Whilst so-called socialists and capitalists alike will continue to argue that their destination would have been different, until whoever is in power takes the rap for destroying everything at the time – and then the other tries desperately to convince everyone that there’s still time for them, just to be sure, the very perverse and somewhat disturbing truth that is now coming into our view of reality is that the direction of both left and right political thinking takes humanity to exactly the same place.
What all these ‘philosophies’ – the ideas of academics, thinkers, economists, industrialists, tech moguls, agitators, the aggrieved, life’s bitter victims, entitled shirkers, greedy and selfish bastards – have in common, is the centralisation of power into the hands of one or just a select few – who for whatever purpose intended – control everything, so that they can enjoy their own lives and positions more than anyone they see as different to themselves and therefore as being a threat.
Verging on enlightened thinking, as many will surely argue their heroes and inspirations to have written these works will have been, enlightenment doesn’t revolve around creating environments that centre purely on a beneficial vacancy at the top. Which the design of these solutions surely was the intention, resulting from whatever experiences the authors had themselves experienced up until the time of writing.
None of these accepted visionaries were wrong. Or at least they were not wrong in the sense that we all are the sum of our experiences and our position looking upon or perception of life in any given moment will be correct, for us personally, in terms of what those experiences have taught us and what we have therefore concluded that they should be, right up to that same moment in time.
Let’s face it. The world is a very shitty place to be. Whether you have nothing and cannot escape poverty because of the boot that rides rough-shod over you; or at the other extreme you are as financially wealthy as it is possible to be and all you quietly worry about is protecting yourself, your wealth and how you are going to accumulate even more.
The pain that hides behind our eyes hasn’t changed over decades and centuries in human time.
Yes, the surroundings, clothes, transport, technology and everything else may seem different. But the nature of the experiences we are all having on our different pathways are in relative terms very much the same.
Wherever we may sit across this spectrum, 200 or more years ago at the dawning of the Industrial Revolution or right now as we are being prepared for the AI takeover, we all have an idea of what the perfect world for us would be.
It is regrettable that only some of us find ourselves able to share those ideas and thoughts and have them taken seriously by enough others for them to be seen to matter – which itself doesn’t mean they are genuinely enlightened or of benefit to greater humankind.
It’s simply the case that even when complete idiots or utterly selfish bastards are heard, their thoughts and views are swallowed up like nectar by people who themselves have a back catalogue of difficult experiences that identify with what they read or hear.
They pick those ideas – those philosophies – up and run with them, no matter how twisted or damaging in the longer term they might be. Leaving ideas behind in the dirt that the chaos they unleash leaves behind to fester for years and possibly centuries, that would otherwise deliver for the good of everyone when implemented.
We must be clear that all the ideas and philosophies for the world, whether they fall under the socialist or capitalist umbrellas or not, are without fail just ideas and suggestions.
Whether well intended or not, these philosophies were all packaged with the pretense that they were the ingredients, nuts and bolts or technicalities of a model of the perfect working world, for all people.
As history has demonstrated only too well, the actions of those underneath these umbrellas lead to both the imprisonment and oppression of the masses under the yoke of world elites.
We are fooled into believing there is a difference in outcomes because one system gets straight to work by enforcing its ideologies on people and the systems of the world as it tightens its grip and pushes those who are left into the cage. Meanwhile, the other drugs everyone with every conceivable high that they believe they like, creating mass addiction to ways of living that mean there is little hope of sobriety for anyone who has bought in and become addicted, until the very heavy jail cell door will have already slammed shut behind us all.
Centralisation is the flaw in all of these philosophies. Because it is impossible to centralise every part of life, for every single person across every country and across the entire world, without life, values, happiness, health, wellbeing and all the mechanics of essential function and civic society collapsing in their wake.
The clever tools and devices used by capitalists, globalists and neoliberals are ultimately no different to the level-playing-fields, street revolutions and guns employed by communists and socialists to enforce and police their point.
The painful outcomes that these forms of idealistic thinking inflict upon the masses always have agendas behind them, and none of those paying the real cost of these ideological-turned-material crimes ever agreed to the world being run this way.
The elites and those behind all of this have of course been aided by technological advances and the many different ways that the world has opened up and the distances between us all have been bridged.
Yet the point has always and pretty much systematically been missed that humanity and our morality based values system do not need and never needed to change to keep up with the material changes in the world, which have always been about the things that appear to be important beyond and outside of people.
Indeed, the changes that have been made to our frameworks for behaviour have always been made to suit those in power, with influence and who are directly benefitting from those changes. Those who perceive that the only way they can benefit more is for the old ways or ways that benefit others with fairness and balance must be left behind. Because they will otherwise get in the way.
So, was there ever a point in history where humanity genuinely got the whole thing right?
There is good reason to believe not. Or that if that moment of genuine balance has ever existed so far, it was momentary and could only really have been so, because the opportunity didn’t actually then exist to end the self-interest, anger, frustration, greed and every other dark part of the human condition that drives generation after generation to ingeniously, creatively and ignorantly to exactly the same things over and over again.
We may not see it, nor appreciate nor even find value in the suggestion. But a centuries-long pathway of humanity being led and controlled by interests that are not in any way genuinely shared, has led us all to a place where those who have benefited from that control and the generations following behind them, can no longer maintain that control. Because the whole pathway is about to have gone too far, before that door can be slammed shut and the final adjustments to the oppressed fate of humankind can be made.
The intention underlying of all these ideologies was that everything and everyone would be controlled throughout the journey, until that control was necessary no more.
Yet the systems we have been conditioned into accepting, like the out of control value of money, the rules that are supposedly there to protect and help whilst they disadvantage us, and the process of making very intelligent people doubt themselves or force them to believe and support ideas which run contrary to common sense or that are completely untrue, have all contributed to a situation where many already know the world is out of balance. People know that whatever is behind all of this has gone too far.
Natural, universal, unspoken rules have always existed that require each and every one of us to have the freedom to learn, to grow and to develop if we so choose to do so.
Because of the persistent actions of these patriarchal few and those who have followed them, that freedom for everyone to learn grow and develop, no matter their background or position in life, no longer exists. Because the way the system of the world has been developed now means that many no longer have the opportunity to experience the personal sovereignty to which every man is entitled. No matter how, where or to whom they were born.
A collapse is coming. That collapse is already underway. We are all within it and experiencing it at subjective levels that keep us from the objectivity that would make it much easier to define.
The critical point that is now approaching will be the moment that something happens, that could be civil unrest, financial collapse, the extension of foreign wars, civil war or something else, when each and every one of us realises and accepts that we have a Choice. And that we no longer have to be passengers or passively accept whatever someone else has engineered to be our fate.
The curse of overcentralisation is the never-ending desire of those who are at the centre of that centralisation process to centralise even more. Simply because of the greater rewards and control that they believe it will bring.
The outcome of the overcentralisation is that nobody ever has enough of any of the things they really need. When in a world and time when we have so much available to everyone, this has become a first-hand tragedy for us all to experience indeed.
The only centre that we need and that we should ever seek is the community, locality and to share responsibility for everything amongst the people we see face to face and interact with each day.
This is real life that doesn’t come to us through media channels, digital technology or through rules that have been made by some name without a face.
This system is the only resource and ecosystem that we need to sustain us, that we need contribute to and that can be relied upon to create frameworks and governance for life that will always be in our best interests.
