Not a day goes by now where AI isn’t featured somewhere in the media. More often than not because of the expectation that adopting the new and future generations of artificial intelligence will make certain jobs that people currently do redundant, and that this technology takeover of usually basic, repetitive or uncreative tasks will be an accelerating trend.

Technical development and the removal of jobs that required people to complete them isn’t a new phenomenon in any way. The reality that we face is ever since the march or industrialisation began, the use of tools, machines and now software have been used by increasing numbers of businesses to reduce the number of people that they employ.

The process of industrial and now technical development is presented to us all within a narrative that maintains progress is one directional. That the reduction in the number of jobs available for growing numbers of people that need them is an inevitable and equally unavoidable part of a process that keeps improving our quality of life.

Yet the question that nobody ever seems to ask is ‘Whose life is being improved by the reduction in the number of jobs and the specialisation that goes with it?’

The people whose lives are enriched by any process that means they can employ fewer people to produce the amounts of products, teach the same figures or potentially even more, are those who stand to make more money quickly or even over the long term, no matter how much they might initially have to invest.

Just because we can do something doesn’t mean that we have to.

The trap we have all fallen into and the myth that we have been led to believe, is that the reduction of the number of people in jobs, as a direct result of technological advancement, is both necessary and good for mankind.

This isn’t true today. It never has been.

Making people redundant for no other purpose than saving and therefore making more money is inhuman. It is a lack of morality and care for other people of the very worst kind.

What is worse, it is the same technology taking away jobs, being pushed at us at the same time in the form of our mobile phones and all the tech and software that we use, that is also providing an open goal to deprogram our understanding and ability to function independently of the people who stand to be able to control the future flow of money from us.

This so-called technological advancement is slavery or little better than farming with the animals replaced by humans. It will be the harvest of money from a controlled or captive audience as the intention or root cause of what takes over our lives next.

Working in jobs that pay enough for each and every one of us to be self-sustaining or fully independent is what genuine freedom looks like.

People are happy and at peace with themselves when they know they will always be able to self-resource. And if the lowest paid jobs provided a salary that meant people could function independently of benefits, charity or debt, people you could never imagine doing so would be happy caring for others, stacking shelves or picking fruit.

As a society and community, we have an obligation to achieve this genuine form of freedom for everyone to enjoy as the basis of a good, healthy and equality-based life, where everyone is valued in exactly the same way.

What we don’t have, as individuals, is the right to make and to continue to make profits that take the possibility of other people doing this for themselves, further and further out of sight.

Tech should certainly be used to improve everything that it can. But it should never be used to put people out of work when the jobs they do provide a function that at the level of the individual and as part of the bigger picture will almost always deliver results and an experience that can never be delivered or experienced again, once it has been taken out of human hands.

Salting the earth is a term historically used to describe the actions of an army or nation in retreat.

Alongside phrases such as ‘scorched earth policy’, the contemporary use of salting the earth alludes to the story of the damage deliberately done so that no form of infrastructure, food, water or supplies of any kind are left that can benefit whoever or whatever follows an army during a period of all-out war.

In the sense of the upcoming general election – This May, October, November or whenever it might be, the term is being used by Labour politicians and left-wing commentators to describe the promise from the Tories that they are set to deliver a number of tax cuts as incentives for voters, before that highly anticipated election comes.

The fear of those hopeful that they will soon be in government is that the Tories will leave them no money to spend on policies and with no politically acceptable way to raise more, IF they should win a majority at the next General Election.

Yet the truth is politicians from all sides, whether Tories, Labour, the Liberal Democrats or the SNP have been salting our future for years.

It is only through the political responses to Brexit, Covid and the War in Ukraine that ALL those who lead us – whether they form the existing government or not – are finally in the endgame of a pathway to destruction, based on greed, profit and the mismanagement of our financial systems and public money, that began decades before many of them even arrived in Westminster.

The hidden truth within the shouting is that the only way the politicians we are currently able to choose from can solve the UKs problems is by spending money. It is a message that really does tell us all that we need to know about the quality and outlook of the people we have placed in charge.

Money cannot and will not address the cause of every problem the UK now faces and the complete mess we are in. Because it has been the overreliance on money as the basis of all public policy for so long that has placed us in the mess that we are now in.

Legislators have massive power that we entrusted to them. And with it the ability to change things for the better, pretty much on a whim – if they are willing to take the risk necessary to do so.

It is because politicians hold such power that the government was able to Lockdown the UK in response to the Covid Pandemic, quite literally overnight. Imagine what they could do for us all by changing policies, if they accepted there was good reason, rather than just reacting and spending even more money that we don’t have for no better reason than fright!

The reality is politicians bankrupted the UK many years ago. We have been living on created money, as well as borrowed time ever since. And that time will soon run out.

