The Choice – A Waking Up Story | Full Text

It may be false. It could be true. But one way or another this is a story for our time and somewhere it will probably include you

Introduction

If you live a life where everything makes sense and everything you look, listen to or read during the course of your day seems normal and just as they should be, you are probably alone, but don’t even realise it.

Today, the world is in flux and to anyone paying attention to the things outside of us that ultimately govern how we will feel and experience that life within our heads, minds or the kingdoms that are hidden behind our eyes, it has become impossible to not recognise that the world as we know it is now on the steps of change.

However, that change and the outcomes that will almost certainly follow have not as yet been set in stone and what many people across all parts and all levels of society don’t yet recognise is that we all have a choice in respect of where everything around us and that we have, are and will experience goes.

Unfortunately for many of us, we have become used to just accepting that life or rather the life outside of what we believe to be our own control is something that just happens to us – even though this surrender of responsibility and accountability to ourselves, is actually a choice in itself.

To make choices we need to understand what those choices are and why we do need to make them.

The Choice is a story or a collection of small stories that interlink and effect or are affected by each other, often in ways that are hidden – either accidently, or more often deliberately – from our view.

To understand The Choice requires taking a rational view of what, why and how things are happening as they are now, and asking yourself the question of whether you believe the truth is even possible, or whether it will be easier to continue accepting the lie until the lie itself inevitably ends up delivering what will then have become the unavoidable truth.

Either way, whatever we may or may not believe, we will all be making The Choice, even if we aren’t aware that we are doing it.

Wouldn’t it be better to know what The Choice might be?

Part 1: Lifting the veil

It’s time to jump straight in. Things are changing fast and there isn’t time to sugarcoat the realities that are materializing around us all today.

True or False? Only you can choose. Only you can act upon whatever you decide

You are not a passenger in your life unless you choose to be. It just feels that way.

I’m going to make a suggestion. A suggestion for you.

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are from, what you do, what qualifications you have, what you earn or anything else that can or could be used to create a difference between us.

My suggestion is that none of that matters to you, because at the end of the day, you feel like life or at least some of the biggest parts of it, are just happening to you.

In fact, no matter how many friends, followers and how popular you are, you still feel alone and not even those who the world sees as being very close to you really know what it’s like to be you or, for you, what’s really going on.

This suggestion is not meant to offend, single out or cast any kind of negative light upon anyone, especially you.

It is intended to set a scene and reveal the commonality that runs between most of us, where we identify with a group or groups. Where we have that idea represented and reinforced in whichever direction we turn. But at the end of the day, no matter what any sense of belonging, we still feel isolated and like we are journeying the world at a very turbulent time, all alone.

The truth always feels negative when it is a stranger

It maybe or maybe not a disclaimer. But there is, nonetheless, a little caveat that we should all consider.

Much of what you are about to read, whether true or false, will be read or heard by many to be negative.

If you believe that it is false, then by all means conclude that it is all negative and perhaps then assume that it was written with the intent that The Choice will convince you to change your mind about your experiences, just because the premise it offers you sounds negative.

The alternative view is that none of what you read is negative at all. It just sounds that way, because it is actually true.

Many of us don’t see that we don’t like to hear the truth about anything, when the lie or the lies that we are living are seen or experienced to benefit us in some way more than the alternative.

If it is true, what follows in the coming pages will certainly make many feel sick. Because the acceptance that what has been written here is true can only come with the realization and acceptance of the part or role that we have all been playing in the creation of the mess that we are all now in.

The upside of accepting the truth is that it provides the best foundation, stepping off point or platform for us all to create change and build something better, voluntarily and by choice.

The group thing

So, here’s the thing. You are not alone. In fact, WE are not alone, and almost everyone feels a similar way.

And it serves someone else’s purpose for as many of us as possible to do so.

In reality, the majority of us have been subject to decades or indeed lifetimes of gaslighting that pushes us to identify with group thinking – or the accepted narrative.

Meanwhile, as the power of the accepted narrative has grown, we as individuals have lost our own power and have come to feel increasingly alone.

This phenomenon actually has a name. It’s called Involuntary Sociocentrism, which makes it all the more concerning, as the so-called experts recognise it and record it as being true.

Some of us might not see or accept any risk or danger from sociocentrism of any kind, especially when it is overtly seen as being ‘normal’ behaviour.

However, the need to feel included, to be part of the group and to conform with whatever is required of us has become very compelling. Even when doing so goes against every instinct and sense of logic or common sense which usually sits at the basis of everyone.

That compulsion is dangerous.

At best, we can believe we are right or doing the right thing when in reality we are helping others with agendas to exclude, ostracize and maybe even criminalise those who are and are just being true to who they are.

At its worst it can end in horrific injustices being inflicted upon people we will never meet.

It’s time to be honest with ourselves – even if it hurts

We cannot avoid who we really are – no matter how long we crush our own truth to please others or to win their favour.

Compromising who we really are never works in the long term. Even though many make choices to conform for fear of loss which can and often do blacken entire lifetimes.

If we believe that we are benefiting in some way; whether it’s for a partner, material wealth, income, career progression, power, influence or anything else that we believe will improve us or our lives, we will typically overlook the consequences, even when either directly or indirectly, our lives and everything around us are on a clear pathway to being destroyed.

The irony is that the fear that has the power to do this to us doesn’t need to be real.

It can be as simple as worrying about what other people might think and how they will respond to what we do that can totally change our world.

The prison of conformity

If you’ve asked yourself the question, “am I free?’ The chances are that your answer was yes.

This will especially be so when you consider the stories we see on the news and the internet that clearly demonstrate what freedom really is with the overwhelming suggestion that we – in the West – really are free in every sense freedom can be.

However, just as you will have watched, read and listened to those messages, perhaps many times, you may also have encountered the saying thoughts become things. And in the sense of what we believe in terms of our relationship with the world outside of ourselves, we can certainly believe that we are free – or rather experiencing whatever those outside of us want us to believe freedom to be, whilst those thoughts and the conformity they require do nothing less than imprison the person, being or spirit that we really are, within.

The freedom that the so-called civilised western world we live in, and experience isn’t freedom at all.

Whilst this suggestion is likely to make many feel prickly at the very least, you only need ask yourself just how often you have had the experience of asking yourself ‘Will I be judged or get into trouble for doing or saying that’, that you can then begin to remove the curtains that have been drawn over society’s understanding of what freedom really is.

Whilst the establishment relies upon us believing so, and therefore that we will conform with whatever they are and may be, the fact that laws, rules and regulations of any kind exist or have been created, doesn’t automatically make them fair, balanced, just or morally correct – simply because they have been stewarded or brought into being by whoever is ‘in charge’.

In fact, the number of laws, rules and regulations that have been created, changed, removed and manipulated over decades, just so they suit the agendas and interests of those who are in charge, have done nothing less than create the prison of conformity that we now find ourselves within.

A prison of conformity that makes us all believe that our own common sense and instincts are wrong, when we see injustice in everything. But then we find that our relationship and fear of the world outside of ourselves compels us to go along with that which somewhere we know we should resist.

If you never question anything, you have become all the world outside of you could ever want

Some reading this will see nothing wrong with the world they live in and experience. They will certainly see no need to question it in any way or at any level.

However, they will be remarkably few.

Those most likely to unquestioningly go along with anything and everything that is happening to us will be those who believe that there continues to be greater benefit for them by doing so, rather than taking risks of any kind or at any level, by being seen by others to be nonconformist in any way.

Many people have bought-in and committed themselves to the way the world works for this very reason – even though that reasoning may not even be conscious. Even amongst people like academics, politicians, business leaders and other people with influence and power – who you might least expect.

It is because the system and the way everything now works appeal to the ‘need’ for material gain, whilst removing our freedoms in exchange, that so many not only go along with it and conform. They also react so angrily and perhaps even violently to those who have chosen not to conform.

Self-awareness is the key to becoming free

Most of us think or rather believe they are self aware, or aware of themselves.

After all, we all know who we are, what we are, why we are like we are, why we think like we do and we are able to think about all of that and understand how it is making us react to everything and every bit of information that is coming at us in real time too, right?

Well, controversial as this might be, the reality is that not nearly as many of us are as self-aware or aware of ourselves as we might believe and lack in-depth understanding of the way we feel about things at anywhere more than a very shallow level.

Knowing how we feel about anything isn’t as simple as knowing why we appear to feel the way we do it.

Really knowing how and why we feel as we do and why our thoughts may have become prejudiced or liable to pre-judge situations that seem familiar, echo or seem to repeat something that we have experienced previously or that we have been told or conditioned to respond to in a certain way before, is vital for us to be fully in control of our responses or to be response-able.

Some people don’t need to be self aware. Because they have a great, healthy and productive relationship with the world outside of themselves and there is no need for them to moderate their approach in any way.

They have great experiences whatever happens, as they do not hurt or affect others with their words or actions, and most importantly, they don’t harm themselves either, by responding to the world in the ways that they do.

Self-awareness isn’t something that can just be switched on.

Self awareness comes from looking at ourselves and who we really are.

It’s about being able to hear ourselves as clearly from within, as it is to hear everything that comes at us from outside, and it can involve a journey within that for even the best of us can at times feel like it’s pretty dark.

However, when we have opened the doorway to understanding who we are and why we are as we are, knowledge can begin to explain the life and experience of life that we are having with everything outside of us.

Most importantly self-awareness also begins to help us understand how and why other people are like they are.

Seeing and understanding who you are, how you can be better and how your state of happiness is and can only be dictated by you, by allowing yourself to be who you really are, will mean you are able to begin to understand what real freedom could really be. It will set you on a potentially very different path.

Relying on feelings or rather, upon emotions rather than self-knowledge and understanding to make our decisions, just makes us vulnerable to the information that comes to us. Messages deliberately designed to make us believe that things and situations are good for us, that when we actually listen to ourselves and the sources of information that we can genuinely trust, would quickly tell us that they are actually no such thing.

Critical thinking is the doorway to a very different experience and life

Whilst it’s not impossible for any one of us to have been born fully aware or as near to being enlightened as it will be possible for anyone having the human experience to be, the reality is that this is not a condition that reproduces itself that often in this world, no matter what many so-called spiritual sages and gurus would like to believe.

It is therefore safe to assume that even the most learned of us; most enlightened of us and the most aware of us, all had to begin on the pathway to understanding themselves and who they are at some point within this lifetime.

Regrettably, there is no idiots guide, quick fix or cheat when it comes to knowing who you really are.

But there is a way to begin the journey there that when used properly and religiously, will help guide you and avoid the problems that the world has set up for all of us along the way.

Put simply, the pathway to awareness begins with learning to always ask questions about anything and everything, and to be confident doing so, even when there appears to be a risk and the possibility of an outcome from doing so that makes you feel afraid.

The gaslit generations

Nobody likes to believe that they have been fooled, no matter who they are, where they come from, what experience they have, what they have achieved or whatever they have done.

However, the real challenge of the awakening question that The Choice hinges upon and what this book is all about, is for pretty much all of us, our parents and our grandparents too, to understand, accept and then work with the reality that we have all been gaslit or have been the victims of gaslighting that has been taking place under the direction of government and the establishment on an industrial scale.

The only things we should care to question about any of this will have been our willingness to go along with and keep going along with the group; of failing to trust our instincts, inner voices or gut feelings, and for failing to ask questions or research and check the validity of all the things we have been told that because of the sources we have simply accepted that they can be ‘taken as read’.

Gaslighting is an horrific form of abuse. It is an act of mental torture that forces people to question themselves, what they know, what they have experienced and what they already trust.

For an abusive partner, colleague or person we have face-to-face contact within our lives is serious enough and now acknowledged by society for the unacceptable behaviour and crime that it can all too often be. Yet for politicians and the establishment to do this to entire populations, just so that they can pursue agendas and plans that those people being manipulated wouldn’t otherwise accept, is itself a next level crime indeed.

Who are you and what is your place in this world?

If you’ve read this far, you are probably ready to start asking the questions that can really start to help restore your own power and understanding of your place and relationship with the world. Even though that will almost certainly be very difficult at times.

Once you can acknowledge that something doesn’t feel right, and that the next step isn’t to automatically go looking in the world outside of yourself for answers, for someone to blame, or for someone who is offering you what may only appear to be the solution, you will already have made a magnificent start.

The pathway of self-awareness is one that is closely accompanied by the state or condition of accountability, or of being accountable and taking responsibility for the role that you play in things. Even when that role is unconscious, without thinking, passive or when it seems that you have absolutely no control.

Accountability and being accountable is the only real way for each of us to begin making a positive contribution to the world around us, at a moment in history that is now looking like it is set to become increasingly challenging for us all.

Part 2: A time of uncertainty when very little makes sense

We’ve talked about how all this feels and why it might be feeling that way for us as individuals.

We have also been told that although it feels like it, it’s actually just a clever trick that is making so many of us feel like we are alone.

Now it’s time to consider at least some of the very different influences in the world outside we are looking at each day that have brought us all to this same place.

What is really going on

No matter the position that politicians and members of the government may openly take, most of us know and realise that there is a direction of travel at work, with life and everything that is going on around us, that didn’t simply kick off on the 5th of July 2024, when Keir Starmer walked through the Front Door of No.10.

In fact, whilst it is easy for the tribalism of the UKs dying political system to cloud the way, and take the ‘it’s your lot that gets everything wrong whilst we can never do any harm’ approach, you will probably be able to identify the presence and continuance of the same rot(ting) that was only too evident within the previous Conservative Administration – no matter which of the 5 different Prime Minsters were ‘in charge’ over a period of 14 years.

Let’s consider the different reasons or excuses that different people attribute to the problems that we have today. In no particular order:

  • The Conservatives
  • The last Government
  • Brexit
  • The War in Ukraine
  • Putin
  • Donald Trump
  • Big Business
  • Labour
  • Empire
  • Covid
  • The government response to Covid
  • Racism
  • Extraterrestrials and/or Lizards
  • Boris Johnson
  • Liz Truss (The very short tenure of)
  • Keir Starmer
  • Rachel Reeves
  • Money
  • WEF (The World Economic Forum)
  • Global Warming
  • Diversity (DEI)
  • Immigration
  • War(s) in the Middle East
  • The Israeli occupation and action in Gaza
  • Jews
  • Islam (The Ummah or whole nation)
  • Radical Islam / Militant Islam
  • The Global Financial Crisis or Great Financial Crisis (GFC)
  • Globalism
  • Politicians (FULL STOP)
  • Nigel Farage
  • Ben Wallace
  • Net Zero
  • Woke policy
  • LBGTQ

And there will be many more besides…

What all these have in common is they represent beliefs, or rather opposing beliefs, instead of being anything that everyone could universally agree upon. Such as we need to eat food, we need air to breathe, and we need water to drink.

Within this context, it would be fair to say and to conclude that there is very little in the world and therefore within our lives that doesn’t exist; has the effect on life that it has, or has the ability to affect us in the way that it does, that isn’t based on what at least a minority or more usually a majority of people believe about the world in some way.

The problem with beliefs, as we have already touched upon above, is that one person can believe something to be true, whilst another person opposing them is certain to be wrong.

Yet they could both be right. They could both be wrong. There could be at least one or more other ‘truths’ that could be right or wrong.

Or in some way or some manner of speaking, there could be a multitude of such truths or perspectives that are all right or wrong in some way too.

Understanding and being comfortable with why we believe anything can either become our jailer or liberator.

We have no choice but to apply the process of analyzing and understanding why we believe, agree or disagree with any of the things that we are experiencing and how we then respond to them, if we want to live in a world that works for us in every way that it genuinely could and arguably should.

Both things can be true

Whatever your view or beliefs may be about anything, they will always be right, correct or accurate for you, yourself, based on what you have already learned or experienced.

We are the sum of our experiences.

But that doesn’t mean that every other person on this planet isn’t right or correct about the sum of their experiences, and what that has led them to believe it at this exact moment too.

Once we find ourselves able to take that step back, being comfortable with what is our own truth, but are then also be able to take the risk of accepting that there are other truths, which consist of experiences outside of our own that may be beneficial to us, when they are added to our own, we put ourselves in prime position to be or to become the change, rather than resisting change at every turn.

The System

The system is everything outside of ourselves.

More specifically the system is the rules, laws, regulations and governance that reach into every part of life outside of us, that appears to make everything work around us in the way that it does.

The system is the laws, rules, regulations and the forms of behaviour that cross personal, business and other boundaries of every kind and create what is considered to be acceptable or ‘correct’ behaviours, actions, words and deeds.

We accept ‘the rules’ of the system, and trust that they are right, and that they exist and work with our best interests in mind.

Yet they don’t.

That’s not the way that the system really works at all.

In fact, the rules, regulations, laws and the way that we behave in just about every relationship that we have, exist and work as they do, because someone we don’t know has put them there or created messages that get us to accept that they are there and have meaning, simply so that everything works in the way that either they or whoever influences them want everything to work.

The trap that so many of us fall into, is to believe that because there is a rule which was created and put in place by the government, a council, a mayor, politician, judge, or because its what we have experienced through the media or through the behavior and words of someone who we follow or admire – that that is the way that we are supposed to behave, and that everyone else is also supposed to behave that way too.

There is a passive acceptance that the rules and ways of living and experiencing life that have come to us this way, or through the messages of any other organisation that can buy its way into our lives through advertising are normal, correct, and proper, and that they are what everyone wants.

The way the system works leads anyone who doesn’t question it to believe that what is legally allowed or correct is synonymous or the same as what is morally or ethically correct.

It is because we have not questioned the difference between law and morality that we have trusted everything without questioning for so long, and why so much is now going wrong.

The Accepted Narrative (Overton Window)

A little earlier, we covered ‘The group thing’, Involuntary Sociocentrism, or the phenomena which is how the need to feel like we are and will remain part of the group and therefore remain included and not excluded.

We understood how participation in group think can lead us to reject our own instincts and common sense and even do things or take part in things that can be very harmful to others who have done nothing more wrong than to behave in some way which doesn’t fit with the behaviour of the whole group.

We then came to the system and a very quick overview of how everything in life today is dictated to pretty much everyone, ironically including many of those who actually believe that they are the ones who are in control.

Knowing how this all works is important because of the collective sharing of the experience we are having and how we got here and how that participation is maintained.

What we all share, no matter our role, position, wealth, demographic or any other ‘label’ that society uses to identify us with some social group or another, when it comes to the messages that flow from the centre that tell us or rather dictate to us what is now deemed to be acceptable, we are all listening and buying into the same narrative(s) on some level. Even though many of the people who have positions of power and responsibility close to the centre often see and believe that the rules or working of the narrative work differently for them.

Whatever the role we play or whatever the impact that any narrative or the list of narratives that are in play will have on any of us at any moment in time, the narrative(s) that we are going along with, because that’s what everyone else does or are expected to do, is or are the ‘accepted narrative(s)’.

Public discourse, or what it is considered acceptable to say, think (yes – the establishment IS trying very hard to make us believe that they have the right to control what you think) and do, all fit within something you may or may not have heard called the Overton Window.

The Overton Window is the badge or label given to pretty much everything that is considered acceptable (behaviour and discourse) across society and the way it works.

Surprising as it may be, the Overton Window changes.

At different times, that change can take place so quickly that many people don’t even realise that it’s changed or even understand how or why it has changed.

The reason for this is that the Overton Window is more about a reflection of what is in fashion at the time.

The Overton Window can and is manipulated by the establishment, so that we can be herded by the individual fences that are used through engineering group think, to make us behave and do whatever somebody somewhere else with the power to dictate these things, wants us all to do.

Like most shared or common terms in public or contemporary use, Overton Window is of course interpreted and reinterpreted to suit the narratives of speakers of all kinds who want to push different agendas of any kind. Whether it’s about wealth, money, religion, immigration, politics, sex, gender, race, globalism or anything else.

The most sinister aspect of the accepted narrative or Overton Window today, is that you or I could quickly find ourselves thinking, speaking or doing something that sits outside what is considered acceptable by the establishment, simply because we haven’t kept up with how things have supposedly changed.

People feel genuinely bewildered by the phenomenon that the adaptive or dynamic nature of the accepted narrative or Overton window. Not least because it feels like something that is happening to us all, rather than something that is being considered and which we all have control.

The reason for this is that we don’t control the narrative. The establishment does.

We will not control the narratives that impact upon any of our lives as we all should be able to, by right, unless those narratives are set by people that we know and trust.

The system is set up so that information just comes at us in every conceivable form.

Yes, it looks like we have choices. But the choices that we have within this system have been created and dictated by somebody somewhere else, and they will inevitably always fit within the accepted narrative, so that it always feels like we are making a safe choice, when we comply or conform.

People can and should be forming and creating their own narratives for life with the people in their lives, within the communities that they know.

But that isn’t something that will ever happen for as long as we trust people we will never meet to make the decisions that affect our lives or continue to surrender our ability to think or interact to the parallel world that exists behind screens, digital tech and online.

The rule of division

You will have heard the phrase ‘divide and conquer’, somewhere before.

The reality that we experience across our lives today runs on the creation of unnecessary divides at all levels and right across business and society, whether it is at personal, business, community, regional, national or international level.

When we are divided, we focus only on the entrenchment of that divide and what it appears to mean to us, rather than why that divide is there or what that divide really means.

When divides between us can be exploited and pushed, they create distraction from what is really going on, much as the best playhouse magician would create ‘magic’ when using sleight of hand to fool an audience or crowd.

By being divided – no matter in what way – we have surrendered our power not only to the argument, but to whoever and whatever it is that will benefit from our focus and efforts being continually applied to anywhere other than where it really should be.

Today, this is the method which is used to distract a significant part of the population and keep our attention away from looking at any of the many things that we are not supposed to see, consider or ever ask questions about in the public realm.

The real black magic that underpins all the things that are hurting us is that we believe in the things that we are told and that things happen in our best interests. Whilst the truth of why things happen and more often than not what is really happening (rather than what the news tells us to believe) has been skillfully hidden in plain sight. So that even when the bullshit fails, those in control can honestly say that must have known what was going on because it was obvious all the way along.

Misunderstanding the role and influence of cumulative events over time

As we reflect on a growing list of dimensions to life where each one feels much more important than all the rest, perhaps one that might just pip them all to the post in any competition, would be the role and perception of time. Or more specifically, the way that many of us do not look at societal problems outside of the context that suggests that cause and effect are happening at the very same time.

When we discussed what is really going on earlier, we considered a list that represents just some of the different things that different people cite as the cause or point of genesis of all the problems that are going on. Or more specifically, the problems in the world as they themselves see them.

If you consider this list and any more reasons that you can think of to add to this list, the chances are that you will be able to see and understand a pattern emerging.

That pattern represents the cause-and-effect relationship between events or outcomes and the actions, behaviour or influence of other people or events that have happened within a short, relatable and recent timeline.

Look even further or more closely, and it may also become apparent that this timeline for many will cover no more than just a few years. With the somewhat bizarre phenomenon then playing a role where everything that has happened previously or before gets whitewashed, zeroed or has been rebooted so that it seems that everything happening is not only isolated, but simply cannot have any kind of connective timeline or relationship with anything that has happened before.

Seeing and understanding how outcomes or rather the problems that society faces today bear any relationship with anything beyond what is therefore obvious just seems too hard for many to do.

Whilst that creates difficulties with understanding how serious the problems we face really are and what it is going to take to get them fixed, because you cannot fix a problem if you do not know how it was caused, it also makes it a lot easier for people to point fingers and to begin to attribute blame. When many of those becoming the focus may indeed be contributing to the problem but have perhaps just carried on carrying the torch of a problem that has been in the working for a long time before.

Perhaps the hardest part of understanding the real chronology of events is crossing the threshold of belief required by the reality that the problems we are experiencing now are not only intergenerational in the making.

In the case of some of the most important problems we have that are affecting so many of us, the timelines that we need to consider may take over 100 years and perhaps 5 or more generations within just that time.

A sensible question, if not a conclusion, would be to ask or believe that only one person or one group of people working together during one period of time could sensibly be considered responsible for whatever they do. But that’s where shared knowledge that benefits those who are in charge, and which can be shared over time with those they then recruit to do their bidding comes into play.

Conspiracies?

A tried and tested or textbook approach to shutting up anyone who has anything to say that could disrupt the accepted narrative or the desired direction of the group, is to brand them as being mad or to label whatever their message might be as a conspiracy theory and them as a conspiracy theorist.

The use of the term conspiracy theory is proving to be somewhat ironic however, as time has began to show that many of the things that whistleblowers, disenfranchised former employees and basically anyone who actually asks real questions, does enough meaningful research and works out what is really going on behind the scenes, has being speaking up about has actually turned out to be correct – not always, but a significant part of the time.

Compelling as the accepted narratives have become, especially when they have been crafted in such ways that it appears there is real, tangible evidence to back up their truth and authority at every turn, those responsible for creating and pushing narratives that benefit themselves, but that are not for the greater good, know that there is nothing more likely to cause them a problem than the exposure to the truth.

And the truth begins to win, just as soon as enough people can no longer be kept happy by the advantages of ‘going along with the lie’. Because they have realised, they will benefit from being on the side of truth – no matter how hard that step might actually be.

Whilst there are some elaborate ideas and explanations out there that really do make the speaker very hard to believe, no matter how credible they may seem, it is often the case that even the strangest tales that people decide to go public with and share will have some truth involved at some level. Even if the way they are speaking can only guide the listener to hidden gems because the signposting arrives in some metaphorical form or way.

What many don’t see, because they haven’t been there themselves, is that wealth and power have a very powerful, toxic and all-controlling effect on even the strongest of minds.

Those who have succeeded in becoming wealthy, in the material sense, will typically do anything and everything to preserve, maintain and grow their control.

When you can fully grasp what terrible things man is capable of in respect of the way that they have, do and will treat others, just to capitalize upon their own role, power and position, it will perhaps then be clearer to see just how easy the unscrupulous find it to use modern tools and a world that is regulated in their favour at every turn, to carry out and effectively hide the crimes which historically were only noted when people were quite literally put to the sword.

Money

For anyone reading The Choice and looking for the fast-track to the root cause of the problem or the secret ingredient that provides the common cause amongst all of the problems that society has, money and the impact that it has had, has now and will continue to have until we make The Choice, is the common factor that runs like a vein of effervescent darkness through it all.

Indeed, the role of money and what it represents to people has been a problem throughout history.

Money is the ultimate go-to outside of us, when it comes to what appears to be the answer to all problems and increasingly the only thing that matters when it comes to solving those problems and the tool that will provide any fix.

The horrors that have been inflicted upon man by other men, just so that they could obtain, increase, posses and profit from money are truly unspeakable.

Whilst the barbarism that the pursuit of money inflicts upon the innocent may no longer openly be represented by the use of weapons or chains, the evolution of the technology that has become the face of money and the people behind it continues to cut, kill, obstruct, trap, manipulate and inflict incalculable pain upon others, through nothing less than the mental anguish that engineered lack and financial insecurity creates.

Not least of all because it is typically the victims themselves who are led to believe that they are the only ones responsible and that for them, there is simply no way out.

Money today is in no way simple. But we are conditioned to believe that it is so.

Money touches, drives, underpins and motivates everything, in every way possible.

What is more, money has replaced any kind of human-orientated value. Instead making the financial outcome of every decision, agenda and purpose the lead factor in any choice we make and the overwhelming factor that influences whatever we decide to do throughout our lives.

No, many don’t see it.

Money certainly takes away and hides our ability to stop, look and listen to everything that is going on around us and outside of us.

But no matter what we are doing and what our relationship with whatever it is that is outside of us, and our immediate relationships are concerned, money and what we will end up with in a wholly transactional sense, is the direction that everyone is now being led.

How money is controlled

One of the biggest problems that humanity has, and that humanity has always had, is that when we are not fully aware of ourselves and what we do or are doing, the human condition always pushes us to want more.

More of what?

Well, more of anything and everything.

And when we left the age of agricultural economies and the industrial and technical ages pushed their influence upon everything, those who were already profiting and doing exceptionally well from the direction of capitalism wanted even more.

The big problem when you have money which is linked or anchored to the value of a finite or fixed commodity – which is where the value is considered to be pegged – is that it becomes very difficult to obtain more of it, when everyone else either already possesses the money that’s available, and in some cases are looking to accumulate and grow the amount of money that they have too.

The Gold Standard was the way that the value of money was last fixed, all the way up to 1971 when Richard Nixion, the President of the United States moved the USA off the Gold Standard and the rest of the world followed suit.

The economic system around the world – or rather, the western led version of economics adopted the FIAT Monetary System, which is itself a key part of Neoliberal Economics and built around MMT (Modern Monetary Theory).

FIAT – which translated means ‘let it be so’ or words that are pretty much to that effect, is a system where money is quite literally created at will. Albeit under a very elaborate banking system and relationship with governments through ‘the markets’, that very cleverly hides the way that money is created. Just enough so that most of the public doesn’t see that it is private bankers and financers who print and therefore control money, hidden behind a system of screens that cleverly draw attention away from what is really going on.

When the Gold Standard existed and was respected, Governments found themselves increasingly restricted by the need to spend money on public services when capitalism was already pushing costs up and delocalising commerce, business, food supplies and everything else that when localised and transparent had kept price rises sensible, if not fully in check.

Those seeking to control a money system who conceived a new system where they could literally print enough money to buy and therefore take control of whatever they wanted, had little difficulty convincing weak politicians to adopt the new Neoliberal Orthodoxy.

Politicians bought in to the new system so that they could participate in using mass-scale accountancy tricks to hide public debt by deliberately growing the amount of money in circulation – so that if it kept growing through ‘growth’ – the scale of debt would proportionally keep getting smaller in proportion to the amount of cash in circulation.

Opening up the economy and facilitating ‘deregulation’ giving power to private interests to pretty much takeover the running of the world through money creation and policing meant that weak governments could keep ‘borrowing’ from private banks that created the money, by using financial tools like bonds which are traded on those open markets.

All well and good if you are a politician seeking to keep your plum job or save your skin.

Not so good if you are just a normal worker or any of the small community businesses that progressively became victims to large corporate businesses that were able to take over markets and buy up businesses and property with money that didn’t even exist.

Meanwhile, the growing pool of money available has only served to immediately devalue every Pound, Dollar or other form of currency that is circulating, the moment that the hidden ‘printing presses’ printed any more.

This is why we are all increasingly getting poor and everyone is getting poorer.

The world runs on pretend money that those in on the con have used to buy things they should never have been able to. The con has gone so far that everything is now breaking, and people are aware things don’t add up. Wait until people awaken and understand why, how and what this really means

How public spending is hidden by ‘Growth’

If you’ve ever wondered why politicians are talking about ‘growth’ to the point that it has become obsessive, you really aren’t hearing things.

Politicians really are obsessed with growth – Because it’s the only way they can keep the plates spinning, stay in power (or get there) and hope to keep everything from falling apart!

At around the same time that the Gold Standard for money was dropped and the FIAT Monetary system was adopted, the use of a statistical tool called GDP or Gross Domestic Product was introduced.

(This was no mere coincidence or accident!)

GDP soon became the world benchmark for judging how productive a country was in terms of the role they were playing when compared to everyone else.

GDP is basically the sum of the country’s business transactions or the number of sales that businesses and organisations that are monitored contribute to the economy in terms of how productive they are.