It is the only system that will provide and leave us with the genuine freedom necessary to enjoy every aspect of a good life, as the majority of us would want and like to experience.
The decision to make this change and embrace the power to do so is ours already, if we actually want it.
There is no need for hierarchies, for top-down systems and procedures, for political parties, financial markets and devices, globalised business and supply chains, or anything else that makes life cheaper. When life being cheapened any further is the very last thing that any of us need.
Local communities that are genuinely local and locality driven, and the ecosystems and self contained economies that they will create, offer us everything that we will need to have to experience valuable lives, where the basics and essentials are always in place.
Locality driven communities offer a system of governance meaning that no matter the life choices any one of us makes, we can all live independently of help – and therefore will not experience the forms of lack that are responsible for so many of societies social problems as their root cause.
The value of every one of us is exactly the same and nothing can change this.
No matter what we do, wear, what we have or how we are seen to be, not one of us should be positioned to advantage ourselves by disadvantaging others.
This is where the fundamental basis and genesis of a new world philosophy must be able to begin. One that is designed by us all for everyone rather than by a few who want everything controlled and for that control to be in the hands of one.
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Over the past 3 years, I have been writing about the different aspects of what is happening; what is likely to happen and how we can all get from here to a much better place.
Whilst the rules and frameworks that govern a new world that will genuinely be of benefit to everyone, must be designed and agreed freely by us all, we still need an idea or vision of the outcomes that we can expect.
Our Local Future is a model for future life that I believe to capture this, which I would invite you to consider. Before someone else has considered and though out an alternative, that when the time has come to make the choice that is genuinely good for us, will instead steal that opportunity and take its place.
Whatever you do next, please remember to beware the many false prophets who are shouting the attractiveness of populism and anarchy now.
Don’t listen to those who tell you they are putting people first.
Keep watching for those who are doing so.
The only centre we need is within our communities themselves. Everything will make sense when everything important throughout our lives revolves around everything we can experience daily at first hand in this way.
Food Security is one of the key reasons that Foods We Can Trust is here.
Because of what Food Security means to me, what I understand it to really be and most importantly, how important I believe Food Security to be in respect of everyone – and that means us all.
However, like many things about Food today and indeed pretty much every experience that we share with others beyond ourselves and what’s very personal to us alone, Food Security can mean a lot of very different things. And that difference is already doing a lot of harm.
What does Food Security mean to you?
Before we continue, could I ask you to please take a moment to stop and think about what Food Security means to you.
Is it about the Food that UK Farms produce?
Is it about being sure there is always Food available to eat?
Is it knowing that you will always have a choice of Food and whatever you want to eat?
For you, Food Security and what it means to be Food Secure could be any of these. It could be any of these in a manner of speaking. Or what Food Security means to you could be something very different, and ALL of the options could still be correct!
The things that Food Security can and does mean
It is important that we recognise and accept that different perceptions of Food Security not only exist.
To some, their own view, or what someone else like the Government refers to or considers to be ‘Food Security’ is the only thing that it can be.
Unfortunately, having any fixed or accepted meaning for Food Security can be problematic when there is a version of Food Security that everyone accepts as being what Food Security means, and those who are controlling that narrative then abuse the trust that people place in the understanding those people have of that version of Food Security and then manipulate information, statistics and even the truth, so that it can be said that either you or the UK is ‘Food Secure’, even when you are not.
In a moment, I will talk about the version of Food Security which is the establishment’s ‘accepted’ term.
I will then discuss the version of Food Security that UK Farmers and Food Producers generally think of when they talk about it.
We will then move on to discussing what Food Security should really mean, to everyone.
The Establishment view: If people can eat, they have Food Security
The way that the establishment, politicians and government operate today is built around this idea or philosophical standpoint:
If people can eat, they are Food Secure
Yes, I understand that suggesting this will annoy different people and organisations who are doing great things in the Food sphere. Because very few of us actually believe that as long as people have a meal of some kind, that’s all Food Security is about.
However, if you consider what having a meal of some kind can and regrettably does mean for so many different people in so many different ways today, you will then begin to see how those who really have control over Food policy, have come to think about their priorities and obligation to the Public in this perhaps honest, but nonetheless very unhelpful way.
If you aren’t hungry, you don’t have a problem
It sounds brutal I know, and it really is.
But with the issues that Government is really facing today – and that means the things that are really going on, rather than what the media and the narratives would suggest we believe, politicians do genuinely believe that if everyone can eat, they have done their job – no matter where our Food comes from or the Food we are eating really is.
This means that all the initiatives about healthy eating, encouraging us to eat properly and even the talk about how important our Farms and Fishing are, are really just wishful thinking and it doesn’t really matter to whoever is in power if they come to nothing. Because the only problem for them will be if people have nothing to eat and then everything as we know it stops as a result.
Foodbanks are a very uncomfortable truth
What I have just written isn’t easy to read.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it makes people feel prickly at the thought that so many parts of government, the public sector and all the organisations that are championing positive messages about Food and what we eat, are currently championing a lost cause.
But if you really want to try to get to grips with what the real priority around Food Security for politicians, the government and the establishment really is, then considering Foodbanks and the need for them – which is disputed by many – will soon begin to tell you what that priority is. And it has very little to do with Food and the role that Food does or should play in our lives.
When I was studying at the Royal Agricultural University, I wrote a paper after researching Foodbank use today and compared their role in poverty today in relation to my own experiences of poverty as a child. It’s called ‘Is Poverty Invisible to those who don’t Experience it’, and the full version can be read by following the link immediately below:
The Farmer view: Food Security is about the Food that we Produce in the UK
Whilst Food Security is a much broader set of issues than many realise, the one version of Food Security that is perhaps easiest to understand and relate to is that too much of our Food comes from overseas and outside of the UK.
Please read my last post on Foods We Can Trust ‘Rationing and Health: The Surprising Benefits’, if you would like to explore this view of Food Security and what the risks of being dependent upon Food from Overseas can mean.
However, as you read through the detail of this Government Report, you may note that this figure relates to ‘Food by Value’, which sounds very much like a way of using statistical jargon to make the figure sound higher than it actually is.
Regrettably, this is the kind of language or political double-speak that people in power and authority use, knowing that it is the figure that members of the public will usually note, rather than the words that the figure has been deliberately wrapped with!
During the 2023-24 Academic Year, the figure that I was using for my research, reports and writing was 54%. I found sources that suggested that it was already as low as 52%. I have seen no evidence to suggest that the UK has increased the amount of Food that it produces for our own consumption during that time.
The amount of Food the UK produces and what we would all have available for us to eat in a time of national emergency where the Food Chain was impacted are two VERY different things.
The impact of the Global Food Chain
Because of the way globalism has affected Food Chains and that Food ingredients are sourced and often moved around as they are processed and manufactured to become the Foods that we often eat, it means that very few of the Farms we pass by each day or know of, actually produce Food that we could eat or prepare to eat straight away, if we found ourselves needing to buy from the Farmer direct.
Even if we accept the figure of 58% that the Government has used in its latest Food Security Report, to quantify the amount of Food that the UK produces itself, the actual figure that relates to Food Produced in the UK, that people living in the UK can actually then eat is likely to be much less. Because so much of the Food Produced across the UK goes into Food Supply Chains where it is nowhere near ready for our consumption or is otherwise transported overseas.
The figures being used are therefore an equivalent. Because we have to import the equivalent of the Food that is grown in the UK and then exported or used for other purposes – because that’s how it goes into the Food Chain, and what we actually eat comes back into the UK from overseas.
