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

A Time of Turbulence

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

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

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

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

If you believe that, you’ll believe anything

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is now very much in doubt.

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

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

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

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

The carefully constructed, economic and intergenerational money ‘con’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The treasonous act of passing power to third parties, that was never any politicians to give away, is something that only those who have lost touch with respect for the sovereignty of other human beings, as part of their own relationship with power and influence, could ever explain.

However, for any ‘world leader’, whose ego is bigger than the appetite for a payoff, this kind of surrender to a form of power and control that would require them to be little more than a puppet, is not something they could easily accept.

That’s where Trump, his contra-reset and the Tariffs walk in.

Trumps Reset ‘Takeover’ and a strange parallel with the tenure of UK PM Liz Truss

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Trumpian roadblock against what might be better framed as the WEF derived Great Reset, that was otherwise already underway across the West – and that the Democrats in the US appear to have strongly embraced – is that Trump, his ‘power’ and what he currently ‘controls’ – are all much too big for the machine that the Globalists actually control to deal with directly.

They cannot yet refocus sufficiently enough that either Trump and what he represents can easily be pushed out – in no small part because of how ridiculous and unworkable much of what they are doing has already become.

There is no question that Trump has changed the game, and the known Western sphere alternative may only be able to respond by embracing paths they previously didn’t intend:

Many in the UK laugh at the ridiculously short prime ministerial tenure of Liz Truss.

The accepted narrative is that her economic intervention was a disaster in the making for all of us.

Yet the disaster that was feared by the establishment was nothing to do with what was good or bad for anyone beyond those tied into and benefitting from the actions of the establishment itself.

What Liz Truss did in just a brief moment, was like putting the establishment approach to money, economics and finance on steroids. It had to be stopped immediately, and the risk of it happening again quickly removed.

It is a measure of what ‘money’ and ‘the markets’ were able to do on behalf of the establishment to destabilise Truss so quickly, that give an invaluable insight into just how rigged, planned and controlled the whole system has been.

However, it’s also a clear indication of how desperate things have become that those in power are now applying hindsight to suggest that what Truss did may have had some merit after all.

Trump really is the piper playing the tune, right now. But that isn’t because what he is doing has longevity or value in terms of rescuing an economic system that was already collapsing under the weight of its own nefarious plans.

Trump’s ‘reset’ is arguably little more than a brazen attempt to take the world back to the post war era on 21st century terms. Aiming to put the USA back at the heart of everything economic, whilst leaving Trump to be what he may well believe to be Emperor of the World.

Are we now experiencing the death of the global economic system in real time?

With capitalism dead in the form that we have known it, because the world is waking up to the reality that the deck was always stacked and the result for the poor and those working hard to become wealthy alike, is that the whole thing is inherently unfair – Trump will only have as long as no workable alternatives to saying yes to him exist, before his reset will collapse. And in all likelihood with it, the world economic system will fall like dominoes, starting with the USA.

What many cannot see right now is there isn’t any way back for the rest of the ‘western system’ countries and the WEF puppet governments either. Because the only responses possible mean torching what is left of that which is already broken – just to keep up, or by working towards what could quickly be seen as a multipolar world order that by its very nature cannot and will not offer world control – even if the cracks can be temporarily painted over once again.

Although I wrote about the 3 competing Resets that have been building just a couple of weeks ago, before the Trump Plan was announced, it remains likely that the BRICS nations and what they have been working on together will come into play.

Even though anyone in any government who has any sense will soon begin to realise that the US has just proven how foolish it is to once again place all your eggs in any one basket this way.

The difference in just this short time is that rather than awaiting what some might call a reasoned attempt at switching the polar world from western dominated to eastern dominated control, BRICS will instead increasingly look like an emergency tool for survival and replacement trading. For all the countries that have signed up to it as well as most of those who are on the most drastic end of the Tariffs that are about to unfold.

Will desperation lead the EU-centric/WEF led countries to do similar or the same?

Trump: Catalyst, Cataclysm or both

Whilst many will understand and perhaps even sympathise with the Trumpian ‘Make America Great Again’ rhetoric, few outside of the United States will find value or appeal in the idea that Making America Great Again means everyone else must bow down and become beholden – economically, metaphorically and in every other possible sense, to Trumps USA.

Whereas The Bretton Woods System (which originally kicked everything off internationally) was arguably unavoidable, given the massive role that the USA had come to play, once it had joined the Second World War, it is likely that its acceptance was a begrudging one, and only considered an acceptable choice given the alternative and what so many countries had just been through.

The open subservience to the US required and whatever it might have ushered behind it was a price that many nations across the world accepted they would simply have to pay.

