Author: thetwowaymirrorcouk

In a much-contested debate throughout a partisan media, has been the question of whom will replace Boris Johnson. For the Labour Party this has been on infinite repeat since he replaced Teresa May and then won a landslide victory. Notwithstanding, in what can only be described as an act of mass belief perseverance, opposition parties have refused to accept five Conservative election wins.

Despite a number of controversial situations perpetually fuelled by these adversarial media outlets, the public for the most part have remained steadfast. Detaching from the EU, was never going to be amicable or acceptable and the faithful were never going to be less than destructive. But Boris would come through with a work in progress and in the Pandemic, decisions were taken, the country survived. Then despite the monotonous hindsight and moronic draconianism of opposition, we took a breath and left the economic death spiral of ineffective lockdowns. Because of the Pandemic and subsequent borrowing, the election promise of levelling up has been slowed but not stalled.

The failure of successive governments not just in the UK, has led to a loss of confidence in politics; and a paradox of mavericks as publicly acceptable leaders. The Pandemic has lost us two years, which ultimately may change Boris’ plan of not wanting to stay around for a full two terms. Further, to hinder opposition plans for clinching the prize, has been the Prime Minister’s response to Putin’s War in Ukraine, which has resonated positively. Opposition and anti-Boris voters will be praying that the great reversal is Nye; and as in the previous four elections it the nation’s collective opinion and will that decide the next Party in office.

So, who are candidates for the next prime minister, well there are the usual suspects:

Keir Starmer – Consistently supported by Labour opinion, a good man and will make a much better Prime Minister. As an opposition party it is their responsibility to keep the Cabinet in check, through enforcing accountability; and offering better solutions or alternatives to Government plans and changes. However, since the 2010 election, Labour have offered little or no ideas, but consistently complained about any government proposal. Most importantly they have done nothing to sway the voting intentions of swing voters. In truth, Starmer has been completely ineffective overall against Boris, wasn’t the same said about Jeremy Corbyn.

Rishi Sunak – The young Chancellor had built a good reputation through the pandemic, but has lost favour with his solution to the utility and fuel crisis. But it does not stop there, he is being judged for his recent US green card status. Further, opposition parties have been attacking his wife’s non domicile status. Perhaps with better solutions, Rishi may be able to recover his polling favourability but that window of opportunity is quickly closing.

Angela Rayner – Despite the belief on the far left, that making inflammatory statements rouses support of your voter base, this behaviour is not ministerial. Angela Rayner lacks any sense of decorum that would constitute an acceptable Prime Minister; and will need to grow a great deal before becoming a plausible candidate. By contrast and example, why did MPs choose to elect someone with Keir Starmer’s more polished personality and attitude.

Priti Patel – Unfortunately, Priti has been tainted as Home Secretary over the migrant situation. As much as there is a level of truth to this, every Home Secretary as far back as Jack straw has suffered the same fate. Unlike previous Ministers, no one has gone further to try and fix this matter. But how do you stop a collective of EU nations that ignore their own immigration policy; and simply point in the direction of England, then French authorities ignoring gangsters profiteering from sending migrants over in fragile rubber dinghies.

Ed Davy – This candidate has too little trust or support from the public, with no more respect or credibility than his predecessor.

Dominic Raab – He damaged his credibility in the public eye during the US Afghan withdrawal and is not currently held with high esteem.

Penny Mordaunt – The Honorary Captain has been serving in office since 2014, but also has been serving as a Royal Navy reservist and was involved with training Ukrainian troops 2015. This is a Lady the public should be watching, as Penny will be in the race for Prime Minister when the time comes.

Michael Gove – Regarded as a hard worker, he has never instilled the strong favour of the voting public that would currently constitute a future leader.

Liz Truss – Though she has made two errors in relation to Russia, her track record as foreign secretary and chief negotiator has been a resounding success. This is an MP the public can see at the very least being leader of the Conservative party. Moreso, a serious contender for Prime Minister in the near future.

