mind. Or they would be happy for AI, for tech and the advancements that are available to be used only to improve life and working conditions for everyone, rather than them being imposed at the head of a revolution, deliberately hidden in plain sight, that is apparently set to leave the majority of the people across the world behind.

The narrative about the role of AI is a myth and the creation of a prophecy that can and will only become true, because we believe the narratives and respond to them as if they were already true. Not Because they are actually real and the AI takeover is as complex or on its imminent way to sentience or being genuinely all-knowing in any way.

The irony is that if we continue to believe the hype; continue to be fooled into thinking AI can and will do all we are being told it will, simply because we have been blindsided by the speed that it works and what we have seen it do so far, we will walk into an elephant trap where the masses will have made themselves irrelevant and we will soon be of no use to those who are controlling all of this and believe it is their right to exploit everything and the lives of all others, if it will help them to achieve whatever they want to do.

The advances in digital technology and Artificial Intelligence are just another step in a long-term process of centralisation and power transfer by design, where the power and Personal Sovereignty that all human beings should have the right to enjoy, has slowly but surely been stolen, but with our manufactured consent.

Our independence and personal power have been progressively eroded and transferred to organisations and people who have no idea who we are, what we do and know nothing about the communities and places where we live.

Yet they now find themselves on the cusp of being able to control every part of our lives and existence through the removal of our independence, making life dependent upon them and their system, which can and will only be able to exist because we have failed to question and reject the idea that this all represents progress for humanity.

Without change, the creation of a mass sub-class of people who can do nothing more than exist – if it is indeed possible for them to continue to do so – is now inevitable and the only way our subservience to this system and what it is dictating can take us.

To be clear, the AI Takeover and technology revolution that we are being conditioned to expect is not necessary. It is not legitimate at any level or in any way.

Technology and innovation should always be used to benefit the whole of mankind. Not just those who create it, own it, regulate it or pay for it, with money they would never have even had, if they had not first corrupted and manipulated the monetary and economic systems of the world so that it would appear to have legitimately gifted them everything that they now have.

Life and what it should offer every person was never meant to be this way.

Power over us all was never meant to be concentrated within the hands of just a few.

Centralisation, remoteness and the dehumanisation of every process and function that maintains and provides for life was never meant to be funnelled into the hands of others. People who will soon have the ability to choose whether other people live or die, based on using the digital chains that our own eagerness to have more of everything has unwittingly enabled them to wrap around a lot more than just our wrists.

Walking away from a system that puts money and the technology that enables it first, as the absolute priority before the masses of people is key to creating a different future. A good future for all, where everyone once again has the opportunity to be free, to be independent and to enjoy fulfilling the functions necessary to create and maintain a genuinely good life. All the time working together and collaborating only with those strictly necessary within our communities to provide everything that is essential for life in a real, localised world where everyone and everything can be trusted, because it can always be seen.

Simplicity of life; simplicity of governance; simplicity of business models and structures; simplicity of money and the systems that only administer it are key to improving every part of life and creating the equitable experiences and opportunities that only real justice, fairness and balance in everything can provide.

Yes, the technology we have certainly has its place.

But the place of tech is to help humanity; not replace it.

People need jobs more than anyone needs a Tech Takeover. Because we all need to function in the world; to contribute to it and to what we all need from each other collectively in some way, and then in return receive whatever we need that will at the very least meet all of our essential and basic needs, so that we can function and support those we care about without ever having to seek or become reliant upon help.

We must reject the use of AI, Tech and the takeover of real life by the digital universe.

We need to get back to basics with the prioritisation of businesses and business structures that are essential to life being sustainable and maintained locally.

Businesses that employ people need to be sized in such ways that mean everyone in every community has work to do and a contribution to make within a system where everyone who can work does work and receives everything they need to be functionally independent and therefore able to meet all their own needs.

Imagine the 21^st century equivalent of the village green, where every essential and basic need for members of the community is met by small businesses dedicated to meeting just the needs of the people that everyone knows and meets face to face, pretty much each and every day.