However, Trump doesn’t have that same hand of cards as Roosevelt had to play in 1944. And there’s nothing he can do to recreate them 80 years on. Not least of all because US hegemony has been abused by those who hide behind and have controlled it in so many open (and many more hidden) ways, during that time.

The biggest difference between the Spring of 2025 and the Summer of 1944 is the desperation of weak leaders around the world today is all about their own survival and what happens to them next.

Whereas at the end of the Second World War, those leaders who were left with any kind of seat at the table worth having were being practical about saving war-weary nations from what those able to visualise a fear-led future interpreted as being a very bleak time of peace.

Bretton Woods may have seemed necessary. But necessity wouldn’t either remove nor excuse the use of manipulation and abuse – no matter the ‘opportunity’.

Yes, the global economic model is finished. But no expert will tell you that

So, it very much looks like Trump is harking back to the glory days of this dreadful economic system. Where the abuses that made the abusers fantastically rich, whilst nobody else really noticed, were there, open and available to everyone who pushed their way in.

Regrettably for us all, what has changed since then is everything that had real value – and that means infrastructure, industries, communities and everything that goes with that paradigm – has been stripped, bought or taken over employing created money that would never have been available to the money men without this system being in place and accepted as being legitimate.

All these varied financial and business interests have bought or taken control of using this contemporary form of dark magic have been moved, changed or broken up.

Whatever often nationally recognisable industries used to produce, manufacture or supply has been outsourced to someone and somewhere that it can be done more cheaply. Or added to some other elaborate supply chain where many more opportunities to ‘create wealth’ for the already wealthy ‘friends’ have been added in.

Trump probably sees this much from his experience with the way that money has been working. That is arguably why he is so keen to bring production and manufacturing back to the USA. Because sovereignty over supply chains is power over them in every form.

So, Trump knows that protectionism can be a practical way to uphold sovereignty, security and appropriate power.

But what Trump doesn’t appear to appreciate is that protectionism can also backfire spectacularly and have massive consequences if it is abused, used overbearingly or used as a weapon in any other way.

A New World dawns

There is no way to turn the clock back. The United States that Trump appears to want to lead existed at least 80 years ago.

The damage – and the part that the US has played in it, alongside all of the western powers who have acquiesced – is already done.

The global economic system as we know it is already beyond repair.

However, the experts won’t suggest that there is another ending to one where money remains king. Because most of them have by now been taught, indoctrinated or conditioned by a system that we are all now victims of to believe that there simply is no other way.

Regrettably, what we must remind ourselves of is that experts know a lot about a little, and that knowledge is then itself typically applied in very subjective ways.

On the other hand, real leaders know enough about lots. But they are objective enough to bring many different experts together. So that the very best decisions can be made.

The problem that we all have with politicians, is that they aren’t really leaders in the sense of what it takes to be good national or international leaders at all.

Trump almost certainly sees himself as being an expert – in this case, in business. And it appears that he has fallen into the trap, like so many others do, of believing that economics and the economy are all about business. Rather than being about people and life – as some very greedy and power-hungry people have always intended and worked tirelessly to make truth.

This is where one of the biggest mistakes and injustices in human history has been made.

The harsh reality that we are all now in the process of awakening to is that not even Trump can reset a system that was designed to be so unfair, so unbalanced and so unjust, that it has finally broken and began revealing its secrets under the weight of its own intentional greed and the harm upon humanity that it inflicts.

Desperate Times – Desperate Resets
Our Future IS Local
Manifesto for a Good Dictator | Full Text

Being on benefits isn’t a culture; for many it’s a living hell

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.

In my recent research article and eBook ‘Is Poverty Invisible to those who don’t Experience it’, I discussed the realities that people using Foodbanks and in poverty face across the UK today.

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.

The Basic Living Standard | Full Text
Is Poverty invisible to those who don’t experience it? | Full Text
The Way of Awakened Politics for Good Government | Full Text

How the UK was led into the fiscal-driven Armageddon we are now within

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:

  1. 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
  2. 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.

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The welfare budget is out of control. But many claimants are there through no fault of their own and slashing payments won’t address the poverty problem or help out-of-their-depth politicians either

The coming weeks are likely to be a bleak time, not only for those on benefits who receive payments that could be cut. But also for growing numbers of the low paid, whose employment is likely to be at risk because of national insurance changes and yes – the April rise in the National Minimum Wage.

Appropriate credit should of course be given where it is due and the Labour Government certainly do appear to be digging themselves further and further into a hole with every policy decision that they make.

However, nothing is as straightforward as it looks in politics. And as I wrote in a blog in early December when I asked if Labour has been set up as ‘custodians of the collapse’, there is much to suggest that when it comes to the quality of politicians that we currently have in the UK today, the group filling the government benches are the unfortunate ones who have been left to carry the can.

