One of the biggest myths in politics today is the suggestion that all of the Political Parties that we have on offer have some long-standing and credible philosophy that drives them from their base.

The Conservatives have forgotten what it is to be conservative. The Liberal Democrats are idealogues whose idea of liberalism has a very undemocratic form. Reform is at best Re-Ukipping and attempting to steal every Conservative Politician. Whilst Labour has nothing in common with the workers they once so fiercely represented, whose social and economic problems they now openly resent.

Whilst a large proportion of the UK population are very angry with politicians from right across the spectrum as it stands today, we still fall into the trap of believing that anyone who has become a politician or an MP is not only up to the job but should be treated with deference. Because being elected has made them special in some way.

Sadly, the days when we could rely upon any of the politicians or public representatives having the best interests of the public at heart in all that they do are very long gone.

The Political Parties select the candidates that we find on our ballot papers, meaning that we all have at best a ‘fixed choice’. And the choices that the Political Parties themselves make today represent a downward trajectory in leadership quality that has seen poor leader after poor leader surround themselves with even poorer leaders, which then makes up the pool from whom the next choice of an even poorer leader is inevitably made.

Even the best interviewers would struggle to uncover anything genuine or authentic about any of the people who are making the decisions that affect all of our lives. Yet we maintain the habit of taking everything these people say at face value, whilst too often falling into the trap that suggests going against the common or accepted narrative makes us wrong in some way.

What are today’s ‘politicians’ really there to do?

It has been said that if the general population understood how the economy and financial system worked, there would be a revolution tomorrow.

Yet we cannot even be sure that the Prime Minister really understands what this statement could mean. Beyond what he is being advised everyday by ‘experts’ and ‘special advisors’, who themselves also have myopic views of the world and are following their own agendas in many different ways.

The ‘growth’ that politicians obsess with isn’t the same ‘growth’ that normal people would typically think.

Yes, growing’ businesses does play a very small part.

But the growth that means so much to the political classes is the expansion of GDP or Gross Domestic Product. Which we might otherwise recognise as the financial productivity of the UK over a set period of time that can be measured in some way.

Growing GDP allows politicians to hide public debt and their expenditure.

Growing GDP and what they are referring to as ‘growth’, are the only tools poor leaders know how to use to solve problems, by showing the debt and expenditure as a percentage or proportion of the ‘economy’ for whichever period of time the reference point might be.

The entire economic and financial model that exists and which politicians are now struggling to maintain can only remain functional for as long as GDP and the money in circulation grows.

Because the same global model has already stripped the UKs traditional industries and tools of production from under us making the few already fabulously rich, there is very little left that can be used as a credible excuse for printing money.

This is why politicians are importing reasons to spend and create more money, whilst they use forked tongues to tell us they are committed to solutions that don’t face the same way.

Making us poor whilst destroying every means for us to solve the problems ourselves

As GDP and the money in circulation grows, the value of the money we have and the income we are expecting goes down and down.

The rich get richer whilst the poor get poorer and the whole system depends upon increasing wealth inequality so that those who already have more can keep getting more.

GDP came into being as the economic reference point at the same time that we lost the Gold Standard, and the FIAT monetary system took over in the period around 1971.

It is no accident that this was the same unhappy chapter of our history when UK politicians pushed us towards what was then The Common Market and what we now know as The EU.

As a localised global project, the EU ‘project’ was always about money and control being progressively handed to the world’s elites, whilst an ever-grimmer shit sandwich was all that was left for me and for you.

The neoliberal orthodoxy that underpinned all of this has been applied consistently and progressively over the past 50+ years to ensure that community and national identity has evaporated, whilst small, independent businesses of every kind are no longer viable, and any form of industry, service provision or the supply of food or goods that are essential to everyday life, have been placed under the control of fewer and fewer profiteering and controlling hands.

Puppet governance

None of this would have been possible without the help and commitment of generations of politicians who have been useful idiots for those who benefit from a system that is destroying our humanity, and everything good and of real value that we know.

Those benefitting have always been very generous to politicians and public servants in ways that appeal to the materially and glory-seeking weak minded, who have become corrupted by the system and the way that everything actually works, pretty much as soon as the votes that elected them have been counted or they have that plumb job, and the soundproof doorway from the real world into the Westminster corridors has closed behind them.

They quickly conclude that they are now the all-seeing, all hearing and all-knowing gods, amongst other gods who think exactly the same.

Dead Cats and indoctrinated amnesia

People have very short memories when it comes to politics, especially when things are feeling particularly bad.

Indeed, for many it seems easy to forget just how bad the Conservatives under Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak really were.

So, it seems unfathomable that Labour could actually be picking up where the Tories left off, and that’s why things are just getting even worse, whilst it’s the Conservatives at whom Labour are pointing the finger of blame – whilst they continue doing exactly the same.

You may not believe what you are reading. And that we are not supposed to is the whole point.

There is NOTHING between any of the Political Parties that we have to choose from today. Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem or Reform.

They are all as Establishment as each other, and as things stand today will continue the pathway of UK destruction, no matter how the next government may be formed.

Further Reading

1. Understanding the Political Crisis

• The Contemporary Politicians Dilemma
  Explores the crisis of leadership in UK politics, questioning whether politicians should continue managing decline or take bold action to fulfil promises. Highlights the lack of genuine leadership and the consequences of prioritising party over public interest.
• Power and Distance: Why UK Politics Fails the Public and How Local Governance Can Restore Trust
  Examines the disconnect between the public and the political system, arguing that hierarchical party structures and centralised power erode trust. Advocates for stronger local governance to rebuild public confidence.

2. The Economic Foundations and Collapse

• The Harmful Truths That Are Hidden Behind Political Growth
  Critiques the political obsession with “growth,” revealing how GDP expansion is used to mask public debt and perpetuate inequality.
• Facing the Economic Collapse: The Real Crisis Behind Money, Wages, and Freedom
  Discusses the underlying causes of economic collapse in the UK, focusing on the flaws of the current monetary system and the consequences for ordinary people.
• How the UK Was Led Into the Fiscal-Driven Armageddon We Are Now Within
  Analyses the policies and decisions that led to the UK’s fiscal crisis, including austerity measures and public spending cuts.

3. Governance Failures and Systemic Breakdown

• Government is Broken: Collapse Now or Collapse Later?
  Argues that the UK government is fundamentally broken, with unsustainable tax rises and ineffective leadership.
• Neither This Government Nor the Next Can or Will Stop the Coming Collapse—and That’s When You May Well End Up Owning Nothing and Be Forced to Be Happy About It
  Highlights the inevitability of systemic collapse regardless of which party is in power, and contends that only personal and collective action can avert disaster.
• Labour’s Misnamed Devolution is Regional Centralisation: It’s a Blatant Attack on Democracy That Tells Us How Desperate the Establishment Is to Avoid What Comes Next
  Critiques Labour’s devolution plans, arguing they are actually a form of centralisation that undermines local democracy.

4. Political Cycles and the Future

• An Early Election Looks Increasingly Likely, But Everything Remains Up in the Air—and the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
  Reflects on the political uncertainty surrounding an early election, noting that despite changes in leadership and party dynamics, the underlying issues persist.
• The Unfolding Tragedy of the UK’s Political Right
  Examines the decline of the UK’s political right, including the rise of Reform UK and the failures of Conservative leadership.