The reasons that many farms don’t grow or produce Food that is ready for us to eat are many. It may be as simple as the way we eat and prepare Food in the UK means that we don’t like certain cuts of meat. It could be that even though the UK has vastly rich reserves of Fish and Seafood, we don’t actually eat that much of it ourselves and most of it goes to Europe. Or it may be that the wheat and the flour it produces that makes the kind of bread that Supermarkets have made us all believe we all want to see on sale, is most easy to produce when it comes from overseas.
If it sounds confusing, it is. And it helps those who are benefiting from the way that the Food Chain works for it all to be very confusing too!
The bottom line is this:
If we had a crisis tomorrow and the UKs borders were shut down, meaning that no more Food could come in from anywhere overseas, it wouldn’t take long before we all experienced Food Shortages. The Food Producers and Farmers that we have in the UK would have to undergo massive structural and system changes, before they would even be close to being able to meet that need. There is no way that would be possible, overnight.
This is scary stuff I know. But its very real and there are parts of government and other organisations that are researching, studying and thinking about what they call Food Resilience, the whole time.
If you would like to look more closely, here is an interesting link:
(Please note that this is not a recommendation or endorsement)
The UKs Food Security is at MASSIVE risk, right now
If you’ve read this far, you may be beginning to see the picture of just how vulnerable the UK Food Chain is, and that within the Food Supply that we are eating from and have available to us, the priorities of those with influence over the Food Chain are not anything like what most of us would think.
We are NOT Food Secure, anywhere in the UK today.
With global uncertainty unfolding in the way that it currently is, we could easily find ourselves experiencing Food Shortages or perhaps even worse, at any time.
Even supporting our Farmers with the Food Production related issues as they see them is not as simple and straightforward as campaigns like that driven by No Farmers No Food and some of the Farming Advocacy Organisations would suggest.
A successful outcome to any of their current aims wouldn’t be as effective for any of us, as they are suggesting the changes in government policy that they want for themselves would be. Simply because with the if the priorities remain the same, many of the Farms affected by the policies which are in the spotlight aren’t producing Food that would be of any immediate use to us to counteract Food Shortages in a crisis, anyway.
So, what does, or rather, what should Food Security really mean?
What Food Security and being ‘Food Secure’ should mean
To be fair, part of the problem, when it comes to the meaning of Food Security and being ‘Food Secure’, is that the whole subject and all of the other subjects and public policies that the issue of Food Security links to, are VERY complicated. And in many respects, deliberately so.
That’s why it’s very easy to be convinced by any soundbite we hear or read that makes some version of Food Security and what being Food Secure means to someone else, easy to get behind.
If we were to distil Food Security and what it means to be Food Secure into the simplest terms possible, it would probably be something as follows.
Namely that we will be Food Secure and have Food Security when:
Everyone can choose to eat enough of the Foods that are Good for them and that will meet their genuine needs at every mealtime, without any experiencing fear of going without or not knowing where the next meal will come from.
However, even this is open to interpretation.
Food Security will regrettably continue to be vulnerable and at risk for as long as what it means to be Food Secure can be interpreted differently by different parties, in ways that are not actually wrong. From a certain point of view.
To overcome this problem, it is likely that we all need to at least review and, in all likelihood, moderate or change the way that we think about Food Security and what it is to be Food Secure.
With this in mind, the key ingredients that together provide Food Security are that the Food Supply is:
Reliable and NOT under Threat
Available
Accessible
Meets Nutritional Needs and Health Requirements
Affordable
I will now add a little more detail to each, so that they and how they each interact with each other as part of the Food Security equation will hopefully begin to make more sense.
Reliable and not under Threat
Food Security can and will only be achieved when the supply of Food for everyone is not at risk.
If we are Food Secure as a Country or perhaps at the Macro level, the Food Supply cannot and will not be compromised by anything that we and our own systems of governance cannot independently address.
Today, government figures suggest that we are reliant upon at least 42% of the Food that we consume coming from Overseas. That’s before we consider that of the remaining 58%, only a fraction of that figure represents Food that any of us could eat at any time.
IF there were a national crisis and the borders shut down, this would mean that even if two thirds (66%) of the Food We Need were available to us every day, year round, that would still mean that more than 22 Million People in the UK would have to go hungry, if the rest of the population were to continue eating the same meals as they do, today.
However, we also know that even this isn’t the real figure. Because of the way that the UK Food Chain and Food Production works.
The reality is that if we were to experience a real national crisis where no Food from overseas could be brought in, the UK only has enough food AVAILABLE for everyone for perhaps a few days, before Food Shortages would cut in and people of all kinds would start to go without.
Available
We will only be Food Secure when the Food We Need is always available, to everyone.
Being available to everyone means that there is no reason that the Supply of Food can be obstructed or held up by anything that is outside of the control of the person who needs to eat that Food, or the People around them who they know and can trust.
The factors that can make Food unavailable to some are:
Cost
Food is too expensive for some people to be able to afford to eat properly at every mealtime. And the retail values of all the Food we buy today are continuing to shoot up!
To be Food Secure, the Food We Need MUST be affordable in the sense that the price to buy or exchange something for that Food is realistic and the price has not been overinflated by something like greed, profiteering or another agenda of some kind.
Supply
For most of us, the Food we are able to eat today relates directly to the Food that is supplied to the shops, websites or other sources where we buy it.
If we cannot source the Food We Need, the supply is not functioning as it should, and we are NOT Food Secure.
If the only Food Supply that we can Access will provide us with ‘Food’ that isn’t healthy for us or that we can afford to buy (with the money we have available) then that Supply is also NOT Food Secure.
To be Food Secure, we must ALL be able to Access the Foods We can Trust, without having to choose from Foods that are not good for us, as a substitute.
Religion and Ideology
Regrettably, agendas, ideas and even religion can get in the way of us being able to Access Food that is available. Because ideological restrictions can easily prevent some from accessing that Food, because others have made a ‘conscious’ choice.
This is not a matter of saying that anyone who will not eat certain Foods because of a religious or philosophical viewpoint is wrong.
It is merely a fact that many of those same people then influence the Supply of Food around them, because of the choices that they themselves make.
The agendas of other people are also important to consider. In instances such as the political pursuit of Net Zero, the choices that politicians are making and some of the worlds billionaires are using their financial resources to impose, will lead to the supply of Foods We Need being restricted and potentially stopped, only because of the ideas that they wish to pursue.
We will only be Food Secure when no other person can influence the supply of the Foods We Need, simply because they have the power, influence or financial means to do so.
Greed and Profiteering
In my recent book ‘Who Controls Our Food Controls Our Future’, we unpicked the layers of the Food Chain onion to expose just how the Food Chain that brings most of the Food we all eat today, isn’t really about the Food We Eat at all.
The Food Chain today is ultimately all about money, profit and the power and influence that go along with an entire Food System that is being increasingly used as a tool of societal control.
People, Communities and entire Nations can and will only be Food Secure when they have complete control over their Food Chain and Food Destiny.
That means Food being all about the Food and what Food really means to People and Life, rather than the Food Chain being all about money, profit, influence and control, as it is now.
Accessible
We will only be Food Secure when the Food We Need is always Accessible.
Access literally means that we can access the Food We Need for every mealtime and that no matter where we are, what transport we have available, or what physical barriers might be in the way, these factors will never get in the way or stop us from eating as and when we might like or need to.