In its crudest form, GDP is the total money spent, or total amount of money that circulates within the parts of a country’s economic system that is measured within any given period – which is typically a quarter or three-month periods of the year ie 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th or final quarter of a calendar year.

However, the real swizz isn’t that GDP represents the amount of money that really exists being transferred through financial transactions between people’s pockets, bank accounts or in any other way that cash or monetary value can be considered ‘held’ somewhere. The real con of GDP and why growth is so important is that it is the same money being exchanged over and over again or changing hands many different times through multiple transactions, that can and is counted as many times as it passes through a transaction of some kind.

In this way, £1 carefully given, loaned or spent on a product or service that will then be passed through many different suppliers or different points in a supply chain quickly enough to make it make sense, will become worth that number of times more than the original £1 spent – (eg, if the original £1 passes through 10x transactions in that quarter, it actually counts as £10 and helps ‘growth’)

You may have noticed that public debt is always referred to in terms of its relationship with GDP and this is because the percentage of debt is supposed to be maintained at the same or similar proportion for the real value of the debt to remain hidden.

Whilst GDP grows, politicians can borrow more money to keep spending, whilst the borrowed figure always seems to remain static, because we are given the figures as how they stack up against GDP!

What we don’t get told of course is that with every pound added to the amount of money in circulation when it’s not pegged to anything of value, the value of the money that we actually hold (rather than how much something might be worth) keeps going down.

The other thing that nobody mentions is the reality that since the last Labour Government (1997 – 2010) took the decision to bail out the very same banks and financiers who had caused the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), the scale of public debt has exploded as politicians have cared less and less about anything that resembles financial prudence and have relied more and more heavily on buying their way out of trouble with borrowed money, rather than using effective public policy changes in the way that good and uncontrolled politicians once could.

Creating ‘explosive policies’ as a target to fire hose new public cash

One of the most troubling aspects of the way that GDP works and that ‘growth’ has become the key priority for our politicians, is that the government is already struggling to be able to justify the creation (or borrowing) of ‘new money’, when GDP growth is on the verge of going backwards, and the globalisation model that the UK is now completely geared to has pretty much removed all of the industries and organisations from across the Country that until this all started were the UKs natural engines of growth.

The ’growth’ that the politicians talk about therefore must come from the measurements that are made through monitoring and statistics of the ‘productivity’ that is counted towards GDP.

To achieve this, politicians have been and are literally creating exploding  cost centres where cash that has been newly created and ‘lent’ to the government by private banks (that never had it in the first place) is firehosed with the aim that each £Pound they spend will quickly travel through the economy through multiple transactions, making may different stops and transactions, so that the net result is that the economy continues to grow.

The politicians are either beyond desperation already or too ignorant of the workings of the system they are technically in charge of to realise and/or act in any rational way that is necessary to begin shoring up anything that can be protected from the most severe parts of the collapse that is now underway.

It is clear that they will destroy what is left of the system before doing so, even though the reality that they and the generations of politicians that preceded them have created was always going to be the inevitable outcome that we are knocking on the door of now.

The menace of measurement

GDP is a measurement of productivity – albeit one that overtly focuses upon financial transactions in order to define a nations economic health.

When GDP was first implemented, it became the spearhead of an entirely new way of managing, or rather micromanaging, ever more parts of every industry and sector and the organisations and businesses that operate within them.

On the face of it, we are told that measuring the quality of production and management within any type of business setting improves things like safety, quality of goods and working conditions for staff, whilst ultimately ensuring that we get the very best of everything that we should.

What the narrative doesn’t tell us is that anything that can be measured can then be policed and can then be regulated so that those people and organisations who the people controlling the system want to be involved and rewarded can easily be let in or given more of what is on offer. Whilst those same created rules can then be used to push and keep everyone else out, usually because of rising expenses, or increasingly because services and activities that were traditionally done locally now mean that increasing levels of travel and (therefore) centralisation have become involved.

For 50 years, the technology hasn’t existed where every part of life, down to the very basic choices that each of us make every day can be monitored – and therefore restricted.

However, the arrival of digital tech of the kind that we now have available, along with the forms of AI that are now available means that this is no longer the case.

You will not need to look far to begin to experience the practical, far-reaching implications of digital measurement and what our acceptance of these systems will end up meaning just as soon as the options which give us independence from someone else’s overview have been removed.

The installation of smart meters for all the utilities we use within our homes is one such measure that will allow utility companies not only to vary the supply, but to charge us for use at different times under a system that they have called ‘surge pricing’.

This massive technical intrusion will also allow these privately owned businesses to switch the supply of essential utilities off whenever they decide.

In a similar way, the push towards electric cars may be sold to us as a push towards greener living (which itself has many questions that need answering), but is itself a giant step towards policing our every move through a transport system that can be monitored at every point, shut off at will, priced variably and therefore take away the opportunity for people who can still afford to own transport of their own to have the independence that combustion engine vehicles that ran independently with fuel supplies that it is impossible to monitor.

With every new part of life that we allow to be pushed online and into the digital sphere, on an app or tied to the internet in some way, we surrender another part of our freedom and also our humanity towards a destination where without waking up to what’s happening, we will all soon be restricted in areas of life and daily activity that we have always taken for granted, where we are already being ‘rewarded’ for whatever we do to conform or whatever is deemed to be right.

Use it or lose it is a phrase that we should all be shouting to ourselves at pretty much every point in our day.

Cash and our ability to learn, research and think critically without using AI are the most obvious ways that we are being stripped of our independence each day, and there are certainly many, many more that will come very quickly if we do not change paths.

Social Credit scoring already exists and is enforced in China, where pretty much everything is policed and every activity is monitored, measured and watched.

Western elites have seen this with eyes of envy and have little doubt that universal digitalisation of our lives is the surest way that they can cement control of everyone – no matter what lies ahead.

The duplicitous role of The National Debt

Many will have heard of Public Debt or The National Debt, especially in the context that some still use to suggest that the UK (and other countries) can and soon will go bankrupt.

However, whilst few in politics, the establishment or the media will suggest otherwise, the Public Debt is quite literally the amount of money that the government owes because of overspending and the interest that they are paying on the bonds that they have sold, in order that they had that money to spend in the first place.

Putting aside the reality that private banks create or print the money that governments are borrowing (by selling bonds), those bonds are then also being bought with money that also doesn’t typically exist.

The government is also then paying interest on our behalf to borrow all that money that doesn’t actually exist, with the banks and people who are in on this massive con, raking in unimaginable amounts of money which they are then using to buy everything that once had real value to all of us, all so that just a few will end up with compete control of everything.

Bankruptcy of nation states doesn’t happen under this system. Just as long as everyone who’s on the inside plays ball

Whilst greater numbers of people are now awakening to the realities that we face, usually in relation to the areas of life that they have the most reason to understand – few who are looking more closely really understand that unlike people or small businesses, a country cannot go bankrupt when money can be printed at will to cover the cost of everything that the politicians decide to pay for – no matter how ridiculous their decisions might later prove to be.

However, whilst the money cannot technically run out, it remains possible and in fact increasingly likely that the amount of money in circulation, that stupid political decisions keep adding to the economy to stimulate the growth they need to save them, will devalue the money that we all have by so much that inflation will make life impossible for everyone but the very wealthiest to afford, and the country and the systems that we have will just come to a halt. (Assuming that other events don’t take over first)

Ironically, whilst all the money that the government is using doesn’t really exist, because the power to create and lend – or for the money to be provided to buy up bonds, is all in the hands of private interests, the bankers and financiers can and very likely will refuse to keep buying up the bonds that the government needs to sell, if that is the terms under which the markets – which are again completely in on the game – charge too much interest on the bonds which effectively lead them to become junk.

Some will argue that this is what bankruptcy at the national level really means. Yet whatever you may or may not choose to call this situation, it will and can only be one that is ultimately the responsibility of everyone who has played a part in the creation, development and in maintaining an entire system that was crooked.

It is a deliberately biased and self-serving system that has been causing increasing, yet wholly avoidable levels of pain to millions of people, just so that a few could ultimately control wealth, ownership and every rule, regulation and law that governs human life.

However, it does and can only continue to run by ensuring that decision makers – that’s the real decision makers in government – are always ‘in’ on everything, but only know enough to make what they are doing by being duplicitous seem logical, correct and enacted on the basis that they know its in the best interests of all the ignorant people who cannot make good decisions for themselves.

Oligarchs, Oligarchy and The Moneyocracy

We, the everyday people, many of whom are struggling more and more to make ends meet, even when working long hours and feeling like life just revolves around work (because it increasingly does), look upon the billionaires, oligarchs and elites with a sense of awe and with a cringeworthy kind of respect and reverence. All for no better reason than most people would wish to be in their position without giving the matter another thought.

However, there is nothing normal, sensible or indeed human about the levels of wealth that now exist amongst the few.

The reality that we all need to wake up to, is that the entire system has been changed, manipulated, reformed and added to in order for it to become one where we worship money and those that are seen to have made it are worshipped and revered as if they are the living gods of our age.

What we don’t see within this Moneyocracy – or system where money is the only thing that is genuinely valued, is that it has only been possible for the wealth disparity that we are now experiencing across the world to exist, because those with power and responsibility have allowed the system to be evolved and developed to become one which is no better than a giant monopoly game, and it’s one that is actually played by and controlled by a group of cheats.

Money is a game with real life consequences for everyone

We all must be very clear about the system today and the way the world is currently working:

The levels of wealth accumulated; the expanding property portfolios, the public infrastructure takeover and businesses that have been developed and then bought up; the mind boggling levels of ‘investment’ in tech which blows our minds whilst offering the owners sinister levels of control – and much more ownership and the power, control and influence that is being funnelled towards fewer and fewer as a result of it all – NONE of this would have been possible without a mechanism of printing or creating money that we have all been fooled to believe has value, from nothing.

We cannot call the processes, changes, opening of markets, deregulation, tightening of standards or indeed any of the clever tools, devices and methods that have been used to swallow up ownership and control of everything that has value a crime, because the rules were changed using politicians and genuine governance processes to achieve the end result.

However, not being a crime doesn’t make any of this, at any level right, correct, moral, ethical or principled in any way.

People at all levels of society are being robbed of anything and everything that all people have the right to have access to, possession of, use of and the freedoms that go with all of this – and most notably the right to be able to function independently in return for any kind of contribution or work, and the whole system has been developed over a period of more than 50 years so that few would ever see what was happening to them – rather like the boiling frogs – until it was too late. As it is right now.

This is the perfect crime. Because every law, judge and legislator can suggest there is anything legally wrong with anything that is being done.

A system that can only enrich the few by impoverishing the many

Many myths have been created by the establishment to give the impression that the system we have today is good for everyone and that anyone doing their bit and playing along will thrive – and thrive even more if they fully conform and do everything that the system expects of them.

One of the cruelest myths – and many of them are very cruel indeed – was the creation of the ‘tickle down economics’ lie, that suggests people at the top of the money pyramid getting richer means everyone else in the layers or tiers below them automatically doing better and better, because the money always trickles down.

The problem is that within this system, created money may as well be called boomerang money. Because the way that people use and behave with money varies massively according to what they actually have or have the ability to earn.

Money always heads straight back to the place where it was created – or its source, where those who created it, are made wealthier and wealthier by the money flowing back, whilst they either print more to lend the people that the system they control is impoverishing and then charge interest upon it, or lend it back again, doing exactly the same.

The financial, economic and monetary system that we have today was designed this way. And the way it was designed means that the poorer get poorer – because the system cannot and will not work in any other way.

Those in the middle – who haven’t awoken to the reality that they and everyone outside the bubble and sphere of those controlling all this are being robbed – whilst gaslit to make it seem like they are the ones who are at fault because they aren’t keeping up – still look at those on benefits and using food banks as if the poor and vulnerable and those on benefits are in a mess of their own making.

Yet it is only the way that money now works and is controlled – and the shameful role that governments and politicians are playing by stacking the deck against the very people who elected them, that has, is and until change comes, will continue to mean that things go on this way.

The minimum wage isn’t anywhere near what it costs to live at all

Today, in the UK, and probably in many other countries too, what is considered to be the legitimate benchmark of life affordability – the minimum or living wage – is significantly lower than what it should actually be.

Yes, there have been what those on low wages will certainly interpret as being jumps in the legal rate or floor – most notably to £12.21 in April 2025 – some three months before I sat to write this book.

Yet in October 2023, a rough calculation I completed suggested that what it would cost a single person to live independently of benefits, charity or debt – or to be ‘financially free’, would be at least the equivalent of £14.00 per hour – at that time – and therefore at least £2.00 per hour short (net) of what that true benchmark for living would be for anyone working at least 40 hours per week.

That benchmark for living has gone up since then. And it has gone up a lot.

Yet the statistical figures for the rates of inflation suggest that the rise this year was generous. When anyone doing a regular shop in a well-known supermarket in the UK will have seen how prices of the things that people use and need every week don’t just jump by a few percent. But can do so at around 10, 20 or even 30% at one time.

Every month the establishment announces the rate of inflation which is then celebrated by politicians and the media alike as if it is the cost of living coming down, when in fact even 0.01% inflation still means that prices are continuing to go up!

The uncomfortable truth that we can be sure at least some of the thinkers with offices along the corridors of Whitehall and Westminster already know, is the lowest paid in the UK – or anyone that the narrative tells us should be forced to join them on minimum wage, is not and will not earn what it will cost them to live independently without help of some kind.

When that help comes with all of the emotionally destructive, human-devaluing and demeaning attitude that comes from within many parts of a system that doesn’t value those it says are not taking part, what incentive is there for anyone to ‘lift themselves out of the gutter’. When they will still get all of that, and then have to work hours for an employer where it is just as likely, that because they are in a ‘minimum wage’ job, they will be treated by employers and customers just the same?

Yes, we can be sure that people in power or within the groups of experts who influence them know that they are gaslighting people at an epic level. Indeed, it may well be the case that it was a rather messy attempt to at least find a way to navigate what is actually an unnavigable problem that the current Labour government has struggled to make the term ‘working people’ catch on and captivate in the way that the marketeers and nudgers intended.

The reality is that if this government, or any government were to openly say that the minimum wage isn’t enough for anyone to live on independently without help – and did so in a way that really made clear what the cost of this injustice, not only to the low paid, the vulnerable and poor, but to everyone else outside of the elites bubble itself, the whole thing would immediately crash to the floor.

Subscription Payments and buying everything by contract

One of the particularly insidious ways that commercialisation of everything for profit is now reaching into everything and making it increasingly difficult for people to change priorities when their circumstances change, is the all too common use of subscriptions and payment contracts that often require contract defined commitments where agreed regular payments must always be made, at the risk of damaging your credit worthiness if you don’t.

No, it is not as simple as saying ‘don’t buy what you cannot pay for’.

Many of the goods and services are things that people need to be able to function with the requirements that the current system places upon them and where group think and what culture tells everyone they must have to keep up then takes over.

Loss of salary, changes in circumstances and anything that can momentarily change income can and will remove the remaining disposable income of people who are earning considerable salaries and leave them needing help from food banks or other sources that few take time to try and understand the implications of using, even when those reliant upon them are the poorest in the land.

Credit Scoring

Our credit worthiness or credit score has become so important that we can now pay a monthly subscription to companies that monitor it and give us tips and advice on how to make it better.

What many people don’t realise is that the businesses that monitor our financial activity and that track our credit history are all private companies too and they provide data directly to the private companies that lend us money or provide the finance for the goods and services that we want to buy or pay for too.

This wouldn’t be too bad, were it not for the reality that a poor credit score can make it impossible for people to borrow or finance anything and may even make it impossible to get a bank account.

The companies that have this power over our lives are not government organisations at any level and this whole process – which can quite literally govern our lives already – is in the hands of the very people who are making money out of our every action at every turn.

We should not forget that these financial businesses usually don’t even have the money that they are lending or sending to the businesses that we lease things like cars and motorbikes from, and they are then charging large amounts of interest for having done so.

It is certainly very strange that they then have the power to wreck the lives of people struggling to pay or who for any reason they cannot pay the money back, when that money didn’t even exist in the first place – don’t you think?

The patriarchy and top-down

The whole system and what we have come to accept as being the ‘natural’ structure of the system is a hierarchy.

But it’s not just a hierarchy; it is a hierarchy that has always revolved around dominancy of men and putting men – or the values that men have come to represent – at the lead of every level and all the way to the top.

This Top-down system or ‘Patriarchy’ flows insidiously throughout the workings of life and is as strong – as if not more so – than ever. Even though there are plenty who believe that suffrage movements, feminism, equal opportunities and even the diversity movements of recent times have already won.

This system works by favouring those who are in favour and therefore at every level of this pyramid, the people who buy in to the moneyocracy in every sense and commit themselves to the glories that are fed to them, at each and every step that is opened to them as they climb towards the top.

As people who benefit from the patriarchy make their way up, the systems, processes, cheats and lets call it ‘magic’ that is used to keep people buying things they don’t need, living beyond their means, and doing things which are self-destructive and often personally harmful – often overriding common sense and the intrinsic voices or feelings that tell them ‘no’ or ‘stop’, are shared, just as the benefits of staying on board and on message are revealed.

The system is so well developed and appears to be so credible – not least of all because so many laws, rules and regulations now appear to make everything that benefits the system legal – that people at even the highest levels – and that does mean many politicians, ministers and even prime ministers, are likely to believe that what they are doing and what they are facilitating is good for everyone, and is certainly not in any way wrong.

The Fifth Column has already taken over

If you have a moment, do take a look at the meaning of Fifth Column. It’s a term that has been around from the World War II era that had great meaning and was spoken of by Churchill.

A fifth column describes the insidious action and behaviour of organised groups that entered and embedded themselves within and across the establishment with the purpose and intent of destabilising it, changing government direction and ultimately, to facilitate a takeover, usually for an enemy or foreign power.

The historic use of the term Fifth Column is highly valid today, as government and the establishment of the U.K. does not prioritise and therefore does not work for the very people that it represents, or that it has been elected by, on trust.

Since the election of the current Labour Government in July 2024, many more of us have begun to see and recognise highly questionable policy making and decisions from those who lead us, bringing into sharp focus the question of who our politicians actually serve. Given the decisions they are making and the problems that they talk about fixing, only ever keep getting worse.

Public policy decisions should always be made in the best interests of the public that the decisions are being made on behalf of.

Within a genuine democracy, there is no excuse for the wrong people to be in power and therefore for decisions that don’t actually serve the best interests of the public to be made.

What we can clearly see is that no matter who their master actually is; whether its just money, greed and advancement, the globalists at the WEF or the EU, or whether the people we have elected are just to incompetent and stupid to understand what making decisions on behalf of the many really means, the UK system of government has been taken over by a Fifth Column.

The U.K. is today at the mercy of a Fifth Column that is destroying the fabric of our culture and society in the pursuit of aims which do not serve the greater good. Whilst everyone involved or benefiting is happy to gaslight the people who they either represent or are working for into believing that the truth of our own eyes and ears is wrong.

Politics and the misuse of power

Many of us are still looking to the political sphere in the believe that it is still capable of solving all the problems that we can see to be growing – but more specifically the problems ‘out there’ that relate to you and to me.

You may have heard the saying ‘a week is a long time in politics’.

It is regrettable that this rule has an unfortunate habit of applying to how each and every one of us look at politics, what we expect from it and what we quickly forget when we are making judgements or allowances for those, we support versus those we oppose.

Tribalism and the group or subgroup dynamic of politics have become so rigid or emotionally entrenched that remarkably few of us are able to live, feel or see the massive range of commonalities that we all share.

Instead, we seek to cling to the wreckage of everything that decades of political mismanagement have already destroyed – all in the name of policies which even when they have a tint of real value, we have a tendency to reject without question, if it has been brought into being by a political group that was never our own choice.

In reality, there is very little good that now comes from within the existing political sphere.

The good outcomes that do come from government and the public sector are created either by accident or as a beneficial consequence, rather than the intended aim or benefit, which will almost certainly have been either a politically expedient choice, or more recently part of some strategy which is taken as read by politicians when advised by so called experts and accepted within a very complicated policy environment of bing the only viable choice.

We may not see it, but ALL of the political parties who are offering up their candidates in elections today are offering us and our communities nothing other than maintaining the status quo or what is regrettably the establishment choice, always to benefit them and someone else.

We don’t choose our political representatives; the parties do, and it is rare although not impossible for us to be able to choose even one candidate who has the skills, experience, understanding, motivation and commitment to public service which could work out better for us in a system which itself is fundamentally broken.

The system could work better, if we all paid more attention and were committed to contributing to the process of vetting and appointing the people we elect at every election time. Even if that were to be the limit to which we became involved.

Instead, we are at the mercy of a self-interested clique, masquerading as a range of different ideologies and motives, fighting to deliver the greater good, which has been taken over by compromised and self-interested people and a system that has absolutely zero to do with public benefit at its heart.

Labour

Let’s begin with the current ‘party of power’ first, as most of us will relate whatever is going on in the media to them.

They are of course the Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, who is supported by a handful of fairly well-known names such as Rachel Reeves, Angela Raynor, Wes Streeting and a ‘government’ which at the time of writing holds 403 of the seats in Parliament with a working majority of 165 (which is regrettably big enough for any party to do pretty much do as they please (or as the PM pleases…), as long as its MPs continue to do whatever they are told.

Most people go along with the myth that the Labour Party are still the political party for the workers.

People believe this because Labour are seen to be on the left of the political spectrum, are considered to be socialist within the accepted narrative, and perhaps most importantly, because historically speaking, the Labour Party evolved from the Labour Movement and the outcomes that they arguably achieved during the first half of the 20th century, history tells us that the Party has been massively beneficial to the working classes across the UK.

However, as is often the case with anything to do with UK politics, government and the public sector, once Labour had pretty much achieved the good that it could, those remaining within the movement didn’t step back and say, ‘we’ve done what we set out to’.

No, instead they found or created new ways to keep themselves, their movement and what the Labour Party was doing ‘relevant’, increasingly creating more problems than they were actually fixing, as they have identified more and more issues that have divided people, that anything that genuinely needed to be addressed previously or exists.

Muscle memory is a powerful force within the sphere of politics. It is this that really makes many people who support Labour, and the Left believe that what they are giving their votes and in some cases membership fees is still a worthy cause and one that genuinely seeks to improve their lives – in the way that the Party historically once did.

Today, the Labour Party is a textbook example of everything wrong with British Politic being pushed into the daylight by having politicians in power and in parliament who really never should have found their way there.

People question what Labour stand for, because they don’t stand for anything that normal people recognise as what we either voted for or need to see happen in politics in a way that will make a tangible difference for us, our communities and the things that really matter.

The Prime Minister himself is on record answering that he prefers Davos (The WEF) to Westminster when asked. This is a statement that should tell you all you need to know when it comes to the decisions that have been made that make no sense and seem to have defied any form of real and meaningful consultation – even for the hundreds of MPs who are actually involved.

Sadly, whilst Labour may in truth be agents of change, working at double quick speed to implement everything that the WEF demands of those who it has power over and influences, it would be as ridiculous to believe that a change in Labour leadership is all that it would take to re-right the ship we are all on, as the U.K. heads seemingly rudderless towards some very dangerous rocks.

The economic, monetary and financial system that ALL of our politicians have been facilitating and pushing for over 50 years is now coming to an end.

Labour is currently the political party most likely to be in place (or power) when a system that was never sustainable but was always about theft from the masses collapses and we are left to see what is left and who will be there to run everything when the music finally stops.

As we will discuss with the political parties and movements coming next, every one of them is tied to the same system and way of thinking that has brought the UK (and the world) to this point.

Without fail, all of them are currently avoiding planning policy in any manful way and won’t even acknowledge what is going to happen next.

Reform

Next on the list is Reform.

Reform come next, because at the time that this book was being written, the polls in the UK suggested that Reform – led by Party Leader Nigel Farage, were on course to be the biggest Party. by number of seats, following the next General Election, with the possibility that they would win an outright majority (as Labour did so at the July 2024 General Election).

Regrettably, Reform really isn’t all it seems.

What many considering voting for them in any coming election don’t appreciate is that Reform is as establishment as any of the other political parties that are currently available to vote for. Even though they have to date found success in the creation of a perception that the establishment position and all its workings are a key part of what they intend to replace.

Sadly, there are some very dangerous parallels between Reform and the approach that Donald Trump has been taking during his second term in office as President of the United States.

All that Farage and those around him are seeking to do today is streamline what’s left of a broken system, so that everything works better for them.

What many of us don’t see about Reform and Nigel Farage in particular, is the policies that we can see, either through what they have made clear, or from what they are saying and doing already, are completely aligned with global or neoliberal orthodoxy.

It’s a clear juxtaposition between what they are and what they stand for, and what the public really believe.

Riding the crest of the wave of public feeling is clever and effective for any politician. But it isn’t leadership at any level.

Farage is a highly captivating figure nonetheless and as is the case with so many of the problems that we all should be seeing, we have a habit of assuming that the speaker will take care of all our problems, for no better reason than they are articulating how we feel about things or what concerns us, perhaps better than we can actually put those feeling and thoughts into words ourselves.

Reform is a potential danger to us all.

There is no evidence to suggest that the way the Party is currently being managed will change in any way before the next election, and that everything that the party representatives or its elected politicians (who should only be representing all of us) will therefore do, will be dictated from the centre, on an even more damaging level than what the Conservatives gave us during the last government and what Labour are giving us now.

It is no lie to suggest that on the current trajectory and what we are already experiencing, giving power to Reform will be no better than electing a dictatorship formed around the cult of Nigel Farage.

With the direction we can already see that the Reform Party is going today, this will not be a good dictatorship. But rather one that promises to make the current situation much worse and therefore very bad indeed.

The Tories

The Conservatives don’t actually know who they are and what they are there for (other than for themselves).

Few Tories, if asked, will be able to provide you with a coherent idea of what being a conservative actually is.

Many will call themselves Thatcherites as a fallback suggestion, in the sense that everyone surely knows what Thatcherism was, that it was good for us, and that being seen as being like Thatcher is what winning for any good Tory looks like and means.

Regrettably, whether intended or not, Thatcherism was a trojan horse for the neoliberal, globalist and money centric policies that have progressively wrecked everything good for people and the UK over decades, for nothing more than power and the fuelling of greed.

However, of the political parties that are capable of getting their candidates elected, the conservatives are the party most likely to be able to change.

Not because the others can’t. But because the Tories have just undergone a humiliating public collapse at last year’s General Election that should have woken them up enough to see and understand that the policy platform that they share with everyone else cannot just be repackaged and resold anymore.

If that’s not enough, the latest revelations about the Super Injunction covering the fall out, implications and government responses to the Afghan Data Breach and what that really means should tell them that there is nothing good that as a Party that they can hold on to from the past.

People now need something very different from politicians and the circumstances that the UK faces today are where genuine leadership must be born, if we are to share anything that resembles a good future.

Regrettably, the Tories have so far only proved to demonstrate that they remain stuck in the idea that politics in the UK just follows a set kind of cycle where the two main parties take it in turns to have power, and that with Labour tanking as they are already, things will come back around to them much more quickly than 2 or 3 parliamentary terms, once people get tired of Farage and realise that hes not actually offering anything new.

Even conservative politicians know that the Party is now finished, without there being a very profound level of change, that itself requires that they show a level of contrition that openly and honestly recognises the part that the Tories have played over a period of decades in bringing the UK to its knees.

If you cannot see this yourself, just have a quick look at the series of defections from the Tories to Reform.

Whilst you are there, do consider the reality that Reform is likely to already be on a pathway to becoming just a new, repackaged version of the Conservative Party that we all remember – not least of all because it contains a growing number of the very same politicians.

Together, in this hybrid ‘ReConservative’ version, everything will at its core just be the same, neoliberal, global money-centric same, albeit presented differently, not least of all because the top-down dictatorship that has for so long run the conservative party structure will have broken into the open with the model we can see unfolding under Reform.

Lib Dems

We cannot discount the presence of the Lib Dems. Because they have certainly been hoovering up council and parliamentary seats, where voters who are disenfranchised with Labour and the Conservatives have taken their vote when Reform (or any of its previous incarnations) has not felt like a plateable choice.

The Lib Dems themselves evolved from the Liberal Party which formed 4 governments in the time that it existed up until 1988, but really found itself on a pathway of descendance, once the Labour Party came into play as the left-of-centre political force.

The inclusion of Liberal in the Party name is a misnomer these days, as either being liberal or indeed the pursuit of liberalism itself isn’t what the Party is genuinely about.

What many don’t see is that the very open pro-EU approach that the Liberal Democrats have, is itself at best little more than subjugation to a globalized, centralised and top-down political model.

At worst, it is an outright surrender to the bureaucratic takeover of everything that is destroying our culture, communities, independent business practices and everything of value – including our humanity, even though the Party present themselves as being the agents of freedom and genuine choice.

Political parties and movements can call themselves whatever they like – and they most certainly do. But without exception – and certainly so in the case of the Liberal Democrats, what they say they are and what they will do when they have power bears no relationship with the outcomes that they create in office or when they have influence upon power, no matter the level of government to which their candidates are elected.

Advance UK, Restore Britain and others

The uncertain times we are in have created an environment where there are plenty of people who look at what is happening and quickly conclude that they could and would do better in charge than whoever they are watching on stage.

Sadly, many of those same people are also unaware that one of the reasons that the British political system is in this crisis, is because there are already far too many politicians who pushed their way into the system, who are just like them and put themselves forward based primarily on politics being perceived as a place where they could do well, just for them.

To say that there is an ego problem in politics today would not be overstating the kinds of issues that we face in any way.

Looking back over the past 10 years alone will demonstrate a conveyer belt filled with Prime Ministers who have reached the top of the political and government tree, not because they were genuine leaders who were committed to public service and doing what is best for everyone. But because they were very good at saying yes to all the right people on their way up and then continuing to do what they were told by the advisers and experts around them, who they naturally assumed were competent and able to do their jobs properly and selflessly, when they got to the top.

One of the biggest tells or giveaways that should sound the alarm for us all is the number of times we hear politicians modeling themselves on historical figures like Churchill or Thatcher, whilst making clear that is the kind of leader they will be.

Yes, we can all read biographies and often many of them too. But the thing that makes any politician a good leader is that they are able to lead on their own and be leaders of their own time.

The triopoly that the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour have enjoyed as long as anyone alive can remember has itself been greatly influenced and effected by the agendas that have been increasingly at work behind the scenes.

It is no mere coincidence that all of these political parties are filled with candidates and politicians who conform completely and do whatever they are told to, just to get on.

Such an environment certainly encourages people who become politicians and find themselves in the public eye to believe that they are special or different. And that once they see how things work from the inside, that they are not governed or restrained by any of the normal kinds of rules that everyone else outside must follow.

It’s not difficult to see and hear the disillusionment that so many members of the public have. Especially when you are enclosed within one or more of the bubbles that politics and all the forms of media that we use either are already or create echo chambers, where follows, likes and subscribers can very quickly convince anyone to believe their own hype.

So when politicians fall foul of the political mechanisms within the parties – which are pretty much dictatorships in their own right and run very undemocratically (although this is something none of us are supposed to know), it is not uncommon for them to believe that they can start a new party or political movement and that they will then quickly become the next best thing.

To be fair to the two figures who are currently in the public eye who we will now discuss, Reform has certainly lent itself to the idea that any new party will win anywhere in any election over recent months. But this isn’t actually the case.