Successive governments have relied on overspending and then trying to push growth, growth and more growth as a way to show how debt keeps falling – but only as part of the Nation’s GDP.

Yet the value of money just keeps on getting less and less and that’s why so many of us cannot even afford to shop properly or even pay for an increasing number of the things that we need.

The solutions that the UK needs will not come from money. But from legislation and public policy that puts people and communities first.

Facts are facts. Any politician complaining about not being able to spend money or find more of it to do so isn’t someone who is going to lead the UK out of our problems. But we can be confident that they will help to make them worse.

Hands up. I see the value of national service for a country that has completely lost sight of how education is failing so many of its young people. But conscription- for a needless and wholly avoidable war, is something completely different.

Proud as I am of both of my Grandfathers and their military service in WWII; one who served in the Royal Navy working with ASDIC, the other who used his craftsmen hands to maintain the guns of Monty’s desert artillery, I also know at my core, that the sacrifices they and so many others made, had selflessness, freedom and above all, humanity at its heart.

Today, we are facing the prospect of wars or another world war, that serve no purpose other than to benefit people who are abusing power and responsibility. All at a cost that very few of us can readily understand and with possible consequences that none of us have the ability to calculate.

Wars are rarely justified. The fact that establishment figures are discussing the possibility of conscription and ‘citizen armies’ when the only reason for any war today is so that the malfeasance of the world elites can be actively denied or covered up, is just about as inhumane and evil as throwing another human being towards an unnecessary and premature death could possibly be.

Hard as it is for many of us to accept, the West isn’t and hasn’t been the kind, benevolent and all-giving force for good that can always justify everything that it does.

Money, the pursuit of influence and the power that go with both have masqueraded as democracy and peace across the World. And this selfishly driven trojan horse has been used to persuade and manipulate many millions of us into believing that all our governments have done and is doing in other countries has been necessary and just.

The power that the West has assumed since the Second World War, much of it riding the shirt tails of the USA, has been all about controlling a new world order, based on greed and control, that has already existed for 80 years.

It is from this that countless wars, coups and takeovers of different nations have been initiated. And many of the politicians and decision makers we have in public offices are either too out-of-touch or simply too ambitious to even realise how they have acquiesced and facilitated nothing less than the takeover of democracy and democratic process, from within.

The illegal and mass immigration that is beginning to harm all of us is just one of the many costs that has come from allowing selfish, self-centred politicians and whoever influences them to impose war and violence on countries around the World. Conflicts that may appear on the news, but from which we have until now been insulated, because they have been very much out of sight and out of mind.

The culpability that we hold for not holding the politicians we have trusted and voted into office to account, certainly doesn’t justify the problems we face as a nation state or right down to the communities that we live in.

Misplaced trust certainly doesn’t justify us sending young people or indeed anyone into war just to bail these very silly and ignorant people out, or justify the lies they tell that with a pyrrhic victory will somehow be spun to confirm that they were in fact right.

Today, Russia may be a problem. Perhaps a rogue state run more like a mafia fiefdom than a country under democratic control. But it is not for us to pretend that it is OK for the people that lead us to talk up wars with the people and populations of other countries just so the corporate takeover of everything and with it the continuing enslavement and control of humanity can once again be wrapped up as some quasi-protective and beneficial narrative that allows the true purpose to continue to be denied.

Yes, the reality is that a profit and therefore greed-led form of governance has captured and already taken over every part of what we believe to be todays democratic world and we have long since passed the point when there was a credible choice between believing that those who we were taught to show deference to can be trusted or not.

There is no reason for anyone to sign up and fight for such foolishness. Unless that is, you truly believe that money and wealth and the influence that it creates is now our genuine and all powerful god.

Saying this doesn’t mean that I do not see any kind of threat from countries, people and their leaders who have values that are not aligned with our own. Nor that the risk of being driven to war as some kind of well-thought-out strategic project for these people would end the moment we believe we are free of them.

In fact, war may become the only way that the World can find a way forward and to rediscover the peace and stability that we should all already be able to enjoy. But which selfishness on the part of just a few who have abused their power and influence have inflicted or are in the process of inflicting upon us all.

Wokeness and the behaviour of the so-called snowflake generation may be worrying to those who wish to embrace the call of any war that isn’t necessary, but is likely to be imposed. But I have great faith that young people and upcoming generations would certainly know the difference and would step up to protect purposes that were justified and morally right, if genuinely and properly called.

As it stands, money is the only reason we are hearing the want for war.

Yet the topic of destruction and bullshit wars is the last thing that people fighting to survive their daily lives, either want or genuinely need.

It’s pretty certain that more or less everyone who at least tries to function and take part in ‘normal’ life is uncomfortable with the way that life and the things that affect us from the world outside are going. Even if that discomfort is merely a feeling or just a few questioning thoughts.