To put this in context, most of us can access one of the well-known supermarket brands across the UK, either by being able to travel to one of their stores, or by being able to make an online order that will then be delivered to our home or wherever we are, from there.
However, our Food Access is now limited to whatever the stores we are able to access actually sell.
Food Security will not exist until we are able to access the Foods We Need, whenever and wherever we need them to be.
Meets Nutritional Needs and Health Requirements
We will not be Food Secure until the Food that is Available, Accessible and Affordable, also meets all of our Nutritional Needs and Health Requirements – not matter what we may then personally choose to buy, prepare and eat from the Food that is available.
No matter how politically convenient it might be for politicians and the establishment to work on the basis that ‘Food is Food, no matter what the Food really is’ – whether deliberate or not, the truth is that Not all Food is equal in the Food Chain today, and the greater percentage of the Food that is Affordable to everyone, isn’t actually very good for us at all!
Affordable
Whilst we have already talked about Cost and the price of the Food that we buy, there is also a much bigger and perhaps even more alarming dimension to the issue or question of the Food that people can afford to buy. It relates to the issue of the Affordability of Food itself.
If people cannot afford to feed their dependents and themselves for reasons outside of their control that mean they don’t have enough money to buy the Foods they Need, they are NOT Food Secure.
Food Security for them, is unaffordable.
It is very easy for those who can get by each week to look unfavourably upon those who cannot and to assume that anyone who doesn’t have enough money for Food – either for themselves or themselves and their dependents – will have found themselves in difficulty through their own financial mismanagement. Or because they don’t work as much as they should.
Whilst this may of course be true for some, the number which it would be accurate to describe will be significantly smaller than many might imagine.
Indeed, the reason why many people today find themselves short and in need of emergency help like that provided by Foodbanks, is because a significant part of our society does not either earn or receive an income high enough – even for working a full working week – to cover the basic cost of living and to provide themselves with the basic essentials that are necessary today, just to stand still.
In October 2023 I wrote about what it genuinely cost to live as opposed to the rate of the National Minimum Wage and calculated that the difference between what those working a full-time 40hr week on the lowest legal wage and what it would actually cost to live without claiming benefits, help from charities (Foodbanks) or getting into debt, was at least £2.50 per hour or £100.00 per week.
Although the rate of the National Minimum Wage jumped to £12.21 in April of this year, there is no reason to believe that with inflation continuing to push up the cost of living as quickly as it has, that anything is really different for anyone on the lowest wages now.
Just as serious is the reality that life for many today revolves around credit.
Those with monthly payment commitments, including even those earning what many of us would consider to be very good wages, can easily find that a list of monthly outgoings that seemed very affordable at the time the commitments were made, can suddenly become an unaffordable burden. When even the smallest of changes – perhaps to utility bills, fuel or similar takes place, and payments are raised with those higher costs automatically taken from a credit card or bank account.
As food is one of the few things that most of us still pay for, as we go, it is easy to see how the disposable income left for Food and other essentials can very quickly disappear, pretty much as we are all still asleep!
Food Security and Income are inextricably linked
The reality is that Food Security at the personal or perhaps micro level, is inextricably linked with income levels and what it costs to live.
Because government doesn’t priortise the Food Chain and Supply of Food in the way that we all really should, Food has become an afterthought in far too many ways.
No serious steps have been taken to acknowledge and certainly not to make provision for the need for everyone to be able to access and eat enough of the Food We Need, without being dependent upon the help or intervention of others to get by.
Any government that doesn’t recognise and legislate to ensure that everyone who is able to work can earn enough to cover the costs of the basics and essentials they need on a basic wage, without benefits, charity or debt, is not fulfilling its obligations or responsibilities to society at all.
Until the Food We Need is affordable for everyone – no matter how ridiculous in today’s terms that might seem, we will NOT be Food Secure!
Truth vs Truths that serve someone else’s purposes
The Food Security question and getting to grips with Food Security and what being Food Secure really is, demonstrates just how easy it has become for those with platforms and influence to speak about a subject and mean one thing, whilst knowing that to everyone else, what they have said will be heard as something very different.
Both the Establishment (Inc. Government, political, big business in the Food Chain) and the U.K. Farming industry hold positions on Food Security which are arguably right, from a certain point of view or from a manner of speaking.
Both positions on Food Security, either when:
People have ‘food’ or
Food should be produced on Farms in the UK
are both correct.
But they are also only partial truths.
Like any good sales tactic, a partial truth – or a sales pitch that contains an element of truth that they know will make the whole narrative, story or line sound like the whole thing is true – and is often enough to make an argument that is otherwise utterly flawed sound compelling, because we have fallen into the trap of assuming the rest!
So yes, it is certainly correct to say that we all need to eat food and if we are fed, we will not be hungry. But if the food itself isn’t good for us, is unaffordable, could potentially do us harm or comes with strings attached, it will not be Foods We Can Trust.
Equally, if only the equivalent of what we all eat is produced or grown on Farms across the UK, but is nonetheless produced with chemicals or processes that cause harm in any way, or the food grown is itself transported overseas and replaced by food that comes from overseas so that the net equation says we are producing what we eat ourselves, that also isn’t Foods We Can Trust.
Where Food Security is concerned, Farmers cannot be victim and saviour at the same time
It is important to add that I am massively pro-UK Farming. I’m just not pro-UK Farming in the sense that the industry typically functions today.
Farming today is actually part of the Food Problem. Because it has become part of the global model that is causing all the problems with Food.
Farmers understandably want help and support from everyone. But what they really want is for the establishment to change its policies so that the way farming works today stays the same, but just works better – more realistically, but also more profitably for them.
What many in the industry have not recognised yet is that UK Farming is no longer seen as being necessary to an establishment that believes it doesn’t have a problem with the Supply of Food, as long as people are being fed – no matter what they are being fed with.
Meanwhile, the people – that’s us – who desperately need UK Farmers to see the bigger picture and step up in a very different way – will lose out twice as badly if UK Farming collapses and the establishment gets its way!
If you’d like to read ‘Who Controls Our Food Controls Our Future’, a copy is available online HERE.
If you’d like to understand more about the realities that underpin the differences between what we say deliberately or innocently, and what others hear, a read of the very interesting book ‘Words that Work – It’s not what you say, It’s what people hear’ by American Pollster Dr Frank Lunz may be worth your while.
Going round in circles
You may now feel the need to circle back to the ‘as long as people aren’t hungry’ backstop – which is where without good governance and leadership, the bigger Food picture and the importance of Food and the role it should be playing in our lives usually falls down.
We can accept what others tell us. Or we can be clear that we require Foods We Can Trust to be normal life for all.
The ‘Great Reset’ is just 1 of at least 3 resets underway. We should all consider what the desperate attempts to reset the world actually mean
Everyone knows we are in a mess. We just can’t agree why
We are awakening to the reality that a conspiracy theory is no longer a theory and is certainly no longer a conspiracy, once everyone can see that whatever it is, is actually true.
There is much to ponder over the question of the ‘Great Reset’. In terms of who or what is resetting anything; why they are trying to reset it and what it will mean if any of them actually turn out to be successful.
As many of us are likely to realise painfully, very soon, the intended forms of ‘reset’ or ‘resets’ that are underway – and there are arguably at least 3, are relying on a lot more chance than they are anything that resembles any modicum of control.