Reform is only as popular as they are now. Because there isn’t an alternative that not only crosses but actually builds bridges across all of the political divides.

Politicians are aware of the things that need to happen. But saying (or promising) and doing are very different things.

Although Rupert Lowe MP and his new ‘movement’ Restore Britain tell us that they are welcoming people from all political directions, the mere fact that they are looking for funding for what seems to be being presented as a think tank (at this stage), whilst there are clear designs to become a new party that can upstage Reform, (where Rupert Lowe’s political name was made) doesn’t give us anything more than yet another version of the same promises we have heard so many times before; namely that ‘we are really different!’

It’s not hard to see why Lowe has a big following. He is perceived by many who follow him to be a very good MP.

Lowe does come across very well. Because he always seems to be busy raising issues and acting in any capacity that he can.

However, Lowe is only a good politician in comparison to all the others. Without fail all elected politicians should be making the kind of noise about issues that cross their desks, just like he does.

Actions speak much louder than words. And whilst Ben Habib, the former MEP who has also come from Reform, actually launched the Advance UK Party on the same day, Ben is also someone who has all the credentials of a politician suited to these times. But not for the change, transformation and management of a future that none of us should be happy allowing the past to define.

The one important thing to bear in mind about the political structure we have today and the politicians who occupy it, is that without fail, any of those names and faces we can see either are or have been part of the problem.

Whilst it’s not impossible for anyone to change, there is little to suggest that any of them really have. As such, voting for the same people is just going to keep delivering the same outcomes, when it comes to what they actually do.

Anyone can speak well and appear highly credible with the way that the media works today. However, it is the action and delivery that counts and as things stand at the time of writing, there is no political group, party or movement available to the voting public that will or is capable of taking the UK a different way.

Who are ‘They’?

‘They’, is a term or reference point that is likely to have appeared frequently within The Choice and is very common within the lexicon of terms or parlance of anyone sharing views, opinions and understating that sits outside of the accepted narrative.

Because speaking up about the topic ‘They’ sits outside the accepted narrative, it has itself become a term of ridicule to those committed to the system. With the seemingly unanswerable question ‘Who are They’ often being employed as a way that is seen to debunk any story where a reference to ‘They’ is contained. Because nobody can or will identify who ‘They’ are.

It’s time for the world to see for itself that this giant, system wide conspiracy is not only real. The reason that it works so well, seems credible and sits beyond question, is because so many of the managers, public servants, legal specialists, politicians and even world leaders who have made it all happen and are working to fulfil the real aims that are at work even now, are rarely, if ever fully aware of what the complete or full strategy or plan really is.

Yes, there are those who wish to go a different way. But many of the highest-level participants are held within their roles and forced to fulfill their commitment by being compromised. Usually because they were open to morally questionable actions or activities in the first place.

The secret sauce of the whole plan is the presence, creation and pursuit of so many different cover stories and their related policies that are so compelling, convincing and which in their own right can create mass buy-in across whole populations. Whilst playing on the knowledge that we have steadily been conditioned to accept the can we are handed, without ever questioning the contents that are contained within.

‘They’ are so many in number and have so many different roles that ‘They’ are impossible to count.

‘They’ are the foot soldiers of this whole extraordinary thing, that itself is led and controlled by generals, who the world rarely, if ever, actually has reason to see.

The system is the conspiracy of all conspiracies.

The system touches all of us and every part of society.

Its genius is the time and patience that it has taken those committed to it all to roll out in ways that have made normal, everyday people like you and I believe that this is ‘just the way things are’ and that we have been made to believe that we bear any and all responsibility for everything that is now going wrong.

They’ are very real. But to identify one rather than all is ridiculous. Because until now, we have all refused to question the legitimacy and scope of their roles.

The Destruction of Identity and Values

Money in the form it is used and worshipped today has become a poison that has been slowly destroying everything that we might consider to be ‘human’. Whether it be social skills and interaction, care for the community, care for the environment, basic good manners and politeness to others and basic respect for anyone who doesn’t possess more or at least the same.

Whilst the addiction that the whole of society has towards money is as much a condition, illness or even sickness with incalculable effects on the mental health of people irrespective of or the nature of their relationship with money, the reality is that like any addiction, such as drug abuse or alcohol dependency – which are very much the same thing but different because everyone is on board, the reality is that for many, there are circumstances that although difficult to embrace, would result in a cure.

One thing that people or rather groups of people who identify as communities or have common ground that they use to identify with, of any kind, cannot come back from, is no longer having that sense or belief in being able to create a better future for everyone, if that identity is destroyed.

There is an aspect to life as we know it and being who we are which is the real foundation – or rather that has been the real foundation of everything at all levels of our society that we need to regain. That’s our culture, rules, morality, way of life.

That’s the sense of who we really are at a personal level and the values or natural or observed rules that make us all function normally as human beings.

With time and effort, this identity and the beliefs that come with it can always be relied upon to help us come together with no more shared interests necessary other than recognising that we share the human experience, to come back from whatever problem or catastrophe we might have had.

Unfortunately for us all in this slumber, pushing humanity backwards makes people easier to control. And as our behaviour becomes more animal-like, the remedies, solutions and methods of control that whoever controls them feel compelled to use in order to achieve their ends and reach their desired outcomes, become easier to excuse.

Breaking people who have come to depend on the world outside of themselves for validation – is no accident.

It requires that everything people have been able to anchor their values system upon must become open to question. So that whatever people once considered to be unquestionable, unshakable truth, can no longer offer the assurance and grounding that it always did.

One step further and the process of punishing people who remain confident in what up until now they knew or had no question about believing becomes a clear option, where even the brightest and most intelligent members of society will soon be questioning who they are and what they believe.

The tools employed to achieve the destruction of the values set that define us, our humanity and provide structure to our culture may or may not seem obvious.

They include:

  • Wokeism
  • Cancellation
  • Rewriting history
  • Political Correctness
  • Use of regulatory standards to remove independence of small businesses and localised supply chains
  • Uncontrolled immigration
  • Reverse racism
  • Perceived prioritisation of non-white ethnic communities
  • DEI or Diversity
  • Attacks on the Empire
  • Far right labelling
  • Net zero
  • Globalisation (Centralisation)
  • Devolution (Which is actually Regional Centralisation)
  • Political disenfranchisement
  • Digital programming
  • Narratives
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade narrative
  • Poverty by design
  • The AI ‘Takeover’
  • The media
  • The requirement to ignore your own senses and common sense

And more…

The de-structuring of society and the erasure of the values that underpin our ability to be anything around which we can coalesce independently, in the sense that we do not have to be dependent upon the centre and those in control, have always been a key aim of the system.

Today, we are very much within the end game of this plan. But as with everything the system now does and is able to do, the problem does not and will not stop there.

The right to offend

The approach that the establishment has employed to break your spirit is universal – and deliberately so.

Most rational people, who have often the very same feeling of being isolated and questioning whether they themselves have got something wrong – can see and know that everything from political correctness to woke, cancellation and the division actually caused by what is supposed to be the fairness tool called Diversity or DEI – goes against everything that we would recognise as being normal or common sense.

This was intentional and is gaslighting on a scale so big that it is nothing less than the entire establishment operating in the capacity of an abuser could be able to continue unchallenged. Because the establishment controls the legislative processes and has steadily changed all the rules necessary to make its system of abuse work unopposed.

Nobody has the right not to be offended.

Simply because any rules that exist or that are created to remove the subjects that offend are themselves removing the freedom and right of the person deemed to be offensive, to be who they really are.

No sensible person would wish it to be legal for anyone to behave however they like and say or act towards any other person in any manner that they choose.

But this is not what the whole question of crushing the opportunity for anyone to offend or to become offensive is really about.

Being offended by anything that anyone else says because it questions anything that we believe – even if it is about ourselves or who we believe ourselves to be doesn’t automatically make them wrong, just as our beliefs being accepted by most other people would not automatically make anyone wrong who doesn’t think the same.

We may not like to think of it this way, but if we find anything that others do offensive, when it isn’t actually going to harm us physically or materially in any way, but it has upset us, the experience says more about what we believe about ourselves and how confident or sure we are of our own position on the issue, than it does about anyone else.

When we are confident in our beliefs, it simply doesn’t matter what anyone else says and we do not need to try changing others’ minds by forcing them to change their thoughts, attitude or actions in a way that means we are imposing our own beliefs and values on them, thereby making them wrong for being who they are, when very few of us would ever consciously seek to offend anyone, especially when it may be a simple matter of feeling fear about something that is unfamiliar or that feels uncomfortably different in some way..

Regrettably, the whole move towards making any form of offense illegal and for it to be seen as immoral was intended and deliberate as yet another way to sow division and for people to lose value and confidence in who they really are.

This is an attack on personal sovereignty, our independence and the right to be who we are.

It was purposely designed to create an environment where even the most confident and educated amongst us would begin to question, lose confidence and fail to trust who we really are.

All the tools we need to question and stand against anyone or anything that seeks to take over life and then impose control.

Making others wrong just to be seen as being right in the eyes of others helps no one. Unless it is done to create division and uncertainly as a pathway to someone else having control.

Privatisation

One of the greatest injustices enacted against the people – but sold as a way that they would benefit us all, was the series of privatisations of public services and providers that began under Thatcher in the 1980’s.

Under what seemed the very attractive proposition that in the early days suggested normal people could effectively become citizen shareholders in organisations that ranged from water boards, electricity boards and British Gas, to British Telecom; governments from that time onwards have steadily offloaded publicly owned services and operations, that were publicly run for the simple reason that everyone either needed them continually, or needed to have access to them because they wouldn’t be available to them in any other way.

The reality is that this sell-off was actually part of the plan to create the system. Privatisation of public services and infrastructure sits within neoliberal orthodoxy and was a big step in the process of handing control of anything and everything that people need every day to private interests. All so that guaranteed profits can be made and people can also be controlled by private interests having control of anything and everything they need.

Regrettably, like so many other changes, the real implications and future consequences were missed – not least of all because in the first instance even low earning people bought shares when they were offered – which were then offloaded when the big money from the banks and financiers (who were always set to be the beneficiaries of all this) got involved.

Man can only have one master.

Public services can either be run for the benefit of the public (as they were always supposed to be) or they can be run for profit. As is today typically the way with everything across the public sector that has a profit-generating value.

The water pollution issues, exploding cost of energy, lack of preparedness in infrastructure that should have been replaced, the sell off of valuable infrastructure and assets and basically each and every ingredient that has been making these sold-off services fail and become vulnerable has been based upon the actions of private interests taking every bit of value that they could milk from these services to pay out as dividends, salaries and bonuses.

Meanwhile they have ratcheted up borrowing and leverage on anything that they have been able to – given that public services provide a guaranteed income and then insisted that they must raise charges or receive government bailouts for repairs, upgrades and what for any good business would be the natural act of investing in innovation and investment for the future. All so that the ‘required’ bottom line to keep the city happy can always be maintained.

The bankers and fat cats who run these services from comfy chairs and big houses within a world that will never itself be affected by the crumbling services and poor delivery that we are all now experiencing, are too detached and distanced from the human cost of their actions to care.

They only have investment in ensuring that growing profits are always made.

Public Sector

The biggest giveaway when it comes to the delivery of public services is the word ‘public’.

Or at least it is for those of us who still believe that the tiers of government and all the organisations that operate within the public sector prioritise what is best for all of us as taxpayers and will always by default proritise the people that it or they are there to serve.

The reality is very different, however.

Almost every organisation, department or service that runs within the public sector today is run like a fiefdom. Where what is good for that organisation or more accurately the people who work within it are always prioritised before anything else.

Those working within the public sector typically follow their own agendas and ideologies, which at more senior and London centric levels are generally influenced by the EU, WEF, other worldwide ‘leadership’ groups, big business, banks and financiers.

We can all rest assured that whatever is really in our best interests will only be paid lip service as part of the real agendas that are at work and that our interests will certainly not come first.

The public sector is highly protectionist in the sense that those working withing it will stick so rigidly to the requirements of their job descriptions that they make it necessary for completely new posts to be created that would otherwise not be required to exist, and will openly dodge anything we would recognise a making them accountable as it could place them, their positions and pensions at too big a risk.

This culture has been created deliberately with the intent of removing local democratic power and making it very difficult to return to the people.

The agenda of the system has supported the creation of a government system and framework where rules are created to control everything and has made it impossible for all, but the most diligent and public service minded to do the jobs fully and to the best of the ability that many will almost certainly have.

The rules that contractors to the public sector must comply with have all but made the entire sector a closed shop.

Businesses that are now historically ‘qualified’ overcharge for pretty much everything. They do exceptionally well out of government contracts, because the system is not competitive in any way or open to new suppliers who would without question be able to deliver at a fraction of the price. Because they are not established and do not have the credentials that those milking the system and effectively ripping all of us off were able to accumulate over the time that the rules have been added, because they were there when at the start.

The public sector is not commercial, even though there are countless officials who talk about business cases and in their own minds believe that is exactly what they are running or managing.

The big difference is that no matter what those working in the public sector do, even when they are operating within the public sector’s internal market, the money that keeps them functioning is not earned commercially in any genuine kind of way.

The existence of any organisation or department in the public sector has rarely been at risk because of falling income – unless that has been by deliberate design.

Career public sector workers have no commercial awareness in the sense of what everything really costs. They certainly lack the wherewithal and on-the-ground experience to be able to see and anticipate just how the projects and services that they control can so easily be affected by so many factors and influences that are outside of their control.

Such a lack of worldliness, which has now become prevalent at the very top, leaves executives, specialists, consultants and advisers alike, completely detached from the realities being experienced by the very people that they are there to serve.

The obsession that public servants have with meeting targets and suppling the right measurements or statistics for the monitoring of what they are supposedly there to do means that they consistently overlook anything and everything that has a real-time human or public cost – as we have increasingly seen where issues like the Child Grooming Gangs, The Post Office Scandal, The Blood Scandal and even the Grenfell Tragedy are concerned.

The odd thing is that very little of this would be seen as being deliberate or even conscious for many of today’s public sector leaders. Because this is now the way that they have all been culturally conditioned or taught.

The public sector, what it means and why it is there, are perceived to be very different in the minds of the people who are invested in it as an entity, to what the rest of us, who should always be served by it, consider it to be.

War: The profit-making distraction and coercive call to join ‘the group’

Ask yourself: Do you know why any of the wars that are happening today are happening?’

Then ask yourself: ‘Is my answer to that question my own, or is it what I have been told?’

Don’t worry if you realise that you are or have taken the same position that the media has been pumping out and that so many across society will have been parroting back.

The narratives are designed to make us all see it exactly that way.

We need to be very clear that war isn’t a natural action for any human being. Even when it seems desirable or necessary, whatever the reason might be.

War is a sign of division between people. It means that ideas, behaviours and all manner of other things that can be used to divide us have done so at a level where rather than just two people arguing over who is right or wrong, or doing whatever they believe right to get their own way, the people concerned have armies, navies, air forces and unimaginable weaponry at their disposal and which they were prepared to use in order for them to make what is essentially the same point.

Sadly, people argue over ridiculous things because of the way that the systems work that we have across the world today.

And when certain countries and their leaders believe that it is necessary that the world never see or perceive them to be in the wrong, or they have vested (usually financial or commercial) interests in taking control of resources like oil or important minerals like lithium, those countries – or rather the powers and influencers who are controlling them will happily come up with all manner of excuses to create enemies. Even out of nations that are actually very friendly – but wish to be independent and do their own thing – just so the vested interests can change things and make that control their own.

War, regime change, revolution, coup (or coup de tat) are all tools that have often been employed by western states to take control, keep control and take resources from sovereign nation states, who don’t have the infrastructure or support to maintain the position of being who they are and who they want to be.

Regrettably, wars that have been created include pretty much all of those that we know of from across recent decades in the Middle East.

These have often come only when western nations – on behalf of specific vested interests – had already been exploiting natural resources and the sources of natural wealth that could and should have been used to enrich the areas and peoples where they came from, instead of going into the pockets of corporations from foreign countries and any corrupt local officials they could pay enough, to support them and go along with their plans.

A reason that radical Islam has become so prevalent and the terrorism associated with it such a threat to us today, isn’t because terrorism and sharia law are attractive propositions to the majority of people in what are today recognised as being Islamic majority countries.

Militancy has become attractive to otherwise moderate Muslims because the hoovering up of wealth, resources and the corruption that has been necessary to support the funneling of wealth to the West has made life dreadful for normal people in these countries, in ways that it is difficult for westerners to contemplate or understand.

People local to these countries have been spared the brain washing narratives and material takeover that has made us all believe that what is happening is for the best.

Instead, they have all too often been left in the hands of brutal tyrants who are themselves just representatives of the horrors of patriarchy, regrettably in this sense just being delivered in a much more inhuman and medieval form.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that the war in Ukraine is different in any way.

There are powers at work who have deliberately engineered this proxy war that has been underway for three years, with the intent that it will escalate and draw attention away from the collapse that we are now experiencing across the west.

By pushing people into believing the narrative that war has now become necessary, the intention is that we will all come together as a group and support our ‘leaders’ to take whatever drastic steps they suggest necessary to secure peace. Whilst they then create new rules and ways of living that will mean they can enact even greater control over us in countless ways.

The relationship that we have or that we should have with Russia isn’t anything like that which the establishment intends we believe.

The last thing the establishment will do is admit that the way that arms and money have been fire hosed at Ukraine, over the period of the war, and the way that it has amplified the movement of ‘refugees’ across Europe, is actually speeding up the very collapse that they want, but are only just beginning to realise that they can no longer control.

Capitalism, Socialism, Globalism, Corporatism and Communism all end at the same place

One of the greatest paradoxes of the new media age is that at a time when technology should be making the flow of accurate and truthful information and news achieve legendary status, the idea of transparency and freedom of information is just a pipedream that sits at the polar opposite of the system that we have actually got.

Instead, what we have is the system of accepted or pushed narratives that are themselves built around and pursued in support of ideologies, agendas and pretty much anything and everything that we can think of that isn’t about putting the best interests of all people first.

Sadly, many of us fall into the trap of believing the narratives, which to all intents and purposes make sense of how all the things we see around us still appear to be.

We certainly don’t consider the greater detail or consequences of how the things that we are being told to support will actually work out.

Whilst only a few years ago, it would have for even some of the most open minded academics and leaders to accept – because the way politics of the left and right still appeared to be very different, even normal day to day people are now starting to see that what we used to see as Capitalism, business, globalism, neoliberalism and material-driven freedom on one side and then socialism, progressivism and even communism on the other all ultimately head towards the very same, centralised and highly controlling or tyrannical model where we are all told we are free, but freedom in the sense of personal sovereignty and the freedom to thing, make choices and simply to be no longer exist.

The system is about centralisation of power and control from that centre in any and every way that it can be achieved.

Centralisation IS delocalisation

One of the things we constantly hear is talk about making things cheaper and more efficient, so that everything will cost less and the cost of living will come down.

The question that we all need to ask about so many of the things that we are told will be good for us or will be helpful to us as part of the accepted narrative is this:

‘How many times does the cost come down and how many times has any of this actually helped me?’

Some of the biggest myths that the establishment and those that really pull the strings have spun are intended to ensure we give up knowledge, understanding, the way that we do things or what we are used to; all on the basis of a promise that the change we accept will improve our lives.

The problem is that the new ways don’t improve our lives, and of all of the myths that have been spun about making things better, centralization and top-down hierarchical working and systems are probably the VERY worst.

Today, the UK has undergone extensive changes to governance, our frameworks and even the systems that we use within businesses, all on the basis that removing boundaries, making operations bigger, streamlining decision making and breaking localised systems of any kind that can operate alone or independently, is better, more democratic, more cost effective and in the best interests of us all.

Slowly but surely, over the past half century or more, tools and clever devices  which are really no better than trojan horses that have been presented to us as ways to improve life usually economically or in the sense of trade – like the European Union, have been used to benefit and enrich large international companies, whilst we have always increasingly lost out.

Those large companies have benefited from the myth of free markets, which we are led to believe apply to businesses of all kinds. But which actually favour big multinational and corporate monoliths with deep pockets.

The real meaning of free markets is the removal of the regulations that are actually protections for us and for small businesses – basically what were the guardians of our freedoms. Then in turn imposing new rules and regulations which, as customers we are told, are being introduced to improve quality and safety, whilst what they really are is a tool to stop small independent businesses either being able to start, operate or from existing (all of which are in time basically the very same thing)

The big money, the elites and those running everything have always aimed to remove our independence.

They have achieved this in a completely mesmerizing way by creating stories that suggest our surrender to these new systems will be great for everyone, then using devices such as trouble-free travel across the gateways of Europe to play up to the material lifestyle and selfishness which has infected so many of us. All of which itself rode into our lives upon the back of ‘cheap and quick everything’ so that it wasn’t something they had to impose.

Globalisation – which is the centralisation model of them all, has been the most useful of all the tools that this current world order created and implemented. Because if you were to stop any stranger in the street today and ask them what globalisation does for them, they will almost certainly respond that it gives us cheaper everything including travel, food and clothes.

As factories have been moved offshore and across the world, we have continually been told how much cheaper the goods that we are buying will now be.

Meanwhile there is never any conversation about what the cost will be for our communities, to jobs, to UK self-sufficiency, to our national security and above all, to the ability for us all to function independently and without the support and therefore the control of someone somewhere else, who we will never see and will certainly never meet.

Those who covet control over everything realised very quickly that localism and locality and the way of doing business, relationships, social skills development, community, food production, education, care within the community, care for infrastructure and the environment and civic care for everyone, is our independence.

The independence of localised systems is a direct challenge and threat to anything and anyone who wants to exploit people and resources at any level for their own personal gain.

Even now, the establishment is working ridiculously hard to diminish the public perception of the value of traditional farms and farmers. Because Whoever controls the food supply controls the people.

It is not part of the strategic plan to allow food chains to be in the hands of independently minded people or business leaders who can quickly rally people around them so that alternative choices for community governance can be made.

Those who want this power so badly – and who are now openly pulling the strings of the political puppets involved – do not care that the food supply that they are telling us that we have no choice to move towards is not healthy. Eating only the foods that the system under their control will supply us will have massive consequences for health and wellbeing for people like you and me if we become fully reliant upon it.

Indeed, the high-production model that this world order has pushed since the Second World War has helpfully created the excuse of pollution in rivers, depleted soil productivity and framed cows belching methane amongst many other dubious excuses as the way of justifying a future world that for us will exist on artificially and factory produced food, because naturally growing food is not good for us is so far as the accepted narrative is concerned.

The myths that create and mobilise our acquiescence to changes that are actually harmful for us, all so that someone somewhere else can profit, are truly boggling. Especially when we see that we are being gaslit with messages that cover up the truth that would expose the causes and responsibility for the real problems we face and make us feel guilty if we fail to commit to the ‘solutions’ to the very problems that they caused.

The benefits of centralization at any level and in any setting are a lie.

Centralisation is a power accumulating tool for whoever controls the process.

The process of centralisation is always about removing independence through the freedom to choose, to be and to exist as independent sovereign citizens making the decisions ourselves for you and me.

Those leading mankind have become too clever for everyone’s good

The history – or rather the real history of all the events and changes that have contributed to the situation that the world and humanity faces today, are difficult for even the most open of minds to comprehend. Because they have been unfolding over such a long period and in fact over decades and multiple generations of time.

It is regrettably the case that to anyone who really understands the multilayers of human behaviour and the human condition, and how that works relative to almost any kind of life situation – that surface-deep understanding of anything can be used to fool people into doing things and making decisions which they believe to be their own, but which are actually taking them towards experiences that will be painful, potentially costly and which in increasing numbers of cases will require going on what we believe is a justified guilt trip for no better reason than we typically reach that place on our own.

Under the system, the majority of people sadly always have a price.

When all those in the positions of power are already bought-in and conditioned to follow the rule book or way of working of the system, so that those who do exactly what is required of them without question will always get the highest rewards, it will sadly be the case that we have reached a time when even prime ministers of nation states, who hold the highest elected office in the land, will or can be coerced into making decisions that defy all logic and common sense.

The cost of doing otherwise – for them – will be perceived as being too high. No matter what the price their actions will impose or expose everyone else who they should be representing to.

The outsourcing of real life to digital masters

Few would be silly enough to suggest that AI – or at least the generations of AI that have come into the public sphere in early 2023 – are not very clever and that this is technology that has the ability to do things in ways that no human being can.

However, the magic of AI is the speed at which it can ready, analyze, interpret, report and ‘create’ using information or code that already exists on the internet, which no human could do at the same time in any way.

This is the most important factor about AI and what it does that we need to recognise. Because this seemingly instantaneous speed at which our commands have been answered makes it ridiculously easy to believe that the quality of the information or digital material created by the AI we use could only come from a sentient machine, or one that is going to make human work and effort redundant in some, if not every conceivable way.

The second important factor about AI that few even talk about, is the fact that AI – or the creation of codes that read digitally harvested data or information, are not new. They have been used by businesses for years already to monitor and measure our browsing habits, what we like, what we don’t like and what we get excited or emotional about online.

The third and perhaps most profound of the important factors we should all consider about AI is that it is not working creatively in the sense of creating anything new in any genuine way.

AI reads all the data it has access to that is already available- and therefore from the past – even if it was only created by an action or input somewhere else on the internet in the milliseconds before it was instructed.

Whilst the sum of the parts of the information that AI stitches together for us may look new, it really isn’t. It is just a patchwork of bits taken from potentially many different sources and then fixed together to look like a new piece of writing, a video, picture or even carrying out a set of instructions, based on data that is available from similar processes conducted and recorded many times before.

AI isn’t conscious or sentient and won’t ever be in the sense of what it is to be human.

Any argument that suggests otherwise must itself answer the reality that there isn’t a human being alive that has the cumulative experiences of every human on the planet that has ever lived to this point to draw from.

This kind of universal knowledge is something that belong to God, Source, or whatever it is that sits at the place where everything really comes from or from the very start or beginning.

We do not need go into the wide and growing range of uses that AI already has to be able to see that it seems perfectly reasonable to accept the narratives and messaging we are already hearing, that tell us AI is going to take over many of the jobs and professional roles that people have. And that it is an inevitable part of progress that it does.

After all, why would we fight the arrival and takeover of a system that makes everything so easy for us to do online already and promises to make life even easier, as long as we just accept what is coming and put all questions aside?

The speed and ease with which technology can provide us with whatever we want, wherever we are and whenever we want it, is frightening. It creates the perception of being as magical as the overwhelming speed and apparent delivery of the AI software that is already available.

However, this engineered blindness that so many of us already have doesn’t tell or explain the truth that AI is not sentient today and that AI really doesn’t think for itself.

AI reads or has read so much of the information that is already available online that it can quite literally take bits from multiple examples of the similar work that exists and patch them together in moments to make it look like original work created in just that moment of time.

We don’t see that the codes and the algorithms that drive every version of AI, no matter where it might be or exist, are always working within the coding frameworks or parameters of whoever owns and runs them.

This means that whoever controls AI can set the software parameters up in such ways that it can ignore history, facts, news, events and just about anything.

AI can create highly credible responses and solutions because of all this and the magic that surrounds AI will make even the most learned of us not see any need to question as to whether another view or even alternative story exists.

As with any of the technological advancements that have come into being since we left the agricultural age, technology and AI alike are sold to us all as being labour-saving and therefore cost-reducing tools that make life cheaper and make more things accessible to us easily.

Unfortunately, the true nature of changes that are being made to the structure of society – not least of all that the only reason to take away jobs is so that someone somewhere can make more profit, are hidden from view.

We are just expected to accept the changes as being ‘progress’, when the reality is that these changes are only coming so that greater profit and tighter control over those who are being impoverished by dependency on the system can be attained.

Understanding the perceived need of the elites to make more and more of us financially dependent upon the system is as important as being able to see the true motives behind the use of the current generations of AI in anything else.

The roll out of AI technology, that can monitor every activity that we conduct on online, will soon become the method that is used to police our activities and to punish or reward us all in real time – A level of control that is simply impossible to attain without this kind of technology being employed and us voluntarily embracing the roll out as it unfolds.

Today people still have a decision to make about how far we allow AI to come into our lives.

However, with the change underway that most have accepted is already out of our hands, the loss of jobs and the dependency on others that this will bring to so many of us is not the most chilling thing.

People are quite literally being deprogrammed from being able to ask and then answer questions about all aspects of life for themselves.

We are quickly becoming dependent upon the gadgets and devices that already sit with the smart phones we are using with our own hands.

We are being conditioned not to think and to never question by the very tools that we believe to be giving us an easy and quick life.

Yet the cost will be massive when anything in life goes wrong and we realise that we are tied to the digital oppressors who control everything and will be able to switch all aspects of our lives on and off at will, depending upon how we behave.

There is no need for an AI takeover of anything.

This is not a question of rejecting new technology.

It is the act of rejecting the current purposing of technology that will take people out of jobs and will create exploding levels of impoverishment, financial and digital dependency that will be worse than being chained or held within a prison cell. Simply because of how far and how intrusive the technology that is involved and that we have welcomed into our lives as if we were giving an open invitation for every vampire in the neighborhood to walk straight in.

The reason AI is a danger to humanity today is because of the reasons and motives that are driving its use and the way that it is being used.

Control and profit have nothing to do with improving life and working practices for the masses – which is the only reason that any form of new technology should ever be employed.

The state does not know best

Perhaps the most challenging factor that anyone – especially those who are of generation X or older – must reconcile, is that public figures, people in positions of authority and those who we were conditioned when we were young to believe could always be relied upon, because of their roles across society (like politicians, doctors, judges, lawyers and even the police), no longer have the integrity and independence that so many of us would still like to believe.

This is not to suggest that everyone who works for or represents the state – whether it’s working for the public sector, providing a professional service to the public where advice and guidance about our relationship with the law are concerned, or a politician (who is supposed to be a public representative) is corrupt and either deliberately or consciously so. But that the outcome of a long-term process of change and manipulation of everything that is supposed to serve us, and what that has done to the culture of politics and the public sector, leads to outcomes which are pretty much the same thing.

To be fair to you and to anyone asking questions about everything that is happening, most people genuinely believe that everything across the public sphere still runs as it should. With the same intent, the same motives and the same dedication and commitment to public service, that means anything that touches the statutory sector is conducted with the best intent and in the best interests of everyone.

To put it bluntly, it isn’t.

Anything that still runs in that way is either down to luck or the individual public servant concerned rather than anything else. Because the entire system has been corrupted by ideology, biases and agendas, that mean the genuine direction of travel for every area of public policy is serving interests which are not ours.

The rot dressed carefully as well considered strategies and tranches of work are very carefully introduced and all too often are tied to funding which is made conditional upon participation and achieving the required results.

New services, policies and projects are discussed behind closed doors and presented at all levels of the public structure to promote the idea and understanding amongst public servants of all kinds, that within the scope of their roles, responsibilities and whatever they touch, ‘They’ will always unquestionably know better than us. Even when more often than not, those public servants and representatives have never worked within a role within the industry or sector associated with the purpose of their job, and will never have held real responsibility, had ownership or had real ‘skin in the game’ where it comes to whatever they influence or control.

Asking questions that challenge the status quo can easily be an act of self-sabotage for public servants and politicians alike. Because this is a culture where someone else always knows better and inevitably has more responsibility that that person – even when we get to 10 Downing Street and the relationship between the PM and Davos, the WEF, WHO, UN and where even the real relationships we don’t see between the government and the EU and even the president of the USA are concerned.