Lisa Nandy – In a revised late entry in response to Keir Starmer’s relentless crusade of Party gate, Lisa spoke out about cost of living. The Labour MP may be putting head above the parapet and be considered for Party Leader, where in the coming weeks change could be the only good for Labour.

Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn will be fully reinstated, there is still support for his leadership within factions of the Party; and even lead the Labour Party in the 2024 General Election. Unfortunately, the Independence referendum has highlighted that there are only two points of opinion, regardless of Party affiliation, Euro centric and Pro British. This is a political foundation that has existed for nearly 30 years or more and will remain for some years to come. Where for opposition parties Federation supersedes, the nation’s opinion, health and desire for self-determination.

However, what about the experienced Back Benchers and Mavericks in the world of politics:

John redwood – The MP for Wokingham is a name that is held with respect and one that has crossed the lips of many in recent years. He was a member of the Thatcher Government and voted against the Common market in the 1975 referendum. Sir John was also against integration with the EU, has consistently offered ideas for economic growth and alternatives to the high tax stance of the current treasury. There are calls for his expertise in Government as Chancellor, before any up and coming leadership contest.

Jacob Rees-Mogg – The MP for North East Somerset has been criticised by the opposition as living in another century, because of his manor, education and accent. However, he has displayed a great depth of British law and a pride of British history. Further, ran his own hedge fund company and is a man of private Christian virtue. Mr Rees-Mogg is grounded and cannot be discombobulated, it would be closer to say he was a potential leader of 19^th century English gravity.

Michael Portillo – This is a learned man of great political historical depth and was a member of the Thatcher and Major Cabinet, but also Thatcherite Conservative. Though retired, Mr Portillo would be a strong leader of the Conservative Party and attract the attention of swing voters.

Nigel Farage – Tarred as a racist and the most hated Man in politics by the left wing, Nigel Farage gained his reputation for being the Architect of Brexit. Despite left wing agitators claiming that he jumped on the band wagon, he’d been against Maastricht since 1989 and campaigned for independence until 2019. One of the many reasons for EU scepticism over the 20 years to the Brexit vote was uncontrolled migration. Let alone zero public consultation or Referenda in the signing of Maastricht. In short in the ‘new culture’ to discuss immigration is analogous to racism. In a previous life, he was a commodities trader on the London Metal exchange. Currently, still deemed as toxic, has been one of the strongest politicians in the past 20 years, equally loved; and vilified is spoken by a great many not far right as the man who should have been leading the Conservative Party and rewarded as Prime Minister.

Kate Hoey – The Baroness was a cabinet member in Tony Blair’s Government and has had a strong career in politics; and where media outlet have talking about her as a Labour Leader. But with respect at aged 75 may now be too old to care about running for office.

In unprecedented times of global turbulence and economic crises, why are we not utilising the expertise and experience of past cabinet members, to navigate through these choppy waters to new horizons.

By Alfred Stephen Pryor © 2022

The monotony of party gate has been reiterated without end for two years and perpetuated by media & politicians like they were suffering turrets. Despite, recent geopolitical events that include covid, the war in Ukraine, climate change and the cost of living crisis. Beyond the politicised perception of institutional racism, there was only one news story, because ‘the public were angry’. Where fresh calls for the prime minister to step down, were still originating from those invested in the leverage of the party gate scandal. 

When the scandal over parties was made public, the matter would be raised in Parliament by every opposition Leaders at every possible opportunity; and ‘quiet unintentionally’ interfered with every proceeding and issue of parliament for the next year.  

In reality no perceived scandal could have lasted this long without politicised news agencies regurgitating a story on a daily basis.  

In response, the Prime Minister would state he did not know of any parties that had taken place during lockdown. After evidence surfaced regarding the PM’s birthday cake, Boris would state that over this incident, if he broke the rules, he did so unknowingly. But more importantly he would setup an investigation to ascertain any rule breaking and to what extent. 