Collectively, we may soon begin to realise that these planned ‘resets’ were just the manifestations of different forlorn hopes of what was once the very same new world order, now falling to bits as it loses control.
‘They’ know the game is up. That’s why ‘they’ are trying to ‘reset’
‘It was good whilst it lasted’ should be very much at the forefront of the minds of everyone with power, stood in front of their mirror, who is desperately trying to carve out a new future led by themselves today. Rather than whatever the sense of entitlement to continuing power and the accompanying delusions of grandeur that they are actually holding now.
You will not need me to explain how today’s media and the narratives that they so religiously convey would never share how vulnerable the establishment is now feeling. Nor any of the truths and therefore unspoken secrets that would actually explain to everyone how everything within the system does indeed work.
On this basis, you may also therefore be able to understand and appreciate that the last thing that anyone with power and influence wants the general public to know, is just how fragile everything currently is. How close things have been to collapse for a number of years, and how the almost constant flow of policy decisions and steps being taken that we are experiencing are actually a clear sign that the establishment is now in a very serious mess.
In real terms for us, the existing world order will continue to exist until the precise moment that it cannot convince the majority of us that it is there, still functioning and in control of everything, anymore.
Those who we are about to look at in more detail have known or been aware that ‘the game is up’ for a long while. Yet they are now in the process of attempting to create and implement a new world or new world order systems, that they then intend to lead and control.
World governance looks like a massive race against time. However, the reality is that they are all racing against events, forces, factors or whatever you feel comfortable calling factors, that are way outside of their control.
Reset 1: The reset that won’t reset the world as we know and generally accept it in the way they want
First in the list of the three resets, is what many will have heard and what those labelled as ‘conspiracy theorists’ celebrate as ‘The Great Reset’.
The Great Reset is being pursued, pushed, demanded and implemented by those involved with and aligned with the WEF (World Economic Forum).
In terms of the government and establishment figures who are ‘in on it’, the WEF ‘plan’ and what we now know as The Great Reset has, for a long time, been the only real ‘reset’ game in town.
There is so much that I could write about the realities of what ‘the few’ who sit beyond Western democracies and effectively ‘pull the strings’ of many different governments have done, that it would probably take many different books to get even remotely close to the detail.
The WEF are the group that we usually hear most about early each year, when the great and the good fall over themselves to head to Davos for a big meeting. Where it seems like an endless number of private jets, flown by everyone who is preaching at us to go green and look exactly the same get lined up.
These are the people who are responsible for the way that public policy has actually been formed and implemented for over 50 years, as part of a strategy or plan that has always been about a them and us approach to world governance.
These are the governing elites who use and manipulate existing ‘democratic’ systems to make what they are doing look legitimate.
They use a top-down hierarchical approach, that we believe to be all that it says, because elected representatives are technically still in charge.
Those who really understood neoliberalism and what the adoption of a FIAT money system, alongside the deregulation and manipulation of laws and rules to favour big business and profiteering that is under their control, also knew from the start that the life of the system it was driving was finite and that the wealth divide that it would necessarily create would eventually become too wide for even the uneducated not to see for all that it was.
Tools such as the EU (which has never been in anyway democratic but has been able to hide behind nationally elected governments so that it can perpetuate the lie that it has) have deliberately chipped away at the mechanisms, infrastructure and governance of sovereign nations. So that borders and basically anything that can give identity to people, groups and communities – i.e. the tools which are necessary for independence – have not only been removed, but then destroyed, so that there is little or no way back for any kind of revival of sovereign states, once they have been absorbed by whatever was supposed to come next.
What they didn’t bank on, was that the financial and monetary system would unravel in the way and with the speed that it has – helped in no small part by the responses of inept politicians to Covid and the War in Ukraine – and that events have now reached a point where the whole bus is about to go over the cliff, without the necessary tools of unquestioned societal control being anywhere near in place.
The front and belief that these people have not only had, but exerted through the governments that they have basically controlled for many years has been breathtaking.
In the majority of respects, all that they have been doing has been almost perfectly hidden in plain sight. Not least of all because control of the narratives and the media that share them with us has meant that the harm they have inflicted upon our own people as a consequence of their actions has been hidden. Whilst the impact of their behaviour on entire nations and peoples beyond their direct and desired sphere of influence has never been openly acknowledged or exposed to the people unwittingly under their control.
Here in the UK, people cannot earn enough to actually live on what the establishment dictates to be the Minimum Wage and the growing infliction of poverty amongst our own people, so that this grand strategy can be pursued, is troubling enough.
However, in many different countries abroad, the way that they and their kind have used money, markets, commodities and even wars to achieve these nefarious ends have not gone unnoticed.
With some of the more recent steps, that have simply taken things too far, there is a growing group of countries that have been considered to be outside the exclusive club that has been the West, that now see and have been actively working towards the implementation of their alternative choice of reset.
Reset 2: BRICS and a very unhappy world beyond ‘The West’
If you already think that what you are reading here is the stuff of conspiracies, it is more than likely that you also accept and take at face value, everything that the media tells us about events and what is happening in countries and across the world beyond what we know as the West.
The western narratives certainly don’t entertain or make suggestion at any level that our governments and the big businesses that are based across the west and which are traded here, have been exploiting every resource that they could capture control of. Simply by manipulating foreign governments, replacing them or invading sovereign states and taking over so that they can do pretty much the same thing.
Where the Western ‘few’ have done this already and taken all that they could through other ‘acceptable’ means, they have then artificially lowered, raised and even held prices of commodities, precious metals and currencies within the markets that they control, so that anything that these vested interests that are based in the west have needed to pay for has always been available to them for less.
This in itself is in no small contributing part to why the west is hated as much as it is.
The reality that we all face is that no matter how little we have been aware of what the establishment and those who control it have been doing ourselves, the people from these other countries who have suffered and gone without so that the few from the west can profit from them, don’t see any of us as being different from those who are actually responsible.
One of the most horrid parts of the whole sordid affair that the majority of populations right across the world do share in common, is that the only way that the western few have been able to do all that they have done, is by having created and implemented a financial, monetary and economic system that has effectively provided them with money that isn’t real and therefore money that they wouldn’t otherwise have had.
They have then used this money to buy up land, resources, infrastructure and even businesses that it would have been impossible for them to have done so otherwise.
Growing numbers of these countries from outside of the west have been progressively working together.
In recent years they have created another international group or body that you may have heard of which is called BRICS.
Two years on, I understand that the currency now has a name and is called The Unit; that it has already been tested in electronic or digital form, and that whilst Asian Countries in particular have been using the price suppression that our governments have stupidly played along with to hoover up and transport massive quantities of precious metals to the Far East, the BRICS Nations are also working towards the launch of a grain (and commodities) trading exchange.
Those who have been watching the evolution of BRICS will attest to the reality that very little of this was even on the cards during the last Trump Administration.
The ‘final straws’ have appeared and in turn broken the camel’s back, in the form of US Foreign Policy during the Biden Term. Which not unlike the actions of the Labour government in the UK today aren’t just an isolated one-off whose actions can be corrected once they are gone.
The policies that these governments have enacted are in fact the end of a very long downward chain of decisions that have been made to benefit and most recently save the skins of a few vested interests. Rather than being about anything to do with what is in the best interests of the people that they actually represent.
Any or all of the systems that BRICS are known to be building or working on have the potential to create financial and market chaos across the whole of the West and not just the USA, potentially within days if not hours of them being launched.