These people, who may not even have the awareness to know what they are doing or being asked to do is fundamentally wrong, often genuinely believe that they know better than the people who they serve or who elect them. They have become contemptuous and disrespectful of any role that we, the public, play.

A question that will soon begin to become a significant burden for anyone who believes they are up to leading meaningful change in the U.K. will have to face is, ‘When do the people we serve become more important than everyone else?’

And it’s a question that’s not for the faint hearted. Because saying no to the things that the U.K. has been instructed to do, that it should never have been doing, is going to have a significant human cost involved. Just as it is becoming inevitable that it will also have such a cost, if not even greater, in many different ways if the current system succeeds in destroying itself through acquiescence with directions of stupidity that are going to lead to the loss of societal control.

Whilst there are certainly people in the public sector and politics who have the ability to do the right thing, the evidence we can all see with our own eyes is that they will not. Otherwise, they would already be doing so.

The going with the group excuses only go so far. History is regrettably littered with stories of great people doing unspeakable things to others, just so they could continue to fit in and go along with the prevailing winds – wherever they were blowing from and whoever it may have been blowing them.

We are therefore faced with the reality that everything that supposedly serves the public in the U.K. must now be changed, if any of it is to genuinely work for us once again.

This will only be possible by starting again and by keeping the rot and infection out of the services that serve the people, right from the start. So that the old ideas and ideologies that have created this mess and all the associated hardship cannot and will not be allowed to take hold again.

People are unhappy

As we begin to wrap up our journey through all the things that are really happening and why everything has been happening as it has, in order for us all to think this way, it is perhaps a good time to think about how you feel and how everybody outside of the sphere of people who are driving all of this madness really thinks and feels too.

It is fair to say that there is a situational bias at work across our culture and society. One that is only possible because of the nefarious way that groupthink has now been employed to work.

You, me and just about everyone we know will be experiencing at least parts of their life experience, if not throughout it, a situation where we really do believe that any hardship experienced or any conflict we feel with the accepted narrative and way that we perceive everyone else to be thinking or behaving, is completely at odds with who we are, or what we genuinely think.

Money has become the value to which all parts of life have become referenced, and there are few of us who have reached a point within the top-down hierarchy, where our incomes and financial security have reached the point that we believe we will never have to worry about money again. And that we can just have whatever we want when we want within our lives.

To be fair, if you are one of the people who doesn’t have to worry, it is unlikely, although not impossible, that you would even be reading this book. Because you are part of the problem and unlikely to feel any need or compunction to question whether there is an alternative to the money-centric choice.

Very few of those on benefits, who are vulnerable, going hungry or struggling to make ends meet, no matter how little life they have and how many extra hours that they work, are responsible for the situation they are now in.

Even people who are in what we might all agree to be well-paid jobs are increasingly tied to subscription contracts and new ways of living that are slowly but surely tying each and every one of us in.

When things are going wrong and you know deep down that you have done your best and that there is nothing going on for you that was ever a deliberate choice, it is hard not to question your circumstances and with it your own sanity. Especially when we are as a nation being gaslit into repeatedly making what are ever more quickly turning out to be self-destructive choices.

The reality we must all face up to is that we have been, are being and will continue to be played in ways that make us feel that we are wrong, deficient, inadequate, unimportant, incapable, stupid and dependent upon an establishment that will continue taking more and more, under the guise of helping us, right up to the point when humanity is itself destroyed.

Where does this all go now?

We are on a pathway today, that without meaningful change itself doesn’t make one outcome inevitable.

The establishment and the elites don’t have the level of choice that they once believed it possible to manipulate every system of governance across the world to engineer and guarantee. For the simple reason that they have broken natural, universal laws that require every human on this planet to have the freedom of choice to determine their own pathway, no matter the circumstances into which they are born.

There is an argument to be made that even within the confines of the looming dystopian digital prison, where social credit shuts down any unconforming thought process, that the ability to think behind this will still allow the soul or mind to make sense of and find comfort from what educated, learning and truth-seeking mind will still uncover.

However, whichever explanation or pathway of explanation, such as religion or science we might choose to explain life in basic terms, the human experience is about having the freedom to learn who we really are. Why we are here and how we really get the best from this lifetime that we have found ourselves within.

That pathway is simply no longer an option for anyone alive who may appear to be free, but has their life dictated by digital, financially monitored and policed processes, that interpreted at their very best cause mental torture, unhappiness, pain and discontent. And at their very worst remove our ability as human beings to genuinely live. All so that a few who have abused their power and then handed that torch on and on through generations of those who are born with privilege – can have even more.

People sense this deep down. Even when they don’t understand how or why and those who will not agree with a word in this book will find it difficult to disagree that no matter how and why we got here, whatever is happening cannot go on.

We are collectively, as people, as communities, as nations and as a world now racing towards a point of choice – that although shared, will come to each of us as if it is ours alone.

That choice will be between continuing just as we are, of choosing to live life very differently.

Yes, we can make that voluntary choice right now.

But the reason so many haven’t made that choice to live differently, better and ultimately more happily, is because so many of us still believe that we will benefit more than we will be disadvantaged by continuing to conform for as long as the world, as we know, continues to go on.

Regrettably, this means that an event or an accumulation of events that we may not even see linked at the time – and which may already be underway – is now likely lead to a point where the system that we know will collapse or in simple terms no longer be able to function.

A collective moment will arrive where no matter what our behaviour and reaction look like, we will all be asking the very same question; What happens next?’

Is this just a matter of thinking?

The way we think is very important in the sense of embracing the future and therefore embracing meaningful change.

To be different, we have to think differently, and we will not experience anything different if we do not choose to think a different way.

However, it is also important to understand that for increasing numbers of us, life really is something that is happening to them right now and everything that is unfolding in front of them has been defined by someone else’s choice. Even if there was a point when for all of us, there could have been a change in the direction of thought, and everything would then have unfolded in a different way.

The power of our beliefs is ultimately key.

But for as long as we don’t believe we have any reason not to believe the accepted narratives, that the worlds within worlds we inhabit have been allowed to become defined by, we may as well not have that power of belief at any level or in any way.

What we believe is the answer to everything

When we can see that our beliefs and therefore what we think are not only the essence of our human experience, but are actually our power, we can also begin to see that the establishment has the power that it has today only because you have given it to them.

In fact, we all have. And we, our parents, grandparents and everyone else has been doing so for a very long time – even though many will never accept that this is even the case.

No, we didn’t send a box to them labelled ‘power’, any more than we signed a written contract giving people we don’t know and will never meet the power to make decisions that have, are and will affect every part of our lives.

We didn’t knowingly do anything.

But we have unknowingly given up everything because of what we believe.

And right now, the majority of us choose to believe all the messages, systems, procedures, processes and ways of doing things that come to us, usually via some form of digital device.

No matter whether we are looking at the circumstances of someone we meet, the trading history of a business, what a politician tells us, or what is reported about anything on tv. As soon as we are happy to accept whatever messages we receive from outside of us as being true and have surrendered the choice to only follow what we can trust and ideally our inner voice or ourselves, we become open to accepting anything and everything behind those voices or sources that cannot be seen.

Just as you can use this knowledge to benefit yourself in many untold ways, others who already know this but also know that many people simply don’t look deeply into how life and people’s thinking works, use this knowledge or rather power, to cheat people.

They do so using what are effectively confidence tricks, to make people believe in things that simply aren’t true, and that will often end up helping them whilst they hurt you.

This following list of things we take at face value is regrettably already long but also growing longer.

It includes:

  • That Money is real
  • That credit status is given by the government
  • What rules and regulation are for
  • What deregulation is about
  • What free markets are
  • How banks work
  • What growth is about
  • Why we need immigration
  • What all the wars are for
  • Globalisation makes everything cheaper
  • That the way we live today is sustainable
  • That rules can change the way people think
  • That prejudice is conscious or a character flaw
  • That people can afford to live on minimum wage
  • That big business isn’t subsidised by the government when most of their staff are on minimum wage
  • That insurance policies aren’t a sanitised form of gambling
  • That the U.K. is food secure
  • That we no longer need traditional farms
  • That the AI takeover is now inevitable

Things really aren’t all they seem…

Although it’s impossible to not focus on specific things to convey the points that you may wish to consider, the level of understanding that we all need to find – even at the level of overview, is a process requiring that we all research, consider and ask questions for ourselves. Even if what you read here makes complete sense.

With this in mind, there is a (growing) list of topics and issues that have much deeper and, in many cases, much darker meaning behind them, that we at least need to be aware of and ideally understand.

Whether you believe or reject the premise of The Choice, it will be in your best interests and of those you care for or care about to better understand how things really work, and to have opened up to the processes and thinking necessary for any of us to get there.

Topics you may wish to consider more deeply include:

  • Immigration
  • House building (The housing ‘shortage’)
  • The ‘minimum’ wage
  • Food Security
  • Net Zero
  • Renewable Energy
  • Free Markets
  • Devolution
  • The War in Ukraine
  • The response to the Covid Pandemic
  • GDP and ‘growth’
  • Inflation
  • How the Government ‘borrows’ and ‘funds’ public spending
  • The origins of ‘woke’
  • The use of Super Injunctions by government
  • Diversity and DEI
  • Student Loans and the opening up of Higher Education
  • The Benefits Culture
  • Deregulation
  • Social mobility
  • How political parties work

The solution to the problem cannot come from within the problem itself

If you follow current affairs and politics and do so across the range of different mediums that are available, you will probably have noticed that even some of the more mainstream voices are starting to acknowledge that the system is on its way towards collapse. Even if the words they are using are perhaps more measured and just leveraged with anchors such as ‘reset’ or ‘inescapable change’.

To be fair to anyone who is or has been considered to be a credible voice from within the stations of the accepted narrative(s), it is refreshing to learn that there are now at least some from within ‘the tent’ who know that the current way of doing everything cannot continue. And that the system as we know it will soon be gone.

However, listen more carefully and you will soon begin to experience that there is a commonality between the messages of all mainstream voices that speak ‘openly’ and ‘honestly’ about imminent change.

It also tells us that the reset they all expect will just be a change that leads to the reset or rebooting of everything that we are already used to and that we already know.

It’s all rather like there is a tacit, yet unspoken acknowledgement that the way that money and wealth have been allowed to take control of everything has just lost its balance in some way and that it all just needs to be recalibrated, so that the same modus operandi exists, and the same roles are played out. But the rot, disparity and outright unfairness are rehidden and the real depth of the problems that we are all facing are no longer exposed.

In reality, this approach should tell you all you really need to know about those from within the stations of the accepted narrative who are selling themselves and their own narratives as the answer or solution that will lead to all the problems being solved.

Those who created and have run this system all knew that it was time limited and that whatever they wanted to be in place next would need to be in place before the system could no longer sustain itself with the lies needed to cover up what it has really been doing all along.

However, the problem today is that the wheels have fallen off, far too soon for them to be able to control what happens next. That’s why they now need to find ways to cover up and make people forget all that has already and is now being exposed.

Forget infrastructure like buildings, roads, schools, factories, cities and towns.

Forget technology, machinery, cars, lorries, trains, buses and anything that we currently use to do anything, go anywhere or get anything done.

These are not the system.

The system is the method, the ideas and the motives that direct and govern how all of these things are run.

And for as long as just the smallest part of that broken ideology remains and has influence upon power or decision making of any kind, the problem that we now so desperately need to fix will still be very present and remain.

What is The Choice

Whilst we all have choices when it comes to each and everything that we do, and it is the case that we may not only have to make just one but many and perhaps every future choice to deliver the change that we feel happy with, there is a choice of directions that we must take and keep in mind nonetheless, if we want to control our own destiny and future.

Again, it is very important to understand that by doing nothing and by continuing to do what we have been doing all along and by treating everything in exactly the same way, we are still making a choice.

In fact, we are making many different choices, each and every time we choose to do exactly the same things.

The directional choices or The Choice are thus:

  1. Acceptance, acquiescence and unquestioned, willing participation in what has happened, what is happening and whatever is yet to come
  2. Taking back control of your own decisions and choices, becoming a champion of your own personal sovereignty, making an active contribution to the future through change and creating a new culture based on a people centric and community driven way of thinking that has values and humanity right at its heart

The difficulty for almost everyone isn’t the idea or what these choices represent.

The difficulty is accepting what the truth is or will be that follows in more detailed and nuanced forms, along with what many will automatically assume to be considerable cost for an outcome they don’t believe possible or likely, in either respect.

Many of the things that look like we will thrive on will hurt us, just as the things that we assume will hurt us will ultimately lead us to thrive in every conceivable sense.

Whether you believe the story you have read so far to be true, false or just something to read, some and perhaps all of this will be unfolding in the pathway of your life today, whether you can see it or not.

Truth doesn’t need a marketing budget.

The truth will always be the one consistent. No matter what any man says. No matter how powerful or influential they might be.

Faith is that intrinsic feeling of trusting your instincts or whatever the messaging you have received that comes from within and then following that guide – even when it means going against whatever the messages may appear to be telling you from outside.

Either way, today, the future for us all is uncertain. Because all options are on the table and despite what some would like to think, there is no one person or specific group of people – no matter how powerful, that currently holds all the cards or the set of keys necessary for control.

The Choice itself could be defined as being the difference between two different futures where we are either controlled or free.

The cold hard reality is that freedom is without question the hardest choice. Because it requires the leap of faith or voluntary step into what appears to be the unknown whilst also sounding like the one that requires the most effort or work.

Part 3: Choice 1

Acceptance, acquiescence and unquestioned, willing participation in what has happened, what is happening and whatever is yet to come

Acquiescence to The Status Quo

It is important to remember once again and bear in mind that even doing nothing is a choice.

Things are changing. The U.K. is changing. The world is changing.

And all of that change is already happening at an alarming rate.

No matter how important, different, special, normal, middle of the road, disadvantaged, victimised or even alone you might believe yourself to be, things are happening to all of us right now that even the most powerful amongst us no longer have the power to change if things stay on course and stay the same.

This choice of inaction, of acceptance, acquiescence, consent, willing participation, agreement, or anything else that basically says yes, is already beginning to usher or welcome in a new world that will bring experiences that even those who have driven this have failed to calculate or consider.

Accepting Your Fate

If you don’t act (change), you could of course be proven right in the sense of whatever you believe and what all the things we are experiencing really mean.

However, by failing to act; to consider the alternative and through your passivity, or just doing nothing and thereby waving all of this through, you will have chosen what follows – even though just like choice 2, you will not have previously experienced the future that is going to unfold – although you probably believe it’s going to resemble your past, right up to, now.

What You can expect

The world, or rather the system we think we know and understand today, is built upon lies.

Nothing we are doing, that we have already done or that we have been encouraged to do, is sustainable in any way.

It is not misleading to say that the way the world has slowly been refocused upon the pursuit of wealth, power and control, has pushed us to live, think, feel, believe and most importantly behave outwardly, in ways that are massively destructive towards everything and not least of all towards ourselves.

Whilst this is all being driven by just a few people, we are all taking part.

We are all contributing to this process of falling. Because we have so far switched off and refused to look beyond the messages and consider what really lies behind.

We are now on the verge of destroying what is left of our humanity and anything that resembles decency, fairness, love of our fellow man.

And for added value, we have accepted being blind to the reality that our behavior has been destroying the planet and everything that naturally sustains us in the ways that we need, along the way.

In many ways, the specifics no longer matter if we choose to just go along with whatever happens. Because we aren’t going to get to choose much more about anything anymore as things stand today.

As human beings alone, we don’t have value, and we are all pretty much little more than a number or digital imprint for the companies, organisations and government bodies that are on the verge of controlling everything in life – and will achieve this just as soon as every part of life has been fully and comprehensively digitised.

Relationships

We no longer have real relationships.

Everything that encouraged the growth and development of genuine social skills, interaction and real-world learning from people who we could meet and communicate with face-to-face has almost entirely been destroyed.

This process will soon be complete. Once we are contained within our homes and have no reason to communicate directly with anyone other than whoever we might still be fortunate to share our living space with.

The digital universe will be all we believe we need in life as long as the accepted narrative continues to dictate wrong and right.

Everything around us will revolve around stimulating us and keeping us distracted during our waking hours. For however long that we continue to live and breathe.

Everything we need to learn, to know, to understand will be available to us from our own digital devices.

Sex or the sex acts that stimulate us – whatever our sexual tastes may be, will be met through the digital universe and whatever it provides us with too. Whilst everything that can be used to embarrass or punish us will be recorded and shared with those who monitor us. So that our most intimate and vulnerable moments can be used to guarantee that we will conform with the system that has been imposed, all with our consent too.

We will no longer need to have partners, relatives or people who we can talk about anything freely and without fear of prejudice to. Because the AI systems that we will have access to, night and day, will speak to us as if we are engaged in fully dynamic, emotionally aligned and considered relationships. Just as many using these systems are now already beginning to find.

Reproduction will gradually seem less and less important, as new and as yet indefinable needs that become more of a priority are met.

As we have less and less access to Foods We Can Trust and more and more exposure to diets and an environment riddled with toxins, microplastics and ingredients in whatever we are authorised to consume, the human race will soon begin to become infertile – all aligning with the aim that the masses no longer need to be replaced.

The information and the actions that are available as ‘choices’ to us will only be as the establishment has already defined.

We will learn what we are supposed to. Know what we are supposed to. Believe what we are supposed to. Do what we are supposed to.

Any deviation from this monitored and policed expectation will be punished to the point where even this dystopia feels like luxury, as everything essential is switched off for us across life.

The environment

We could argue about climate change forever and a day.

Many already are and few understand that Net Zero is just one of many distractions that have been tossed into the realm of public debate, carefully crafted and designed to create new ways to digitally monitor even more that we do, whilst creating new ways to generate profits and the ability to exclude dissenters from the system once the digital takeover has been achieved.

Regrettably, environmental issues and the climate change question in particular may be the ultimate gift to those who are busy enslaving humanity. As the topic sows such division and keeps people distracted by arguments of wrong vs right, whilst the real issues are conveniently never being addressed.

The climate is changing.

But the change in climate isn’t the problem that may or may not have caused climate change itself.

The cause of every environmental problem that we have is the same cause of the problems that are affecting just about everything else.

That problem; the root of the problem or the cause of the problem, rather than what we see and blame which is only the effects, is our unsustainable way of living and doing everything, which itself has been driven by and pursued solely in the pursuit of wealth, power and control by those who already had much, but would not accept anything less than accumulating even more.

The damage to the environment isn’t just about the amount of carbon – which those who created this mess are now working very hard to tax in every way possible, so that they can profit out of the damage that unsustainable living has already caused.

The damage – which includes the drop in fertility and utility of soil, lack of water, the pollution of water courses, pollution of the sea with chemicals and rubbish, flooding events, microplastics everywhere (including within many of our bodies) is all about the global business model and the exploitation and overuse of natural resources. With supply chains cross crossing the world in ways that were never necessary, using up oil, minerals and exploiting people’s lives in ways that were never meant to be.

The obsession with money – that has been introduced into just about every part of life and our consciousness has blinded us to the damage being done by throw away culture and a way of living that suggests it’s not only ok but normal to throw so much away, not least of all because doing ridiculous things like transporting goods we don’t actually need to transport from the other side of the world mean we must use packaging and refrigeration and transport that we somehow believe actually makes life cheaper and better by doing it this way.

We will build, concrete or solar panel everything over, by continuing to believe that nature, countryside, rivers, lakes, fields, mountains and natural landscapes are something that we don’t need, because it’s something that can be replaced with virtual reality and AI.

Yes, you will soon be able to walk in nature and feel like you are swimming with dolphins without having to get wet or even leave your bedroom.

But your bedroom will soon be where you are expected to stay.

You will be required to accept that living your entire life through screens and food that we will soon realise can only bring great harm, that arrives by delivery bike or perhaps in time a drip feed is all we can expect.

And when you finally realise that you have no value to anyone, you will be expected to be grateful that you only live to exist.

Dehumanisation of everything

The process of dehumanizing everything and everyone has been underway for decades already.

If you feel unsure of this, you should perhaps ask yourself how you feel about anything bad that has happened to anyone who you don’t know personally or care for, and how that genuinely makes you feel.

You are already just a number to companies that provide you with products and services.

Whilst many of them employ customer service representatives to provide human interaction throughout the stores that we are still able to visit; the truth you may already recognise is that we increasingly don’t get customer service at any level.

There are very few customer systems in place now that genuinely show any level of care when our experience is a bad one. Unless we take the step of employing ambulance chasing lawyers within the ‘where theres blame theres a claim’ mindset that the companies only then have fear of because where a no win no fee case has been taken, there will almost certainly be a quickly escalating cost.

Unfortunately for the companies who still have the premises that we can visit, the plan is that they will soon be closed down and the ‘everything will be delivered’ culture will take its place.

For the time being, where that is not possible, AI managed machines and devices will quickly take over all instore interactions and activities. So that the only contact that we will be able to have with anyone or anything from those companies will be digital, online and therefore all too easily proven to always fit within the rules that the companies themselves will be able to define.

The Digital Life

Shopping for anything will not stop at whatever we want to buy.

Everything that we will have want to experience will soon come to us digitally and it will come to wherever we are online.

The tools are already in place, through the smart phones, smart watches tablets, TVs and computers that we have willingly equipped ourselves with.

Whatever digital tools we use for everything that we do, eat, say, drink, buy, visit, experience, won’t matter. Everything will be recorded, monitored and measured.

Once the final touches have been made to the narrative of the AI takeover, all the steps needed for this universal dystopian nightmare to take over our lives in every conceivable sense will be in place.

Yes, many still believe that it will be possible to avoid the digital police, punishment and restrictions that will come.

But our acceptance of everything being for the better and in our best interests now will quickly mean that there will be nothing that we can do without taking part and continuing to comply. Unless we can and are able to live our entire lives unconnected and fully off-grid.

Social Scoring

By now you will have begun to see that the tools for social scoring are already in place. Because we welcomed them into our lives and paid for them to be there too!

If we cannot do anything without the consent of the system – whether its to travel, buy food, go on holiday, get a medical appointment, get a job (if we have the right skills and its still possible to get one), you will no longer have the ability to live as a human being, unless you choose to comply.

Social scoring that governs what you can eat, drink, learn, buy, wear, watch, read, listen to is the nature of life that your passive vote for what is already underway, and your acquiescence is leading you to.

And once everything is in place, you will not have the choice to leave. As everything and every tool you will then need to regain anything that resembles independence will be fully under the system’s control.

But don’t worry too much. The system will do all that it can to keep you amused for every moment that you are awake, and your mind as far away as possible from even the smallest thing that could help you to awaken and escape.

Dispossession comes next

Fewer and fewer people will have jobs or employment in ways that we recognise either of them to be today.

AI was just the next in line of a series of excuses that have been used to take away jobs, lessen our independence, create dependency and to move towards a society where it is no longer possible for anyone to exist or to have a life that isn’t fully controlled without the consent of the system itself and therefore those who are a actually in control.

We are racing towards a two-tier society that has been engineered by design. With everything that gives us identity, culture and independence being either deliberately removed or brought under such strict control that people no longer believe themselves when they try to remember who they really are.

The pathway that we are on is one of dispossession. Where no matter our background, race, sex, gender, religion or anything we might still recognise as being aligned with what we today call identity will soon be erased. So that we will no longer have any ‘legitimacy’ we can call upon when there is even the merest hint breaking into the open that part of this grand plan was always that the unrequired masses would need to be erased.

Gaza and Palestine are regrettably a realtime model of what the philosophy and aims driving this pathway to create a perfect world inhabited only by the beautiful people who qualify as being within the chosen few is really about.

None of us should be under the illusion that bombing and bulldozing communities across the supposedly civilised west isn’t possible – just because the presence of Islamic extremism has given the establishment what appears to be a credible and legitimate excuse.

Part 4: Choice 2

Taking back control of your own decisions and choices, becoming a champion of your own personal sovereignty, making an active contribution to the future through change and creating a new culture based on a people centric and community driven way of thinking that has values and humanity right at its heart

A not so small caveat

One of the reasons that those of us who are happy to go along with whatever happens without asking questions or showing objection of any level or kind, is that we have become used to living lives without any kind of real turbulence such as lack, want, war or any kind of oppression in what we would all probably agree to be an open and easily recognisable form.

It is easy to believe that the way we experience everything today will continue. For no better reason than without having experienced life any differently, things will always remain this way – even though we see wars, famine, destruction and oppression on TV or the digital devices that we are plugged in to almost every day.

Likewise, for those of us who already consider themselves to be ‘awake’ and open to change as soon as the right leader or party gets elected, or alternatively people with a different and what they might consider to be an ‘enlightened’ point of view, such as members of the spiritual community who believe that changes in levels of consciousness are something that can just happen without anything else taking place, the genuine view persists that everything that we know will continue as is. With the only change necessary being how it is all run and that a change in leadership is probably all that will be needed for the world to have changed substantially enough for us all to behave in completely different ways.

Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking at best. At worst, it is completely out of touch with who and where we all really are.

The way the world is working – because we have collectively lost sight of values and what a good, healthy, balanced, just, fair and humane way of living looks like, means that change of the kind necessary is no longer optional or coming to us as a choice.

We don’t have the option of picking and choosing so that the change that is coming resembles something that we may be happy and comfortable with in any way and adversity or worse is something that nobody will be able to remain untouched by, because there isn’t any part of the system as we know it, that beyond the momentum that continues to carry it, will soon be able to restart it or make everything we know already continue to work.

The point of change could be recognisable as a financial crash and everything that it will lead to. It could all begin with a much greater kind of war that starts to impact on real life in ways that reach out far beyond the safety of our digital screens. Or we could even find ourselves in the middle of a new civil war – as some very learned people already believe that we are.

We cannot learn from anything that resembles this very easy, connected and entitled life that all of us have so easily fallen into, and smiled and felt good about ourselves as we have unconsciously surrendered and left everything of real value behind.

Giving up a way of living that feels so good and so rewarding, because the cost never matters when it’s someone else who always pays, means that we will not awaken to the need for a new, sustainable reality, until enough of us have experienced pain from what we have been doing and allowing it to happen in some way.

It is important to know and to recognise this before we continue to look at The Choice, because The Choice will not be possible for any of us to act upon, until we have all arrived at that point where we share that collective experience of emotional pain.

Some will desperately want things to be papered over and to go on as they always have done before.

They will listen to the same voices, channels and organisations that have always been there until that point that will then inevitably offer a return to the same, just as long as we make some sacrifices that will be necessary for us to return to the same place.

The problem is that the same place will never exist again. That is what understanding Choice 1 is all about and what it is all really for.

Choice 2 will be something that will be very different indeed.

Choice 2 will require a very big leap of faith. Because we have not experienced a world where humans respect each other and the environment around us in this way at any point in living memory at all.

It is also vital to be aware that the point of realisation that will affect us all will also be the greatest point of our vulnerability.

It will make us open to the influence of many of the false profits who already speak with such conviction about everything that’s wrong, but don’t actually offer us any kind of solution beyond a world where they and their friends will be the ones who are in charge.

Humanity 2.0: The software upgrade of all software upgrades

Metaphors and analogies have often proven to be the best way to connect difficult ideas to realities which typically exist within their own bubbles or ecosystems of thought and action.

One of the hardest truths that so many of us must now face – if we genuinely wish to experience meaningful change – is that to some greater or lesser degree, we have all been living a lie.

A lie about sustainability, sustainable living, what life becomes without real values and how money – which itself is with nothing – has taken over life and so transferred its intrinsic value into everything and everyone.

The discussion over what life really is, how it was created, whether we have been here before and above all what happens next after death isn’t what this book is about.

But how we function and what our purpose is or should be really is, are vitally important when it comes to awakening to The Choice. Because without recognising that we have one and that it is something over which we have sovereign control is the same thing as accepting whatever our fate will be from that point until then.

A useful tool or example we can all relate to over how advances within our own lives and life at community, national and even world level develop and change is to think about all of our thought processes and our collective thought processes as being like advances in software.

After many different evolutions of the humanity platform (not unlike MS Windows and its associated software programs) we are now on the verge of downloading Humanity 2.0 – But all have a choice as to whether we want to pay the ongoing fee for it, or would rather cling to the wreckage of the older version, because it doesn’t appear to have any cost.

Humanity 1.0 was good. And let’s face it, it was around for a long time.

But a long time was long enough for many of the wrong people to hack it, write patches, viruses and malware that made something which could have evolved further and further to becoming good for everyone into a program that has made everyone and everything vulnerable to malevolent actors. The few who only want to use the tools they already have and that are developed to make a profit and increase their own control.

Humanity 2.0 offers something entirely different.

And it’s different because it is a new software platform that we can use to step off a develop a good form of humanity that works for everyone and is remarkably empowering in unimaginable ways, because it starts by bringing all of our personal sovereignty and therefore our power straight back.

The interesting thing about H2.0 is we have the opportunity to take anything that is good from the world today and repurpose it so that it works beneficially for everyone in potential myriad ways.

We only need to agree on the outcome that serves humanity and the environment we live in best. Then begin the process of building the frameworks for life and governance that make it work and will ensure that it is then kept and maintained that way.

Bringing back power to each of us is the ultimate act of devolution and bringing power back to people and the communities that they live and work in, where everything essential to life must remain and be available to touch, and open to scrutiny by line of sight.

Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty

The true value of every person is who we or they really are within the unchanging space that sits in the world behind the eyes.

Everyone’s true essence, spirit, soul, mind or whichever term makes the most sense to you cannot be defined and made different in any material sense or way.

Whilst our respective views may be different, because the sum of each persons experience are always different and make them who they are, it is the power that comes from understanding or having the opportunity to understand and fully utilise our freedom to be at this level where we are fully self aware, that provides genuine independence, freedom and a relationship with the world outside of ourselves that fully respects who we are.

The ability to choose or make a choice isn’t necessarily freedom in itself. As choices can, are and have already all too often been manipulated so that those who trust people with power in the world will believe they have choices which are not actually any choice at all.

Humanity 2.0 offers the opportunity for every person to reclaim their Personal Sovereignty, and for that Personal Sovereignty to be respected by others, even when for any reason the individual is unable or chooses not to exercise the extremes of this choice in relation to everything that effects or is sovereign to us.

People First is not just a term that sounds good. It is nothing less than the gateway to a restructuring of every part of governance and society that ultimately tips every conceivable domino in the direction of a chain that restores everyone’s Personal Sovereignty or Freedom.

Personal Sovereignty is genuine equality for everyone. As it values everyone in exactly the same way and requires that we all respect the sanctity of that sovereignty in all others as we expect it to be considered by others in relation to ourselves.

Recognising that the real value of everyone is essentially the same. Every one of us deserves the same opportunity to be themselves if they are able and choose to do so.

This is a key element of Humanity 2.0.

Dispossessing Takeover Tech

One of the most difficult challenges that we face in the transition to a new world, where values are the focus, within systems that are openly transparent and which we can trust, is the breaking and deconstruction of the myths and narratives that have been carefully crafted to support the digital takeover and the unnecessary pathway to dominance of AI.

The future of Humanity 2.0 recognises the value in all forms of technology that can enhance and improve life, the human experience and preserve and maintain the natural systems that sustain real living and real life.

