Politically speaking, Friday (5th September) was quite the day in the U.K.
With what felt like a conveyor belt of macro and micro stories kicking off first with the anticipated and then confirmed resignation of Angela Rayner; Nigel Farage bringing his conference speech forward (to try and capitalise); The Format and flavour of the Reform Conference itself; and then Keir Starmer’s second (and far more substantial) reshuffle of the week certainly left the political pundits with a weekend to ponder which story will have really stuck most in people’s minds.
Perhaps the speed of both Farage’s and Starmer’s reactions are telling in the sense of just how important they both now feel it to be that they be seen to be out front on the news pages and airwaves. Even if Starmer and his Party almost certainly now know that the narrative is no longer theirs to control, and despite having proven himself to be quite canny politically, when real power was never at stake, Farage is now taking for granted that even a clown show will get taken seriously when he’s the obvious king in waiting.
What is striking to anyone looking at the theatrics of both Labour and Reform yesterday, as well as the attempts by what’s left of the quickly disintegrating Conservative Party to sound relevant and be heard, is there is a distinct vein of commonality that goes through all their actions just the same. That they all remain obsessed with how everything sounds and how everything looks – to the point, in Reforms case, of even being prepared to make it look and sound like they’ve already won.
As one who can recall the run up to the 1992 General Election, Reform’s approach to their Birmingham Conference this weekend sounds very reminiscent echos of Labour’s Rally held in Sheffield, about a week before, when it was very clear to all watching that Kinnock’s party took it as read that the election was already in the bag.
The Spitting Image Election Night Special nailed it completely. With one sketch focusing on the Rally being akin to something like the presidential campaigns coming out of the USA, and then a rather prescient sketch with Neil Kinnock sat on a tree branch with Roy Hattersley asking him what he was doing, only to be told that winning this election would be as easy as falling off a log – at which point Kinnock then fell and his legs tied, leaving him dangling.
That said however, the question this time isn’t about whether Reform can win.
Right now, and I mean as we look at all this today in early September 2025, it really does look like Reform can win and will win, when the next General Election is called.
But if Reform does win the next General Election, what can we really expect and what happens next?
It’s important to recognise that one key reason ALL of the political parties we have today are so obsessed with media time, being seen and being heard online, and running the narratives that are sticking in peoples minds, is because this vector that basically contains little more than the distraction of noise, does indeed reflect how they all expect people to behave and in turn to think – not looking beyond the messaging that will be obvious and therefore taken as read at immediate glance. With the overall impact of their efforts seeming to be more geared towards getting away with shallower consideration the whole time.
For all the glitter and spotlights pumping their way onto our phones from the midlands yesterday, the phrase ‘you can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter’ came very much to mind. Not because of anything or anything we could hear or see (no matter how many ex-conservative MPs and Councillors have no declared that our saviours from what they were part of causing will be their version of Reform). But because the substance of the policies we are hearing about and where it’s clear Farage’s objectives and approach lie, aren’t suggesting anything other than more problems ahead:
because the motives behind them and the other parties are pretty much the same and
because just like something out of the Trump playbook, where Trump appears to be trying to return the world to what he sees as US hero worship and subservience based on his reading of the dynamics of free-world politics having been around the time of Breton Woods 1944, Reform have this idea that the same fundamentals are ok for the UK and you just need to bully your way through removing everything that has been added in the past 80 years, that will then keep the public quiet or which simply doesn’t work for Farage and his vision.
In case you were wondering, these are also resets in both Trumps and Reforms case – with both resets not being about changing anything for the better, nor anything quite like the ‘Great Reset’ of the WEF; just turning back the clock (and thereby giving the corpse of a system that’s running only on latent momentum the chance to hurt even more normal people and keep them in the limelight until the whole thing finally runs out of time)
The biggest tragedy and with it the problem going forward for all of us, is that Reform could be getting everything right AND putting together a government in waiting that was prepared and able to deal with what really needs to be done. Rather than coming up with what are intended to sound like very clever ideas, such as the UKs very own DOGE and bringing in people from outside politics, just to move the chess pieces around the board so that ultimately it will all just resemble the same shit show with all the wrong things happening just as it is right now.
We should be under no illusion that where things stand today – even with all of the ministerial changes that have now taken place, Labour have created for Reform, what is pretty much an open goal, that this new home and hotbed of restless quasi-Tories will be only too willing to fill with new (and returning) MPs who will very quickly realise, post-election, that saying and doing are two very different things. And that no matter what talents Farage and Reform HQ try to buy in, the only way to change anything will be by changing it all.
We don’t have any politicians big enough to take on the job at hand
The quality of our politicians today is generally poor, right across the political spectrum. But with Reform still recruiting in pretty much the same way that UKIP and the Brexit Party did before, it would be fair to anticipate that there will be a lot of anger – and understandably so – from all those who have rushed to the Reform banner and put themselves forward as candidates, expecting everything they have been promised, to be delivered overnight, just as soon as they are through Westminster’s doors. Quickly finding that instead, their expectations could take decades to deliver – if indeed it will be possible with the intended approach, to ever deliver them at all.
Predictions about the timings of General Elections may be sensible to avoid. Not because it’s impossible to see where things are going at any moment in time; but because even the smallest factor can and probably will have the most profound implications and change the direction of everything at any stage. Meaning the longer the time between now and then, the chances are that what looks certain today could easily be left well and truly behind.
That said, with Labour having outed themselves for not being in any way representative of the people who elected them last year, and instead having all sorts of different agendas they are following, that probably just include their affiliation with the Fabians and WEF – but will never be about doing what’s right for me and you, there’s every chance that this government will collapse and a general election will be called much sooner than 2027 – which Reform have been talking about in the past 24 hours.