However, as plausible and as well thought out as these plans might be with the aim of effectively switching market and financial power to the East from the West, they do rely on what may prove to be the naïve idea that everyone in the West will simply accept the change and willingly step aside.
The real risk of a financial, market and economic collapse in the West, that is precipitated by BRICS systems or similar, is what western governments decide they (and therefore what we) should do in response, as the first thing that BRICS would almost certainly do is expose the systems that we have as not being in anyway real.
That means that we will have a critical emergency when it comes to the need for real leadership to step in and do whatever we will then need to do.
Reset 3: Trump is too Trumpian, too Late and too much of the same
Barely two months into the second Trump Administration and the flurry of headlines that policies such as DOGE have created, the noise and many distractions being caused are taking much of our attention away from the events that are unfolding around the world.
There is very little discussion or thought regarding what the result or outcome of Trumps ‘strategy’ will be. Not only in the long term. But critically within perhaps just the weeks and months that lie immediately ahead.
Many cannot see and fewer can accept that recent US Democrat Administrations under Clinton, Obama and Biden were all very much geared towards pushing a system that Trump appears to be destroying, overtly for all the ‘bad reasons’ that can be seen such as open immigration and woke policy.
Unfortunately, all those things that people didn’t like about the Biden Administration and those that contributed before, as well as all the recent governments in the UK, were just side effects or symptoms of everything bad in the centre. A direction of travel that has long since required growing chaos in all directions, so that the policies can be delivered which were their priority or genuine choice all along.
Politicians who are owned by self-interest and greed are all doing whatever it is that they believe necessary to keep the ‘Moneyocracy’ afloat.
It just looks different across different countries. Because the systems in each country are still different enough for a different approach to be required, IF they are to succeed in making the ultimate end game work.
In real terms, this means that the core direction is simply being rewrapped and represented differently wherever it is possible to do so, so that enough people will hopefully accept this ‘new’ way of doing things, until the real truth of even that is then exposed.
Regrettably for us in the UK, we are much further down the road than even the US.
Whereas Trump is doing plenty that gives the impression that it his reset is not only different, but that it will work and it will be beneficial, the situation here is that we are knocking on the door of the Inn that we have been desperately looking for, just as the sign goes up outside to say no vacancies and the landlord is calling ‘Time!’
Money has no real value, yet we have made it worth everything, whilst everything with real value has been made worthless by money
If you’ve read this far and the story that is unfolding is making any level of sense, you will also have some idea of the mess that we are in.
Not because all of these things are happening – because they certainly are. But because the next thing that comes to mind when you can see and accept the problem is that as things stand, there also doesn’t appear or feel like there’s any way out.
In my recent eBook Your Beliefs Today Create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow we journeyed through the opportunity to consider the different perspectives that everyone has; those perspectives that groups of people share; how shared perspectives are then perceived differently, and then what this all adds up to, or rather could add up to in the bigger scheme of things.
What is now beginning to become ever more apparent to anyone paying close attention to events that are happening around the world – and not just on our ‘accepted’ media channels, is that there are common themes amongst all the different experiences that we have.
These common themes demonstrate that everyone outside of the elite and ruling classes have many things in common that are being overlooked, missed and hidden by everything that the establishment has done and is still doing to create divides.
Money and the importance that it has as the tool that the establishment uses to manipulate, control and basically con the entire population is also the common factor with the elite groups or amongst the VVIPs whose fights are now breaking into the open as they take whatever steps they consider necessary on what they believe is their own respective pathways to control.
To summarise:
1. The WEF/UN/Known western establishment ‘Great Reset’ is falling apart because the elites involved have lost control of the FIAT driven monetary, economic and financial systems. Not least of all because they have either abused or failed to adhere to their own rules.
The UK could easily prove to be the first domino that falls because of the actions of the current Labour government that appear to have snapped into even closer alignment with the ‘plan’.
Whereas many other Western countries are openly resisting in what has manifested generally along more ‘right wing’ lines.
2. The BRICS ‘reset’ has been building, developing and evolving outside and beyond of our mainstream news view – even though you are likely to have heard BRICS mentioned at various times.
From the information available by doing web searches, watching and listing to podcasts that are available, it is becoming clear that whatever BRICS is going to do with a new currency, grain and commodities trading, and the precious metals that offer a very different and potentially anchored approach to whatever it will be that BRICS does, it could be launched and begin to create chaos across the Western world as we know it very soon.
3. The Trump ‘reset’ has been underway since the 20th of January 2025 when the returning President of the United States was sworn in and the new Administration got straight to work.
Trump’s reset is an attempt to shed or eject all of the bad and damaging policies and issues that were created overtly by the Biden Administration and to remove all the issues that people have not taken kindly to, such as woke ideology and everything that is currently being presented as being in a mess.
What is not so clear is that the plans being followed are also about retaining US hegemony and the status of the US Dollar as the ‘worlds reserve currency’, pretty much with the approach and thinking that bullying and bulldozing will overcome the resistance of a lot of very pissed off countries that will very quickly snap back into line.
Unfortunately, just with the example of the BRICS nations alone, we can already see that they see a pathway to their independence from the existing world order, and there is little to suggest that they will be happy to welcome it back – just because Trump is demanding otherwise.
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It is reasonably safe to conclude that a system collapse precipitated by any or all of these 3 resets or indeed any other, will reach way beyond the scope of just the financial, economic and monetary systems themselves.
This is why our cultural focus upon money and the way that it has become the value mark for everything in life is not only dangerous. But has the potential to invite change and the chaos that goes with it on a level that has never been witnessed before.
If you were to have a conversation with a handful of different people and ask them for their view on the problems and what their solutions to those problems would be, it is unlikely that any of them would respond in a way that suggests that the existing monetary system and the way that we value money would be at its core. Even if they were to make suggestions that might at first glance appear to address the problems as they see them.
Even economists and highly regarded academics and researchers would fall into this category.
They share what we might call a situational bias that reaches across society and currently refuses to accept that the basis of what people are comfortable with (or benefit from) within the current system, would not or rather could not exist anymore.
It is important for those seeking solutions to understand that problems such as the exploding welfare bill, increasing poverty, the reliance upon debt and how it is considered ‘normal’, along with replacing jobs with new tech and AI are and would remain symptomatic of resets 1 and 3, with things likely to become worse much more quickly, if any collapse should be driven by a BRICS takeover.
Whilst any or all of the resets continue and appear to work, society as we know it will function less and less as we have known it – or at least not for the majority of the Western population whilst changes made under the resets favour some at much higher cost to many more.
Ultimately however, none of the resets can work permanently because of the disparity that they will cause. With even the BRICS reset working on the basis that it would switch one type of world dominance which is wholly unfair and unjust, for a completely different one which would only appear to be a switch of places for the specific VVIPs and elites who are involved ‘at the top’.
Moving away from chaos
Regrettably, it is very difficult and probably impossible to convince enough people that the way we are living, with the priorities that we have, is not only unsustainable and inflicting potentially great harm on everyone’s future. But that it is also only really benefiting the VVIPs and the elites, with the perceived material benefit to everyone else always proving to be transitory at best.
This means that things either have to crash, or other unforeseen events will need to take place that effectively result in the same thing and same experience for everyone, before enough of us will accept that the time has arrived for change and that change will not resemble anything like we have known before.