We will dispossess all forms of technology that have sidelined human activity or literally made jobs and people redundant, simply so that a greater profit could be made.

Technology and innovation are developed and supported purely for the benefit of communities and the people within them, and no form of digital technology is allowed to function with rules, programming or algorithms that are driven by agendas of any kind.

Localisation

The Future is Local.

Everything, whether it’s what you understand today to be business, government, public services, supply chains, banking, news and media, education, training all runs within localised systems that disseminate from the collective control of the community and run as independent organisations in their own right.

Localisation returns the ability for everyone to contribute and work towards the supply of the goods and services that we need, rather than purely what anyone wants, and brings balance back to the division of activity vs reward, so that no person or group of people can subvert or rewrite the way that any system or part of governance works so they may profit or gain inequitably from the efforts or being of others in some way.

The community is the centre of everything.

No other form of centralisation is necessary for anything that is essential for life.

Power belongs fully to the people and communities choose their own representatives, who then choose from amongst their number to provide representation at regional and national level where the limited number of decisions are made where it is appropriate to do so collectively at that level. Because it will have exactly the same impact upon every person within that region or at national level in only a quantitative way.

Quality of life and our role in maintaining it is a key part of the way that everything runs and is designed and motivated within Humanity 2.0.

People, their freedom to be individuals and the opportunity for them to be able to exercise their Personal Sovereignty are always the priority in everything.

Community Empowerment

In Humanity 2.0, the role of community is to always be at the centre of governance frameworks that themselves allow as much freedom as possible for everyone and every business without then being able to take more or assert any kind of inappropriate control over others or any form of supply.

Restoring Democracy

Everyone contributes to the appointment and election of community representatives and is required to vote on any issue where changes are made that will have an effect on everyone.

There are clear rules about becoming a community representative that preclude anyone who cannot demonstrate openly to the community that they are not only fit and proper, but also appropriately experienced, skilled and motivated to prioritise the call of public service above all other things, when so ever and however their time, effort and commitment may be called.

Political parties no longer exist because they aren’t needed.

Although there is describable community leadership, the systems and processes that hide and facilitate tyranny and dictatorship no longer exist.

The democratic system is designed so that those making decisions that will affect any person will be accessible and answerable to that person and representatives are able to explain and justify fully how and why decisions are being made.

Locality Economics

Humanity 2.0 restores the value of people, their contribution and their productivity to the core of a local economic model, which uses money correctly as a unit of exchange, but also provides a system of Local Market Exchanges that are hybrid in nature and directly facilitate the exchange or bartering of goods, services and the provision of experience or skills to be traded for local forms of currency in digital or cash forms.

Banking is a service to the marketplace, as we do not require financial establishments for anything else.

The community itself sets trading rates for essential goods and services whilst facilitating outside trade and exchange for spare goods and underused capacity of services whilst securing anything additional that the community may require.

The most profound difference between the future Humanity 2.0 and the system that we are experiencing today is that every activity is focused on enabling everyone to live independently of support such as benefits, charity or debt, in a way that allows even the lowest paid workers or contributors to have what we would recognise as financial freedom.

Every part of the economic structure and everything that feeds into it is targeted and governed with this aim and we have a societal benchmark called The Basic Living Standard which requires that a full working week will provide remuneration that will never fall below that which is necessary for the employee to provide themselves with all of the essentials that they need, without having to call on help or become a burden to others, unless they are experiencing difficult times.

With the perceived need to always be seeking and finding new ways to profit removed from the system, everyone and every organisation is focused only upon doing work that supports everything that is essential for life.

This ensures that everyone’s basic needs are always met within the scope of what the lowest remunerated can afford.

The Basic Living Standard has recalibrated the relationship with money that everyone has and even without this vital framework for earnings, business ownership and earnings which are always appropriate and fair, the focus on working only so that we can all live happily and well has restored balance where once we experienced the growing and progressively disproportionate wealth divide.

Our Local Future

Humanity 2.0 is a future of freedom without oppression or control that isn’t needed that ensures that everyone’s basic needs are met – which is as far as any system of governance should reach.

Visualisation of what a locality-based future will look and feel like isn’t easy. But it is something that we need to consider at a detailed, functional level, all the same.

If you would like to begin considering what the choice of freedom for us all might look like and how it would work, please visit Our Local Future, which has been written and published to help you as you consider this choice and what the benefits of a people centric future will look like for you.

Avoiding the Choice

Not choosing is also a choice.

When there is a decision of any kind to be made, there is always a choice. Because opting not to pursue any choice is a rejection of that opportunity and therefore a decision to take the pathway which appears to continue to be the same.

If you are just going along with everything life does to you, for you and apparently on behalf of you, you are still making a choice. Even if you remain as passive in your approach to everything that it would be possible for anyone to be.

Yes, Reform are looking good. But the Tories could out reform Reform, IF they can remember what being conservative really is

Reform’s performance in the Local and Helsby and Runcorn by Elections really does look good.

Anyone looking on can immediately see why so many of the political pundits and members of the opinionati are now backing Reform for a similarly groundbreaking General Election result in 2029.

The uncomfortable truth that many supporters will fail to recognise is the only reason that Reform could achieve a seismic turnaround of the kind that would instantaneously drop Nigel Farage into No.10, would be that when compared to all the others, Reform could still be the only real unknown quantity, and therefore different enough to hoover up the majority of a very fatigued Electorates votes.

Unfortunately for the Electorate, without a significant change in their direction, voting Reform into power at the next General Election would once again be voting without due regard for the Law of Unintended Consequences. Just as it was last July when those who did vote put Labour into Government.

Nonetheless, it could and may well happen.

The real depth and direction of Reform are being hidden by Britain’s Political Perfect Storm

It won’t matter what problems the new Reform Administrations in Local Government create, being directed from Reform HQ, as if everything must now be run and controlled from the very top.

The unavoidable disintegration of the UK public sector that is already well underway will almost certainly hide whatever Reform Councils do from public scrutiny and view.

Because Labour, the Tories and Lib Dem Councils are going to struggle in this climate either not to go bankrupt or find other ways to avoid royally stuffing things up.

Reform aren’t reforming anything other than the public discourse over the issues that the majority of people can see and associate with the effects of the problems that are effecting society.

No matter how far detached those perspectives might be focused from the real cause.

Farage’s approach might at best be viewed as becoming increasingly aligned with the establishment and the global thinking that sits behind so many of the problems and the direction of travel that even this Labour government has.

The irony of this should not be lost, that whilst the parts of the political right that are falling in behind Reform either believe Brexit didn’t happen or that under a Reform government Brexiteers will get to finish the job, the reality is that everything that drove the EU project that Farage’s UKIP and Brexit Party so vocally championed against, also had globalism and the centralised global political model at its heart.

Once it becomes clear that a UK version of the Trumpian DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has no basis within the realities that underpin how our current dysfunctional public sector works, there may well be a moment when those Reformers with elected roles, who are taking their responsibilities to local electors seriously, will realise that there are many things that can still be done. Whilst there are many others that simply cannot.

At some point, the rather large penny must drop, that there is a very careful and considered game to be played that without otherwise torching the entire system and structure of government delivery and bringing it all to a halt, will require the buy-in of key Government officers, nonetheless.

To those watching closely, Farage has already shown his hand.

Whilst it might not be prudent to visit the bookies and begin trying to get odds just yet, as far as the next General Election goes, whenever that actually will be, the perfect storm that has engulfed British politics may well deliver a Reform win.

But it will be the U.K. and our people, rather than whatever is left of the political opposition, that will lose in that Election if Reform have ‘won’ under their current modus operandi and plans.

A Zero-Sum Game?

A rather interesting perspective of the seemingly unassailable position that Reform now has, is that as far as the future goes for the Tories, they currently face a zero-sum game. One that applies whether they capitulate to Reform or carry on as they have done before. As they clearly are continuing to do so, now.

Yes, there remains truth in the suggestion that Reform might never govern without the cooperation or collaboration of today’s Tories in some way.

However, Farage is unlikely to ever accept anything less than remaining in control. And as head of any collaboration and apparent PM in waiting, the real difficulties will begin for us all just as soon as the leadership has a lucid post-victory moment. Probably not unlike like Starmer et al did on the 5th of July last year, when those who had arrived in No.10 realised that unless they were big enough to risk precipitating an immediate collapse of the entire system, pretty much everything would still need to go on as before, and that even though they were in government, they themselves would be required simply to do as they are told.

Picture it now; a coalition that includes what is left of the Conservative Party, all subservient to a government of the kind that will almost certainly be filled with very angry activists. Ideologues who will have been promised much from outside of power, who took it all at face value; all without any of the understanding of how government really works. People who will quickly be looking for someone else to blame.

Now may be the Tories only available Watershed Moment

To say that the choice the Tories have sits between change immediately or die, might sound extreme. But it is a genuine reflection on where the future of this once revered political machine now lies.

The way the Tories would now out reform Reform, would be to reject and distance themselves from the establishment, globalist and accepted positions on just about everything. And not just say, but put everything about the UK and our people, first.

The choice to change cannot mean anything other than putting people and our communities back at the very heart of everything they do.

The Conservatives must return to the basic principles of conservatism and remember what it is to lead and deliver for others, selflessly, and with the key motivation to conserve.

The caveat would be that the Conservatives will also be required to restore and return a model of U.K. governance and related infrastructure to us that can recapture the sense of cultural belonging and shared feeling that our system is fair, balanced and just.

The point being missed across all of British politics today, is that by engaging the public correctly and re enfranchising people and communities appropriately and restoring real trust, people would quickly focus on a very different model of political engagement.

They would not need the myths, false promises and clever narratives to explain away the pain that disenfranchisement has caused for so many before.

Can the Tories actually change, rather than just talk it up?

Whilst being able to stand up and say ‘We have for too long got this all wrong’ is a very important part of getting any credibility back, it will be the actions of Today’s Conservative Party that count.

The rump of what’s left of the Conservative Party must stop pretending that with the level of uncertainty in the world as we have now, they actually have 4 years to try out and give wasted chances to new leaders who still believe that all the Tories need do to remain relevant, is wait until the political merry-go-round does its thing and it’s ‘their turn’ to return to power, once again.

No politician who is a genuine public servant has time to waste. And as it would be correct to say to any would-be political leaders who are ready and willing to do the right thing by the people who put them there, the time to change and begin working as they always should have, is now.

Trump’s Reset: Catalyst for Change. Doorway to Cataclysm, or both?

A Time of Turbulence

Whilst ‘real life’ appears to be continuing for most of us across the UK ‘as normal’, almost a month on from Wednesday 2nd April 2025, when Trumps Tariffs were first announced, the reality remains that shock waves are reverberating around the world – even though the American President has now put the whole thing on ice for everyone – other than China.

What most of us know as the global economy is peaking and troughing throughout the global markets system with a level of fear and mistrust that hasn’t been seen for a very long time. However, the fact that the financial system hasn’t come to a grinding halt already is being taken by some to mean that whatever Trump has done and will do, it will work itself out. And very quickly too.

Many others – and in this sense I am talking about economists (whether qualified or self-styled) and those who comment, report and write about economics – are talking about turmoil, a crash and even a new great depression.

Nonetheless, the words, stories and narratives are typically loaded with suggestion that whatever impact Trump blowing up the global economy may have, the results will only be temporary, and everything will soon return to the way that it has always been.

If you believe that, you’ll believe anything

One of the key reasons economists and so many others, made credible only by the platforms they have, speak about the turbulent and challenging times that we are within as if ‘it’s just one of those things’, is because they are completely bought in to the way that the global economic system works.

Most of those who dismiss the truths that lie behind the turbulence we were already experiencing before Trump even mentioned Tariffs are tied to the mast of an economic ship that has long been doomed by the money sirens call.

Those committed to the global economic model believe that it is only with the continuance of the system as we know it – with money working in the way it does today, that they themselves can continue to win, and stay on top.

Everyone bought in to the mess that some believe Trump intended to address will continue their dedication to it and champion it, until the evidence against their position speaks for itself and becomes undeniable, even for them.

The Trump model of Free Trade isn’t Free Trade at all. Its aims are market dominance and no more

The Trade Tariffs that have existed across many international borders until now, that have been used as an excuse for the Trump moves, were all that remained of a myth of protectionism. One that has maintained the belief of many different populations, that countries such as the UK can still be taken seriously as ‘global players’.

This is now very much in doubt.

Although arguably wafer thin and sometimes even self-defeating, the Tariff structure that already existed has provided what many nations needed to stay afloat within a massively manipulated global marketplace that itself has never really been about freedom to trade at all.

That same myth that comes into play every time a UK politician bigs up our international trading credentials will not provide anything like what is necessary to stand up against anyone, anymore.

Regrettably, this is not something we can expect to hear from any Labour front bencher or the representatives of any of the political parties that we can vote for, anytime soon.

Yet any step towards accepting an open free-trade deal of the kind that Trump is effectively demanding with the threat of explosive Tariffs will become an admission, through action, in very much the same way.

The carefully constructed, economic and intergenerational money ‘con’

The strange (and what really should be troubling) truth is the way that our accepted form of economics work today (Neoliberalism, MMT, FIAT Money and globalism in very short terms), and how we have all come to believe that the way money works is ‘normal’.

The accepted form of economics that effectively runs money and finance around the world today is more dark witchcraft and wizardry than it is, ever will or ever could be about building a fair, balanced and just system of commerce, economics or the processes that underpin life beneficially for everyone. And that’s why it has increasingly be causing so much pain.

Yet the system we have has been in place for so long that many genuinely believe there is no alternative and no other way.

The United States was right at the heart of this system’s creation, and it is the chronology of events and the timescales that the process and changes that brought the world here that help make the realities that underpin the way that money, finance and economics work, so hard for people to believe. Not least because it involves multiple generations, world level events and a whole lot of ‘democratic’ decision making that make the real story very hard to believe.

Right now, Labour politicians in the UK are trying to shift blame for all of the problems they are facing away from the decisions that they have made that have just started to come into effect, to Trumps Tariffs, along with everything they inherited from the Conservatives before them and every government over at least a 50-year period before that. All as what Trump has done will now be the only thing in economics that really counts.

The government and establishment can only do this because of what is akin to the cultural amnesia that we all have about political history.

We are suffering from a form of encouraged forgetfulness that has evolved over years, decades and even centuries of time, where the shortened attention spans we have all developed tell us that blame for the decisions, monetary and public policies that cause us harm can only be attributed in the here and now or be relevant to the tenure of the politicians who are in power, today.

Today’s problems have been over a century in the making

The first step towards the economic system that we have today came with the creation of the US ‘Fed’ or Federal Reserve that was implemented as the Central Banking System of the United States in 1913. (Yes – that’s one hundred and twelve years ago!).

The second was the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, which effectively put the world’s economy at the beck and call of the US (and therefore the Fed).

The third, and arguably the most pivotal was the ending of the Gold Standard in 1971, when the whole idea that money should be pegged to the fixed value of the amount of gold that any nation owned was finally dropped, primarily by then US President Richard Nixon – and then by pretty much everyone else.

It really was no accident that gold backed currencies were dropped at around the very same time that the use of all the magic tools that make today’s bogus economic system work, such as GDP were adopted. And leaps towards so called ‘free markets’ and bureaucratised world government were made, most notably for us in the UK across Europe through the Common Market which then evolved into being the EU, as if it was ‘just one of those things’.

The devil was always in the detail. But excuses built on complexity could never override the gut feelings that have told increasing numbers that something is very wrong

Whilst the ‘anti-European Union’* groups of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s were quite deliberately caricatured as being lost on nostalgia, nationalism and many other unsavory attributes that have been carefully crafted as extreme and funneled towards the political ‘right’, the reality is that the mistrust of what was then just portrayed as being only about removing barriers to trade and the wish of many who believed in their national identity to stick to basic principles of sovereignty, has been proven to be correct many times over.

Everything that has happened was very carefully thought out, planned, coordinated and orchestrated, using a clear understanding of what it would take to create public buy-in of anything necessary within the public awareness, that could then be used to cover and in reality hide so much more that was not. 

Public acquiescence, engineered by governments that were ‘democratically’ elected, using manipulative narratives and even the 1975 United Kingdom European Communities Membership Referendum – deliberately created political divides all the way along. However, the real damage to us was that they unknowingly gave a green light awarding power to unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats to change everything and ultimately life as we know it.

All in ways presented to us, our parents and grandparents, that few would complain about. Because we have all been continually told it was about growth, wealth, prosperity – all under the guise of ‘trade’.

Whilst the US may not have been directly involved in the political sub-global system European experiment, that was little more than a trial franchise of the intended global model, they have nonetheless remained right at the core of globalisation’s march.

Indeed, the US has arguably benefited much more than it ever could have done by being an active part of what being tied into the EU project has meant for so many of us. Because of the way that post-war, international ‘settlement’ at Bretton Woods was made.

*What we know as the EU today, was previously known as the ‘European Community’, European Economic Community (EEC) and ‘The Common Market’. These evolutions of names were no accident.

This economic mess is the consequence of plans that were about furthering private interests and never about the Public Good

The Bretton Woods ‘settlement’, put the USA front and centre of what was always intended to be a ‘global economy’.

The processes behind the centralization of power that this system intended to create, have for most of the time since the second world war given the US the ability to wreak havoc wherever in the world that it believed there would be a benefit to them from doing so. Simply because of the power that having the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency created.

The power the US held since long before the Bretton Woods deal was made, was however always intended to be handed to global bodies, the unelected bureaucrats that run them and therefore the private hands that control them ‘at the top of the tree’ whenever the time was finally right.

Just as democratic power was progressively transferred to Brussels under a growing spiders web of lies that began life with a narrative built on the foundations of having a common area of trade.

The whole process, which has been a textbook example of how to hide the theft of democratic power and control in plain sight, has been nothing less than the sell-out of entire populations, by successive governments that we have elected and trusted.

The aim for generations of politicians was that of ceding power and control of everything to an elite few and the useful idiots who unswervingly support them, using a money, financial and economic system that is no better than a game. One that has cleverly used our own greed against us whilst teaching us that it is normal to live in very unsustainable ways.

The treasonous act of passing power to third parties, that was never any politicians to give away, is something that only those who have lost touch with respect for the sovereignty of other human beings, as part of their own relationship with power and influence, could ever explain.

However, for any ‘world leader’, whose ego is bigger than the appetite for a payoff, this kind of surrender to a form of power and control that would require them to be little more than a puppet, is not something they could easily accept.

That’s where Trump, his contra-reset and the Tariffs walk in.

Trumps Reset ‘Takeover’ and a strange parallel with the tenure of UK PM Liz Truss

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Trumpian roadblock against what might be better framed as the WEF derived Great Reset, that was otherwise already underway across the West – and that the Democrats in the US appear to have strongly embraced – is that Trump, his ‘power’ and what he currently ‘controls’ – are all much too big for the machine that the Globalists actually control to deal with directly.

They cannot yet refocus sufficiently enough that either Trump and what he represents can easily be pushed out – in no small part because of how ridiculous and unworkable much of what they are doing has already become.

There is no question that Trump has changed the game, and the known Western sphere alternative may only be able to respond by embracing paths they previously didn’t intend:

Many in the UK laugh at the ridiculously short prime ministerial tenure of Liz Truss.

The accepted narrative is that her economic intervention was a disaster in the making for all of us.

Yet the disaster that was feared by the establishment was nothing to do with what was good or bad for anyone beyond those tied into and benefitting from the actions of the establishment itself.

What Liz Truss did in just a brief moment, was like putting the establishment approach to money, economics and finance on steroids. It had to be stopped immediately, and the risk of it happening again quickly removed.

It is a measure of what ‘money’ and ‘the markets’ were able to do on behalf of the establishment to destabilise Truss so quickly, that give an invaluable insight into just how rigged, planned and controlled the whole system has been.

However, it’s also a clear indication of how desperate things have become that those in power are now applying hindsight to suggest that what Truss did may have had some merit after all.

Trump really is the piper playing the tune, right now. But that isn’t because what he is doing has longevity or value in terms of rescuing an economic system that was already collapsing under the weight of its own nefarious plans.

Trump’s ‘reset’ is arguably little more than a brazen attempt to take the world back to the post war era on 21st century terms. Aiming to put the USA back at the heart of everything economic, whilst leaving Trump to be what he may well believe to be Emperor of the World.

Are we now experiencing the death of the global economic system in real time?

With capitalism dead in the form that we have known it, because the world is waking up to the reality that the deck was always stacked and the result for the poor and those working hard to become wealthy alike, is that the whole thing is inherently unfair – Trump will only have as long as no workable alternatives to saying yes to him exist, before his reset will collapse. And in all likelihood with it, the world economic system will fall like dominoes, starting with the USA.

What many cannot see right now is there isn’t any way back for the rest of the ‘western system’ countries and the WEF puppet governments either. Because the only responses possible mean torching what is left of that which is already broken – just to keep up, or by working towards what could quickly be seen as a multipolar world order that by its very nature cannot and will not offer world control – even if the cracks can be temporarily painted over once again.

Although I wrote about the 3 competing Resets that have been building just a couple of weeks ago, before the Trump Plan was announced, it remains likely that the BRICS nations and what they have been working on together will come into play.

Even though anyone in any government who has any sense will soon begin to realise that the US has just proven how foolish it is to once again place all your eggs in any one basket this way.

The difference in just this short time is that rather than awaiting what some might call a reasoned attempt at switching the polar world from western dominated to eastern dominated control, BRICS will instead increasingly look like an emergency tool for survival and replacement trading. For all the countries that have signed up to it as well as most of those who are on the most drastic end of the Tariffs that are about to unfold.

Will desperation lead the EU-centric/WEF led countries to do similar or the same?

Trump: Catalyst, Cataclysm or both

Whilst many will understand and perhaps even sympathise with the Trumpian ‘Make America Great Again’ rhetoric, few outside of the United States will find value or appeal in the idea that Making America Great Again means everyone else must bow down and become beholden – economically, metaphorically and in every other possible sense, to Trumps USA.

Whereas The Bretton Woods System (which originally kicked everything off internationally) was arguably unavoidable, given the massive role that the USA had come to play, once it had joined the Second World War, it is likely that its acceptance was a begrudging one, and only considered an acceptable choice given the alternative and what so many countries had just been through.

The open subservience to the US required and whatever it might have ushered behind it was a price that many nations across the world accepted they would simply have to pay.

However, Trump doesn’t have that same hand of cards as Roosevelt had to play in 1944. And there’s nothing he can do to recreate them 80 years on. Not least of all because US hegemony has been abused by those who hide behind and have controlled it in so many open (and many more hidden) ways, during that time.

The biggest difference between the Spring of 2025 and the Summer of 1944 is the desperation of weak leaders around the world today is all about their own survival and what happens to them next.

Whereas at the end of the Second World War, those leaders who were left with any kind of seat at the table worth having were being practical about saving war-weary nations from what those able to visualise a fear-led future interpreted as being a very bleak time of peace.

Bretton Woods may have seemed necessary. But necessity wouldn’t either remove nor excuse the use of manipulation and abuse – no matter the ‘opportunity’.

Yes, the global economic model is finished. But no expert will tell you that

So, it very much looks like Trump is harking back to the glory days of this dreadful economic system. Where the abuses that made the abusers fantastically rich, whilst nobody else really noticed, were there, open and available to everyone who pushed their way in.

Regrettably for us all, what has changed since then is everything that had real value – and that means infrastructure, industries, communities and everything that goes with that paradigm – has been stripped, bought or taken over employing created money that would never have been available to the money men without this system being in place and accepted as being legitimate.

All these varied financial and business interests have bought or taken control of using this contemporary form of dark magic have been moved, changed or broken up.

Whatever often nationally recognisable industries used to produce, manufacture or supply has been outsourced to someone and somewhere that it can be done more cheaply. Or added to some other elaborate supply chain where many more opportunities to ‘create wealth’ for the already wealthy ‘friends’ have been added in.

Trump probably sees this much from his experience with the way that money has been working. That is arguably why he is so keen to bring production and manufacturing back to the USA. Because sovereignty over supply chains is power over them in every form.

So, Trump knows that protectionism can be a practical way to uphold sovereignty, security and appropriate power.

But what Trump doesn’t appear to appreciate is that protectionism can also backfire spectacularly and have massive consequences if it is abused, used overbearingly or used as a weapon in any other way.

A New World dawns

There is no way to turn the clock back. The United States that Trump appears to want to lead existed at least 80 years ago.

The damage – and the part that the US has played in it, alongside all of the western powers who have acquiesced – is already done.

The global economic system as we know it is already beyond repair.

However, the experts won’t suggest that there is another ending to one where money remains king. Because most of them have by now been taught, indoctrinated or conditioned by a system that we are all now victims of to believe that there simply is no other way.

Regrettably, what we must remind ourselves of is that experts know a lot about a little, and that knowledge is then itself typically applied in very subjective ways.

On the other hand, real leaders know enough about lots. But they are objective enough to bring many different experts together. So that the very best decisions can be made.

The problem that we all have with politicians, is that they aren’t really leaders in the sense of what it takes to be good national or international leaders at all.

Trump almost certainly sees himself as being an expert – in this case, in business. And it appears that he has fallen into the trap, like so many others do, of believing that economics and the economy are all about business. Rather than being about people and life – as some very greedy and power-hungry people have always intended and worked tirelessly to make truth.

This is where one of the biggest mistakes and injustices in human history has been made.

The harsh reality that we are all now in the process of awakening to is that not even Trump can reset a system that was designed to be so unfair, so unbalanced and so unjust, that it has finally broken and began revealing its secrets under the weight of its own intentional greed and the harm upon humanity that it inflicts.

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10 Steps to Vote NONE OF THE ABOVE and make every Vote count too

There’s nobody better qualified to decide what’s best for a community than the members of that Community, itself

The chances are that before you’ve even read this book, you will hear other People criticising or attempting to devalue everything that this book, Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is about.

They are likely to suggest that only experienced Politicians, Political Parties or People who have been qualified in some other way, are suited to running in Elections and to being in Politics.

The inference or suggestion is that none of us or anyone our communities could select to represent us would have any idea what to do.

The words they use might sound very different to even these.

But any message intended to disqualify you and your community from selecting the People who make decisions on your behalf, will turn out to have exactly the same meaning:

THEY ARE TELLING YOU THAT THE PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY AREN’T CAPABLE OF BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THEMSLEVES OR FOR MAKING THEIR OWN CHOICES – AND THAT INCLUDES YOU!

No matter what anyone says to you or to anyone else about Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, there is nothing they can say that’s negative about the Community making and being responsible for its own choices that can mean anything different or be interpreted in any different way.

Whichever way you look at it, you are being told you aren’t qualified. You are being told you aren’t good enough. You are being told you haven’t got the right skills.

There is no question. These People who know better, are absolutely wrong.

Anyone who says or suggests that someone else knows better when it comes to selecting the People who make decisions which affect us all, is on an agenda of their own. An agenda that has neither the best interests of the whole Community, nor what’s good for you, at its heart.

The decisions that affect us all and the public policies they deliver will always be flawed for as long as anyone involved in making those decisions obtained the responsibility to do so because of some motive that wasn’t focused upon the Community and service to others.

It was about whatever they are part of. Ultimately, it’s all about them.

Today’s Politicians don’t represent the People. They represent themselves, their parties and whoever they aspire to be

Until now, NONE OF THE ABOVE has been a way to protest against and to refuse to Vote for those Politicians who are always someone else’s choice.

More often than not, NONE OF THE ABOVE has been a way to raise a laugh or to make a joke too.

The problem for us all, is there is nothing good, nor funny about a political system that benefits nobody other than the People who directly benefit from the way that it works.

The disease within the Political System has reached the point where no Politician or Political Party makes decisions or pursues any Public Policy that is good for anyone else.

NONE OF THE ABOVE doesn’t need to be just a process or a figure of speech, anymore.

We need to be positive. We need to be proactive. We need to grab the opportunity that is waiting for us to turn this all around, whilst hiding in plain sight.

It’s time for us all to come together as one. To go way beyond being just a protest Vote or a refusal to accept the options we are given in Elections – as if that and only that, is all that We deserve.

We can only achieve this by selecting and providing candidate options in ALL Elections that are OURS.

This is what Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is here to help you and your community to do.

Before we get started, there’s one rule you need to understand, accept and live by when it comes to everything that is Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and getting the very best out of this Book:

There’s nobody better qualified to decide what’s best for a community than the members of that Community itself.

Welcome to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE

NONE OF THE ABOVE will already have meaning to you.

You may also know or recognise it as being ‘Not in my name’, or ‘you don’t speak for us’.

To keep things simple, for now, we will just think of it as NONE OF THE ABOVE.

NONE OF THE ABOVE is the choice made when any Person has the opportunity to Vote in an Election but decides that they won’t.

Because none of the candidates or the Political Parties stand for represent what that Voter feels they and their community need from the Public Representatives they have the choice to elect.

People who are living NONE OF THE ABOVE, might not even bother to involve themselves in Elections.

Then there are those who may have gone to the Polling Station on Election Day, signed in and shown their ID and even have been handed their ballot paper.

They then decide that they cannot or will not Vote for any of the candidates or the Political Parties represented on a list that runs from the top to the bottom of the paper.

Some of those will even draw a line through the ballot paper or the boxes and even write NONE OF THE ABOVE at the bottom of the ballot paper itself.

Then, when the Counting of Votes takes place afterwards, this ballot paper and any others like it will be classified as ‘spoiled’ and no Vote will count.

Whatever the reason you may not have Voted, spoiled a ballot paper, or now found yourself looking for an alternative to Candidates and Political Parties that never seem to deliver on anything they have promised you they will do, this Book is here to help.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is a How to and Information Guide that has been written and published to help and advise People just like you.

NONE OF THE ABOVE is the place where many of us already are

Take heart. You are not alone.

A growing number of People already recognise what the words NONE OF THE ABOVE mean to them.

Whilst the interpretation will differ between us, the reasons for being unhappy and searching for an unidentified alternative to all the so-called ‘choice’ of Political Candidates that we already have, will almost certainly be something that we share.

You may already know that the answers to all of our questions and the solutions we all need are not going to come from any of the Political Parties that we know. They will also not come from any of the new Political Parties or activist groups that already exist and are hungry to be in power, just like the Political Parties that everyone recognises.

Alternatively, you may be at the point of giving a party you have previously supported a ‘last chance’.

Whether committed to change or praying over a forlorn hope, we all know that change has to come from a different place to have meaning and for it to actually be different.

Otherwise, we will continue to ride the merry-go-round of the same Political Parties, knowing that with them, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

You now know you are not alone. But are you really ready to embrace change?

If what you have read is already making some sense or has perhaps just struck an unknown chord, I would urge you to keep going and read through THE ENTIRE BOOK.

Without doing so, you will not be equipped to consider the full picture or achieve the understanding of what Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE has the power to do for us all, as a tool that will work for your community.

Most importantly, you will miss what turning NONE OF THE ABOVE into a Vote-winning option has the power to do for YOU and for your future too.

The formula for a winning outcome from Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE

There are no shortcuts, IF you want your life and the lives of others to improve.

Please read this book through and then decide which parts of it make sense, or more importantly, which parts apply specifically to you and what you feel able to do.

BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF when you read and think about the content you are reading.

If you know what you are reading is true for you, DON’T go backwards. DON’T STOP. DON’T put this book back on your Bookshelf.

If you do nothing, you are standing still.