Businesses that are and only ever will be big enough to provide services and goods to the people they serve as specialists in whatever it is that they do. So that customers always have the best experience possible for them to have, and the business itself prioritises just those needs and pays all of the staff and its working shareholders fairly and justly, ensuring that retail prices will never exceed an affordable relationship with what everything genuinely costs.

This scenario is not only possible. It has now become necessary, if we want to enjoy lives that are built around values and care for everyone, for our communities and the environment that supports us. Rather than pursuing a desperate path to make life and everything we ever do about whatever material wealth, possessions and power that we have.

Money, profit and everything that prompts and promotes the greed that underpins it are the real reasons for centralisation and the transfer of control.

There is no humane reason for any person to become impoverished by the implementation of any form of technology that isn’t being used purely for the benefit of humanity or the public good.

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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 1^st, which was this year (2025) calculated as being June 11^th 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 11^th 2025 was the 162^nd 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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Grow Your Own or ‘Home Growing’

This blog was originally published on my Foods We Can Trust website on 13 June 2025

Writing and publishing the pages of Foods We Can Trust as I go, does mean that I have had the opportunity to reflect upon and even mention relevant topics from the news as I go.

A few days ago, at the end of May, it was pleasing to see The Times report that former President of the National Farmers Union Minette Batters (Who has taken the step of working for the government, now that she is in the Lords) suggested that future housing developments should include Allotments.

Sadly, comments that followed on social media branded this as ‘Everythingism’; a term that like many others that is now being used to dismiss anything with deeper meaning or a point that runs contrary to common or ‘accepted’ thought.

Allotments, or rather the Allotments that are available for people to rent today are popular. This point was proven well when I did a search as I have been writing and found that the Local District Level Authority where I live, Cheltenham Borough Council has a waiting list for the Allotments under its control that can extend from a matter of weeks to a couple of years.

Contrary to what some might immediately think, I am not criticizing CBC or any Local Authority in any way for not having Allotments immediately available today – as it’s great that they are there and can be available. Popularity does of course vary and the last thing that many people think about today when it comes to Food, is Growing Your Own.

The need for us to contribute to Food Security

If you’ve read the page ‘What is Food Security’, you will now have a better idea of what it means to be ‘Food Secure’ and why we really aren’t Food Secure, anywhere in the UK today.

Unfortunately, finding a way to help enough people understand that we are all taking a massive risk by trusting that the Food we eat everyday will always be available and that as if by magic, the Food Chain will keep on doing what it does today, isn’t easy.

Especially as everything that the Government is currently doing is reinforcing the message that the UK doesn’t need Farms and that the Food of the Future will be manufactured in warehouses and factories – sadly without any regard for what that will really mean for us all in terms of not being able to eat Foods We Can Trust.

If we continue to wait until there is a real problem with the UK Food Supply, before we begin taking steps to ensure that we always have enough Food available and ready to Feed everyone across the UK, we are all likely to experience Food Shortages quickly. And as time goes by, following the arrival of a serious Food Supply Shortage, more and more of us may even be forced to go without.

Food Shortages are not a problem that any of us should be taking lightly. But neither should any of us – and particularly our politicians – be taking it for granted that enough Food of any kind will always be available for everyone – as is clearly the case, right now.

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of understanding the risk to UK Food Security and then considering the steps that need to be taken to ensure that we will always have enough Food, is this:

The UK Food Chain is currently unable to Feed the UK Population without considerable supplies being imported from Overseas.

If that’s difficult enough to accept, the next point we need to understand is this:

If Overseas Food Imports were stopped, UK Farms and Food Producers would be able to provide significantly less than the 54-58% of ‘self-produced’ or ‘UK-Produced’ Food that UK People would immediately need. Because the Food Supply and Logistics Chain isn’t set up to prioritise British Consumers today, and very few of the Farms the UK has would be able to supply Food that is ready to be prepared to eat, direct.