Until that point of acceptance, the elites and the VVIPs will retain control and continue to pursue every avenue possible to maintain and keep them in control.
Chaos will be the immediate result and the inevitable next step, with the alternative then being a power grab from opportunists who will prove to be even worse than the pathways of the 3 resets that we have now. OR the people and our communities can step up, take back power and determine the future for ourselves.
This is the only kind of ‘reset’ that we should ever allow or have.
As you read through the pages of this blog or read the eBooks that are available and recognise the story unfolding and the different parts that we can all see, you may be able to step back and observe the reality that those who ‘take from the state’ are the easiest for everyone else to blame.
No matter their background or reason for being dependent upon the State, Benefits Claimants have become scapegoats and little more than everyone else’s ‘guilty bastards.
Worst of all, they have now become a very easy target for those who are actually responsible for everything that is going wrong with the UK, to project their own guilt and fear upon.
For anyone receiving benefits when they could or would rather be ‘paying their own way’, being anywhere near the Benefits System, the many organisations that work within and around it, and being within the exploding sub-class of our society currently being gaslit by the financial benchmark of the National Minimum or Living Wage; life is a fearful, emotionally and practically challenging living hell.
Given the nature of the announcements due to be made as part of the Spring Statement this Wednesday and what we already know is on the way from the October ’24 Budget, I will expand here on 5 of the most important points of what being within or touched by the Benefits System means to many of those whose lives are touched by it:
1. It costs more to live than the Minimum or Living Wage allows
The elephant in the room that is the cost-of-living crisis, is this:
What we currently accept as being the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage, isn’t anywhere near enough for a single person without any parental, caring or partner responsibilities, to live independently without top-up benefits, help from charities (foodbanks), going into debt or raiding savings.
2. Working on the Minimum Wage means you still need help
People working in Minimum Wage jobs in the UK, cannot earn enough, working a 40-hour week, to pay their own way.
Those on Minimum Wage cannot live independently, without still having to jump through the hoops and requirements that come from being a benefit claimant; from ‘qualifying’ to get emergency food packages from Foodbanks; by going into debt using credit cards, loans or pay-day-credit type schemes; or by falling back on family or friends for handouts, just to make ends meet.
3. Being on benefits is no breeze: Welfare cuts are an act of increasing cruelty when many just want safe-to-climb ladder to escape
Being on benefits means being treated like you are someone else’s guilty bastard and like you are the one who is in the wrong.
The staff in jobcentres (understandably) often don’t really want to be there. They are regularly exposed to some of the UKs most unhappy people. When they themselves are at the cutting edge of a Benefits System that has ALREADY removed all sense of humanity from its heart and behaves like it already runs with the dehumanisation that we can expect from universal AI that is being introduced for all the wrong reasons.
People who are not working or who have personal issues that have made them dependent upon benefits often feel vulnerable.
They suffer from the lowered levels of confidence that any form of unexpected or inescapable vulnerability brings. Even before they contact Jobcentres, the Benefits Office or any other organisations that provides the different services and offerings that provide income and support that comes from the public purse.
Some active claimants do use anger and exhibit loud forms of frustration. But this is often a self-protection mechanism and way to try and secure what they need from the System.
Sadly, these few are the stereotype upon which much of the prejudiced behaviour towards those on Benefits that reaches far beyond DWP staff is formed.
The profit-led private contractors who provide ‘back to work’ or ‘welfare to work’ services and ‘support’ are no better.
The tick-box culture that is applied universally towards anyone whose existence touches the welfare purse is one where claimants are considered capable of working if they tried, and therefore there because they choose to be.
Once through the turnstile of the benefits door, benefits claimants are considered worthless.
Nobody operating or administering the benefits system from within is prepared to look at anyone asking for help as being anything other than the same.
The Benefits system is inherently cynical and labels everyone who doesn’t work as being in the benefits queue as a lifestyle choice.
Unless benefits claimants possess a CV or situation which would be strong enough to indicate that they wouldn’t even be there in the first place, the experience of being just within the benefits system itself quickly takes its toll. Once inside, it is a downwards spiral for many where there is no genuine escape, even if you find a way to leave.
Politicians may indeed be openly questioning the number of unemployed who there because of mental health issues.
But beyond the torture of what it takes for growing numbers to keep up with a financial and money-centric culture that demands everyone keep up, the constant hits that come from being in ‘the system’ and treated like you are sub human by those who do and can work, makes for a progressively difficult challenge, that in the situation we all face today, has come down to little more than lucky breaks for the many who do want to escape.
4. Very few want to be on benefits – Living independently on a basic wage is key
I mentioned the angry and the frustrated above.
These are the people that hide behind a mask and fight the contact that they have with the Benefits System, because it’s what they believe they have to do, to survive.
Yes, many receiving benefits suggest openly and behave with a sense of entitlement. But this is the situation that decades of poor politicians – and therefore that we all have created, because of the responsibility that we all have, for appointing the politicians who have created, developed and maintained the mess that the UK is now in.
The stories of people who cannot step out of the benefits trap, because they cannot afford to do so, are also true.
There is something perverse about a situation where claimants will not take the risk of taking jobs and opportunities because of how they will be treated by the benefits system and what support they will lose immediately if and when they take those steps to get out.
Unless they cannot work because of other commitments or they find themselves genuinely unable to do so, there are few Benefits Claimants who have entered or remain within the Benefits System by choice.
5. A Minimum Wage that is guaranteed to be a Living Wage would change everything
Another truth that we have turned a blind eye to, is that many people who cannot do so currently, would be very happy to be working in Minimum Wage jobs IF they actually paid what its costs to live independently.
Many people would choose to work in Minimum Wage jobs, in receipt of a wage that they could live independently on. Because their only working responsibility or responsibility to others would then be to do what they are asked for the time that they are at work.
Many of us would be very happy just to work a working week and at the same time earn enough so that all of the bills and the essentials that it takes to live an independent and self-sustaining life today are paid for. Just as long as we don’t then have to go looking for and making ourselves vulnerable to anyone or anything else, reaching out for help, just to make ends meet.
In the days ahead, the Spring Statement that will be made to the Westminster Parliament by the UK Chancellor is likely to usher in mayhem of a kind we have never seen. Cuts to the Civil Service and Welfare Payments sit alongside taxation policies announced in the October ’23 Budget that should be flying red flags for many more of us than those who are ready to see, warning us about the mess the UK – and the World – are now in.
All for the love of money
The financial, economic or monetary system we have was designed by people who understood the following:
The power of money isn’t in the value of money itself. The power of money lies in what people without money can be convinced to believe the value of having money will be.
In the period running up to the ending of the Gold Standard, the launch of FIAT, GDP and tools like the (EU) Common Market, failing politicians who were desperate for control, power and the money they needed to spend on getting (re)elected, were easy to convince that FIAT and the tools that MMT and Neoliberalism had value, for us all.
The creation of a money system that wasn’t backed by gold or linked to anything with tangible value opened a world of possibilities.
Because at the bottom line of the whole balance sheet, money was always going to be worth whatever the people controlling that money said it was.
Naturally, the politicians didn’t really think about who would actually be in control of the money, as the real political pay-off was the way that the creation of money by banks and finance houses kept the true workings of everything far away from public view.
Creating the myth of credibility within shared systems
Through the adoption and regard of GDP as an accepted international economic benchmarking system, any money or unit of currency created by a private bank or finance house and introduced to the economy as loans or finance can be counted over and over multiple times.