I say this, as the collapse that there is very good reason to believe the collapse that is now underway, could, in theory have began at any time, since the decision to bail out the banks during the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/08.

The chances that a collapse would arrive sooner and more severely has grown significantly as a result of the Government response to the Covid Pandemic, the War in Ukraine, and basically everything that the politicians in power have been printing money to cover the cost of, ever since.

A collapse is and has always been inevitable. Because the financial, economic or monetary system that we have had since 1971 is to all intents and purposes little more than a massive game or perhaps what we might call man’s greatest confidence trick.

The financial, meonetary and economic system that we currently have was put together, successfully implemented (adopted) and pushed so that those ‘in the tent’ would become rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Meanwhile, control of the greater population has slowly but surely been passed to the same set of interests, using all manner of manipulation and incentives that mean people have effectively been surrendering their freedom – usually through financial means.

Hard as the reality may be to swallow, many people have been unaware of what has been happening to them; how their approach to life, relationships and everything has changed and in real terms, what a small set of very selfish and self-serving interests have so-far successfully done to everyone else, just so that they could become very rich.

The big flaw in ‘the game’ and with it the source of the greatest risk – which is the loss of control when that flaw inevitably becomes too obvious to hide, is the only way that money can be created or printed in the increasing amounts that it has been and still is, is for the value of the money that normal people possess or are able to earn to lessen much quicker than wage rises or the value of property they have the ability to own to rise and offset it. Let alone go beyond in the wealth creating sense that any does who is part of the clique who ‘rigged the game’.

By now, you are probably wondering what any of this has to do with welfare, benefits or the National Minimum Wage.

The National Minimum Wage, which was conveniently brought into being by the Blairite Labour Government on 1 April 1999, was of course sold to us all as a tool to ensure that everyone received a fair wage for every hour worked.

And as far as that story was sold, the people who the establishment needed to believe what was being suggested, almost certainly did and have done ever since, not least of all as the National Minimum Wage has increasingly become known as the National Living Wage too.

The problem is that even at the rate of £12.21 which will be the hourly rate of the National Minimum Wage from this coming April, it is and will continue to be nowhere near enough for any single person to live independently, self-sufficiently and without the help of benefits, charity (like Foodbanks), by going into debt or raiding savings – or falling back on them all.

The National Minimum Wage is certainly nowhere near enough for anyone to live on!

Done properly and with the intentions that should have underpinned its implementation, the National Minimum Wage could have performed and impacted lives very differently to the way that it has.

However, what it has actually done has been to serve as a wage suppressant. Keeping the wage ceiling deliberately low for significant numbers of people within a system that has been funnelling money in one direction only.

Let’s be clear. Not having the guarantee of taking home enough to ‘pay their own way’ makes it near impossible for people to feel in control of their own lives.

However, the legal requirement to pay the National Minimum Wage itself has the perverse consequence of ensuring that small businesses can no longer succeed. Because the margins that big global businesses are working to have made it impossible to keep paying the same number of people they could previously afford to.

Meanwhile, those big businesses themselves could actually afford to pay what it costs their lowest paid employees to live, but too often don’t. Instead choosing to move everything that they possibly can to countries where they can pay exactly what they want to, whilst everything we need is quickly becoming a luxury that more of us can no longer afford.

Guaranteeing that everyone on the minimum wage earns enough to live without help would solve problems that many simply wouldn’t believe

In my recent Paper ‘Is Poverty Invisible to those who don’t Experience it’, I talked about the experience of being on benefits today. What that actually means to those unfortunate enough to find themselves claiming them, and what it is like for normal, decent people to step through a door where only the most resilient could ever maintain the levels of confidence and self-surety needed to navigate a system where anyone who cannot fend for themselves financially is treated like a pariah, at each and every turn.

To put it bluntly, most people who find themselves within the benefits system today, without a career background or experience that makes them employable in a way that almost certainly guarantees they would never be there anyway, are damned. They are unable to escape, because the most basic of jobs that are readily available do not offer an income level that is genuinely realistic enough to provide anyone with the kind of independence and freedom that only a genuine wage that links directly to what it costs to live can afford them.

For those who need it to be spelled out; the number of people who are on benefits because they want to be there or because they cannot function in any way without benefits is very small and much smaller than any of the statistical evidence that is available would suggest.

However, working a ridiculous number of hours per week, to only then have to rely upon benefit top ups and the bewildering experience that goes with it; to struggle enough that you have to ‘qualify’ for an emergency food package from a Foodbank or to have to go into debt or use money that was put aside for living rather than to simply stay alive, holds no great incentive for anyone. Especially when the work itself usually attracts scorn and ridicule from others who see themselves as better and look down on those they see as beneath them or without the same value.