To add some further perspective, we must then accept that:

The Farms across the UK that are geared up and have the systems in place to provide Food to us direct are likely to already being doing so. They are what we already know and use as our Local Farm Shops and Food Businesses that are selling us the Food that we already know to be coming from Local Farms, Harbours and Fisheries before being turned into Dairy Products, Breads or any of the Foods that are available to us through recognizable Local Suppliers or direct delivery services.

The question of the Food We Eat, is now Food for Thought.

Waking up to Our Food Supply Reality

A Report by the Countryside and Community Research Institute in May 2024 suggested that the amount of Food that comes to us direct from Farms is about 11% of what the UK Population needs to eat.

In real terms, that means that if the Border around the UK (That’s transport by Air, Sea or the Channel Tunnel) closed for any prolonged period, there would only be the equivalent of enough Food available for 1 in 9 People – in relative terms.

And that’s before we think about cost, accessibility and all the things that Foods We Can Trust is about.

Whilst I will always champion UK Farmers as some of the most entrepreneurial and creative People I have the pleasure to know, the time it would take to transform and restructure the UK Food Chain so that it works as it arguably always should – in our best interests and for us all, following a crisis or breakdown in the Food Supply – would probably be a period of months, before everyone was being supplied with at least some Foods that we should all have available to us, right now.

We will not have the luxury of time for the Food Chain to change, if we wait for Food Shortages before we begin

Whilst it would be beneficial for the majority of Our Farmers to begin restructuring their businesses to work towards Local Food Chains and UK Food Security through self-sufficiency today – for themselves as well as the UK Population, many remain tied to the way that the Food Chain in the UK has been evolved by the Global Model (Most strikingly, through the UK relationship with the EU).

Many UK Farmers still believe that a change of government or the politicians themselves, will be all it will take for them to get paid more or to be subsidized further for what they do, so that they receive a higher, or more appropriate income than they do now.

However, Farmers and existing Food Growing Businesses are not going to survive, if they do not adapt their businesses to operate independently as part of Local Food Chains.

Because the economic system we have today doesn’t value independence in the Food Chain and is already actively working to remove it.

At some point, probably sooner rather than later, UK Farms will be called upon to make this necessary change.

Sadly, as things stand today, this is likely to be when the UK is already in crisis – as it will only be when we are in the middle of a Food Crisis, where everyone is experiencing the problem themselves, that the real meaning and need for genuine UK Food Security is going to make sense.

However, that doesn’t mean that we cannot do something to help, right now, if we can see that hope and waiting for tomorrow is very unlikely to save the day.

Growing Your Own is the most trustworthy way to source Food

Whilst talking about the role we all have to play in the UKs future Food Security might feel like a deviation from the direction of Foods We Can Trust, it is important enough for us to be aware of and to understand the real benefits from having and developing access to home grown, community grown and Food that comes direct from Local Farms and Growers, today.

Just having Food to Eat is important. But prioritising Food Chains that supply the Foods We can Trust is essential.

There is no better way to be sure that we are eating Foods We Can Trust than if we Grow Our Own Food. Whether it be at home, within community allotments or gardens or other shared spaces, where we can be sure of everything used to Grow Our Food, as well as the continuation and availability of the supply.

Grow Your Own Foods We Can Trust

As we have discussed above, there are two very good reasons to Grow Your Own:

Growing Our Own Food will at least increase the Food we have available, and
Growing Our Own Food is the surest way to know we are eating Foods We Can Trust

There are other advantages to Growing Your Own Food too, such as producing Food that we can all share with others, or exchange for different types of Food or other essentials that we might need in a crisis.

However, one of the biggest, and probably best reasons to Grow Your Own (beyond having a supply of our own Food to Eat) is that the process of growing, harvesting, cultivating and handling Home Grown Food can be very good for our mental health or sense of wellbeing, as well as the activity required to do so contributing positively to our physical health.

Foods We Can Grow Ourselves

Understanding and being open to the idea of DIY Food Growing is where the whole idea of Grow Your Own can become even more interesting and exciting, as the list of the different Foods We Can Grow Ourselves is extensive!