An important question that needs to be raised was who leaked the PM’s birthday gathering and for what purpose? 

Perhaps the most allegedly damning evidence, was the leaked test video from the then new No.10 strategic communications office. This would show Allegra Stratton being asked a mock question about a party during lockdown. Allegra would joke, stating ‘did cheese and biscuits at a meeting constitute a party?’ For much of the opposition this was the smoking gun that led to Stratton’s resignation and another successful career assassination. What seemed a silly and spur of the moment question, was part of a video allegedly leaked by Dominic Cummings.  

A question that does need to be asked, was whether Allegra Stratton attended any of the alleged parties? 

Initially, the press reported that there was an alleged party at No. 10, then there were possibly more than one. Later, it had been found that the parties were actually at CCHQ, but news agencies then publicised four parties and then just multiple parties at no. 10. During lockdown, there were certain categories of people that were keeping society functioning, that had to work with slightly modified considerations. These included Government, the NHS, Fire, Police and the Armed forces, where some staff could work from home, but many had to be in the office at their posts.  Further, there were others that included personnel in power stations, factory workers and HCAs in nursing homes. All these had to continue working where social distancing was more difficult and proximity working was always an issue. Essential workers, constantly carried the fear of transmitting Alpha, Beta or the Kent variant and required regular testing. These individuals were contained in work bubbles, that developed as a consequence of the importance of their work in supporting the nation.  

Subsequently, since party gate, birthday cakes in offices are now perceived as a party. I like many millions, worked in offices for many years and they were no such thing.  People would sit in their department office; a cake was brought in with candles lit and happy Birthday was sung. Cards were then given, positive words were spoken, the cake was cut and everyone went back to their work. The definition of an office party would need include: drinks, a buffet, music and even dancing.  

One of the fundamental issues of the so called ‘party gate’ allegations and investigation was what questions were asked in relation to Lockdown rules. 

Pictures were even leaked complaining about the PM and his wife sitting together with other distanced in the No.10 Garden? It must be stated, sources have always been conveniently vague about the details surrounding the alleged gatherings of MP’s. According to the press, the alleged party that the Prime Minister attended and has now been fined was reportedly inside No.10. A more important question, why was this information and the subsequent allegation not put into the public consciousness sooner? 

Notwithstanding, the most difficult rule to follow for the public, was not being able to gather outside their own household or extended bubble. The public would accept different rules for NHS workers. A not unexpected move on the part of the media was to ask members of the public their opinion of cake in an office setting. Controversially, of all the public interviewed it was unlikely that anyone questioned had worked in a true office environment; and probably never experienced team relationships in their workplaces handled in this manor, where they were more likely to just go out for food and drinks.  

In response to these gatherings the voting public were unhappy and rightly so. When we consider how many of our relatives we lost and then having to accept mourning via Zoom or Teams. The reality is that public perception is everything.  Two years on, despite the public being unhappy about party gate and contrary to opposition propaganda, people have moved on as current and far more pressing matters are now affecting our lives. 

However, more interestingly, Keir Starmer one of the most outspoken politicians over these Parties, was allegedly caught eating a takeaway with others at a gathering in Feb 2021. But was then later photographed in late spring 2021, drinking a beer at a gathering where another person was eating. At this time Lockdown rules prohibited gatherings, where he and the Labour party in response have denied any wrong doing.  

Nonetheless, Kay Burley celebrated her 60th Birthday with colleagues at a Soho restaurant and then there were the Parties in Brixton that ended in rioting. Further, it has been alleged that there were NHS parties, a fact that in honesty, if true there would be little opposition. As a result of the consequential Met Police investigation, an institution many currently have little trust, there were other people found to have attended Parties. But that they would not be issued fines, an obvious question is who are these individuals and where were these parties.  

I cannot believe that all members of the opposition were at home diligently following the rules. The Press are always watching. 