In a world of constant change, standing still is going backwards.

Doing nothing and going backwards are just the same.

Even if you never do any more than Vote in every future Election, please use this book as the guideline to search out and identify those who will work hard and work honestly for your community and for YOU.

WARNING: Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is not for you, IF

  • You are committed to following whatever anyone else tells you to think.
  • You believe that the only problem is there isn’t a Political Party in power that represents you.
  • You believe that somebody else will solve all the problems that we have.
  • You believe that power, position, influence, qualifications and wealth define leadership.
  • You look down on any other social group, no matter what the difference between you might actually be.
  • You are not prepared to take part in something that helps others as well as yourself.
  • You cannot accept that change for everyone begins with you making the most important change first.

NONE OF THE ABOVE is for you, IF:

  • You are looking for answers and solutions to the problems we ALL have.
  • You know that those answers and solutions to our problems will not come from the so-called leaders that we have or are today being offered.
  • You can focus on what we share in common with each other, rather than what divides us and is very quickly tearing us all apart.
  • You accept that if we keep doing the same things as they have always been done, things will inevitably stay the same.
  • You accept that IF change that is good for us all is going to happen, we all have a role to play in being that change.
  • You accept that REAL CHANGE BEGINS WITH YOU!

To be able to Vote NONE OF THE ABOVE, your participation is ESSENTIAL

What you may have realised as you read the bullet points above, is the essential ingredient of us all being able to Vote NONE OF THE ABOVE is YOU!

One of the biggest problems that we face together is the apathy that years of political inaction, broken promises, the spread of manufactured fear and the use of outright lies from Politicians and the Establishment have created.

People genuinely believe that there is no alternative to the mess that we have now.

People feel that there can be no change, because it’s the same People who will always be in control.

People believe that the best we can hope for will come by voting for the alternative that the Establishment gives us. That the alternative candidates and parties we are given, will somehow get something right or allow at least some change to happen that could at the very least prove to be some help.

Sadly, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

This story of ‘who and what will win the next Election’ that we are all experiencing in the news and media, is no better than a confidence trick – even when People from outside of the Establishment appear to be involved.

NOT because there is some kind of conspiracy.

But because everyone who is in power or believes they deserve to be in power today, thinks in exactly the same way.

What could Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE really be? What can Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE become?

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE has the ability to be and to deliver the answers and the solutions that we are all looking for. Because the PROCESS, METHOD and AIM it offers will return your power and begin helping us ALL to take control back from the Establishment, from the moment that you accept it will work.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is the process of embracing the UKs broken political system and bypassing all the parts of it that are sick.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is a clear pathway to ensure all that’s wrong with British Politics can no longer affect, influence or even brainwash those People who volunteer with good intentions, to become Public Representatives, ensuring that all the diseased thinking can be sidestepped until it has all been replaced.

Once the majority of us have accepted Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and what it represents as the only honest and fully democratic way for communities to be represented properly in any Election, the battles and the war for Freedom from useless and self-serving governance that many don’t even know we are fighting, will then have been won.

Warning: for change to happen you must think and act differently. Leaving change to everyone else is thinking the same way as you have been all along.

You must be the change is itself one of the most important messages within Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and every book that relates to it.

Regrettably, we have become accustomed to the idea that somebody somewhere else will always sort out the problems that affect everybody else.

Strangely enough, we then don’t understand why help doesn’t come for us when the problem is now ours and we are the ones experiencing the pain.

It’s time to join the dots up.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE will only work if you and People like you dare to change the way that you think.

Then, we must ALL act to create the change, removing the power from other People’s hands, taking back control of OUR OWN POWER.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that the way things work now is the only way. Ask yourself the question, Who is the only beneficiary from you or anyone else believing and thinking like that?’

THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS BROKEN. IT DOESN’T WORK FOR YOUR COMMUNITY. IT DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU.

IF WE WAIT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO BROKE THE SYSTEM TO FIX IT, THE FIX THAT COMES WONT BE MADE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY OR YOU IN MIND.

ONLY YOU CAN FIX THE WAY POLITICS WORKS FOR YOU.

TOGETHER, WE CAN ONLY TRUST POLITICS IF IT IS RUN BY PEOPLE WE TRUST.

THE ONLY PEOPLE WE CAN TRUST IN POLITICS FOR OUR FUTURE WILL BE PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE SYSTEM LIKE ME AND LIKE YOU

The negative stuff (That we cannot avoid)

Regrettably, presenting an alternative to what we have already got in Politics wouldn’t be complete with at least touching on the reasons why the Politicians that we have and The System that brings them to the ballot paper isn’t working for any of us.

Strange as it may seem, because of how bad things have become in Politics, telling the truth or being realistic about what is happening will always be treated as or considered to be negative by some.

Objectively and in reality, being negative and being realistic are two very different things.

Whilst it makes it sound like we are engaged in a war (which some People genuinely now believe that we are), we really do need to know and understand our enemy, before we can create or implement the methods and practices that mean we will ultimately win.

However, the reality is that in the majority of cases, the Politicians and People who have created the problems we have and who will continue to create them, IF we do not replace them with People who have the integrity and purpose to represent us, are not bad or evil People.

They are simply lacking awareness. They are selfish. They are without moral principles. They have a very restricted or self-serving view of what humanity is and the difference between wrong and right.

If many of them were able to see life in a different way, they could, in time, become just like any friends we have.

There is nothing wrong with them, except for how they behave and what they fundamentally believe.

Who are ALL OF THE ABOVE?

You may not realise or even understand it. But because Politics or rather our Politics is about what we believe at an individual or personal level, it also means that we identify ‘our Politics’ as being part of or who we really are.

Regrettably, this means that most of us find ourselves getting emotionally tied into the way we think politically. Especially if we have historically identified with a Political Party, group or ‘tribe’.

Even now, if you have been tribal in your approach to Politics in the past – and it won’t matter if you’ve Voted Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, UKIP or any of the names we associate with the broken Politics of today and the past – the chances are that deep down, you still feel some affiliation with that Political Party and hope that they will soon ‘come right’.

It’s time to accept that they won’t.

And it’s not like any of them haven’t had chance after chance to be the change, time and time before either.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE can only work if we consciously disassociate ourselves and keep disassociating ourselves with the Politics of the past (today) and our past political thinking – whether it’s in respect of our own outlook, or those we have previously thought of as being ‘the enemy’, who you are probably by now beginning to understand have much more in common with us than anything meaningful that any of us should be allowing to drive us all apart.

When the People who lead us are out for themselves, how can we expect anyone else to behave differently?

We cannot continue to make allowances for and place our trust in People who have asked for our support and taken it. But then misused the power that we have entrusted them with, and behaved as if what they want and what’s good for all of us are one and the same thing.

Equally, we cannot afford to waste years on new, up and coming Politicians, Influencers, Activists and Political Parties who tell us they are different. But by the very act of telling us what we should think, are demonstrating that if we treated them as a real alternative, that when elected and in power, they would then behave in exactly the same ways as the Politicians we already have.

There are good People within all Political Parties and plenty of them are genuinely well meaning. But few of them really understand the responsibilities and the power that they have been given, and what being a good Public Representatives means.

Without the knowledge and leadership skills that public office should always require of those holding such responsibility, it means that the People we have running the Public Sector and the whole country right now and for the foreseeable future – without change, are the last People that any of us should knowingly elect to Public Office and put in charge of whatever happens next.

At best, we live in a mediocracy where everyone we elect is out for themselves.

With the challenges that we now face. mediocre leadership is simply not good enough for our communities or for ourselves.

The ‘Establishment’ Political Parties and Tribes

We are all being failed by the Public Representatives we have elected as representatives of Political Parties.

It is inevitable that ‘Party Politicians’ will always be expected to put the interests of their Political Party and the Establishment they are part of first, before doing anything that would be good for anyone else.

Any Public Policy that works out well for any of us today, is just a happy coincidence.

There is very little good that comes from Public Policy for People that was directly intended or put into being through a fully considered process and genuine choice.

The Establishment Political Parties and Tribes include:

  • The Conservative Party (Also known as The Tories or Tory Party)
  • The Liberal Democrats (Also known as The Lib Dems)
  • The Labour Party
  • The Scottish National Party (Also known as the SNP)
  • The Green Party
  • Plaid Cymru (Also Known as The Welsh National Party)

The Outsiders or The Political Parties and Tribes from ‘Outside’

Many are already placing their hopes in new and less established Political Parties, activist groups and movements as being the way of change.

These political vehicles may appear to be different, speak with different words and with different voices.

But the thinking that drives them and the way that the Establishment or mainstream Political Parties think about Public Representation is regrettably one and the same.

The Outsider Political Parties and Tribes include:

  • The SDP
  • Reclaim
  • Reform UK
  • UKIP
  • ADF
  • Not Lib/Lab/Con
  • Vote Freedom

AND many others.

All of them are regrettably missing the point that the Outsiders’ strength lies in focusing on what we all have in common. Not by championing their own ideas, or anything else that just creates more of a divide.

Remember: Nobody serves everyone’s purpose when they are only serving ideas that are their own, and if they wanted to put you and your community first, they would be doing so already.

Why ALL OF THE ABOVE will NEVER work for your community and certainly won’t work for you

Have you ever had a politician who represents an existing Political Party come up to you, and without telling you what they already stand for, take the time to ask and make the effort necessary to actually listen only to what you think?

The greatest flaw that all Political Parties and Political Groups that already exist today share, is that any good they could be doing is quickly erased by the fact they are all pulling in their own specific directions.

None of them stop to think about what it would mean to be unified. To be working together. To have the ability to speak and to represent us universally with one and just one voice.

Established Political Parties and Speakers ALWAYS have an Agenda

Established Political Parties follow ideologies or philosophies that are idealistic, or formed around the thinking of the People who lead them.

By their very nature, Political Parties do not take account of the needs of everyone.

Political Parties will always be aligned with or have biases towards a specific group. Usually, one or more that serves its own purposes, or is aligned or identified with its own key demographic groups.

The way that Politicians would usually account for the way that Political Parties and groups work is to say that they are focusing on the important issues of the day.

There is always an inherent undertone that silently speaks ‘we represent the true majority’. The statement is presented without any evidence. But it is treated by many as credible, just because of the platform that the media or social media platforms have given them.

The problem is, existing Politicians and Political Parties aren’t credible. None of them can be relied upon. Because once anyone is motivated only by ‘what is important to them’, they can soon be led and influenced by anything else that is presented in such a way that is equally important to them.

Whilst this thinking is already the cause of great public harm, the reality is that it is human nature.

It’s what very stupid People do when they find themselves with power and responsibility that they are not equipped to handle appropriately.

It’s time for you to be the change, so that your community can do so too

The future of Politics is about everything working well for everyone. Everyone must therefore be involved in choosing that future.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE recognises and responds to the flaws that exist within the accepted idea that the only way the existing political system in the UK can function is by having it controlled and populated by Political Parties and Politicians who tell us they are there to work for us all, but only have their own interests in mind.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE proposes a genuine alternative pathway to electing the Politicians we are given, as being the way to ensure that the Public Representatives we elect are genuine, and always put the interests of the Public and the Communities they represent first.

Your Role in Our Future – You want to be an active part of the change

You’ve read this far. You are interested in taking part. You just want to feel convinced.

At this point, you will probably fall into one of two groups:

  • You will either be thinking ‘I’d like to take part and do something’.
  • Or you will be thinking ‘I’ll wait and make a choice when it’s the next time to Vote’.

If you are already thinking that you will take part and make a contribution because the content of what this book suggests makes sense to you, please remember that the real change we are about to begin working towards doesn’t look like anything you are used to. Nor does it resemble anything that you have already seen or already know.

If you are ready, please keep reading the TEN STEPS to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE that follow in Part 1, next.

Your Role in Our Future – You just want to be able to Vote

If you are still thinking that the only time that any of this will matter is when it comes to the next Election and the time that you are next required to go out and Vote, I’m afraid it’s time to face a certain truth:

Waiting for change will always mean that change will not be something you take part in. Change will certainly come, but it will be something that happens to you.

Even if you are one of the many who will only see your real contribution being that moment when you pick up the pencil and ballot paper and draw a cross in a box to make your Vote, change requires that you do not remain passive between now and when the next Election comes.

Please do read through all of Part 1 and the TEN STEPS, so that you understand and can identify what the process of change will look like when it reaches your community.

Please then continue and read Part 2 which has been written for those of us who still see their contribution to the future as being no more than a Vote.

Follow the Plan. Learn from the Plan. Improve on the Plan. Share the Plan.

Before we get into the real opportunity that is awaiting you and your community, and the details and STEPS of what you can do to play your part, it is worth mentioning that the alternative pathway offered by Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is one that you are being invited to follow and to learn from.

But not only that. I am also making a very explicit invitation with an expectation that you can find ways to improve upon Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and that you will then share what you can then offer with all the other Communities like yours, too.

I am grateful for the opportunity to have been able to bring together the experiences and insights that I have had, to help others – IF they want that help.

You are about to open the door to being able to share your own experiences too.

Thank you and good luck.

Part 1: For the Change Makers – Whoever you are

This section outlines a PROCESS of STEPS that many of us within all of our local communities MUST take, if we want the existing ‘democratic’ and ‘electoral’ systems to work for all of us.

Doing nothing other than making a choice from the Candidates we are given by somebody, somewhere else will only ever continue to be an endorsement for ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Nothing will change.

The motives of the existing Political Parties and the behaviour of ALL the Politicians already within The System – as well as that of those who aspire to be there – are the reason that British Politics is completely dysfunctional and broken.

In the longer term, the electoral system and system of democracy that we have must be completely reformed so that public representation is in touch with everyone and is always provided by the most appropriate and best-suited People that we could ever have.

However, for Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE to succeed as quickly as possible, we have no choice but to focus on what we have the power to do NOW, so that we can begin the process of changing everything as quickly as we can.

How we will be able to Vote NONE OF THE ABOVE in the existing system

The good news for everyone is that change of the kind we need, is possible to begin working on now.

NOT through creating civil unrest or by forcing some kind of revolution, as some People genuinely believe – where the outcome is never guaranteed because it’s out of our control.

But by stepping outside of the system that the Establishment expects us never to question. By looking at the whole ‘electoral wood’ differently. Then using the map of the trees that the Establishment has given us, whilst navigating our own path through with new way of thinking that will enable us to take back our power and then put all the self-serving plans and strategies that have enslaved our democracy, into the bin.

Yes. WE CAN make the current system work for us.

The difference between what we have and what we could have, is that WE MUST select, appoint and then Vote for OUR OWN CANDIDATES to run in each and every Election.

We MUST reject anyone or any candidate that is offered to us by anyone other than our own communities and accept that is OUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT AND CHOICE.

Forget the Date of the next Election. Work to Vote NONE OF THE ABOVE begins right now

When I say, ‘We need to change the way We think’, it is important to understand that this change in thinking’ is about the entire way we look at things, or even the lens we use to look at it. It is not as simple as moderating or adjusting our view of just one thing.

A good and very relevant example of this is the way that the majority of us think about Elections and how Elections actually work.

Most of us have not been actively involved in Politics or Political Campaigning. So, we immediately fall into the trap of thinking and believing that the only time that Political Campaigning matters, is the same time that everyone else who is out there trying to get themselves elected, is around about our local areas and knocking on our doors.

What many of us then fail to realise is that ALL OF THE ABOVE will have their eyes and thoughts on the next Election, right from the very moment that the results of the last one have been confirmed.

In fact, so obsessed with getting elected or reelected have ALL OF THE ABOVE become, that their obsession with influencing the People they believe most likely to Vote for them in the future, is one of their priority considerations in just about everything that they do.

Put yourself in other People’s shoes

I have had the experience of campaigning for both myself and for other candidates in a number of different Elections.

One of the most important things that I learned was that not enough People will take outsiders or challengers and what they have to say seriously, IF it’s only after the Election has been called that the door knocking begins and the new messages and concern show up.

Matters that concern the Community are ongoing. They are real and they are relevant each and every day. Just like the issues that have an effect or an impact upon you.

It is the same for everyone. So, if you turn up at other times too – as anyone who genuinely cares about their community is supposed to, People at their doorsteps will see a lot more value in the new experience for them that you offer, when you ask them to share their concerns.

Patience is necessary, as well as being a virtue

Some People – and a growing number of them too, will engage with what you are doing from the very moment that you first knock on their door. But for others, the process will take time.

The self-interest and cynical behavior that has ruled and broken Politics right across this country, for so long, has done a hell of a lot of harm.

From this point alone, it should be obvious that building up a relationship and developing trust with someone and something new, is bound to take time.

So, it doesn’t matter whether the next Election is a Local Election or a General Election. Nor does it matter if it is going to be held in 4 months or 4 years’ time. The right time to begin the process of engaging with Local People is RIGHT NOW!

Forget whatever the Councillors, Mayors, MPs and Political Parties are doing

Another idea that we must get over is the one that tells us it’s only the Politicians who are already elected that have any power, when it comes to influencing anything that’s going on.

They don’t. And it’s self-sabotaging to think this way. Because in the same breath, it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that nobody will pay attention to anyone else.

That’s bad enough. But the real risk to changing everything for the better is the next idea to arrive.

The one that suggests we have to listen to and respect what anyone who has been elected or has a position of authority has to say.

WE DON’T.

Respect & Trust MUST be earned AND be credible too

Sadly, the way the Electoral System works today doesn’t mean that we can rest assured that candidates are skilled, experienced, in touch with our reality, or in any way capable of speaking for us or making any decisions on behalf of us all.

Not only this. The reality is that even the ‘majority Votes’ that ‘winning’ candidates attract for Council and even Parliamentary Seats are themselves representative of just a small fraction of just the People in our communities who are eligible to Vote.

This means that the genuine majority of the People who you are about to communicate with, already feel that they are not represented by the politician(s) your community has already got.

Speak and make promises in the same way that the Establishment and the Outsider Parties already do, at these doorsteps, and the People you are reaching out to will see right through you, almost as quickly as you can blink.

Speak honestly and openly, and share your care and compassion for change, for People and for the Community – from your heart, and the People you speak to will take you seriously, right from the start.

It’s what we all have in common that is key

We have much more in common with others than anything that divides us.

Yet we allow those differences and the beliefs that we have about each other to take over and rule our lives as if the commonality that we share doesn’t even exist.

Politics is so divisive because it is reflective of who each and every one of us believes that we are and what we stand for, deep down inside of ourselves.

With the problems across the UK and the World that generation after generation of poor Politicians have created, it’s no longer possible or responsible of us to leave the Politics for the Politicians.

And it won’t be, until such time as we once again have a political system in place that we can rely upon and trust.

The culture of Politics that is dividing us all is representative or a reflection of the broken system and the disease of self-interest and the thirst for self-advancement, influence and power that has stepped into democracy’s place.

It simply doesn’t matter if you have seen yourself as being left-wing, socialist, right-wing, capitalist, conservative, eco-friendly or as wearing any similar kind of label up until right now.

The tribal badges that a self-interested political system has conditioned us to wear, have also been the banners that we have allowed to trip us up by defining how we feel about and how we perceive many others too.

For what it’s worth, those others have gone through exactly the same process on their part, too.

Politics today is not based upon, driven or motivated by anything good for us and for our communities, as it always should be.

Left, right or from somewhere in between. This broken Political System focuses on keeping power away from the People and absent from within the communities where it should be.

It continually funnels and focuses OUR POWER on People, both seen and unseen, who make the real decisions that we have no influence over, right at the top.

Our power will be immediately returned to us by recognising the parts of life that are common to everyone, and by focusing our collaborative efforts to bring equitable access and provision of the things and experiences in life that we genuinely share.

If you haven’t realised already real community is not just an idea. It is a way of being.

For instance, we don’t need a socialist or a capitalist to introduce their political ideologies into the processes which deliver our food – BUT THEY DO!

And it’s the same with everything else that these People touch!

The only motivation that genuine representatives of the People need in order to get everything they do right, is to maintain their focus upon what’s in the best interests of EVERYONE, when it comes to Public Policy that has any impact upon the essential areas of life that we have in common and share.

The things which are essential to provide and maintain happy, healthy, safe and secure lives for everyone, within a system that is truly balanced, fair and just, don’t need any kind of political ideology to deliver them.

We just need to focus on working together and on collaborating in union, so that what we all need, and not what only some of us want, is all that government and our system of governance gives us – and then stops there.

It’s time for our journey to that place to begin. And you have the opportunity to play an important part at the start!

Your role – IF you want it, is to reach out, listen and learn

Yes, it does rather sound like the line from those great Mission Impossible Films “Your Mission, should you accept it…”. The similarity between taking on challenging tasks should also not be lost.

But there is a decision that needs to be made. And the action that follows that decision needs to be taken by many of us, IF we really want to be able to Vote and successfully elect Candidates in every Election who are NONE OF THE ABOVE.

So, your role – IF you want it. Is to reach out, listen and learn from the other Local People from in and around your community. And to then be open to whatever happens or whatever comes next.

The bigger wheels, within wheels, that will soon be at work

Conversation and collaboration with People you don’t normally speak to but see or pass regularly isn’t really all that hard. Because you already have that shared experience in common.

If nothing else, it’s always nice to be able to put a name to a face.

Reaching out and by beginning a conversation which is all weighted towards other People speaking and sharing their thoughts and ideas about what’s happening, and what they believe our structures of government should prioritise and do, will begin the process of opening up a local and Community focused world.

You will not only take the first essential steps of helping to create a new Community-wide and all-inclusive movement that will quickly have the power to influence and change.

You will also immediately begin to learn about life from very different perspectives and see how we all experience the same things very differently.

Yes, there is an agenda that we will all be working to, from the moment you begin.

It’s no secret and we’ve already shared it.

The agenda is to get good and genuine Public Representatives elected and working with many others. So that our Councils, Public Organisations and our Parliament are being run by People who not only understand us and have our best interests at heart. But have the wherewithal necessary to understand all the different parts and functions of the Public Sector, to be able to fit them all together so that everything in the public sphere works for the benefit of us all, as it always should do.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE has an AIM, that will be achieved through a METHOD, which will be the result of you and others like you following a PROCESS from the moment you start.

THE AIM: Community agreement on Candidates who are Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE

The only thing that gives Political Parties an edge or an advantage over anyone else is that they are already organised and have systems and procedures in place.

Yet the disadvantage to us all is that they are selecting and offering us candidates under the pretense that they will represent us, when they will always prioritise the party choice.

The AIM of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is your Community making a decision upon who represents all of you together. Then going on to support your Public Representatives to be elected and to then fill and fulfil every relevant democratically elected role.

Please do not fall into the trap of believing that’s what you and every Voter like you already does, each time that you go into a polling station and Vote.

The candidates that are listed on the ballot paper in elections now, were not selected by your community.

They were selected by someone else, using criteria that benefits a very specific group of People and whatever they stand for or believe in.

Therefore, ALL OF THE ABOVE don’t represent the views of the Community, they represent the views of someone else.

REMEMBER: The only way that communities will be represented by the People who are best qualified to represent that Community, is for the Community to select and appoint those candidates themselves.

THE METHOD: Community Meetings and interaction where we select Candidates to represent us all

To bring all of the People that make up your community together, means bringing all of them together – ideally at the same time within a Community Meeting.

As pretty much all of the existing Political Parties and Politicians already know, the circumstances when a whole Community will come together in one place at the same time to listen or to even discuss issues that affect them are very rare indeed.

Yet the reason for this apathy, disconnectedness or disenfranchisement, isn’t one that’s hard to address or get over.

It just takes a lot of effort and genuine commitment to the Community – and that’s why the existing Political Parties don’t do this – because respect for what the People really think and what’s important to them isn’t something that any of the existing Political Parties either believe in or currently even try to do.

The METHOD is holding Community Meetings where everyone from within your community has the opportunity to interact and play a part in the process of selecting the Candidates who will become Councillors, Mayors, MPs – and ANY kind of public representative that public Elections within the current system dictate that there will be.

There is significant added value and additional benefits that will come from bringing your community together without the agendas or motives of any organisation that already exists

Yes, we quite clearly have Communities that already exist in geographical terms. They are where we all already live.

We also have groups of People who share certain or specific things in common. Like their religion, their working background, or perhaps a sport that they have played or follow as a spectator or on TV.

But it has become increasingly rare for any of us to really feel any kind of affinity with the People with whom the only thing we clearly share is our locality, in the sense that living together and sharing life together is an essential part of making the things that surround our everyday lives much better than what they already are.

It is the humanity that comes from engaging in direct relationships within our local areas and local communities that have the ability to really help us to find genuine happiness, as well as giving us the ability to discover and appreciate who we genuinely are.

There are no substitutes for the benefits that being part of a vibrant, caring and above all human Community will have for you and for everyone.

Above all, the benefits from coming together to ensure that the decisions that will affect us and that will have an effect upon everyone, are made by the right People, who we have selected, qualified and appointed, alongside everyone else who will be affected by whatever they will then do, will be incalculable for us all.

THE PROCESS: Engaging with your Community in a series of TEN STEPS

So, you’ve read this far. We are now at the most important part of the journey to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE.

That is, IF you are ready and committed to taking the steps necessary to play your part in creating change, whilst welcoming everyone who is open to it to share the ride.

There are TEN practical STEPS to creating the momentum and energy that will engage your community.

We are going to use the METHOD of bringing everyone in your community together, so that your community can achieve the AIM of selecting your own candidates for EVERY Election in the future.

CAUTION: It is important, as you proceed from here onwards, that you focus on what we have discussed in this book, and upon continuing with the PROCESS of TEN STEPS We are about to go through.

THE TEN STEPS

  • STEP 1: Give your Community Meeting a recognisable identity.
  • STEP 2: Get a free email box set up.
  • STEP 3: Set up your Community Meeting Social media accounts.
  • STEP 4: Get posting and post as often as you can.
  • STEP 5: Get at least 12 People you know from your community signed up.
  • STEP 6: Knock on doors and talk to real People as often as you can.
  • STEP 7: Collaborate wherever possible, accept help and support from whoever you can, always be prepared to work with others BUT ALWAYS QUALIFY THAT SUPPORT.
  • STEP 8: Arrange your first Community Meeting.
  • STEP 9: At your Community Meeting, let the People use their voice.
  • STEP 10: Hold meetings to identify your community representatives and agree what happens next.

We will now move on to cover each of these TEN STEPS of the PROCESS, providing the METHOD that will allow us to achieve our AIM.

Some things to bear in mind first:

You may be alone right at the start.

But others in your community may also start as you are about to do so.

The opportunity to join with them and others who want to actively contribute to the creation of these new structures for our communities will come along very quickly, IF you remain focused from the start.

So, don’t worry or give unnecessary thought to how you collaborate with the wider Community over a larger area – for instance, if it should be a General Election that is next called.

If everyone who begins as you are about to, is committed to the PROCESS and doing it right, the linkups, system of union between communities and working together at a broader level, will soon fall into place too.

STEP 1: Give your Community Meeting a recognisable identity:

Your immediate thought may well be ‘That doesn’t sound very hard!’

Yet giving your new Community Meeting a name that will have as much meaning with just a handful of local People involved, as it will when everyone has just Voted your first Community Representative into an Elected Office is very important indeed.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is about what you all have or what you share in common.

So, the obvious thing to everyone when you first start, will be using or rather incorporating any local place or area name that local People will recognise and identify with the area of the Community in which you all live.

The chances are that in most places, some existing organisation or savvy web user will have grabbed the precise name of your community area. (e.g., @London is already in use!)

If the actual name of your area is available for any social media username or domain name, it’s worth avoiding anyway – in that form.

Once things get moving and others can see there is interest building in what you are doing, using just the place name could be considered by some to be a declaration that you already speak for the Community.

My suggestion is that you use your community area or place name and then add either ‘CM’ or ‘NOTA’ after or before or use a word that describes what Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is all about, such as ‘Together’ or ‘United’.

For example, the area I grew up in is called Churchdown in Gloucestershire, UK. So, the name I would then use would ideally be ‘Churchdown NOTA’ or ‘Churchdown Together’.

Continuity and recognisability are important across the different platforms that you are about to use. Everyone uses social media and the internet differently. But they all need to be able to identify with something that reaches across all of them the same.

Before committing to the name you will use, PLEASE work through STEPS 2 & 3, and check that the same Usernames are available for you to use first.

This is a particularly good thing to do early on. Because it could be one of the easiest ways to work out if someone else is already working with Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, in your community too.

Things to be aware of:

You will probably use your local area name, with ‘Community Meeting’ following it as our e-mail username in STEP 2. But @communitymeeting would already be too long to become a username on one or more of the social media platforms that you are about to use.

Groups that represent different parts of your local community or interests that are shared between a number of local People may already be using words like ‘together’ as a prefix or a suffix within their proper name or a social media username.

A quick visit to any linked social media or web pages should quickly make clear who any group using one of these names is, and whether you are both working to create a Community Meeting of the Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE kind.

What you are about to do, is not about you. It’s all about your community. So, don’t use your name as the name for what will become your Community Meeting.

You may technically ‘own’ or ‘control’ everything you create or do whilst you are working alone. But the end result will only ever belong to the Community.

If you feel uncomfortable with this, please give further consideration to the reasons you feel that way before you decide if you want to proceed.

Even if the name of the area or place you live in sounds like it must be unique, there is a good chance that the name will exist somewhere else in the UK or beyond.

If you should find that the name you would like to use already is being used elsewhere, don’t worry. Just add an abbreviation such as SW if you are in the South West, or perhaps something like the first two or three letters of your postcode area – which in the case of Churchdown would be GL or GL3.

STEP 2: Get a free email box set up

If you are going through the TEN STEPS in order, you will already be aware that STEPS 1, 2, and 3 fit very closely together.

It may seem that setting up a FREE email box and address for your Community Meeting would be better as STEP 3.

But if you are doing everything as suggested, you will soon understand that you will need your e-mail address to get your social media platforms set up with your Username and/or to validate your set up too.

There are a number of FREE email options available to you and it may be the case that you already have a FREE box that has come with your Phone set up, or perhaps you have one with Bing, Google or a company like Yahoo.

Most of them will allow you to set up a second box reasonably easy if you do. All you need to do for instructions, is follow the help options or do a search on any related search engine facility.

My own preference would be to use Google or Google mail. The functionality is excellent, and the security seems to be great. This is not a recommendation. But the reality is that this whole PROCESS is about making your journey to the doorstep as easy as possible, and it will only get longer if we overcomplicate things.

When you are setting your account up, please use the name of your Community Meeting as the username.

For example: ChurchdownNOTA@gmail.com (please note that this box doesn’t yet exist!)

Then, when you are setting up the details that will appear when you send any emails, I would suggest using your Community Meeting Username, the same.

Things to be aware of:

If you are nervous about mail being read or hacked, don’t be.

If you are following the TEN STEPS and you are doing so for the right reasons – which are what’s best for your community and putting Local People first, you are unlikely to ever do anything that anyone could accuse you of being wrong.

Transparency is actually key to everything you are going to do.

There are no secrets being shared here in this book or as any part of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, that I am unhappy for any existing Politician or Political Party to see.

If existing Politicians and Political Parties were ready to embrace these ideas and live by them, there would be no reason for anyone else to make the effort and try – BECAUSE IT WOULD ALREADY BE BEING DONE!

If you decide to set up a signature template, DO NOT add your private telephone number unless you are happy to receive unsolicited calls on it.