In fact, what We Can Grow Ourselves may only be limited by the space and resources that we have available we have.

To illustrate just how broad the list of Foods We Can Grow Ourselves and the different ways that we can Grow Our Own Food really is, we will now share lists of the different Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs and Animals that we can grow ourselves, along with suggestions of the different ways that we can grow them.

The following list IS NOT exhaustive and there may be many more!

Please note that links to organisations, businesses and groups that are added anywhere on these Pages about Grow Your Own are for information sharing purposes only. They are not recommendations and certainly not endorsements of any other organisation, product or the advice and suggestions that they provide.

Vegetables that can be Grown at Home

Growing Vegetables at home probably feels like the most obvious type of Food to grow when it comes to Growing Your Own.

However, did you know just how many types of different Vegetables there are that we can Grow Ourselves in the UK?

List of Grow Your Own Vegetables in the UK:

Aubergines

Asparagus

Beans

Beetroot

Broad Beans

Broccoli

Brussels Sprouts

Cabbages

Carrots

Cauliflower

Calabrese

Celeriac

Celery

Chard

Chicory

Chilli Peppers

Chinese Broccoli

Chinese Cabbage

Courgettes

Cucumbers

Endive

Florence Fennel

French Beans

Garlic

Globe Artichokes

Jerusalem Artichokes

Kale

Kohl Rabi

Leeks

Lettuce

Marrows

Mizuna & Mibuna

Okra

Onions

Pak Choi

Parsnips

Peas

Peppers

Potatoes

Pumpkins

Radishes

Rhubarb

Rocket

Runner Beans

Salad Leaves

Salad Onions

Salsify

Shallots

Soya Beans

Spinach

Squash

Swedes

Sweetcorn

Sweet Potatoes

Tomatoes

Turnips

Please note that I will cover the different methods that can be used to Grow Your Own, depending upon the resources and space that you have available once I have finished listing what you can grow.

Herbs that can be Grown at Home

There are lots of Vegetables that we can Grow Ourselves. But the list doesn’t stop there, as we can also Grow Herbs – which will of course help to add flavour to the other Foods that we Grow Ourselves when we have them available.

List of Grow Your Own Herbs in the UK:

Basil

Bay

Chamomile

Chervil

Chives

Coriander

Dill

Fennel

Horseradish

Lemon Balm

Lemongrass

Lovage

Marjoram

Mint

Oregano

Parsley

Rosemary

Sage

Savory

Sorrel

Tarragon

Thyme

Fruits that can be Grown at Home

Vegetables and Herbs are likely to be the easiest and, in many cases, the quickest Foods that we can Grow at home.

However, if you have access to the space and resources necessary, there is a surprisingly long list of Fruits that we can Grow Ourselves in the UK too!

List of Grow Your Own Fruits in the UK:

Apples

Apricots

Blackberries

Blackcurrants

Blueberries

Cherries

Citrus

Damsons

Figs

Gages

Gooseberries

Grapes

Kiwi Fruit

Medlars

Melons

Mulberries

Nectarines

Olives

Peaches

Pears

Plums

Quinces

Raspberries

Redcurrants

Strawberries

White Currants

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Animals that we can keep for Food at Home

Some will be surprised to learn that it is possible to keep some kinds of animals for Food at home.

In fact, historically, it was quite normal to keep some animals as a source of Food for domestic consumption.

Perhaps the most obvious animals to keep at Home for Food would be Chickens. Not necessarily as a source of fresh meat. But as a source of fresh eggs. Which anyone who has had home grown eggs or eggs straight from a local Farm will know often taste much better than those we buy in supermarkets or online!

Other types of poultry, rabbits and fish are different animals that can more easily be kept as a source of Food at home.

However, it is important to be aware that these and other animals that are sometimes kept at home for Food such as pigs, goats and anything else that you might have space for, may need to be registered or cared for under licenses that it may be difficult for a normal home to hold.

As such, it may be better left to a local farm or community small holding to keep them.

Like pets, any animals kept for Food require time, commitment and unavoidable expense which may mean that keeping them is simply impractical.