However, with Reform changing nothing they are doing now and continuing to approach the run-in towards government, either as a majority or lead partner, and as they openly intend right now, we should not be in any way surprised if their new government doesn’t then itself collapse within 12-18 months. When it will become resoundingly clear, even to them, that the Councils they have run since the Local Elections in May weren’t just a plaything or game.
Indeed, since May, Reform have given us all a very clear warning about what will happen under a Farage premiership. Where the strategy isn’t any more about the people than what we have now.
What awaits us, without change, will be the collapse of everything, as jobs for real leaders are filled to breaking point with people who may have taken them with good intentions, but don’t have the foggiest idea what they hell is expected of them or what they are going to do.
Neither this government nor the next can or will stop the coming collapse and that’s when you may well end up owning nothing and be forced to be happy about it
Yes, there are a lot of people already shouting that it’s time for a General Election and many more who genuinely believe they are already backing the horse that will win – and they might even be right.
Things are looking bleak for sure. And that’s just at the level most people are paying attention to.
Indeed, go in search; look beyond the purveyors of the narratives that we are all relentlessly expected to suck up and follow, and you will soon begin to see just how deep the problems are that the UK is facing. All set within a World where everything is the opposite of stable and a critical mass for change and whatever may follow could be reached in a range of different forms or events, in any location, or at any time.
Whilst we seem to have this ridiculous unwritten rule or shibboleth across the UK, that being upbeat and therefore blind to reality somehow means that any messaging that fails to correlate with what we believe is therefore unquestionably negative and unacceptable in some way; facing reality and speaking the truth about what we are seeing, feeling and experiencing as our own reality, is not something that any of us should be hiding from right now, in any way.
However, whilst such sentiment may be welcomed by the growing number who consider themselves to be aware of what’s really going on and therefore ‘awake’, the need to look closely at what public figures and channels are saying; why they are saying it, and whatever the outcomes they might be suggesting (if indeed they do actually have any recognisable outcomes at all) really consist of or will lead to, is just as important – if not more.
When we do take the time and make the effort to try and understand what backing any of the people who want to be in charge or take control of the UK today would lead to, we can begin to see that there are distinct commonalities that flow between all of them. No matter whether they are politicians, political parties, activists, podcasters, media figures, celebrities or anyone that we could identify as having ambition to be a future occupant of No.10.
One of the commonalities that flows between the voices that different people are still choosing to follow, is they all pay lip service to the kind of change that will be necessary in order for the UK (and World) to change course from the direction that it is now travelling in.
However, they are only putting policy suggestions on the table that add up to nothing better than it would have been to move the deck chairs around on the deck of the Titanic, with the doomed ship already on its way down.
A big problem for us all in our understanding of the problems that the UK faces – and what it will actually take to address them AND then start putting everything into place so that we all experience a system that works for us all, is that we are all bought into what we believe to be the benefits– to us, personally, of staying exactly where we are, today.
We are not only comfortable but take for granted – and often feel entitled to remain within and taking all that we can from a system of living that is and always has been unsustainable. One that we are unlikely to accept as being the biggest problem of them all, for as long as:
We aren’t feeling any direct pain from the consequences ourselves, and/or
We can find someone or something to blame when anything doesn’t appear to be working and therefore work on the assumption that removing or waiting until we can remove them will be all that it takes to rectify the fault.
Pointing the finger in the right direction, but not at the correct source
The chances are that despite the massive majority of seats that the current Labour government has, and that as I write, they have only been ‘in power’ for 14 months (and we are still the better part of 4 years until we might normally expect the next GE), the next General Election will come a lot sooner than anyone currently thinks.
As unbelievable as it may seem, the contempt that the current government has for the British People has been made very clear by the comments that a number of their ministers and politicians have made, about the prioritisation of temporary accommodation for immigrants. Not only over local people, but the existing apparatus of local government itself. Which although limited and heavily influenced by Central Government, did, until now maintain the idea that we, as British Citizens did at least have a say over our own lives.
Hard as it may be for anyone who cares about other human beings to swallow, no Country can be all things to all people and survive.
You cannot continue to help and do good for anyone if you destroy yourself or your means to do so in the process.
The utterly ridiculous situation that successive governments have all created and contributed to, where we are prioritising the wellbeing of economic migrants above our own people – that’s the people who are being expected to pick up the tab – takes the whole issue of unsustainable public policy, that’s not really about the public in any way, into a completely different league.
Destroying the fabric of society – whether it be our laws, traditions, independence, environment, countryside, industries, ability to grow and produce our own food – just so that one group of politicians or another, can have or maintain power, despite being utterly incompetent and unfit for the task; so whoever they are really working for can achieve whatever outcomes they really want, or both; are not in the interests of the British People in any way.
This, and many governments before this one have not been working in our best interests.
The real outcomes from the efforts of all the so-called politicians who have been involved in the destruction of the UK are not pathways that any of us should be allowing anyone who covets the power and glory they believe they will get by climbing towards No.10 to do or continue to do, just because they say they will be different.
Nor should we open the doors to power for anyone just because they make it sound like they are going to do what we want them to, because what they are saying today when they have no power sounds just like we imagine everyone thinks.
The Money-Centric Paradigm
Being seen to work for or prioritise any person, people or group before British Citizens and arguably our wider system of governance too, is not what any government genuinely working for the People who entrusted and elected it and for which it is responsible would do.
But this is where we are today – in so far as where the news is, what it keeps telling us and what most of us are having our attention drawn to.
However, there is more and much more when it comes to the things that aren’t making much sense. Which probably becomes one of the things you may have heard in passing, once it is mentioned and you are questioned about what you might or might not think.