There is no need to provide a telephone number. With so many other ways that you can (and will) be able to offer People so that you can be contacted directly, there’s really no need to do so, unless you are happy to do so, or you are able to use a dedicated phone.

STEP 3: Set up your Community Meeting social media accounts

There are a range of different social media accounts and platforms that are available, and the list is growing.

To keep things as practical and as simple as possible, my suggestion is that in the first instance you concentrate on setting up FOUR different social media accounts.

These are:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • WordPress

You can easily add others social media platforms such as Tik Tok, Blogger, Rumble, YouTube, Telegram etc. if you have good reason to believe there is enough demand.

But right now, this is all about making the best use of the time that you have available and the PROCESS of getting the AIM of OfficiallyNONE OF THE ABOVE known by as many People across your local Community area as possible.

Usernames

If you haven’t already done so, please CHECK that the Username you have for your Community Meeting is available for ALL of the social media platforms that you intend to use BEFORE you start signing up to any of them.

This way, you can secure usernames that will be the same across ALL of your social media platforms.

Remember CONTINUITY and RECOGNISABILITY are KEY!

Twitter

It is very useful to have a presence on Twitter. Chances are that there will be a smaller number of members of your local Community who will use and interact with your posts on Twitter. But it’s also likely that this is where you will generate more interest from outside – which is important for networking and getting help from others too.

The trick is to keep your messages factual and short, or just add a short description and use Twitter just for posting your Facebook, Instagram and WordPress links.

Facebook

You may already have a Facebook account of your own and you can use that as the doorway to create a Facebook Page.

Facebook is where you are most likely to pick up support from members of your local Community very quickly.

My advice would be that you treat your Community Meeting page on Facebook a bit like a central hub, which links to everything else.

Facebook is good for editorial, pictures and for posting links and I would suggest that you take the plunge and use them all, as often as you can.

Please make sure that anything you post anywhere else is linked to your Community Meeting Facebook Page too.

The functionality of Facebook Pages is fantastic. So, if you just follow the guided tour after your Page is initially set up, you will immediately get a taste of what a great Community connection tool it really can be.

Instagram

Instagram is a much more visual tool that a lot of People really like, simply because the content or the stories revolve around pictures and visualisation helps how people think.

If you can record what you are doing with pictures and add a few words to tell the story as you do so, you will be amazed at the support that you will soon find.

Instagram is owned by the same company that owns Facebook and you can set up your Community Meeting Instagram account so that it immediately posts to Facebook too. However, please be aware that it does not work that way, the other way around!

WordPress

If you are unsure how to put posts together that will interest and engage other members of your community when you begin, perhaps writing and publishing a journal of what you are doing and what you have experienced will be a very good way to start.

Blogs of the kind you need to write don’t need to be long. They just need to be factual and relevant in every way that you can make them.

WordPress will also allow you to repost material or blogs from other WordPress sites if you want to.

WordPress is the blogging platform that I currently use to support everything I write, and it’s where any resources I will be making available to share with you will be found.

Setting up

All of these social media platforms take just a few minutes to set up.

Some suggestions:

  • Use a picture or pictures of a location or landmark that everyone in your community will know and relate to – One that isn’t a private residence, a business or includes People or private property that can be identified within it.
  • Use a free app such as Meme Maker to add your Community Meeting name and do any basic editing you may need, to the picture or pictures before you use them.
  • Write a short bio and use it for all four of them. For example, ‘Bringing Churchdown together so that public decisions are made for us all, the same’

Where you can, immediately set up posting links between your different social media platforms, so that when you post to one, you immediately post to all (For instance, if you write a blog in WordPress, the set up will allow you to automatically post to Facebook, and Instagram does the same thing too).

STEP 4: Get posting and post as often as you can:

As soon as your Community Meeting social media platforms are up and running, you should begin posting and sharing everything that you can or have the time to, online.

People from across your community will be interested in what you are doing from the moment that you begin work.

However, the key to success is what you then do to keep those same People engaged and interested, and then thinking about what more they could and then want to do, to help you.

What kind of things you should post:

People you don’t know will respond very well when they feel like you are talking to them, rather than at them.

A really helpful way to approach writing anything to post on social media and online, is to treat it like you are having a normal chat or conversation with someone that you already know – just without anything that would be too familiar or personal. (For instance, leave out bad language, irony, sarcasm or anything that people who aren’t used to the way you speak might not ‘get’ or understand)

You don’t need to write loads to engage People either. Short and punchy lines or just a couple of paragraphs are more than enough, IF there is a message worth sharing included.

Use your Community Meeting social media platforms to post:

  • News: When you’ve launched, when you have set up something like a fundraiser for People to use, when you’ve made contact with another Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE group, when a member of the community volunteers and is taking on a specific responsibility or role AND when Community Meetings have been arranged.
  • Questions: You should ask People what they think about things you are doing and speak as if you are already addressing the whole community – no matter how many People are already involved. Remember that the Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE pathway to creating functioning Community Meetings is all about engaging and listening to everyone who wants to speak and participate across the local Community – so give them that chance from day 1!
  • Updates: Tell everyone what you and those working with you have achieved. For instance, if you have made a commitment to visit a certain number of houses to talk to local People by a certain date, tell everyone how you are getting on. Or share other updates about how other Community Meetings are getting on.

The kind of things you shouldn’t post:

Remember that your Community Meeting and everything you create, set up and achieve belongs to the Community from the moment you begin.

It’s therefore very important not to blur the lines and make anything you post about you, what you are doing when you are not working on Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, or anything personal to you, such as talking about the things that you like.

DON’T use your Community Meeting social media platforms to post:

  • Anything Personal: DON’T use the platforms you have set up for your Community Meeting to post ANYTHING that is about you or anyone else personally.
  • Anything about Public Policy or Politics: The whole point of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is the creation of the circumstances where we are able to Vote for People to represent us all as Public Representatives who have been chosen by the Community and whose integrity in fulfilling their responsibilities is something we can trust. Policy itself is the next issue, once we have Politicians running government that we can trust. So, if the focus shifts away from listening and the commitment to the order that these steps have to come, your only success by making policy statement or making an endorsement of a policy of any kind, will only be to divide People at precisely the wrong time.

Rules for using social media as a successful Community building tool:

Here are some general rules that will help you to build a good reputation for your Community Meeting, to stay happy and to build good relationships across your social media platforms, with anyone worth building them with online:

  • ALWAYS approach social media like it’s a one-to-one conversation with someone you already know.
  • Don’t do or say anything to anyone online, that you wouldn’t be happy to do or say directly to their face, in real life.
  • NEVER MAKE IT PERSONAL. Even the People on the internet who are rude are reflecting only how they feel about their own life and the world. ITS NEVER ABOUT YOU – but it soon will be, IF you are the one to initiate any kind of abuse or attack!
  • If you are unsure of whether you should post whatever you’ve written, DON’T POST IT!
  • Don’t present opinions and views as fact to anyone. It’s possible to get into legal trouble if you do, and you never know who will see what you have written or published, and People will be very quick to call you out!
  • Don’t lie or make things up – especially if you have received a comment or read something that makes you uncomfortable.
  • Don’t post when you are feeling emotional or are under the influence of drink or drugs.
  • Always answer polite and constructive questions. There will be more People who will be genuinely interested in what you are saying or doing than there will be those who only have bad things to say about anything or anyone.
  • NEVER make promises that you have no way of knowing that you can keep.
  • If you are asked a question and don’t know the answer, be honest. Don’t even attempt to blag your way out. Find a way to engage directly if you can and let them know that you will find the answer and get back to them.
  • Ignore anyone who only has negative things to say.
  • DO NOT use the number of likes, shares, followers or any other kind of statistic that’s openly available as a way to tell you how successful your efforts have been. Alone, they NEVER accurately correlate with what People are really thinking. The reality is that if you only ever succeed in openly engaging one person, that one person could be connected and then tell your story to the whole world!
  • Don’t share links to anyone or anything that you don’t trust or are not fully aware of and know to be relevant and helpful to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE.
  • REMEMBER: Unless you have done something you shouldn’t have, People only attack and criticise the work and efforts of others online, when they have nothing useful or of benefit to anyone else to say. Keep doing the right thing by everyone, and you will soon be shocked by who this cap actually fits!
  • Don’t publish any picture of anyone who can be identified from that picture, unless you have their permission to do so. You should get that permission in writing wherever you can.
  • Don’t publish information that will identify People directly, unless it relates to material that already exists in the public realm – In which case, publish the link, so readers can see what you are referencing or referring to.
  • Don’t publish anything on your Community Meeting platforms that promote the views of any organisation or any individual in any way, other than your Community Meeting, itself.

Things to be aware of:

Remember that you need to keep the AIM, METHOD and PROCESS of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE in your mind at all times.

ALWAYS CHECK THAT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE POSTED THEN POSTS AS IT SHOULD, WHERE ITS SUPPOSED TO, AND THAT ITS POSTED ON TIME!

You can always get in touch if you need any suggestions or pointers: officiallynota@gmail.com

STEP 5: Get at least 12 People you know from your community signed up

Although the PROCESS is all about getting People from within your local Community to Meet up and work together, the PROCESS is also built upon the foundation of getting your message to begin working on its own, without you having to do all the work.

One of the easiest ways to get your Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE messages to start engaging other members of your local Community and to begin working for you remotely too, is to focus your first efforts on getting local People following, liking and sharing all of the social media platforms you have set up.

Clearly, the more follows, likes and shares you have, the bigger the number of People who will see your posts will be – even if they don’t like, share or follow themselves.

Because of the way that social media and search engines work, there always seem to be a number of follows, of likes and shares that need to be hit or achieved before pages reach a magic moment or what some would call a critical mass, when new or additional followers and likes just seem to start arriving and adding up, all by themselves.

From what I know and understand at the time of writing, you will help yourself greatly if you can immediately share your Facebook page with at least 12 People from your local Community who are friends with you on Facebook, who then follow or like your Community Meeting Facebook Page, and then like and share posts with all the People they know, as you publish them.

It’s not critical for you to do this, at this point. But it will certainly help and add to your confidence, if you can secure this support in what you would be able to call a ‘quick win’.

STEP 6: Knock on doors and talk to real People as often as you can

Knocking on doors and talking to real People, face to face, may prove to be the biggest, but also the most rewarding challenge that you will face, as part of the PROCESS to create the METHOD of delivering the AIM of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE.

Before you let yourself worry about something silly, such as asking yourself ‘what are these People going to think’, please bear in mind that everyone, including you, likes to be asked what they think or how they feel about the things that are important to them.

Not only do People like to be asked for their views and opinion. There’s no better place to give your views and opinion, than at the doorstep of your own home.

When to call or knock on doors

The best times to knock on doors and find People in and most likely to be available and happy to speak to you will be between 6 and 8pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays during a normal working week, and on Saturday mornings between the hours of 9am and 12pm.

You should always avoid houses where it’s clear that parties or other meetups of some kind are underway.

Don’t go out knocking on doors when you know that big sporting events or other things are on TV that a lot of People are likely to want to watch.

What you should always say

At some point during any conversation – preferably as a start, you must always explain who you are, what you are doing and why you are doing it.

You aren’t knocking on the door to preach a message. You are there to listen and learn.

So, keep your explanation as brief as possible. But make it long enough so that your reason for being there makes sense in a way that anyone will be happy with and able to understand.

For example, you could say something like:

“Good evening, my name is Adam and I live in the next road to yours. I’m growing concerned about the decisions being made on our behalf by Politicians within our Local Councils and the Government and am in the process of reaching out to other local People to share our experiences and see if we feel the same. I was wondering if you have any concerns about any of these things you would be happy to share yourself and then see if theres anything we can do together and with others from the area to try and address the problems we have in common?”

The Dos

DO:

  • Introduce yourself in terms that make sense of who you are – For example, “I’m Adam and I live in the road next to yours, I often see you when I’m at the bus stop…” etc.
  • Ask People to share their views and what concerns them.
  • Say that you are concerned about what’s happening with government and public services because of the People who are elected to run them and that you want to learn and understand how other People in your Community feel, and what the issues are that are important to them. But again, don’t start talking about what YOU want to happen or see.
  • Make clear that you are not working for, on behalf of, and are not affiliated with any existing Political Party or movement.
  • Share with the People you speak to that what we have in common and what we share together is more important than any ideas that divide us or that have been tearing us all apart
  • Bring focus to the way that the political system works, being the problem that needs to be fixed BEFORE we can then focus on getting the policies right.
  • End by sharing with them that you are looking to arrange a new type of Community Meeting to bring People from across the Community together, so that we can all share our ideas and experiences and then agree what we can do next.
  • Suggest there will be opportunities for anyone and everyone within the Community to help and take part and do more if they want to. But the most important thing is participation and sharing the message so that everyone can be involved and take part if they want to.
  • Ask if they would follow and share your social media addresses.
  • Take their email address if they are happy to stay in touch with you directly.

The DONTs

DON’T:

  • Don’t treat someone else’s doorstep as your own personal soapbox or use the opportunity to grandstand or ‘big up’ the part you are playing in any way.
  • Don’t abuse the gift of time that anyone is prepared to give you.
  • Don’t share your own views and experiences UNLESS you are asked to and only then, keep it factual and don’t include your views or what you think should be done.
  • Don’t criticise ANY of the Political Parties, organisations, any public figure or anyone who you believe to be setting a bad example or to have done anything ‘wrong’. You are running your own race and when it comes down to the example of what not to do in Politics, they have already won…
  • Don’t make anything up, lie or stretch the truth about any topic you discuss.
  • Don’t make promises you cannot keep.
  • Don’t waste their time or yours. If it is clear that the Person or People you are talking to, are already committed to supporting an existing Political Party or movement of some kind. You will not change the mind of anyone who isn’t already open to the idea of change.

Information you should always provide

If you knock on someone’s door, it’s just polite and courteous to give them your name.

If it is clear that the person or People you have called on are interested in what you are doing, don’t end the conversation or leave until they know about your Community Meeting social media accounts, and they have the addresses so that they can follow, share and like.

Do not be afraid to provide any of the details you have prepared whilst you have been working to hold a Community Meeting. If you are following this Guide and the TEN STEPS, you will have no reason to hide anything that you have published.

The reality is that once momentum starts building behind what you and what others like you are doing, there will be People involved or supporting existing Politicians and Political Parties who will see Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and the idea of a new form of Community Meetings as a threat.

Let them.

The future of your community is for the members of your community to decide.

Not them.

Things to be aware of:

The most important thing to be mindful here, is that you do not have the right to be heard on someone else’s doorstep.

If it should become apparent that your call and presence at someone’s door is not in any way welcome at any point, turn around and leave immediately.

Always do so politely, and especially so, if you are already talking to someone when you become aware of this.

Never worry about how many houses you call at in one session. If you were out knocking on doors for just 4 hours and spend 15 minutes at each door you call at listening to what People who matter like you on their doorsteps have to say, you will have connected with more People in that one session than any of the  existing Political Parties will have done so by taking the same time to deliver one of their glossy leaflets through the  letterbox of every house on a giant housing estate.

STEP 7: Collaborate wherever possible. Accept help and support from whoever you can. Always be prepared to work with others. BUT ALWAYS QUALIFY YOUR SUPPORT

You may begin working on the Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE PROCESS alone. But you should do so knowing that for your own and everyone else’s efforts to be successful, it will soon be necessary to pool efforts with others who are thinking the same way as you.

Help will come in many different forms and from many different directions, IF you get to work and just let your faith in the PROCESS take care of the rest.

If an Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE Community Meeting has already been established locally

If you should find that somebody else has already began working in your local area to build a Community Meeting using the Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE PROCESS, this is great news for your area.

Anyone who is genuinely committed to developing a community response to the problems we face will be happy to collaborate with others who are clearly setting off from the same starting point and viewing the process of changing the way that we do Politics in the UK in the same way.

Even if somebody has already begun work to develop a Community Meeting locally, there is no reason why you cannot get started on your own, IF you genuinely believe that it will help the local Community for you to focus on an even smaller area to begin with.

However, there is also a lot of truth in the suggestion that ‘many hands make light work’.

If you get in touch with whoever is also working locally and tell them that you intend to follow the Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE PROCESS too and that you are open to collaborating, the chances are that an honest and open conversation will soon let you know how you can combine efforts and reach more People in less time, by pooling your efforts on the same campaign.

Offers of help when you knock on doors

It may not happen straight away. But once you get used to knocking on People’s doors, introducing yourself and why you are there, and then listening to what the People have to say, your confidence and passion for what you are doing will begin to shine through in a way that just your words alone will not.

You shouldn’t be surprised if People you talk to at their doorsteps are then immediately receptive to the idea of getting involved and helping you in some way – or in some cases, actually asking you there and then what they can do.

Whatever you do next, if someone is interested in helping or has made a firm offer of help, you should:

  • Exchange contact details and make sure that they have the details and usernames of all the platforms you are using.
  • Ask them what they would like to do to help.
  • Ask them if there is anything they are NOT happy to do.
  • Discuss the possibility of meeting up again quickly, so that you can arrange the next steps.
  • Provide them with the links to find Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE on Amazon and Online and suggest that they read the whole Book all the way through.

PLEASE ALWAYS REMEMBER that volunteers are NOT employees.

Like you, People who are genuinely prepared to come and work with you and collaborate with us all to build Community Meetings will make effort and give their time for nothing. BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM.

That means that whatever they do, really does need to be something that they are happy to do. So, it is essential that you don’t push anyone to do anything they are uncomfortable with doing, ESPECIALLY if it’s something that you are not keen on doing yourself.

If someone wants to help but just wants to write blogs for you or deliver leaflets once the first Community Meeting is arranged, let them do whatever they want to and be appreciative of even the smallest thing they have done to help.

Check the priorities and background of any volunteers who ‘come out of the blue’

As Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE begins to build interest from local People within your Community, it will also gain interest from People, Politicians and Political Parties who are invested in The System we already have, and with a commitment to resisting any kind of meaningful change.

It’s quite possible that you will be offered help from People like this which isn’t really help at all. And if you are not aware of who or why someone has approached you out of the blue, there is a chance that they want to get involved with what you are doing using an offer of help, but with every intention of hindering or even stopping you from achieving all that you have set out to do.

As a matter of course, you should always do a thorough social media and internet search of anyone who offers help or wants to collaborate with you in any way.

Whilst the reality of what it takes to deliver Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE will always uncover those who are not committed to Community Meetings and what they will deliver, you cannot leave checking out who is volunteering to your first impressions.

The chances are that your focus could easily be on more important things than what they are doing, once you have put trust in them to do whatever they say. Sadly, the time it could take to see them for who they really are could be longer than it takes for real damage to have been done.

British Politics is broken because it works this very way, today.

Offers of Help you should always avoid:

  • People who have active or recent links to existing Political Parties.
  • People who are already Politicians or who work or are linked to Local Authorities.
  • People who don’t have any kind of record available when you search them out.
  • People with details and profiles online that appear to be unestablished or very new.
  • Anyone whose ‘story’ doesn’t match what they or anyone who has introduced them to you has told you.

Refusing the wrong kind of help:

It is quite possible that you will receive offers of help from People with a background like that we have just discussed, or that you have become aware that they are unlikely to be genuine in some other way.

Whether an offer of help is genuine or not, if you find that you need to decline or reject that offer for any reason at all, you should always do so properly, and be polite when you do so.

People who want to involve themselves in anything for the wrong reasons often have very fragile egos. They will become angry and problematic if they are given just the slightest excuse to do so.

Avoid giving them that excuse.

Things to be aware of:

Collaboration is essential between People and groups, when what is good for us all and for the whole Community is at stake.

Until now, different People and groups who have focused on political ideas and activism of one kind or another have happily allowed their own ideas to get in the way of the things in life that are most important to us all.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE requires that we think about what’s really important to everyone in a very different way.

You will enjoy the whole PROCESS if you are open to working with and collaborating with others. You will soon be making many new friends of People you already know, along the way!

STEP 8: Arrange your first Community Meeting

Once you have started to build up a list of local People you have had direct contact with who are interested in supporting what you are doing and in taking part, the next step is to arrange your first Community Meeting.

Holding Community Meetings is the METHOD to achieving Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE.

For the first meeting, aiming to have as few as between 30 and 50 local People in attendance is likely to be all you need.

This means you won’t have to wait too long before you can be confident of numbers, and it is likely that there will already be a pub with a function room or a community building of some kind that can be booked either free of charge or for a very modest fee.

The chances are that you will already have somewhere appropriate in mind.

Booking a room

Most Meeting Rooms that can be booked by members of the Public will have information about booking them online.

Look up the details and check the availability. But only proceed if you are happy with the terms of hire and that you already have the funds available to cover any Room Hire Costs.

Please avoid any venue that requires a Room Hire Fee, if you cannot cover the cost, if someone has not already volunteered to pay or donated the fee, or you haven’t already received enough in any Crowdfunder you may have set up.

A pub will be just as good as a dedicated Meeting Venue, and with the difficult times that we are all experiencing right now, you may find that your local Pub Landlord will be very receptive to the idea of having a group of local People come in!

Wherever you decide to hold your first Community Meeting – don’t go ahead unless and until you know that the venue management is happy first!

When to hold your first Community Meeting

It is essential to make it as easy as possible for as many members of your local Community to attend EVERY Community Meeting that you hold.

In time, it could easily become clear that enough People are available to attend meetings at a different time. But in the first instance, you are most likely to have the biggest attendance possible if you arrange your first Community Meetings on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evening, with a focus on the main business being conducted between 7 and 9pm.

Please avoid any dates when you know that there is any kind of event, like a local school parents evening or a big sports event on TV that will draw People’s attention elsewhere.

In time, it won’t matter. But to begin with, this will be the most effective way to get the maximum number of local People involved.

Make sure you let EVERYONE know

Whether they attend any of your Community Meetings or not, it is important that you let everyone in your community area know and provide notice of when and where the first one will be held.

You don’t need to drop leaflets or contact everyone directly when every Community Meeting that follows is held – as a notice by email or across all of your social media platforms for these will do.

However, for any subsequent Meeting arranged when any important decisions will be agreed – and in particular, when a Vote upon candidates to represent the Community in Elections is going to be held, you MUST make sure that everyone has been told.

It doesn’t matter if some People choose not to attend, or for some reason are unable to do so.

But it is essential that when something important is happening, EVERYONE in the Community has been informed or what is happening and has been offered the opportunity to be involved.

You only need to have put a leaflet through every door. But you must be sure that this has happened, so that no matter whether you have had direct contact with every household in your community area or not, EVERYONE has at least been made aware.

If you cannot achieve this for any reason, you should not go ahead with any meeting where any important decisions are made.

Otherwise, it is always possible that someone can say that they haven’t been informed about what your Community Meeting is doing, and that could cast doubt upon the legitimacy of the whole process.

The legitimacy of your Community Meeting can only be guaranteed if it is clear that everyone has a choice to get involved.

That said, don’t worry if you experience an existing Politician or someone like them or linked to them making accusations that they weren’t told what was going on.

As long as you know and can confirm that everyone has been contacted, they won’t have a leg for their argument or accusations to stand on.

Something important for you to bear in mind:

When you book a Meeting Room or Venue, it’s really important that you check that the owners or managers are happy for you to hold a Community Meeting.

There is nothing wrong with what you or any of us are doing.

However, many different Community buildings will be under the control of People like existing local Councillors, and People just like them, who are heavily invested in the current System and the way that it all works.

Many of them will not want to be seen to be supportive of what you are going to do.

They will make any excuse to stand in your way or object to your use of what is a community owned asset that was actually intended for just the kind of purpose you intend to use it for.

If you come across People who behave like this and misuse their position and the responsibility they have been entrusted with, you are just experiencing the kind of behaviour that Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is working to remove from everyone’s way.

In the meantime, don’t sweat it or worry about it if small-minded and selfish people try to get in the way. There are plenty of other options and plenty of other ways to succeed.

Things to be aware of:

You do not need to have everyone signed up or committed to attending when you have your first Community Meeting. But you do need to have at least taken every step possible to ensure that they are aware.

Holding your first Community Meeting and then reporting back to other members of the Community about it will almost certainly prove to be a very useful way to help get even more People involved in the future.

So, it could be a good idea to be working on STEP 8 as soon as you start – as long as you are confident doing all the things you need to, and in keeping the momentum up too.

STEP 9: At your Community Meeting, let the People use their voice

Your role is that of being a facilitator for your Community Meeting. Not the voice of your Community Meeting itself.

When you met local People from across your Community in STEP 6, you explained who you were, what you were doing and why you were there, and then you listened as the Person or People told you what they think.

It is important to understand that your role at your first Community Meeting will be very similar again.

The strength in the PROCESS, METHOD and AIM of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is helping everyone in your community to take back their own power.

To do this, we must give everyone back the opportunity to speak, to use their own voice and to be heard.

The agenda for your first Community Meeting

The real agenda of your first Community Meeting is to begin the process of bringing what appears to be a very different group of People together. They can then begin the process of recognising the value of what they all have in common, and what they share, together. All in one room.

There is a good chance that amongst any Community Meeting, and particularly if the meeting is one of the first, there will be a Person or People present who will be happy to sound off very quickly, IF they don’t get the opportunity to take over. Or they believe that there is more value in doing things a different way.

When you begin and you speak for the first time, it is very important that you create and share a few brief ‘house rules’ with everyone.

These could be something like:

That by being here, and by taking part, we ALL agree that:

  • This Community Meeting is for everyone and as such, everyone will have the opportunity to speak – IF they want to.
  • We will all commit to listening to what every speaker has to say.
  • When we want to comment, our comments will be shared in the sense of looking forward and how ideas can be built and improved upon, rather than being negative and critical or focused on the past.
  • If we don’t understand someone else’s perspective or we believe that in some way it doesn’t make sense, we will respectfully ask them to explain their perspective further and ask them to do so using their experiences – if they are happy to share.
  • That we all remain polite, respectful of others, and above all else, we won’t speak across others and will wait for our turn.

You will be surprised by just how engaged everyone will quickly become, once they know that not only will they be heard, but everyone will be listening to everyone else with the same open mind too.

So that every member of the Community who is present is treated as fairly as can be, it might also be a good idea to follow a format and talk everyone through what that will happen as each person speaks, before you begin.

This might be something like this:

  • Everyone will have the opportunity to speak.
  • We will go around the room in order but will be happy to begin with anyone who is particularly keen to speak first.
  • When it’s your turn to speak, please share your name and the area of our community where you live.
  • Please also share with us if you already have a role within our community too.
  • We would then like to hear your thoughts on any issue which is concerning you, along with any thoughts about how people affected could be helped.
  • We would also like to hear your thoughts on what your ideal public representative should be experienced in and able to do, before we make a Community Decision upon whether to endorse them, and then support them when an Election is called.

The most important thing to do is to make sure that everyone who wants to speak has had the opportunity to do so – no matter how long it takes.

It’s always worth being patient.

Don’t let anyone talk about forming or agreeing Policy at this stage:

As we discussed in STEP 4 when we talked about posting on social media, this is not the time to do anything other than listen to what everyone has to say and what experience they want to share. It’s not the right time to get into the details of Public Policy itself.

The overall AIM of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and the Community Meetings that you have brought into being, is for your community to select the very best Public Representatives that it can and then endorse and support them until they have successfully been elected. That is the right time for any discussion about Public Policy to begin.

If any kind of effort to reach agreement on a political position takes place at this stage – even if it’s about who and what, or how something is wrong, you will very quickly find that cracks will appear in the support you have been working so hard to grow.

No matter what the topic might be, even words that suggest People have to get behind an idea that might polarise opinion at this point, will be enough to derail your efforts.

People need to experience that Community Meetings not only have the power to bring members of your local Community together. They MUST also see and then KNOW that collaboration of this kind can yield genuine results too.

This will not be achieved until your Community Meeting has selected, endorsed and supported candidates and they have been elected – When People will see that Politics established on commonality rather than separation and difference, is a real alternative and choice.

Things to be aware of:

Communication is a two-way street.

Being a good communicator is as much about being able to listen and hear everyone when they speak or understand them through whatever it is that they do, as it is to speak, write or publish your words, yourself.

A public meeting is a very different environment to somebody’s own doorstep, where most people will feel safe. Many of the People who felt very comfortable talking to you one-to-one, will become hesitant to speak, when the opportunity comes to speak in front of ‘everyone’.

This is a very human and normal response. So don’t push anyone to speak if they don’t want to.

Also bear in mind that the experience of being in a group can make some People feel boxed in. If they think for any reason that what they have said could be viewed in some way as being wrong, they might easily become defensive too – which in some cases might appear they are becoming angry.

What you should have achieved when your first Community Meeting reaches its end

Your first Community Meeting is only the first. And it could be the first of a great many to come.

Let’s hope so. Because agreeing and then arranging your next Community Meeting will be one of the first and most meaningful ways that you can measure your success and see the result of the effort that you have put in.

By the end of the first Community Meeting, those attending should know and understand:

  • The primary AIM of Community Meetings is to qualify, select and then support candidates who are members of your local Community to stand in every upcoming Election as the candidate or candidates who have been chosen by the Community, to represent the Community and to speak and Vote on its behalf.
  • The dates and timelines for the next Parish/Town, Borough/District, County/Unitary Elections covering your area (where they are relevant), and any pointers you might then be able to provide about when the next General Election might be.
  • The role that each and every member of the local Community is being invited to play in selecting Community Candidates for upcoming Elections.
  • When the process of selecting Community Candidates for the next Election is likely to begin.
  • The date of the next Community Meeting.
  • What everyone who is already contributing to the PROCESS will be doing next.
  • How everyone can keep up to date, keep in touch and do their bit to build the Community Meeting, so that as many People as possible are ready and able to take part, when you all come together and meet next time.

You should arrange the next Community Meeting as soon as possible and hold meetings as frequently as possible thereafter.

Be prepared to have small interim meetings online, using software like Microsoft Teams or Zoom, if this will be helpful to anyone – and particularly everyone who is making an active contribution and taking part as a volunteer.

Depending upon how well attended your last Community Meeting was and when the next Election will be, you should begin taking steps and discussing the process you will use to select your Candidates as part of a special Community Meeting that you might be ready to hold next time.

Please be aware:

Your Community Candidates cannot begin working on their Election Campaign, or the pre-campaign work that they will need to, UNTIL your Community Meeting has Selected and Endorsed them.

STEP 10: Hold meetings to identify your community representatives and agree what happens next

The AIM of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is to have Candidates on every ballot paper in every Election who have been selected by the Community – so that there is a legitimate and qualified choice.

Selecting your Candidates for Endorsement will be rather like being an employer who is setting up and managing a recruitment process.

The key difference will be that there isn’t one person or two, but potentially an entire Community of local People that will be making the final decision and choice.

Because of the clear need and requirement to respect and protect personal data, some of the process may need to be undertaken by a committee that is appointed by your Community Meeting, which can then make a recommendation or perhaps offer several People who can then speak to the whole Community and answer questions that will help everyone to settle upon the final choice.

The most important part of the Candidate Selection process will be the very first job your Community Meeting will have to complete.

This will be to identify, agree and implement the framework or terms under which your appointed committee will then makes its recommendations or present its final choice.

Some things that you should all discuss and consider:

No person should automatically be precluded from consideration to be endorsed by your Community as a Candidate for reasons other than those which would disqualify any person from becoming a registered candidate in the relevant Election to be held.