Methods for Growing Vegetables, Fruit and Herbs Ourselves

Learning to Grow Your Own doesn’t have to be boring and certainly doesn’t have to follow any kind of rigid model or set plan.

In fact, like all of our homes, the resources we have and the time we have available will be different. So, Growing Our Own Food doesn’t need to be the same as what anyone else does, even if we are growing the same Foods!

Yes, having some ground available in a garden, allotment or open space is of course a fantastic place to begin. But we don’t need a garden to Grow Our Own Food and there are ways that we can grow all sorts of different things simply by making better use of the space that we have already got.

Here are the different ways that we can Grow Our Own Food, either alone or in collaboration with neighbours or members of our local communities:

Grow Bags

Perhaps the simplest, quickest and most cost-friendly way to get started with Growing Your Own Food will be to use Grow Bags.

Garden Centres, Farm Shops, Country Stores and at certain times of the year, even supermarkets will have Grow Bags available to buy.

Grow Bags can be a fun, efficient and low-cost way to learn about growing Food, without making significant commitments with resources, money and time.

The range of Vegetables and Herbs that can be grown using Grow Bags may not be as extensive as it would be with other spaces and resources to use. But there is still plenty that you can try!

List of Grow Your Own Foods for Grow Bags:

Celery

Chillies

Courgettes

Herbs

Lettuce

Radishes

Rocket

Salad Leaves

Spinach

Spring Onions

Sweet Peppers

Tomatoes

Window Boxes

Space for growing any type of Food at home can be a challenge, and I’m certainly not taking it for granted that you have a garden or space available inside.

If you don’t have space outside or inside near a patio window or perhaps a conservatory area, growing Food using a Window Box may be another way to get started:

List of Grow Your Own Foods for Window Boxes:

Baby Carrots
Basil
Beets
Bush Beans
Celery
Chamomile
Chives
Dwarf Peppers
Garlic
Green Onions
Lettuce
Microgreens
Oregano
Parsnips
Parsley
Patio Tomatoes
Radishes
Spinach

Containers

By this point it may be becoming clearer that Growing Your Own Food can be much easier to begin than we might have assumed!

Now that we’ve covered Grow Bags and Window Boxes, it might also be helpful to consider that Food can grow very well in containers of all sorts of descriptions.

This includes old buckets, watering cans and even dustbins (that have been cleaned out!).

List of Grow Your Own Foods for Containers:

Beetroot

Broad Beans

Carrots

Chillies

Dwarf French Beans

Herbs

Peas

Potatoes

Radishes

Rocket

Runner Beans

Peppers

Salad Leaves

Salad Onions

Salad Turnips

Tomatoes

Hydroponics

If you have limited space where there is access to daylight in your Home and you enjoy a little DIY with technology, perhaps you could give Hydroponics a try.

Hydroponics – or what is known by some as Aquaculture, is the process of growing Food using water-based systems that provide nutrients and whatever the plant-based Foods you are growing through the water itself, which can be circulated around even a very small system that might even be small and compact enough to sit on a shelf.

Hydroponics supplies are now widely available, and it would be well worth doing an online search for them if you are interested in giving this form of Grow Your Own a try!

List of Grow Your Own Foods for Hydroponics:

Arugula

Basil

Butterhead

Collard Greens

Celery

Cilantro

Cucumbers

Fennel

Green and Red Oak

Kale

Mustard Greens

Oregano

Peppermint

Peppers

Rainbow Chard

Romaine

Rosemary

Snap Peas

Spinach

Strawberries

Thyme

Tomatoes

Greenhouses

Some of us may already have Greenhouses or have space where one could easily be erected.

Greenhouses or glass boxes of any size or kind aren’t a small or low-value purchase – so please be prepared for this if you are going to research further after reading this section.

Greenhouses of any size are a great way to Grow Your Own, because they can be used to provide an environment that can be managed to be consistently the same for longer periods throughout the year.