Not least of all these other issues is the money problem or the ‘public finance problem’ and what ‘surprises’ are likely to be included in the upcoming Budget, which has now been confirmed as set for Wednesday 26th November 2025 (That’s 12 weeks’ time).
Watching the explosion of the Public Debt and what it is now costing Central Government to borrow the money that it needs to make everything that government does work and then service the escalating debt that years and years of overspending by governments of all kinds have racked up, is really quite frightening.
Taking on board what some of the more credible voices, that are independent of the establishment or its thinking, are saying about the unfolding fiscal drama, suggests that a point could quickly be reached where the banks, financiers and ‘markets’ will refuse to keep buying the bonds that the government sells and pays interest upon. Which in real world terms is the same thing as we understand as being a loan.
Making sense of a system we were never meant to make sense of
The mechanics of the money system that has allowed this whole situation to exist are truly alarming when understood for what they really are and just how long this whole mess and the process to create it has been underway.
Amongst the darkest and most troubling of all the factors that we as normal people need to face are that:
The money that the government is borrowing doesn’t exist
Privately owned banks are ‘printing’ or creating the money that they are ‘lending’ to the government by ‘buying bonds’ out of thin air
The government is then paying interest for money that doesn’t exist and never existed before it was loaned to it (to us)
The rules that have legalised what is arguably a completely corrupt and criminal money system have been put in place over multiple parliaments, by successive governments and generations of politicians from all sides who have ‘done what they were told’ to get where they are
The entire system and structure of rules governing business, production and services have all been twisted and manipulated to make the way that money works ‘legal’.
The payoff or benefit for government and politicians like these is that clever accounting using GDP and the obsessive capture of output data through organisations like the ONS mean that as long as more and more money is being printed and then changing hands many times very quickly, the Public Debt gets smaller, meaning that although the public debt figures are exploding, any government that continues to maintain ‘growth’ can fraction-down the debt they are accumulating through little more than poor or deliberate mismanagement
The real situation – that’s the transfer of genuine wealth – has been underway for decades – and remains hidden.
Unfortunately, that transfer of wealth also wrested away the UKs ability to produce just about everything that we were once known for.
The focus of this attack on ‘natural productivity’ recently reached our ability to grow and harvest our own food and the UK no longer has the industries and manufacturing output that we have been able to rely upon in the past to bail us out in times of national emergency and real need, so that more money can be generated from forms of real production to get us out of trouble.
Our ‘leaders’ aren’t leaders. They are glory seekers. They want the job, but not the responsibility
Whilst the Labour government we have today may be truly awful in just about every sense possible for people to consider from outside of the system of government itself – as most of us really are, we all need to understand – no matter hard it might be or unwilling we may be to do so, that no matter how bad this specific government may be, the building blocks of the crisis now unfolding have been stacked up by government after government over a period of decades – and not just a matter of months.
The problem is now so ingrained, so deeply intwined and so comprehensively embedded across every part and every level of governance and public service delivery that we have in the UK, that it cannot and will not be fixed by anyone or anything that intends or even tries to work and continue working with the system – and specifically the money system – that we currently have.
None of the politicians or would-be politicians lining up to take the place of the Labour government – whenever the next General Election might be, are looking to step beyond the system or money-centric paradigm that we currently have in place.
And that’s a real problem for us all.
Listen closely to what they are all saying, and they don’t have meaningful change of any kind in mind.
All this, despite so many warning signs coming from right across the UK, telling us that very little in life is working for anyone, unless:
You already have money and
Have the means to keep accumulating more
In reality, even those with money and what may appear to be guaranteed incomes may not remain safe for long, as the government has already or is about to bankrupt the UK. (Which in government terms means that they cannot ‘borrow’ any more – because those printing the cash know their own scam is going to be outed if they keep breaking their own rules).
We are in a land filled with false prophets with not one of them ready to lead
The tragedy reaching across politics now and not only the right, is the absence of publicly recognisable voices speaking the truth that not only does nothing work as it should, but there is also no longer any way that it can. Because the structure of the system that has carefully been put in place over a period exceeding 50 years was never about benefitting any of us.
It is merely the momentum that exists within a system that has been functioning in the same way and same direction for as long as it has that is keeping it going. Maintaining the illusion that everything will continue to be alright and that life as we know it will ultimately remain just the same.
Whilst there may be nothing inherently wrong with the solutions, answers and outcomes that any of today’s wider political class are suggesting within the existing framework and narrative that everyone accepts, those solutions, without fail, add up to little more than changing the wheel on a speeding bus as it leaves the road and goes straight over the cliff.
These aren’t real outcomes that are coming from any of these sources, because they have no basis or relationship with the reality of how things work, how we got to where we are, and what will happen when anyone attempts to tackle anything in isolation for ‘quick wins’ when everything is linked and things that relate to public policy are as interconnected as they are.
Whichever direction we look in, what we are experiencing is an echo chamber of what we are already thinking – and in many ways, that’s how the establishment wants us all to think.
In real terms, there is no political vehicle available to any of us to choose from at the next General Election that can or will do anything to help change anything meaningful for any of us in any long-lasting way.
For ANY political party or movement to really mean it when they say they will represent all of us properly, they would have to be ready, prepared and able to actually stop the whole bus from reaching the cliff – and none of them will.
We have to understand that they either won’t (because they have already tasted the reality of what power in the UK today really is and where it is going) or because they can’t (because when faced with the reality that the only way this mess can be fixed is to crash it all and start again anyway, they’d rather just keep playing along and taking the money, until the next politician on the gravy train comes along).
Meanwhile, whilst we wait and then change the guard once again, the direction of travel towards chaos and the darkness that follows is maintained.
The destruction of the structure of UK society and our ability to function reaches completion. And we are then left completely at the mercy and whim of the very people who have cleverly, and very patiently engineered it all through multiple generations – creating yet another covering that makes the whole reality one that is indeed very hard at first glance to believe.