Yet the concerns that we all have are different and for the majority of us will relate only to the issues that are important to us, whether they are being able to afford food, the rapid rise in the prices of the things that we need, being paid more in the job that we have, being able  to find a new job easily, being able to access hospital or a doctors appointment, being able to keep a business going, or even being able to grow food and to at least break even on a farm that we own.

There’s nothing wrong with thinking this way. Because to do so is merely in consideration of the issues that are genuinely important to us.

However, when it comes to addressing any one or all of the vast range of the problems that all of us now face; to act, demand or even debate the problem that is most important to us, and do so without making allowance for every other person having issues that are just as important too, means that anyone and everyone focuses only upon whose issue is the biggest and most important, and therefore the problem that must be prioritised.

Meanwhile, we leave no genuine problem solved and a situation where more and more of us are now joining that line.

Because we have very poor leaders and politicians who think and look at the world in the same way as the majority of us who don’t have the responsibility to look at everything differently, they too fall straight into the trap of focusing only on what is most important to them.

That’s why the UK and much of the World is now in the mess that its in.

It doesn’t matter how right any of us know ourselves or the group we follow to be. If we cannot accept that every problem that everyone has is also important and that the priority has to be to focus first on the problems that are common to us all, none of the problems that are really serious for anyone are going to get fixed.

No, there’s nothing humane about putting ‘illegal’ immigrants on a plane and sending them straight to another Country for them to be settled. Especially after a treacherous Channel crossing, whether the UK Taxpayer is picking up what will surely be the very expensive tab or not.

However, to believe or argue that the rights or wrongs of the Government Rwanda policy is the only debate there is to be had about migrants crossing the English Channel is just as ridiculous.

Whatever excuse anyone can come up with to justify unrestricted immigration, the reality is that we are adding unproductive inhabitants to the total of UK Residents in such numbers, that the growth and strain that is being inflicted upon the UK – in practical terms, before we even touch on anything ideological, is simply too great to sustain.

No. This isn’t racist. It isn’t far right. It isn’t prejudiced in any way to say that the UK cannot continue embracing a fast-track to chaos and that anyone who arrives here as an economic migrant, rather than as a genuine refugee, should quickly be returned home, or returned to the first country they crossed into that could have offered them safety.

It makes perfect sense to have a reasoned outlook and be honest with ourselves, given the strain that is being placed on public services and our infrastructure. Especially so, given that we have UK residents who are homeless and dying on our streets who should be the priority in this case.

It’s all very well making the idealistic arguments that we should be doing all that we can for anyone and everyone who needs our help. Indeed, in principle, this is certainly true.

But this argument faces only one way. It’s based on beliefs that exist in isolation from other facts. It is blind to the real costs that are being placed upon resources that the UK doesn’t have enough of, for people who are already here.

It also pays zero consideration to the fact that the people who are joining us as UK Citizens are NOT coming to the UK because they value the opportunity to be British or to be just like us. But because they want to take every material advantage, without giving anything back. They then want to change the systems, our culture and the way that everyone around them is living, so that it resembles or reflects the cultures and the countries where they have just come from.

There isn’t any history that justifies the approach that politicians on all sides are taking. No matter how hard any politician, media outlet or influencer tries to manufacture guilt, they represent the same establishment that created the problem in the first place.

Any obligation that we have to help others, either as individuals or as a Nation State, should never be fulfilled to our own detriment and certainly not when the inevitable cost is self-destruction.

Few of us were even alive when many of the issues that have ultimately displaced so many people were set in motion. And as far as the decisions that have been made by the politicians, we have had for the past 30 or more years, who have contributed or acquiesced in the foreign policies of other countries that have done no good but created endless mess; Yes, we may have elected them. But whatever it is they have been working for, the one thing we can all be sure of is that it certainly hasn’t been about benefiting any of us.

Yes, we do have to acknowledge and wake up to the mechanics of the very wide range of issues that self-interest and an obsession with money have caused for us all, as the true motivation for those with their hands on the levers of state.

But that awareness is as much about the damage being done to our own Country, as it has been to anywhere abroad.

The solutions to all of our problems and not least of all the issue of cross-Channel Illegal Immigration are big and very complex indeed.

They require leadership that is comfortable with significant political risk.

That’s because the UK will be one of the easier countries to convince that we all need to think differently and adopt non-interventionist foreign policies for the long term. And that productive relationships can only be built and become resilient by helping all the countries that are unsafe or in trouble to function properly again, without anyone from the west continually looking to make money or aim to benefit privately in return for what should only be the one-way help that we should give.

We cannot help anyone else by hamstringing ourselves. Yet this is exactly what we are doing each and every time that we take on more and more people looking for UK taxpayers to underwrite them. When even in a low-paid job, they are still costing the Country more than they contribute.