List of Grow Your Own Foods for a Greenhouse:

Asparagus

Aubergines

Bean Sprouts

Beets

Broccoli

Carrots

Celery

Cherries

Chillies

Cucumbers

Garlic

Grapes

Herbs

Kale

Lemons

Lettuce

Onions

Peppers

Radishes

Raspberries

Spinach

Squash

Strawberries

Tomatoes

Turnips

Like each of the sections covering ways to Grow Your Own, researching Greenhouses further will be a great idea before ruling the idea in or out – not least of all because of the wider range of Grow Your Own options and what could be year-round ability they offer to Grow different Foods.

Here are a few links to help, but please do take time for a wider online search if you can!

Allotments, Gardens and Vegetable Patches

If you have access to a Garden or an Allotment, there is a large variety of Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs that can be grown – subject to seasonality and the amount of space you have available.

Like all of the different ways to Grow Your Own, researching the best options for you will be a great place to start and it may also be useful to search online to see what other people are growing on their Vegetable Patches, Allotments and in their Gardens in the area you live in – bearing in mind that the climate across the UK can vary!

List of Grow Your Own Foods for Allotments and Gardens:

Beetroot

Broad Beans

Brussels Sprouts

Cabbage

Calabrese

Carrots

Cauliflowers

Celeriac

Celery

Courgettes

French Beans

Garlic

Herbs

Leeks

Lettuce

Mangetout Peas

Melons

Mixed Salad Leaves

Onions

Parsnips

Peas

Potatoes (Not early varieties)

Pumpkins

Purple/White Sprouting Broccoli

Radishes

Rhubarb

Runner Beans

Salad Onions

Shallots

Soft Fruits

Squash

Swedes

Sweet Potatoes

Tomatoes

Turnips

Citizen Farmers – Working together with other members of Your Community to Grow Your Own

Whilst these pages on Grow Your Own are primarily intended to raise awareness for People who may be open to growing their own Food at home – whatever space and resources they might have available, there is a different, more community-orientated approach to Growing Your Own Food that is available to many of us too.

Where there are enough People ready to work together as a community or on behalf of the community they live in to grow and supply Food, there are different approaches that can be used to develop and manage the cultivation, growing and harvesting of all sorts of different Foods locally, working collaboratively, together with like-minded People, who live close by.

Whilst it may conjure up all sorts of different ideas and responses, putting the ideologies, agendas a bias that get in the way of us all having unfettered access to Food We Can Trust aside could easily lead to the age of the Citizen Farmer. Where everyone, young and old contributes to and plays a vital role in Local Food Production – recognising that even with U.K. Farming and Food Production infrastructure realigned, meeting our nutritional needs year-round and with Food being prioritised in the way that it should be, is likely to mean everyone playing their part.

People and Groups are already growing Food together, but an undercurrent in thinking still exists where whatever the stated aims and agendas might be, a big issue with ‘us vs them’ remains.

However, times are changing and changing quickly. The role of Citizen Farmer, whether it’s through Grow Your Own and then sharing, exchanging or bartering anything they don’t need, whole communities helping to grow fruit, vegetables and animals on shared farms or helping farmers to get their crops in, will be what True Citizen Farming is all about.

The options for Collaborative Food Growing that already exist include:

Community Gardens
Share Farming and/or Cooperative Farming

Community Gardens

Earlier in this topic, I mentioned what Minette Batters said about the inclusion of Allotments in future Housing Developments.

As you will probably guess, I agree with Minette and believe that this is a valuable suggestion. Not least of all because there are good and growing reasons to believe that whilst Growing Your Own may only be considered a hobby by many today, it could easily become a need for many of us, in no time at all.

Green spaces, green lungs and park areas are of course required to be considered in appropriately sized Developments already. And a time of emergency or prolonged Food Shortages, it would not be unreasonable to consider using some of these spaces – where appropriate – to begin growing Food.

Green spaces and parks, like homes and business premises have their own Planning Restrictions too, so at any other time, thinking about creating a community space or area for growing Food may need to consider areas of land that may not be immediately obvious, or perhaps even renting a field or some land from a local farmer that can be used in this way.