How do we get out of this mess without the right people seeking election?
By now, you may have realised that the Labour government isn’t really in control of what they are doing with power, any more than they are in control of anything else.
You might also conclude that there is a game of pin the tail on the donkey to be played. One that covers experts, spads, academics, government executives, advisors, business leaders and moguls, bankers and everyone with influence in all of this. In order to try and work out where the buck really stops and who amongst all of them, who is really in charge.
But would it really matter if you or I could definitively work the whole thing out?
Are we really going to wait and see what happens once everything collapses and nobody steps up with an alternative to this ‘system’ – so that we can finally righteously say to ourselves – being happy in our misery as we realise’ ‘ah – so it was them and what they wanted that was behind all of this the whole time’, all the time knowing that because we waited on politicians, so-called leaders and false prophets to deliver on our behalf for so long, that we no longer possess the independence or power to even attempt to turn things around – just on our own behalf?
Even if the whole system were to collapse tomorrow and there never was an agenda or grand plan sitting behind the levers of power, the question of who could do the fire fighting, meet the challenges that we face, deal with all of the most pressing of issues and then start putting a new structure for our society in place on our behalf will still very much exist. Because none of the politicians that we have are even talking about leading the kind of transformation and change where our governance is replaced whilst life itself remains functioning and liveable for us all.
Where we could end up if we continue going along with the way things ‘work’
If it isn’t already apparent, the one thing at the heart of every problem that we have across the UK (and the World) today, is money; how the money and currencies we have work; the role that money plays; and then how everything got effected by money this way in the first place.
The ironic part of this whole problem is there are still too few of us who are prepared to look beyond a World and way of living that has money at the heart of everything and right at its core.
Meanwhile, the belief that money can and will only continue to work as it does now is as ridiculous as most people would find it to consider living in world that puts people and our freedoms first. Especially when some believe they already do…
Money as we know it, is over. It just hasn’t ended yet.
It doesn’t matter whether its the erosion of our personal wealth and ability to function without debt. Becoming dependent upon digital tech and a universe based upon online, remote and dehumanised rules. Or because the financial system and the way we use and create money is quite literally now spent and government can only survive a little longer by stripping us of all that we have ever had:
The world and our experiences of life as we know them; are comfortable with and take for granted are over. It’s just the system hasn’t yet reached its end, yet.
If we ourselves fail to act, change the way we think, interpret priorities, and personally contribute to the change that is within our power to facilitate; the future knocking on all of our doors will be one where nobody other than those who are in control are living lives that they can afford.
Every job that can be done by a machine will be done by a machine.
Those of us who are left behind will become fully dependent upon a system which monitors every part of our lives digitally and requires us all to abide by rules that they and only they can set.
Otherwise, there will simply be no means for us to remain included and therefore to survive.
We are all boiling frogs
The money system that we know and every part of life is now based around is failing rapidly.
However, it was always the intention of the elites that by the time everything we know to have meaning has collapsed, the ownership of every bit of real, tangible wealth or what we know as businesses (that control entire marketplaces); property (such as land, houses, factories, shops and warehouses) and infrastructure (such as railways, airports, water treatment works, reservoirs, electricity generating stations, solar farms, ports), would have already been transferred to those who controlled the creation of the new system.
It is the fake FIAT money and the devices it has given life and meaning to that have enabled the seemingly legitimate transfer of all our wealth and our ability to earn and own anything again to the few, when this carefully designed and engineered process has at no point been right or correct in any way.
As things stand today, we could wake up in just a matter of months and find that we really do own nothing and that we are expected to be happy – by those who then have us all fully under their control.
We have surrendered our power whilst we were kept happy and occupied with easy living, ‘correct ways of being and doing everything’ and constantly hearing news of all these shiny material things we must have to keep up, pumped into our ears and vision in every direction that we have turned.
Everything that represented freedom and independence at every level of life has been taken away from us.
All the time, we believed that money was the only tool that could make us rich. And now, the money we have revered as a god is not worth anything to us or anyone in its current form – as has been the truth – except for our manipulated beliefs, all the way along.
Who will really have the last laugh?
In case you are wondering, we have reached the point where all those who have been advantaged by this system feel sure they don’t have to worry about money or what the currency that replaces what we believe what we believe money to be today will look like when everything changes, because they and only they appear to own everything that has any value to us.
The transfer of wealth that we have never questioned will mean that they can then rent out, sell, charge for, qualify people to use/receive anything and everything.
All because they successfully invented the wealth to do it; took it for themselves and used and exploited everyone, including the stupid fools who weren’t ever leaders but were nonetheless desperate to be recognised politicians, to make the whole thing appear legal and therefore morally correct. Right up to the point where the rather massive penny drops for us all, that we no longer have any say and there isn’t any way back.
There is no good to be had here, from looking more closely at what could happen thereafter.
But for those who genuinely think that the story being pushed at us all, that we are at the door of an inevitable Tech and AI takeover is true, they may also wish to ask themsleves ‘If this was the genuine truth and that tech (and those behind it) was about to deliver a perfect utopian world where everything is going to be provided for us and work will just be done by machines, would we already be witnessing people being left behind with the threat of potential millions being months away from losing their jobs?’
The solution isn’t pretty – IF you believe that having everything easy is key
It stands to reason that most of us believe in a future that keeps and maintains all the things that we feel good about now – but conveniently removes or drops all that things that don’t work. Preferably right now but otherwise just as soon as we’ve elected someone who thinks the same as we do, will obviously do.
If only it were that simple.
That feeling is no accident. Just like so many things that feel good about the lifestyles that we are all currently able to have – if we can afford them, that constant feeling of everything becoming easier, requiring less effort and that it’s doing us good is in fact doing anything but.