Please get in touch with your Local Council to check what they are.

However, a successfully Endorsed Candidate should, at least:

  • Already reside within the Community that they would represent or live very close by.
  • Offer experience of life which has enabled them to understand the priorities and behaviour of others, from across different social and demographic groups.
  • Offer sufficient experience of holding responsibility of some kind, within business or some other organisation, where they have demonstrated an appreciation of how organisations and services work.
  • Be patient and caring for others, with a clear ability to listen, understand and empathise whilst remaining objective where different perspectives and experiences may be involved.
  • Have confidence and the ability to speak and explain real life concepts to others objectively and to present alternative options in a way that is accessible to all and basically makes sense.
  • Possess evident self-awareness and the ability to consider the impact of their actions upon others, as well as the likely actions of others upon themselves, all in ‘real time’.
  • Be aspirational rather than idealistic. And practical but not negative in their demeanor and approach.
  • Have skills and knowledge that would clearly be beneficial to the Community, when used in a relevant political role.
  • Be driven by public service, rather than by personal ambition of any kind.

Your Community Meeting should avoid selecting a Candidate, purely because:

  • They are popular or already have some kind of ‘standing’ in the Community.
  • You like them.
  • They sound credible and appear to know ‘all the right things’.
  • They already have a ‘following’ of some kind.
  • They seem to have a lot of ideas.

Under no circumstances should your Community Meeting be asked to consider any person for endorsement as a Candidate, if:

  • They are a current member of any Political Party or activist organisation.
  • They are a sitting / elected member of any Council, or Parliament or of any other publicly appointed or elected body.
  • They have been a member of any existing Political Party within the past 5 years.

To be fair, finding People who have the most appropriate kind of experience and approach who actually want to be involved in Politics, given the way that things are and how they have been, won’t be the easiest task. At least right at the very beginning.

However, finding the right People from within your local Community is certainly nowhere near impossible.

The PROCESS will be made much easier by following each of the TEN STEPS to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, as rigorously and as diligently as you can.

The reality is that once People start to become aware that there is a growing, non-political option that’s all about doing what’s right for everyone, many more good People will be interested in coming forward to serve on behalf of our communities than those who are prepared to take the risk that Politics offers them right now.

Choosing your Candidate Selection Committee

Choosing the members of your Community Meeting who will sift through, research and initially interview potential Candidates for Endorsement is just as important a job as selecting the Candidates to stand in Elections themselves.

As with Candidate Selection, the ability to be objective is key.

Selection Committee Members must be able to look at every part of the information they have and go in search of and be able to consider it without letting their own experiences and biases get in the way.

You will need at least three People and preferably five or even seven to take on this role.

Of these, it may become apparent that one member will have more of these attributes and as such may be well placed to take on a chair or facilitator role, where they can point out where certain things may have excessive influence on how Candidates are perceived in some way.

Transparency

Whatever process you decide upon and whether you have a Candidate Selection Committee or not, there is absolutely no reason to hide anything, other than any personal information that it is only right and that it might be necessary to protect.

Please research handling personal data and The Office of The Information Commissioner if unsure.

When your Community Meeting has agreed and set the Terms for Candidate Selection, these should be published in full online, with links highlighted and made available across all of the social media platforms that you are using and making available publicly.

It is essential that the process your Community Meeting uses to select, and Endorse Candidates for Elections is clear, agreeable and fair to everyone – with the balance of fairness always weighted towards the Community as a whole, rather than what will be helpful to any particular Candidate.

PLEASE REMEMBER: Public Representation IS NOT A JOB. IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY.

For this reason alone, it is essential that no part of this whole process is compromised by entertaining even the smallest bias towards what any individual involved within it may want.

Presentation, Questions and Answers

No matter the process your Community Meeting decides upon to get there, the final decision and therefore the Endorsement of a Candidate by the Community, MUST come from an overall Vote of the Community Meeting itself.

Whilst the Candidate Selection Committee may have made a selection, or ideally presented several preferred choices for the Community Meeting to make its choice or choices from, it is essential that all those members of the local Community taking part in the final Vote have had the opportunity to see the ability of the candidate(s) to represent them, demonstrated BEFORE that Vote takes place.

One of the best ways to achieve this, beyond an open Question & Answer session, will be to ask the final candidates to talk through their understanding of a complex area of public policy that the Community Meeting has already identified as being important.

Then ask them to go through, in detail, and explain their understanding of each and every aspect of that issue. How they would go about finding a solution, and what their considerations for reaching a choice of solution would then be.

How many Candidates does your Community Meeting need to Endorse?

This may sound like a silly question to ask at first glance, as many of us are used to the idea that we Vote for one person to represent an area in any Election.

That’s certainly true for Parliamentary Elections when we are voting for an MP to represent us.

However, it’s not always the case for Local Elections when Councillors are being elected.

Council Wards for Borough/District and County/Unitary Authorities or Councils can often have multiple seats.

So, it’s not unusual to be electing 2 different Councillors or perhaps even 3 at the same time – meaning that Voters will need to choose that number of candidates to support when they actually come to Vote.

By rule of thumb, the more local the Council or the smaller the geographical area it covers, the more candidates – and Votes on one ballot, local People could have. The very first time I was elected as a Councillor to a Town Council, my Seat was one of 6!

Therefore, your Community Meeting will need to endorse the same number of Candidates for the number of Seats or Vacancies to be filled, that there are.

This information will be available from your local Democratic Services or Elections department and more information about the different Councils and the Tiers of Government can be found on my FREE to read, web version of How to get Elected.

REMEMBER: The AIM of Community Meetings with Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is to provide all Voters with the exact number of Candidates to fill any elected positions that are vacant within our current System of Government.

The Community Meeting will select those Candidates through the Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE process, just like the Political Parties use their own processes to.

The VERY BIG difference is that Candidates endorsed by Community Meetings will be selected to be genuine Public Representatives who work for and on behalf of the Community. Rather than being Candidates who will always be working for someone, somewhere else and out of sight, with an agenda that isn’t in yours or your community’s best interests.

The Vote

When it comes to the final Vote of the Community Meeting and the Candidate Endorsement itself, the Vote to achieve this MUST be conducted in the fairest way that it can be.

On the face of it, it would appear that the easiest way to be assured of legitimacy would be to work with a simple show of hands.

However, when everyone can see what everyone else is doing, it can too easily mean that ‘group think’ or fear of offending or upsetting certain People from within the local Community can get to work. This is something you will always need to be mindful of.

Remember, if the PROCESS and METHOD are compromised at any stage, then the real AIM of all of the work and effort made will not have been achieved. The Community WILL NOT have the chance to be represented properly and legitimately in the way that it should.

Therefore, passing a ballot paper or slip of paper with the name(s) of each candidate listed to each member of the Community who is voting, and asking them to place a tick against the name of one of the proposed candidates listed, will almost certainly be the right way to complete the voting process and to ensure that it has been fairly done.

Supporting The Candidate

Once your Community Meeting has endorsed your Candidate(s), the work doesn’t end there.

The process of supporting your Candidate(s) to connect with everyone across the Community is your next essential step.

You should use all of the social media platforms that you have to make People aware of who your Community Meeting has Endorsed, and therefore who has the Community Meeting’s qualified support.

Preparing for Elections

It is important to remember that Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is neither a Book nor a Guide for Election Candidates, once they have been Endorsed by a Community Meeting will need to do as part of an Election campaign itself.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is about the creation of circumstances where Candidates for Elected Public Offices have been vetted, selected, approved and endorsed by the Community to be on our ballot papers as a ‘recommended for, by and on behalf of this Community’ choice.

In time, being Endorsed by a Community Meeting to run as a Candidate in any Election will be enough, in itself, to attract Votes from a significant number of People. Much in the same way that the majority of political candidates get backed by People right now. Not because of who they are. But because of which Political Party they are running with.

It may be a relatively short time until your Endorsed Candidate(s) attract that kind of support. But that time could well prove be longer than the time between now and the next Election in your area.

Ideally, your Community Meeting will Endorse Candidates to run in the next Election that is scheduled or expected.

Whenever that Election might be, it is essential your Endorsed Candidates begin work on campaigning across the area and connecting with Members of the Community, in very much the same way as you will be doing yourself.

Until such time as a shared name or political vehicle might be needed and agreed upon to bring all Community Meeting endorsed or approved Candidates together, the best way for any Candidate to consider themselves for the purposes of registering with your local Democratic Services or Elections Office, is to run as an ‘Independent’ candidate.

The very first book that I wrote and published, “How to Get Elected” is intended to help Independent Candidates in a way that is almost identical to the support that your Endorsed Candidates are likely to need right now.

You will find the whole book split up into pages and available to read FREE HERE. (The FREE version is much easier to access from a PC, where the page titles are listed in order, on the right-hand side of the screen).

Alternatively, you can buy and download a copy of How to get Elected for Kindle from Amazon HERE.

How to Get Elected is a self-help or ‘How to’ guide that covers all the things a Candidate needs to be aware of or to consider, with a lot of additional thoughts, experience and tips thrown in.

Like Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, the way to get the very best value from the book, How to Get Elected, is to read it all the way through, without missing anything out.

How to Get Elected will fill in all the gaps that need to be crossed by Candidates, before other support and help may become available.

Fundraising

Costs that may occur such as Room Hire, and printing leaflets have been mentioned at a number of different points throughout the TEN STEPS.

Before anything else, you will not need to spend any money or even consider whether you will need to spend money BEFORE you have reached STEP 8 and are in the early stages of arranging your first Community Meeting.

If you have already gained sufficient support for your first Community Meeting, it is likely that you will also have enough support to raise the modest funding necessary to cover any costs of Room Hire and Leaflet Production/Printing too.

Protecting yourself and protecting your donors

The first thing you need to consider if you are going to raise money to pay for any Community Meeting related costs, is that any money you raise – even if it’s just pennies – is NOT yours.

If you’ve told People that any money they donate will be for a specific purpose, or just in general terms to help the creation of your Community Meeting in some way, that is the only purpose that it should ever be used for.

In the stages leading up to your first Community Meeting and possibly beyond, the safest way for you to raise money or receive donations is likely to be through setting up an online crowdfunding campaign using a platform like Go Fund Me or Just Giving. (There are others that you will find by doing an online search of ‘Crowdfunding’ or similar, too)

If you set up an account online, it is likely, depending upon which platform you use, that you will be able to manage your fundraising using an app and you will automatically be able to manage and track money coming in.

Not only that. You will also have the added value that will come from being able to post even more information about your Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE campaign within your local Community – and that can only be a big help!

Managing donations and protecting your Community Meeting

It may not be possible or practical to open up a bank account to manage any funds your Community Meeting campaign receives.

But it will be necessary to keep a written record of what money you withdraw or transfer from any Crowdfunder you’ve set up, and then how every bit of it is spent.

Whatever you spend money on (e.g., Room Hire, Printing costs), you should always ask for and keep a receipt.

Each transaction should be recorded in an Excel spreadsheet or similar – which will also make your input much easier, as the software can be set up to automatically do any sums for you.

It may sound like a lot of effort for very little. But when you are managing other People’s money, it’s the real detail that actually counts.

By keeping a very clear and transparent record of the process of financial management you have used, it will be very simple for you to demonstrate that you’ve done everything properly, IF anyone should ask.

It will also then be much easier and less time-consuming for you to hand over responsibility for financial matters to another person, as more volunteers become involved in building your Community Meeting.

Please Remember:

Donations are always made for what the donor believes they will be used for. Not so that you or anyone else can then use them for something else.

Any money given in the form of a donation belongs to the Community and should be given back to donors immediately, if your campaign stops at any time.

You are raising funds so that the only donation you have to make personally is your effort and time, without there being any financial cost to you.

Part 2: For those who just want to be able to Vote and know that their Vote will have real meaning

First of all, A WARNING:

There’s nothing passive about voting. Unless someone else has stolen your Vote.

Yes, you could be one of many who simply don’t bother to Vote when an Election comes to your local area, right now.

But that’s when you only had the option to Vote for something that’s important to somebody else. With Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and Community Meetings, you will now have the choice and option to Vote for something that will prioritise what is important for you, as well as for us all.

As we discussed earlier, change is always happening.

The choice you have is whether you want to play a part in defining change, or whether you want to sit back and let change happen to you.

You don’t need to be one of the People who will immediately take up an active, facilitator-type role for Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, and undertake the tasks outlines in detail throughout the TEN STEPS in Part 2.

But you won’t be helping anyone who does, and you certainly won’t be helping yourself and the opportunity that we all have for a Political System that genuinely works for us all, IF you don’t at least involve yourself enough to keep up to date with progress, spread the word to others, and attend Community Meetings whenever a choice or important decision that may impact your future, will be made.

If you don’t want to be actively involved, the STEPS you can STILL take that will help your Community Meeting are:

  • Supporting your Community Meeting on social media.
  • Supporting your Community Meeting by sharing the word.
  • Supporting your Community Meeting by sharing your experiences and any relevant information you might find.
  • Attending your Community Meetings whenever they are called.
  • Supporting your Community Meeting by taking part in the process of selecting Candidates for Elections and taking part in any Community Meeting Votes.
  • Supporting your Community Meeting by voting for all Candidates that the Community Meeting has endorsed when an Election takes place.

Supporting your Community Meeting on social media

Whilst there is no genuine substitute for meeting with other members of your local Community face to face, if you don’t have the time or don’t feel able to be involved in absolutely everything that the others involved with your local Community Meeting do, it will be both easy and helpful for you and your Community Meeting, if you support them by following whatever they are doing online.

Not everyone uses social media. But we are now in a time where the majority of People do. Of those that do, only a fraction will openly support or engage with articles, blogs and posts, even though they will have been of interest or made them think in some way.

The simple act of following or liking the social media pages and platforms of your local Community Meeting will be a massive help to build momentum, IF being able to be able to Vote for Candidates who are real and genuinely offer the option of NONE OF THE ABOVE, is all that you really want to achieve.

Because of the way that online technology such as search engines, algorithms and the AI or Artificial Intelligence that already operates many of these ‘platform’ sites on the Internet work, something as simple as a like or follow will immediately tell them that your interest in what your Community Meeting is doing, is real.

As a direct result, they will very quickly begin to ask other People like you, if your Community Meeting is something that would be of interest to them too.

This could make a massive difference for the cost of what could be no more than a couple of clicks.

Remember:

Community Meetings will bring members of the local Community together to select the People that the Community will support to become their Public Representatives.

This is not in itself a political act.

By liking or following your Community Meeting, you are simply sharing with anyone who knows or is interested in you, that you are taking seriously how the decisions affecting everyone locally are made, and that you are concerned enough that you believe it necessary to support the process and method that will deliver genuine change.

Supporting your Community Meeting by sharing the word

Another very easy way to support your Community Meeting is to talk about what local People are doing with Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE to anyone you see or have regular conversation with.

Word of mouth is a very powerful and influential tool. It also demonstrates just how important and helpful genuine and direct interaction with real People can actually be. It focuses on what Community Meetings are genuinely all about.

You don’t have to sell Community Meetings in the sense of eulogising or championing them to other People, unless you actually want to and feel comfortable doing so.

If you are open with people you know, about why Community Meetings are of interest to you and you share the facts about Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, as they genuinely are and what we are aiming to achieve together, the benefits of your local Community Meeting will very quickly sell themselves.

Please Remember:

If it helps to keep the conversation short, just tell People about Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and suggest that they also read the Book.

Otherwise, if you have a little more time and feel able, share the Usernames and links to the social media platforms that you have for your Community Meeting, once its developing and running, you can then leave it to People to take a look and then decide for themselves.

Supporting your Community Meeting by sharing your experiences and any relevant information you might find

Following on social media and spreading the word will be a fantastic help to your Community Meeting.

But you can help even more, IF you use your social media and the remote channels that are available to you, to actually contribute and take part online.

Community Meetings will always be the place for decisions to be made on what the Community wants to do about anything.

But the flow of information between Meetings will help everyone who is actively involved or just following progress from a distance.

If you see subjects or events relating to Community Meetings raised on social media that interest you, please do not be afraid to make comments or add information that might create or promote greater understanding – IF you are happy to share that information in an open forum, online.

People can only learn when they are open to learning. But the most powerful tool for learning is the sharing of others’ experiences. Not because anyone’s experience has more value than anyone else. But because sharing experiences of parts of life that others haven’t had, certainly cuts down on the requirement of time to do so, for yourself.

Interaction and sharing the benefit of your experience to help your Community Meeting and the Candidates that you come together to endorse, is the greatest currency for change that we all have as we focus on real, meaningful change.

By taking part, asking questions, flagging things that you’ve seen or heard, or just making the time to speak to other People about Community Meetings and then turning up at them, you can help the process of change in countless ways.

Remember:

You are never under any obligation to interact with any social media account, just because you follow or have liked it.

You should never post anything online that you would not want to share with People who you see regularly or face-to-face in your real life.

If you disagree with what someone else has said or believe that the information they have shared is incorrect or wrong, the best thing to do is to challenge the information they have shared itself and do so, not by simply saying it’s wrong. But by taking the time to politely and constructively explain why.

Better still, offer the details of the alternative you have based your challenge upon, to what they have suggested too.

But NEVER make your reply angry, or personal about them – and certainly not about you.

Supporting everyone by attending your Community Meetings whenever they are called

Within the TEN STEPS you will have read that it is essential that every member of the local Community is kept informed of anything important that your Community Meeting is planning to do.

On this basis, if a Community Meeting is being arranged to hold a Vote or make a decision, you should at the very least be made aware of the details such as when it will be held and where it will be held – if nothing else.

You don’t have to attend Community Meetings if that is your choice. But if you really want to keep up with what your Community Meeting is doing, and either speak or share your experiences, or just use the opportunity to be an influence in any Vote, it is also essential that you attend.

Remember:

Taking part is everything. By taking part in whatever way you are able to, you are contributing to change. If you don’t take part in any way, you are going to let change happen to you.

Supporting your Community Meeting in the process of selecting Candidates for Elections, and taking part in any Community Meeting Votes

As you will have gathered from reading STEP 10 in Part 1, your Community Meeting will be most effective in the decisions that it makes, by ensuring that the terms for Selecting Candidates and then Endorsing them is done right.

EVERYONE in your Community has something to give in terms of experience or anything else they can share. Everyone’s views are important and attending Community Meetings is the way that you can truly make your Vote count.

Supporting your Community Meeting by voting for all Candidates that the Community Meeting has endorsed when an Election takes place

Your input isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, IF you don’t actually Vote.

The whole reason for Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is the process of depoliticising the British Political system, so that Politics can deliver for us all, in the way that a democracy should really work.

To some – and you may be one of them, taking part in an Election is all that being part of a democracy will take.

But you must also understand and accept that who you Vote for is very important too.

On the day of the Election or Vote itself, your Vote could be one of just a few or maybe just the one itself, that puts a Public Representative into their role who was selected for the right reasons and endorsed as part of a Community Choice.

We no longer have the luxury of leaving our future to someone else. Many of those someone else’s we thought we could trust have already taken the opportunity that our apathy and disengagement has unwittingly given them. They have then done exactly what they’ve wanted, calling it ‘the will of the People’, all because they were supported by the mere fraction of us who Voted them into power in an Election, when that fraction of the community turned up.

You can be involved and support Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE and your Community Meeting in any way that works for you.

But if you really want change to happen that works in the best interests of everyone, please keep up to date.

When the next Election comes, please Vote for the Candidate(s) that local People with the same things in common as you, have committed the time and effort to select on behalf of your community – but most importantly, on behalf of you.

Support that will be on offer

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE has been written in the knowledge that once momentum starts building for Community Meetings, support will come from many directions and will come in many ways.

There is no guide to how long the creation and holding of a Community Meeting will take.

Not just because everyone who picks up this book and begins work will approach the TEN STEPS depending upon the way they have read them. But because each and every Community area is very different, is made up of different People and for many different reasons will respond faster or slower to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, in very different ways.

With this in mind, there is a very good chance that all you will need to get started and make good progress before support comes knocking on your door will be included within this book.

However, if you should find that you have any questions, or have the need to understand any of the ideas, suggestions and thoughts that I have shared with you here, PLEASE get in touch.

My e-mail box can be reached at officiallynota@gmail.com

It will be great to hear from you and I will happily respond to all polite and constructive requests and help in any way that I can, in the most appropriate way that I feel possible.

Will NONE OF THE ABOVE become a Political Party?

Let’s put first things first.

The whole focus of Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is to provide the immediate method and means to address the real challenge we face and must overcome with our broken Political System, as it is today.

With established Political Parties and their own motives and agendas filling up the majority of seats across our whole government system, The System itself is effectively broken.

We must also accept that any new Political Party attempting to do things in what is technically the same way as those that already have seats won’t bring the changes that we need, that work in the best interests of everyone. Because if they were to be elected and gain power, the words and the policies might be different, but their approach, attitude and motivation would end up being bad for all of us in exactly the same ways.

Public Policy is the problem, and that problem is hurting us all.

However, to fix Public Policy problems, we have to focus first on fixing the root cause.

The root cause of all the problems are the People who become our Politicians and a situation that leads to the same self-interested and incompetent type of People being the only choices we have and then repeatedly elect.

The Selection and Endorsement of Candidates and the process that will engage each and every one of us to choose and support them in Elections is what Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is here to provide.

When we have created a new system of Community Meetings where each Community selects and then supports its own Council, Parliamentary and all other kinds of Political Candidates, then and only then can we genuinely begin to address the genuine Public Policy issues that we now face.

As you will read in my books The Way of Awakened Politics for Good Government, A Community Route and The Grassroots Manifesto, there is genuinely no good reason for Political Parties in the same mould as those we already have and know of continuing to exist.

Existing Political Parties serve a purpose that is not about the whole Community. Their purpose is all about the pursuit of ideas and interests that are their own.

The only way that the formation of a Political Party would be of benefit to Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE, would be the structure and support frameworks that it could provide to all Community Meetings and the Candidates that they select, endorse and support.

Because of the inherent danger that anyone in key positions of such a Political Party could fall into the trap of going their own way or going off in a direction that doesn’t benefit the whole Community, the governance of such an organisation would have to be very robust and reliant upon people with a lot of integrity, right from the start.

In time, there may be very practical reasons for joining up a network of Community Meetings in some kind of affiliated or federated way, that might then, through necessity, be required to become formally registered with the Electoral Commission as a Political Party.

That time is not now.

But it would be a very nice problem for People like you and I to have, once Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is working and is doing its job across our communities.

Be Positive, Be Optimistic, but above all, Be Real

Whatever happens, whatever any of you do, there are no guarantees.

People have free will. It will be the choice of everyone whether they want to change and be part of the opportunity to influence change, or if they want to do nothing and let change of a different kind happen to them.

It is also important to understand that it is impossible to consider all of the factors or the impacts of events that have already happened or are yet to happen, and what influence they might have upon the short- and long-term future for us all.

We can only do our best and make the most of the opportunity.

Have faith, keep focused and you may soon understand what belief can really do.

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Who Controls Our Food Controls Our Future (14 Nov 2024)

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Not in my name. You don’t speak for us. NONE OF THE ABOVE.

These expressions of frustration, anger, distrust and disenfranchisement from the Political System we have today are shared by a growing number of us.

We feel that because we cannot Vote for good politicians and public representatives, we have had our democratic rights taken away.

The situation goes from bad to worse, each and every day. Everything that Politicians, Government and Public Services seem to touch is failing. And the rules that Politicians are supposed to manage and set, seem to have done nothing but encourage private interests and big business to operate without any real kind of control.

When the People who lead us are out for themselves, how can we expect anyone else to behave differently?

The truth is, that we cannot.

But there is a way we can create alternative options for Candidates on ballot papers for us ALL to Vote for in every Election. That is, IF we accept and are then prepared to make the effort to create and be part of the change that is necessary.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is a ‘How To’ guide, that will open you up to a new way of thinking about the way that Politics in a democracy should work. It provides suggestions, advice and a doorway to easy-to-access tools, using a system of Community Meetings that will help everyone to reject ALL OF THE ABOVE and then have a genuine and meaningful democratic choice.

Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE will present you with a series of TEN STEPS that can be followed, IF you want the choice of Candidates in future Elections who will work for and on behalf of you and your local Community.

PLEASE Follow it. Learn from it. Improve on it. Share it. Officially NONE OF THE ABOVE is here for you.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is not about Public Policy or Political ideas. It provides a method of putting good People into Politics, so that we then get Public Policy that corresponds.

Our Communities are the only place that a workable political solution can begin

Any Political Solution to the crisis we are in must develop and grow from our communities and grassroots; NOT from any existing Party that still wants to rule everyone Top-Down

One of the key problems with UK Politics today is that it operates as almost the mirror image of wider culture, where most people fall into the trap of believing that their own perspective is the right one. But that anyone with an alternative view of any kind – even in just the smallest of ways, is or will be fundamentally wrong about everything else, too.

Yes, you could easily argue that this is how tribes and groups work.

But politics or rather the UK political system is supposed to be about delivering public policy that is created and then implemented in the best interests of ALL British People.

The one thing that we can be sure of is that when it comes to the political classes who have been running Westminster and our local Councils for decades, there is very little about any of it – apart from the Election campaigns, that has anything to do with or what is best for us.

As I have been discussing in some of my recent blogs, time has now run out for the way that government and our economic system runs. Neoliberalism and everything such as MMT, FIAT money, and the increasingly illogically impractical schemes like Net Zero and everything that pushes people and businesses into being reliant on credit are no longer sustainable.

That is why everything is now in the process of crashing around the Labour Government’s head.

Yes, the politicians in power are incompetent.

No, the mess we are in didn’t begin the day after Labour were elected to power and Starmer arrived in No.10.

And No, not Labour, nor the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, Reform or any other group of politicians currently looking ahead to the next General Election are going to offer and deliver to us anything different. Certainly not in any way that the UK actually needs.

For a time, I was open to the idea that Reform could find itself pursuing a different way. One that would offer the cross-tribal consensus and answers that the UK now needs.

Instead, it has become clear that the mechanics of this 4th evolution of the anti-EU movement certainly hasn’t moved on in any kind of people-centric direction.

Instead, Reform is just reforming itself, but in ways that have a very familiar likeness to political parties that have been in power before, who have increasingly aligned themselves and been led by the machinations of the establishment instead.

The mess over Rupert Lowe and the inescapable optics suggesting that at every level of the Reform Party, the whole thing is all about Nigel Farage, really does speak volumes for itself.

That’s before taking the time to read the outpourings of words from former party activists and ‘officers’ who have recently walked away. Just like better known voices associated with Reform such as those of Howard Cox and Ben Habib.

If any of the names instantly trigger feelings that suggest you have taken a side as you read – no matter the reason, it is exactly that kind of emotion that is our collective problem.

Disagreement over the smallest of things shuts so many of us down to the reality that we all have views about different things that we might never agree on. But when it comes down to all the things that are actually important, there is an awful lot of commonalities between all of us to be found.

Difficult to hear though it might be, it is the division that is deliberately sown between us over issues that we do have in common – by them being presented in ways that make them appear and trigger us as if they are something else – that really plays into the hands of the incompetent political classes that we regrettably have.

As things stand, and without a lot of us choosing to approach our relationship with politics very differently, the same people dividing us and guiding us to hate people we should not have any hate for, are set to keep guiding the ship that we are all beginning to sink on. And they will happily continue to do so, until the whole thing actually goes down.

Westminster is just the tip of the ruling iceberg that we can actually see.

Behind central government sits all the things like power, influence and the wealth accumulation that money controls and which is carefully kept outside of open view.

Because the truth is that the only people who benefit from us continuing to elect politicians who are under the spell of the establishment are those politicians and all those who are benefiting from the continuation of the establishment itself.

Whilst there is very good reason to believe that the wheels could fall off this broken bus at any moment in time, for those who have been aware and watching the direction of travel of the UK (and for that matter the whole of the Western world) for a considerable period of time, both the Global Financial Crisis and then the responses to the Covid Pandemic could, and arguably should, have already been the catalysts that introduced a genuinely new way of doing governance to the UK.

That these two massive events didn’t doesn’t indicate that change cannot or will not come.

The fact that we have been led to believe that what the politicians have done in response is in any way normal just tells us even more about how deeply embedded those who genuinely believe or work with this Top-Down, them vs us culture really are, right across the establishment.

We can see just how far they are prepared to take things in their attempts to stop the whole thing from crashing down, even now. Indeed, they are growing so desperate to maintain The System, they are even attacking the people who their ‘tribe’ have always typically helped.

Whilst the talk of absolutes will certainly sound like a contradiction to the words used as I began writing this Blog above, the one dividing line that we really do have no choice but to observe and then decide upon, is which side we sit between the establishment and all it stands for, and on the other side, the people and what putting people, our communities and the environment surrounding the places where we live and work, first.

Whilst even the Tories are successfully making themselves sound very plausible, just 8 months on from losing power, in the context of everything that the Labour Government is doing wrong, none of these political parties – and that almost certainly now includes Reform, show any sign of genuinely offering an alternative to establishment-directed public policy today.

However, it isn’t today and what is now past that we need to worry about. The most important thing is the future, and specifically what happens when we reach the next General Election and what must be ‘our time’.

The UK and we as its people cannot afford another General Election result that delivers power to any group – whether elected directly, or assembled as a result of some kind of post-election ‘deal’, that then goes on to do whatever the hell it likes.

No political party out there today, currently canvassing for votes in this years Local Elections is offering to do anything in any different kind of way.

We know this, because the way that they are running their election campaigns right now; how they are communicating and most importantly, how they are engaging with real people outside the bubbles of their own members and activists, is exactly the same as it has always been before.

To put it bluntly, we can no longer afford to take the risk that comes with accepting a choice of political candidates in any election, that not us, but the political parties themselves actually choose.

Change will not come in the way that we now so desperately need it, if we keep on doing politics at every level in the UK in exactly the same way!

It is our communities and the people who are around us every day who should be selecting the people who will represent us at all levels of government.

Not people we don’t know beyond the pictures, websites, social media and TV screens.

We need public representatives to represent us who have genuine skin in our game. People who are answerable only to us and who are committed to delivering locality-centric democracy, that is the only way that democracy can genuinely thrive, survive and most importantly, work.

Whilst government and the public sector really do now need to undergo massive change, the reality is that our communities could be working together to select and elect non-party candidates in all elections, right now.

We certainly don’t need any kind of change to the electoral system that just favours the election of more incompetent candidates. Ambitious and self-serving politicians whose actions will be made even worse by the guaranteed requirement for compromise on public policy that schemes like Proportional Representation as a replacement for First Past the Post would bring.

Power MUST come back to the people. Not through carefully crafted labels like ‘devolution’ and ‘devolved power’ that is nothing more than Regional Centralisation sold to us with a very misleading name.

The power – OUR POWER is already ours and that power can be made to work for us right now. IF we choose to use it. Look beyond the manufactured differences. And focus on working together, on the important things that we all have in common, and to deliver a new world and way of being that is happy, healthy, safe, secure and governs life with fairness, balance and justice for us all.

Anyone can begin this process of change and the appointment of new candidates to become the public representatives and politicians who will create and deliver our new future, right now. And we need them to, IF we are going to experience beneficial change.

That change  will only be certain if we all change the way that we think. What we can be sure of, however, is that a good future for us all doesn’t and will not start where anything ‘new’ for the politicians and voices that we already recognise as public figures begins.