Every unit (Pound, Dollar, Euro etc) adds another multiple of its original created value as it passes through each transaction or link in a supply chain, with the monitoring and publication of GDP recording output and growth that was really never there.
Total GDP figures are themselves then used to devalue or rather hide the debt that politicians incur through public spending, which is published as a percentage of what is required to be permanently growing GDP.
Traditional public spending is itself ‘dead money’. Because public service supply chains are typically short and revolve around providing public servants income and earnings.
The attraction for politicians to let the MMT genie out of the bottle was that they would be able to use money that they could borrow, rather than what they would have to obtain through raising taxes, to gain and maintain their power by buying votes. All with policies that they would not be able to afford or win support for in any other way.
The deregulation that was necessary – presented to all of us as ‘free markets’ – was never about freedom of small business in the sense that many even today believe.
Free markets are about giving freedom to big corporations and financial titans to set their own rules and control everything to do with money.
The freedom they have gained through deregulation has then dictated what the money they created can then buy. So that they could do whatever they want, take whatever they want and control whatever they want.
They knew that in time, the bogus system they created would eventually allow them to take over anything and everything that offered independence to anyone or anything that could provide a morally legitimate alternative to what they dictate would be our culture and way of life.
The big downside for every part of government and the ambitious and inept political classes who have blundered along whilst this has all unfolded using their signatures, is that they themselves have been manipulated, controlled and duped by the same interests that we have been conditioned by all along.
Politicians now go cap in hand to borrow from money creators who are always willing to use more of the false money that has enriched them to buy up the bonds the Government Treasury ‘sells’ them so that they can then charge interest on the money they gave the Government that doesn’t exist, but that we see made ‘real’ by our puppet politicians in the form of Public Borrowing.
The Credit Trap (For people)
Growing this system and measuring ‘growth’ is dependent upon the amount of money outside of the public accounts:
That has been added to circulation (the total volume of money that is known to exist in bank accounts or as cash) that can be realised or moved around, and
The multiples that can be added by the movement of that money, each time that it changes hands in a way that can be recorded through GDP.
This means that credit or money creation has become more important than traditional forms of production – which have historically been the source of value creation; and that these forms of production needed to be absorbed by the new system, so that everything within every supply chain could be leveraged – no matter the real cost to us all – so that they could force the creation of more new money or credit in some way.
As you begin to understand how valuable consumerism and everything that feeds it, such as mass production, globalisation, rent, leasing, subscription and licensing has become, you can also see how what is arguably the biggest and perhaps the perfect crime enacted against humanity, has really played out.
Through the necessity dictated by its need for ‘growth’ and now survival, The System has relied upon developing new and ever more inventive ways to force the masses into borrowing and the use of credit.
Using politicians and the law, we have deliberately been led and in some cases pushed away from owning resources, earning enough or having any kind of financial independence (including the use of cash) of our own.
The Credit Trap (for governments)
The growing value of the public debt was never intended to be paid off using this system.
It couldn’t be, because all of the natural forms of production and infrastructure that the population, normal businesses and even government once owned have steadily been sold off, moved and even rented back to us.
All so that those who used fake money to trap us all, could use the material wealth that they had bought and accumulated with fake money, to force us to borrow even more of that non-existent fake money, so they could gain increasing control over everything and make even more.
Our currency has become worth less and less in proportion to the value of the money that the banks and finance houses have been creating, which itself has been increasing from the start.
Unfortunately, all this has meant that as the assets and genuine productive value of the UK economy have been increasingly stripped away.
Government at every level – like all of us, has been left with less and less in terms of options to find money or income in any alternative way – because there is basically less and less happening in terms of independent production that remains available to be taxed!
The basic equation that politicians and government can no longer accommodate is this:
Privately or corporately created money and its circulation through increasing growth MUST always eclipse public spending for The System to keep working.
That is why everything we know and understand about the role of money, our access to it and our use of it has moved towards credit and debt creation that allows the flow of created or printed money at a level previously never known, that has then been used to finance the takeover of everything that has followed.
This is why we are now in the mess that we are in.
The System was always destined to fail. The only question was when
Public spending could be argued as having been out of control from the very beginning of this ‘system’.
Even economists believe that The System is genuine, because for no better reason than the subjectivity within the realms of an intergenerational period of time, it can certainly be argued that it does.
However, the realities of a system with malfeasant legitimacy were hidden so well by what remained of the ‘traditional’ or ‘old’ system for the first two to three decades, that politicians really had a honeymoon period.
Once bedded in, and the turmoil that followed adoption of the new system and what it really meant in the 70’s was complete, Politicians believed they could increasingly do whatever they wanted and didn’t see any danger hidden in everything they were being advised and influenced to do.
In reality, it was only the level of our Politicians own stupidity that could prevent them from getting successive wins, within The System of the 80’s, 90’s and early 00’s as it then was.
The real turning point when everything should and could have gone a different way was the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007/08 (Which has quietly been renamed The Great Recession) – when the stupidity and recklessness of the bankers own making through the actions of their employees and systems should have brought the whole system down.
The System was saved because the entire establishment by then depended upon it to survive.
Everyone with responsibility for the way everything we should be able to rely upon working for us, was already in it up to their necks.
The volume of cash created to bail out the banks in response to the impact of the GFC removed any real question over whether the existing financial system has any moral backbone or grounding in reality or not.
The fact that public borrowing being used to refinance private banks was accepted as being ‘normal’ in the way that it was, does indeed tell anyone looking on objectively, all they need to know about where the real priorities within The System lay.
The Politicians, establishment and bankers we so emboldened by the idea that they had got away with that one, it really didn’t take much for those in power, but without the skills, experience or leadership skills they all should have, to abuse the situation even further to get themselves out of a blind panic the very moment that the Covid Pandemic arrived in early 2020 and people began to die.
The explosion in unnecessary public spending, in response to the Covid Pandemic and then everything to do with the War in Ukraine that has followed, have contributed exponentially to the situation we see today and are key contributors to the fiscal decisions that the UK Chancellor and the Labour Government behind Keir Starmer is taking now.
UK government no longer has the ability to pay for all the public services that we need. Because private money creation and the ‘growth’ in credit is no longer high enough to hide everything that government needs to do.
The historic or traditional forms of production that the UK once excelled in and led the world with no longer exist to create either the value and therefore the money flow (through taxes etc) in any other meaningful or visibly legitimate way.
Our Armageddon is already here, today
The reason that so much of this is breaking into the open now, isn’t a warning of what will come if we don’t change our politicians’ minds and get them to run government differently.
It’s all coming into the open now, because it’s already too late.
When we begin to appreciate just how deeply rooted this bogus financial system is and how it is affecting so many different areas of life, we can begin to see just how serious the collapse of The System will be.
It is already making many fearful for what not having a system that works this way at the centre of the lives will mean.
Not because there isn’t an alternative, but because of the fear of losing whatever we believe we have gained.
Those who are responsible for keeping this morally bankrupt excuse for an economic system going know this and feel this too.
They are desperate to rescue themselves, their positions, influence and wealth with a new system that will keep their interests in place.
Alongside, they also plan to create a new set of myths for those of us who can be useful, and disregard everyone else.
In order for them to survive, the elites must change everything we know that’s built around the lies that are either unfolding or can already be seen to no longer work and replace them with new lies and The Systems that appear to work until those inevitably break too – no matter the cost to all of us.
Adam Tugwell 