The price we are going to have to pay, is that to go back to living lives that may at first glance seem less exciting, not as clever and require us to interact with real people, real life and real responsibilities means leaving all the ‘great’ things behind us.
Because all the things we want to keep are a big part of a problem that is harming us in countless ways and are as such, not ‘great’ at all.
Money and the way money works today is the root problem or cause of every problem that humanity faces. And money or the values set that we have that are now pinned to money, are controlling every part of life and the system that governs it all.
Nothing less than Paradigm change will now do – and that needs you!
A reason that none of the politicians or those who would lead us will look at embracing something as seemingly radical, but nonetheless essential, as the need for universal change – at least in terms of governance of everything and the way that we are governed, is that this process will itself require that we leave behind the centralised, top-down hierarchical view of the world where a Prime Minister or President is the most important person in any country.
Centralisation, top-down hierarchies and a very modern interpretation of what a patriarchy really is are key components that thrive off this money model and the disruption that its adoption and application throughout every part of our lives has typically enshrined.
Localism and locality are the solution to a problem that can only be solved by rejecting everything that is built upon the money-centric model.
The existing political parties (including the new ones), their structures and the motives and ambitions that drive the politicians within them or the people within them who want to be in government and in control as part of them, are not locally orientated in any way. Just as we can be sure that very few of the politicians we have possess genuine affinity for the local areas and people that they are representing or would be only too happy to claim they represent.
People, their local communities and only the small businesses that we all need to provide and do everything for us within them are where the real answers to all the problems that we have currently lie.
It is you and people like us who need to cast aside the manufactured arguments and fights that we have with others over matters which are out of control, and which suit those behind the narratives all too well.
We must begin to work together and collaborate to create a new, appropriate, fair, balanced and just system of governance that is fundamentally restricted to the people and only the people under its specific geographical or localised area of rule.
A system that puts people, community and the environment we live in and share together firmly and securely back in front.
Fundamentally, change and changing what happens next is all about you, what you do and what people like you choose to do and accept they have responsibility to do.
It sounds hard. And the first step really is. But after that, the rest will be a lot more straightforward and ultimately rewarding than you might think.
Everyone’s ability to work and be financially secure is vital to humanity, whereas accepting an unnecessary AI and Tech-Takeover that nobody genuinely needs will ultimately only benefit the few
The narrative now dictating to us that the Tech and AI Takeover is inevitable is tiring. Not least of all, because the whole idea that progress can and will only go one way is a myth.
Indeed, the myth that the AI and Tech Takeover is now inevitable serves only those who stand to benefit from everything being pushed this one, very specific and wholly unnecessary way.
Granted, many of us do feel that once technology has arrived and it is in our lives, there is no choice but to accept whatever the implications and outcomes of its arrival might be. Even when for increasing numbers of us it is beginning to become frighteningly clear that we and everything that we know may be about to be affected in some disastrous, life-changing way.
However, you may want to ask yourself, ‘Is this tech takeover, and what is going to change a voluntary choice that I am making?’
Did you consciously agree with the direction everything that touches your life digitally is now going?
Did you agree to changes that may quickly lead to you or people you know having no work or hope of ever getting another job?
Did you knowingly allow the parallel, digital universe and the role of arbitrary judgements about you and everything you are, do or can be, to walk in and begin the process of taking over each and every part of your life through the clever use of man-made codes which have been called algorithms?
So many of us fall into the trap of going along with the idea that jobs we know of today will no longer be required or even exist within perhaps just a matter of months because we are told that it represents progress and that the changes that the introduction of new AI-based technologies across life will be better for us all.
But when the narratives and words of politicians, tech gurus and influencers say all or everyone, just exactly who are they really referring to?
Are you going to benefit and in what way?
Are those benefits real, or are they just distractions that appear to make the very small and seemingly meaningless things that we do every day much easier?
Are those benefits really meaningful and long-lasting, or do they cover up how the small wins everything outside of us tells us we need actually covering up the real, long-term losses in our lives that unless we quickly wake up, we will never be able to replace?
Regrettably, few of us are even thinking about the impact and consequences of the changes that we have accepted for the simple reason that everything we have seen and experienced so far, whether it’s the way we shop, are able to access so much through apps or online, or are able to access whatever we believe we want in mere moments online, leaves us with the idea that AI and anything related to digital tech can and will only ever be good for us.
But what was wrong with the way things were two years ago; five years ago, or ten years ago, where the tech that we had in our lives or that we had access to was concerned?
Didn’t life work just as well, and perhaps in some ways that may seem unrelated even better then?
Have computers, smartphones and digital tech really benefitted our lives in the ways that we are led to believe? Or have they actually disadvantaged us and changed our lives in ways that make us very unhappy and create what for some are unmentionable problems, in so many other ways?
Technology and technological improvement or progress is a phenomenon that we must begin looking at in relation to ourselves, the people we care about and those who we have real face to face contact with, regularly within our communities; You know – people living in the real world that is OFFLINE!
Do we actually need a world where we and those people around us do not have jobs and cannot work, because a machine or different software systems can now do all the things that every person does at work, or once did?
Do those people who don’t have jobs really benefit from no longer having work?
Is the best use of AI and new technology to replace us? Or the best use of AI and new technology to assist us?
Surely there can be no doubt that the world around us would be a much better place to live and experience if everyone who can work, does work; and that in return for doing a full weeks work, they in turn receive enough money or remuneration of whatever kind to ensure that they can cover the cost or be able to secure all the basic essentials that give them independence, rather than a situation now evolving where the masses look like they are soon to be left behind.
Where is the drive really coming from for jobs to be lost and make it all seem necessary?