In assessing these events of the past two years, the conclusion has only raised more questions in relation to how this investigation was conducted and those that were investigated. 

It would be interesting to know what now is defined as a party? 

Who was at this alleged party with the Prime Minister and where was this hosted? 

Were the guests at this Party a part of the work bubble? 

Where they socially distanced? 

The past two years of Keir Starmer’s leadership, has been spent crying foul at any and all of the policies proposed by this government in the worst time since WWII. Absent of counter policies or new suggestions, Labour have been growing with malice toward the Conservative’s and a self-destructive resentment of the British Public. Keir Starmer has been utterly ineffective as an opposition leader and where the labour mantra is “Power by any means”. 

By Alfred Stephen Pryor © 2022

In our lives, we must plot our own course and steer the ship to our future destinations, for our families and ourselves.

In campaigns through the past century, the emphasis of change publicised by opposition parties and movements has been solely directed at government with campaigners and activists airing grievances about underfunding, neglect regeneration and government responsibility. Though in our purpose, funding and regeneration are fundamental elements, our focus is one of broader scope & reach. As a social and political grass roots movement, we have to recognise that the societal and economic decay of the early 21^st century and as a broken society, we must repair communities and improve ourselves if we are to prosper and drive the direction of this oncoming storm.

In our domestic economy with the ensuing plague of Corona virus, we are bearing witness to the destruction of industries in retail and hospitality, as this progresses through 2021, we cannot know the damage to come. Nevertheless, with successive lockdowns we have had time to see that change is coming and that, we must adapt & further our behaviour must evolve with it.

There are many wars that have been fought and that are coming in our lifetime, though not necessarily wars of violence, these will manifest as the race for Artificial Intelligence, the sprint toward completely renewable and Zero Point Energy, a renewed space race with deeper manned space flight and even colonisation & terraforming of the inner system.

However, on a more negative note a potential cold war with China and the nihilistic movement that may reassert itself through the financial support of corporatism sugar coated in the utterance of a naive Utopic philosophy long accepted faulty in design.

Notwithstanding, domestically we will need to properly address the causes of the polarisation of British politics, to reintroduce a centred equilibrium. Further still, confront cancel culture & the never ending classifications of social grouping, that were designed to unravel Western culture and bring a permanent plague of nihilism & chaos, ending society on these shores.

In the coming years Britain will play a not so small role in the development of the former and just as importantly is making strides to realign the geopolitical situation through re-widening global trade in bilateral agreements and a reaffirmation of the Anglo alliance. For the last 20 years, we have been going backwards, through not reading and learning, ignoring history and denying the living memory of our own families, though most importantly a global addiction to a politically infiltrated cancer that is social media.

Since the last economic crash, we have seen a fall in wages, a reduction in jobs, and a further expansion of roles that favour graduates and a continuation of economic migration.

There are major shifts of global economics and politics in the making, how we respond as individuals & as families, can and will influence the future of this nation for the next 50 to 100 years!

32.Gender pay gap

In the last few years there has been a great deal of emphasis on the issue of the gender pay gap, a strange turn of events considering that Boomers and Gen X had been protesting equal pay in the late 1990’s, further, a matter that for many should have been dealt with by now. Despite this, it must be stated that in an ONS report 2019, in the under 40’s the pay gap between men and women was near zero. Notwithstanding, the are a number of issues that are frustrating the data comparison, that are rarely discussed and only scoffed at when they are:

• In the first instance, a factor that has skewed data in determining a gender pay gap is the fact that after giving birth, women will take part time work or time out of the workplace while raising children.
• This inherently has consequence, while women are out of the workplace men continue to contribute in the workplace and gain experience in their career, putting them further along the pay scale when women do return to the workplace.
• Men are still working longer hours than women
• Men choose careers with higher pay scales
• Men take more dangerous jobs and according to the HSE, 23 times likely to die in workplace accidents.
• More men take jobs working outside.
• Many women choose lower paying careers, as an example the NHS is 77% Women, in the field of Psychology 75 – 80% are Women, in Adult Social care Women make up 82%; and Women in Child Social care equate 85% of the workforce.