If you should find yourself amongst a group of local people or a community that has agreed that there is a need for such a space and there are enough people committed to the idea to make it work either through self-funding or by seeking some funding support, it will be worth getting in touch with your local Parish/Town and/or Borough/District Council to ask for their help and guidance.

In my experience of working with Council Officers of all kinds, it has always been far more productive to ask for that help and guidance before beginning. And it’s advantageous as it’s the quickest way to find out what you can and cannot do!

The big upside of speaking to the local Council(s) is that you may also be guided in the direction of other people and organisations that can help – and perhaps even be signposted to sources of funding and help for groups of people working together that you may not have thought of along the way.

At the very least, knowing what steps to avoid locally is good for everyone. It will save time, good will and perhaps even money too – and that has to be something that’s good for everyone!

Share Farming and/or Cooperative Farming (Social Enterprise)

Whilst the key aim of these pages on Grow Your Own are really about encouraging us as individuals to think about the opportunity to Grow Foods We Can Trust in our own homes or using the resources that we already have available, it will also be useful to think about and be open to the idea of working with other People in our communities to provide Foods We Can Trust, for everyone in the community.

Surprisingly, this isn’t just an idea for a rainy day (or when there are real problems with the Food Supply) and People, Groups and Communities are already working together to produce, share and sell a wide range of Foods to benefit their Groups and the Communities in which they operate.

Most shared farming or community farming projects that exist today are relatively small. They service or supplement the Food Needs of what we would probably agree are a small number of People who are usually members of a charity, cooperative or social enterprise that has been set up as a way to manage a project that benefits all those involved, mutually.

If you research projects like this great one called Stroud Community Agriculture, based in Gloucestershire (UK), near to where I live, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that community farming isn’t scalable and that it is more like a shared version of hobby farming.

However, projects like this one are already learning invaluable lessons. They are helping to create the models for re-learning the practical skills, knowledge and understanding that are needed for a much more hands-on approach to Food Production that itself has the ability to create, contribute to and provide Food Security, built around Local Food Chains.

For those of you thinking more carefully about shared farming and community farming, it might be helpful to consider that the model of Farming most likely to work best for everyone will sit somewhere between groups of what we recognise as typical small commercial or family farms today and the community farming models that we can already see in action like this one in Stroud today.

When you consider all the different Foods and the quantities that can be produced across a range of farms, and then add local processing and retail (like abattoirs, butchery, milling, bakery, dairies, fishmongers, greengrocers) – which will quickly make a lot more sense in a time of Food Shortages, it is much easier to visualise how Local Food Chains can not only work, but will begin to restore Food and Food Production to being a central part of our communities and life.

Food: The heart of Communities of the Future

These pages on Grow Your Own have turned out to be much more extensive than I had expected when I began writing over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend.

I hope that by reaching this point and having had the opportunity to consider all of the options and aspects there are to Home Growing and Growing Food with the Community, you may have begun to see how Food and Food Production can bring People together, as well as Growing Our Own being a very important part of creating access for us all to Foods We Can Trust.

Whether we Grow Our Own at Home, or contribute to a Community effort in whatever form that might be, there is good reason to believe that even if not all of our Food is grown and brought to us this way, a significant amount of it will be, IF we really want to be sure that we are eating Foods We Can Trust, whilst also having an economic system that not only includes everyone, but is also balanced, fair and just for all.

If you would like to read more of my work on this important area of new thinking, please visit and take a look at my previous works which you will find on my Blog.

Cost

I am very mindful of the additional cost or ‘start-up’ costs for anyone who would like to Grow Food at Home with limited resources.

Like most things today, prices of any of the equipment required will always vary and it is always advisable to shop around.

However, the links of suppliers and organisations that are listed as we have covered the different methods to Grow Your Own and the Foods that you can grow too will certainly help with online searches for better prices – if the prices that some of them offer aren’t as competitive as they could be themselves.