Who benefits from it appearing to be a foregone conclusion that ending jobs and mass redundancy is not a choice that is any of ours to decide?
What we can be sure of is it will not ultimately be people like you and me.
Technology and the advancement of technology and AI is like everything right across life that is being driven by the quest for greater and continuing profits, and the wealth, control, power and influence that quickly follows behind.
We don’t see it because we aren’t supposed to and that’s why what’s really changing underneath what we can see is actually leaving us, our communities and our humanity behind.
The choices being made about the way that new technology is being rolled out and used are not being made in the best interests of the masses. Because if they were, they would not be threatening to take away jobs and resulting in outcomes like the destruction of communities and to lives that it will bring.
If the purposes driving AI and new Tech were genuinely about improving life for all, the changes underway would not be beginning to impact us all negatively, just so that business owners, tech owners and those that benefit can elevate themselves in every way, whilst their actions and choices begin to leave everyday normal people like you and I behind.
Yes, the idea that all jobs, tasks and requirements could be met by machines, software and automation will sound appealing if it means that everyone can do and have whatever they might want without ever having to do a day’s work or lift a finger in effort, ever again.
But just how real do you or anyone that you know believe that idea to be?
Do you really think that the tech companies and those who control AI and digital technology are working day and night at an incredible pace to create a utopia where we all do nothing, pay for nothing, are given everything for free and have whatever we want in our lives without paying for it or working for it?
Wouldn’t we be seeing and experiencing signs of this great giveaway already, if they really were on the altruistic pathway to greatest giveaway to everyone else ever known?
The answer is that whoever and whatever is controlling all of this only has the benefits to themselves in mind. Or they would be happy for AI, for tech and the advancements that are available to be used only to improve life and working conditions for everyone, rather than them being imposed at the head of a revolution, deliberately hidden in plain sight, that is apparently set to leave the majority of the people across the world behind.
The narrative about the role of AI is a myth and the creation of a prophecy that can and will only become true, because we believe the narratives and respond to them as if they were already true. Not Because they are actually real and the AI takeover is as complex or on its imminent way to sentience or being genuinely all-knowing in any way.
The irony is that if we continue to believe the hype; continue to be fooled into thinking AI can and will do all we are being told it will, simply because we have been blindsided by the speed that it works and what we have seen it do so far, we will walk into an elephant trap where the masses will have made themselves irrelevant and we will soon be of no use to those who are controlling all of this and believe it is their right to exploit everything and the lives of all others, if it will help them to achieve whatever they want to do.
The advances in digital technology and Artificial Intelligence are just another step in a long-term process of centralisation and power transfer by design, where the power and Personal Sovereignty that all human beings should have the right to enjoy, has slowly but surely been stolen, but with our manufactured consent.
Our independence and personal power have been progressively eroded and transferred to organisations and people who have no idea who we are, what we do and know nothing about the communities and places where we live.
Yet they now find themselves on the cusp of being able to control every part of our lives and existence through the removal of our independence, making life dependent upon them and their system, which can and will only be able to exist because we have failed to question and reject the idea that this all represents progress for humanity.
Without change, the creation of a mass sub-class of people who can do nothing more than exist – if it is indeed possible for them to continue to do so – is now inevitable and the only way our subservience to this system and what it is dictating can take us.
To be clear, the AI Takeover and technology revolution that we are being conditioned to expect is not necessary. It is not legitimate at any level or in any way.
Technology and innovation should always be used to benefit the whole of mankind. Not just those who create it, own it, regulate it or pay for it, with money they would never have even had, if they had not first corrupted and manipulated the monetary and economic systems of the world so that it would appear to have legitimately gifted them everything that they now have.
Life and what it should offer every person was never meant to be this way.
Power over us all was never meant to be concentrated within the hands of just a few.
Centralisation, remoteness and the dehumanisation of every process and function that maintains and provides for life was never meant to be funnelled into the hands of others. People who will soon have the ability to choose whether other people live or die, based on using the digital chains that our own eagerness to have more of everything has unwittingly enabled them to wrap around a lot more than just our wrists.
Walking away from a system that puts money and the technology that enables it first, as the absolute priority before the masses of people is key to creating a different future. A good future for all, where everyone once again has the opportunity to be free, to be independent and to enjoy fulfilling the functions necessary to create and maintain a genuinely good life. All the time working together and collaborating only with those strictly necessary within our communities to provide everything that is essential for life in a real, localised world where everyone and everything can be trusted, because it can always be seen.
Simplicity of life; simplicity of governance; simplicity of business models and structures; simplicity of money and the systems that only administer it are key to improving every part of life and creating the equitable experiences and opportunities that only real justice, fairness and balance in everything can provide.
Yes, the technology we have certainly has its place.
But the place of tech is to help humanity; not replace it.
People need jobs more than anyone needs a Tech Takeover. Because we all need to function in the world; to contribute to it and to what we all need from each other collectively in some way, and then in return receive whatever we need that will at the very least meet all of our essential and basic needs, so that we can function and support those we care about without ever having to seek or become reliant upon help.
We must reject the use of AI, Tech and the takeover of real life by the digital universe.
We need to get back to basics with the prioritisation of businesses and business structures that are essential to life being sustainable and maintained locally.
Businesses that employ people need to be sized in such ways that mean everyone in every community has work to do and a contribution to make within a system where everyone who can work does work and receives everything they need to be functionally independent and therefore able to meet all their own needs.
Imagine the 21st century equivalent of the village green, where every essential and basic need for members of the community is met by small businesses dedicated to meeting just the needs of the people that everyone knows and meets face to face, pretty much each and every day.