Solving the benefits problem should be as simple as government telling every employer that they have to pay everyone whatever it costs to live.

Yet we have long since passed the time when this would have been possible without collapsing the economy. Even if it would only have made a difference for a short period of time.

People are on benefits and living with less than what anyone needs to live, in this day and age, because for many of them it really is the lesser of the evils. Even though the evils that they are being subjected to still hurt and reach very deeply indeed.

The Government ‘view’

At the other end of the problem, the growing welfare bill is fast approaching a cost that simple mathematics has long since told us that the UK can no longer afford.

However, politicians have continued to do ‘find’ or create the money to keep covering the welfare bill (even though they talk up the mean actions that they do take), as the political fall out from exposing the truth, that there is a significant and growing underclass of people whose incomes are nowhere near what it actually costs to live and that businesses of ALL sizes are effectively having wages subsidised by the state, whilst vested interests are pretty much taking every bit of available wealth from everyone, would mean a confrontation and battle with the system itself that only a very rare breed of politician would be big enough to tackle.

The cost for everyone is the society and culture we were once proud of now crumbling around us, having its destruction accelerated by those in power who have become so desperate that they are turning everything to ash, just so that they can be seen to remain in control.

The reality is that politicians no longer have enough legitimate or morally workable options available to them to justify creating enough money out of thin air to save them now or to ensure their re-election, when the UK has for a long time already been technically broke.

What so few can or are prepared to either accept or to see, is that money doesn’t work for people in the system that we have and never did. Even though generations have regularly been conditioned to believe that getting wealthy or having everything would come quickly to all of us on the cheap. Just as long as we all went along with the lie.

The UK is now caught within a whirlwind of parallel death spirals. Where the poor and those with less can only become even poorer. Whilst the ability of government to do anything meaningful has been hollowed out.

The situation leaves the entire political class on the edge of a precipice where government is about to become unable to do anything. And all of this has been inflicted upon us so that a few could become wealthy and obtain power, always knowing that they would have to achieve oppressive levels of control over society, before anyone who would be brave enough to speak out and be believed by enough people had worked it all out.

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The Basic Living Standard: A Pathway to Economic Equality and Fairness throughout Life

The coming weeks are likely to see increasing talk of benefits, unemployment and what it costs to live as the government makes budget cuts and then as the reality of the changes to National Insurance contributions really begin to bite in early April, alongside the rise in the Minimum Wage.

Whilst the current government is very much the focus of blame, the difficult truth that many still cannot see and politicians will not talk about – IF they actually understand, is that the Minimum Wage is the benchmark that is used by everyone as the ‘accepted’ level of what it costs someone to live.

However, although the Minimum Wage will rise to £12.21 in April, this level of pay – even for a 40 hour working week, is nowhere near enough for a single person, living alone to cover the cost of everything they need to pay for each week, without seeking benefits, help from charities such as Foodbanks, going into debt (or using savings), or a mixture of them all.

Regrettably, the way that our economic system works and has deliberately been developed and evolved over a period of more than 50 years means that money and everything related to it can only make some people fabulously wealthy in the way that they are now, by many others being financially left behind.

Although this unbalanced financial system has appeared to work for a very long time, and long enough that it means most of us cannot picture the world we live in working any other way, the reality is that it could only work for a period of time, because it has developed around the growth of what we all know as the wealth divide.

Money has been created in such volumes, especially since the Great Financial Crisis, the Covid Pandemic and the War in Ukraine, that the shelf-life or end-date is arriving even more quickly than those who understood and benefitted from the system imagined, and it is the reality that the impact and consequences of decades of having this system in place which are now proving very difficult for politicians to hide and why we are now experiencing so much that people in power are either avoiding or simply refusing to explain.

Money is the centre of everything. It’s the reference point for the value of all that we have, want, need and do, and its presence and influence has reached the point where the role that money now plays in our lives is dehumanising everything – and being helped to do so by those who are benefitting from what we believe about money (that isnt actually true), and what we will accept from them as a result.

However, the world could be very different. And to be very different, we need to put people, community and our locality and environment back at the heart of everything.

The Basic Living Standard is the radical proposal to change the way that economics and money works, so that everyone working a full working week would be guaranteed a level of pay that would ensure that they could be completely self-sufficient, and live independently, working in the lowest-paid employment, thereby giving EVERYONE the same benchmark for life and minimum human value in all and whatever they do.

The Basic Living Standard would require everything in business and across society to change, so that we all recognise the value of people and what living a good, healthy, happy, safe and secure life within a genuinely fair, balanced and just system, in every part of life and in everything that we do – as it should be – rather than the focus always being upon profit, greed and advancement, as it is right now.

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