I’m not kidding when I say that some of the people who could benefit most from Growing Their Own Food today are also those who simply don’t have the spare cash to invest in any of the things that they would need to continue alone.

For anyone experiencing that kind of difficulty, or for those who would prefer to work with others and perhaps get the social benefits of doing so, there is good reason to believe that looking for local gardening clubs or similar organisations could easily open up opportunities to collaborate, work together and pool existing resources, so that the initial outlay and costs associated with getting Your Home Growing started can be shared in different ways.

Online searches that use the name and location of the place that you live will always be a good place to begin. For example, search ‘gardening clubs in (place I live)’, or ‘gardening clubs near to where I live’.

Sharing Your Knowledge on Home Growing

With it being likely that many of us will need to embrace Growing Our Own Food, I am keen to link and collaborate with people, groups and organisations who are open to sharing their knowledge, experience, tips and stories that can help anyone who wants to consider Growing their Own Food using whatever resources they have or may be able to secure.

If you can share information, downloads or would perhaps like to record a tutorial or interview, please get in touch.

Thoughts on Grow Your Own

Writing this section of Foods We Can Trust has so far taken the longest time to complete.

Grow Your Own offers an opportunity for us all to reconnect with sustainable living and demonstrates that the opportunities to return to DIY living or to make an active contribution to ways of providing the things that are essential for us all to live are not something that can only happen out of sight, out of mind or behind the screen of some digital box.

Honestly, I was amazed by how much information, resources and advice is available for anyone thinking about Grow Your Own.

The list and variety of the Foods that we can grow at home, whether it’s in a container, grow bag, window box, greenhouse, garden, allotment or using hydroponics is simply staggering.

Yes, there are some very good reasons for as many of us as possible taking up Growing Our Own Food, but the benefits are much bigger than just adding a source of Food alone.

I hope that after reading through these pages, you will feel the same!

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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.

Neither this government nor the next can or will stop the coming collapse and that’s when you may well end up owning nothing and be forced to be happy about it

Pointing the finger in the right direction, but not at the correct source

The Money-Centric Paradigm

Making sense of a system we were never meant to make sense of

Our ‘leaders’ aren’t leaders. They are glory seekers. They want the job, but not the responsibility

We are in a land filled with false prophets with not one of them ready to lead

How do we get out of this mess without the right people seeking election?

Where we could end up if we continue going along with the way things ‘work’

Money as we know it, is over. It just hasn’t ended yet.

We are all boiling frogs

Who will really have the last laugh?

The solution isn’t pretty – IF you believe that having everything easy is key

Nothing less than Paradigm change will now do – and that needs you!

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Everyone’s ability to work and be financially secure is vital to humanity, whereas accepting an unnecessary AI and Tech-Takeover that nobody genuinely needs will ultimately only benefit the few

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The devil is in the detail

Unfair, Unjust and Unworkable living, demonstrated best by Tax

Government isn’t what it should or was ever supposed to be

Money before People

Money: The drug wrecking everything to enrich and empower the few

The leadership void or black hole

Victim or Victimiser: There is no longer an in between

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

Real life and a money-centric economy are mutually exclusive outcomes

The identity, qualification and process of finding good leaders

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The need for us to contribute to Food Security

Waking up to Our Food Supply Reality

We will not have the luxury of time for the Food Chain to change, if we wait for Food Shortages before we begin

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Growing Your Own is the most trustworthy way to source Food

Grow Your Own Foods We Can Trust

Foods We Can Grow Ourselves

Vegetables that can be Grown at Home

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Herbs that can be Grown at Home

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Fruits that can be Grown at Home

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Animals that we can keep for Food at Home

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Methods for Growing Vegetables, Fruit and Herbs Ourselves

Grow Bags

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Greenhouses

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Allotments, Gardens and Vegetable Patches

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Community Gardens

Share Farming and/or Cooperative Farming (Social Enterprise)

Food: The heart of Communities of the Future

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Thoughts on Grow Your Own

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

In simple terms

The Future of Money

People are the only legitimate economic constant

Locality based economies and economics

The blight of greed-driven thinking

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