Businesses that are and only ever will be big enough to provide services and goods to the people they serve as specialists in whatever it is that they do. So that customers always have the best experience possible for them to have, and the business itself prioritises just those needs and pays all of the staff and its working shareholders fairly and justly, ensuring that retail prices will never exceed an affordable relationship with what everything genuinely costs.
This scenario is not only possible. It has now become necessary, if we want to enjoy lives that are built around values and care for everyone, for our communities and the environment that supports us. Rather than pursuing a desperate path to make life and everything we ever do about whatever material wealth, possessions and power that we have.
Money, profit and everything that prompts and promotes the greed that underpins it are the real reasons for centralisation and the transfer of control.
There is no humane reason for any person to become impoverished by the implementation of any form of technology that isn’t being used purely for the benefit of humanity or the public good.
Life is happening to people like you and I right now.
Our communities are in trouble. Crime is running out of the door from police control. People cannot afford to feed themselves or meet the basic costs to live. There is genuine discontent growing amongst us and fear that if there ever were any adults in politics, they have long since left the room and deserted us all.
Without good leadership and with no sign that we will ever have any again, we are wrestling with the reality that we are now on a doom loop of politically driven mayhem, that bears no relationship with what public representation and democracy was intended for.
Everything we are experiencing would seem desperate enough, even without the fear-driven narratives that seem set to create drama from the chaos that we are already in. Narratives that are being pushed by everyone with a platform – and not least of all, the politicians themselves.
Whilst talk for those politicians and activists without power or responsibility is certainly cheap – because they have the excuse of not being able to act, as the power to do so isn’t currently theirs, there is no longer a defining line between the words of those who can act or rather could if they wanted to, and those who don’t have any ability to’.
We have now reached the rather troubling point that anything that will be good for us, the People and that we might not only want and need, but should be able to expect our public representatives to do for us, automatically, will not get done.
Indeed, it seems to be the case that anything that would helps us, will not help them, nor do anything to get them out of the quickly deteriorating situation they are in, and which they caused themselves by playing their part in creating all of this mess in the first place.
The fact that we now have a government openly and contemptuously doing whatever it likes and whatever may serve its own purposes or that of whoever pulls their strings aside – and whenever it is not taking drastic measures to try and ward off the now inevitable collapse – is only worse than what we experienced under the Conservatives (and Lib Dems) over 14 years. And what was quietly inflicted upon us even before then, because they were at least covering up what they were doing – even if their actions were ultimately manipulative and hiding everything in plain sight.
The uncomfortable reality that awaits us all as we begin to wake up to the victimhood that so many of us are not yet even aware that we are within, is that the situation has now become so bleak, in terms of policy options that will actually benefit the British People, that politicians are now squabbling over little more than what they would do if the circumstances were different for them. All the time knowing, somewhere deep down, that the policies they are touting will be impossible to deliver now or after an election.
It simply will not matter who is elected and placed ‘in power’ – because there isn’t a political party, group or movement that we can see or hear from within the public sphere today, that has either the leadership capable or that has the motivation and ability to now do everything that will be necessary to do so, whilst all the time working with the very clear risk that what is necessary will mean they will not be elected again, next time.
Not unlike Labour, who we can be fairly sure had at least some MPs within its 397 sitting today who really would have liked to do all the things that they said on the doorsteps running up to 4 July 2024, any party or group that takes power at the next General Election – whenever that might be – will be faced with the same seemingly impossible quandary to address.
They will have to decide whether they either drop everything meaningful that they have promised and keep bobbing along, all the time hoping that everything doesn’t completely collapse before they leave. Or alternatively, face up to reality and get ready to lead, through the complete chaos and systemic collapse, that they will only temporarily succeed in putting off by wrecking everything anyway, and buckle down for what is going to become an exceptionally challenging ride for us all.
The reasons and excuses may well be different for every politician who is now hiding from the truth that we all face – or why they may be actively embracing or even facilitating it. But the best that they can now appear to do, is argue over the ideas for policy and change and who owns them, even though it is likely that these will be things that they will never actually be able to do, because they are all too afraid for themselves to do so.
One uncomfortable truth we should perhaps all be reflecting upon, is that if the politicians and those who would replace them were genuinely interested in doing whatever it may be that will be best for us and for the UK, they would not care nor consider who owns, enacts or leads any policy that is going to answer the questions and deliver the outcomes which are genuinely best for all of us. Indeed, they would actually be thrilled that any policy or action was being taken that would be in the best interests of us and the UK and be happy for whoever is in power to be using it. Wouldn’t they?
Another will surely be that this reality does indeed paint a picture that makes it very hard to question the increasingly obvious similarities between every party option that we have or will have available to us at the next election being fundamentally so similar, that in practical terms – and that means delivery and outcomes, all the political options that we currently have are basically all the same.
Yes, this means that the downward trajectory will not change.
Given everything else that we have to consider too, including the very establishment-esque support that Reform are now attracting – is the only change we will notice is that the speed of the collapse will increase, whilst the outcome of this massive leadership void may arrive much sooner (if it has not by then already done so).
Whilst it may be easy to understand and empathise with the desire and wish of so many and to believe that Reform – or indeed whoever or whatever comes next, will actually do whatever they say, there is little evidence to suggest that they or anyone who we could vote for at the next General Election actually will deliver on anything that will help those who need it.
Indeed, the track record that we can now see where Reform have been ‘running’ councils across the UK since May, suggests that in terms of what they will able to achieve and deliver, that isn’t just passed back into the hands of government officers, who are a big part of today’s problems, they are wholly out of touch with the reality they face at every level; have no real plan or understanding of what change will really take; and are therefore well and truly out of their depth.
The expertise and willingness to lead us and do everything necessary to get things done certainly exists amongst the population.
But even good leaders will need to take every step available to take everyone with them.
Amongst what we have available today, there is no politician or party doing one damn thing that has even a distant hope of achieving the kind of societal cohesiveness that will be required through what will be the very challenging times ahead.
Any good salesman or marketing specialist knows and understands that the critical element to any successful campaign is the inclusion of a truth that has the power to eclipse all the other factors that may otherwise create red flags or food for thought that the more discerning buyer will certainly want time to think about.
It doesn’t matter what the truth is and how extraordinarily small it might be. The truth they use only has to be the one that reaches in where other truths cannot, so that it can create emotional buy-in that can overcome logic, whilst painting a very clear picture of a highly desirable outcome that the audience simply must have.
Whilst it will be much easier to relate this process to something like buying a car and what must be acknowledged as the marketing brilliance which has resulted in perhaps millions of us parting with our cash or more likely getting credit to secure the new car that we felt we must have, the reality is that the dynamics of this selling equation and the creation of buy-in is something that actually plagues us all across every area of our lives too.
Before anything else, it is important to recognise that the truth; what the truth is to us; what the truth is to everyone;and then what the genuine, real or absolute truth is, beyond that, can all be very different things. Whilst at the same time for each of us as individuals, any of these can seem very real – and therefore very true indeed.
Truth at the personal level often becomes synonymous with what the individual considers to be right or correct.
What is right can for any of us can in turn be as simple as a desirable outcome that answers the question, solves the problem or breaks down the barrier that the individual or a group of them together have in mind.
Of course, the greatest salesman or marketer knows that the biggest pay days will inevitably come from creating a question to answer, the solution to a problem or a bulldozer to blitz a barrier that the buyer didn’t even realise or know was actually there and needing to be addressed in the first place – but suddenly became a life-changing necessity, in the very same moment that they found out all about it – with the help of their narrative or advert.
The story or stories and the role that created ‘need’ has played in so much and with such wild implications throughout the ages of commercialism, media channels and now the digital world, are certainly something that we should all deeply consider.
However, it is the role of these forms of deliberate manipulation that have and are increasingly being used to sway public opinion – both by those within and against the establishment – that should concern us most and they have enormous potential to harm everyone and push everything into a new type of world, created on fearful beliefs, where there is no way for anyone to step back.
Ironically, the establishment know that the real truth about most things in life, isn’t all that attractive to normal people.
Dangling carrots and carefully crafted stories of greener grass that suggest an easy grab or on open gate if you do or buy whatever they say will inevitably seem much more attractive to the alternative. Which at immediate glance may appear gloomy, require effort, or a leap of faith in some way.
The number of policies, products and outcomes that have been sold to generations of us in this way – whether that be together, in groups or as individuals, is mind boggling.
Yet it’s not just the establishment and their pet politicians who manipulate and yes – brain wash us in this way.
With the media age has come the phenomenon which is the influencer. Meaning that even the most vacuous of speakers can win over the captive audience, which is you or I, from the screen that’s right in front of us. Just because they have said or done something or belonged to something that we like; they are already popular and followed by ‘our group’; or we have just decided that we like them and therefore want to listen to or watch them – as this somehow brings them and more of what we like straight into our lives.
Contrary to the generally accepted view, influencers aren’t just beautiful people or the people who entertain and ‘connect’ with us from the digital universe.
Influencers are politicians, commentators, journalists and all the would-be politicians and people who have designs on being the next Prime Minister of the UK or President of the Universe too.
It is also not uncommon for accidental influencers to hit the sweet spot of a message that plays to someone or some groups ‘truth’ too. As the example of a tweet that I saw just this morning demonstrates rather well, where someone I have never heard of has flagged a government contract award for contingency planning as something needing to be questioned. It was then picked up and run with by others as an ‘obvious’ sign that there are plans afoot for dealing with future events that indicate a government engaging in forward planning must mean that it has already planned something very sinister for us all.
The ‘truth’ for some, in this particular instance, has quickly pole-vaulted straight over the reality that central government, local government and many of the statutory organisations paid for by the taxpayer, that we see and experience in our lives each and every day, have to make plans for managing all sorts of eventualities. Just in case the worst events imaginable but nonetheless feasible should suddenly come into view.
The problem here, which illustrates the situation well, is that although this is a very specific suggested plan on the part of those tweeting and interpreting the information this way, what they are referring to is indeed a fixed government plan. And the fact that the government are indeed planning ahead for an operation or activity that could fit a range of different possibilities, that could of course include the one suggested, does nonetheless create the presence of truth – no matter how partial, fractional or ultimately inaccurate it may or may not turn out to be.
Whilst I tackled the topic of the dangers from self-fulfilling prophecies and todays false prophets a few days ago, the agents of change and however they got into that position are not themselves the message, answer, nor the outcome they might either suggest or lead so many of us to conclude.
The problem that we now have with messaging and narratives is that our castles of reality are being built upon the moving sands of weed covered fictions that look real because they are being deliberately or accidently sprinkled with expansive truths from whichever source we have decided we can trust.
That problem would be easier to tackle if this bogus reality was one that we could all agree upon and the question was as simple as shining a light on what’s really going on in every direction, which to all intents and purposes might be better labelled as being everyone’s inconvenient truths.
Unfortunately, it’s not.
With the wide and growing range of different truths that are being created and shared by different sources in every direction that we now look, the biggest challenge that anyone or rather that we all face, if we want to get back to being adults and tackling the real issues that need to be solved so that its ok for us all to relax and genuinely enjoy life, is that solving the problem of just one mistruth doesn’t solve any problem at all. Because there is an equally truthful take on the problem or answer walking up the algorithmic pathway right behind the one that is already knocking on our information gateway door.
There is an answer. But it really is an inconvenient truth that a lot of us aren’t going to like.
Adam Tugwell 