Further still, Women account for 58 % of practicing vets registered with the RCVS in 2015, this equated to 75% among 26 – 30 age bracket, further according to the Uni guide, women account for 81% of Veterinary Degree places in 2020.

In Education, 69.5% of teachers are women; figures do show that men earn more than women in their career. However, three factors do skew comparisons between male and female salaries:

1. Men will stand for promotion earlier in their career than their Female counterparts.

2. Men are more likely to move to another school for a promotion, where as Women are more likely to wait for promotion at the school they already work.

3. Men are 10% more likely to negotiate for a higher salary in their career than their Female counterparts.

• Finally, Women make up 58% or (3.34million) of unpaid carers.

Within the spheres of the NHS, Psychology and Veterinary medicine, despite many of these requiring highly skilled and academically qualified individuals, these fields dominated by Women do not command the highest salaries.

• Occasionally, though a controversially employed measurement, when calculating the average salary in a city or region, is the use of top earner dataset, these include Directors of Corporations and Proprietors of larger companies. There is no scale to these roles and almost no one will attain these salary levels in their career lifetime. This unethical and misleading dataset is most often applied by radical Feminists to reflect a greater disparity in the gender pay dispute, that is in reality categorically an illusion. Just as when applied to average earning of men and women in general, this will obscure the true poverty of many residents when compared to the cost of living. The use of this dataset in any survey can only ever be applied as a comparison and must stand in its own bracket.

Notwithstanding, only to compound and further confuse the situation, there is another level of disparity in relation to pay equality, that has been indicated as present though not prevalent in the mainstream media. There is reporting dating back five years of pay inequality according to sexual preference, where it has been suggested Gay men are earning more than Heterosexual men; and where Lesbian woman are earning more than Straight women?

Another measurable distinction in our thinking has been where men are willing take the risk of applying for promotion or taking on a role even if not experienced or adequately qualified for a role. Women have traditionally been less confident in taking the same risk; consequentially, there have always been more men in senior roles.

While encouraging women to take careers in the STEM and higher paying fields is a positive step forward, equity promoters are suggesting men should consider looking at roles in social care or become nurses.

Certain equality promoters want more women to move into the fields dominated by men, contrary to media coverage not as many women as expected have been choosing these careers and simply repeat that there is still gender bias in teaching and the media in relation to industries.

Allowing men and women to have the same dreams is a noble aspiration; instead should the goal not be to give men and women the opportunity to actualise their own dreams?

Despite this when men do opt to work in fields such as nursing, they are more likely to choose specialities with higher pay scales and work longer hours.

To accurately, compare the salaries of men and women, you would need to match industry for industry role for role, hours worked and overtime worked to form any kind of a consensus.

When considering the loudest voices for gender pay equality, if so, why is there the sexual preference imbalance?

Furthermore, in this politically driven controversy, what is the ultimate goal?

When considering the prevalence of part time employment, and the differences in our thinking, it is more difficult to accurately chart the deficit when calculating female to male salary ratio’s; nonetheless, it must be iterated as long as the dataset of top earners is applied to the average male lifetime salary calculation, then equality was never the objective!

33.The timeline and the Tangent Universe

If we were to visualise our societal decay in a 1980’s movie about LA School life, this would be a parallel of life in Britain, if we had been without the welfare state; however the social & educational issues are as prevalent and relevant today as they were then. Unfortunately, the welfare state has only seen to mask just how bad the situation has become. In some ways, social decay is far worse than it was then in the US and now in a state of emergency.

The turbulence of the 1970’s would prove very difficult for both Labour and Conservative alike, with high inflation, the signing of the common market agreement; and mass striking, neither party would leave unscathed.

In December 1973, Edward Heath leader of the Conservatives Government would become caught in a pay dispute with NUM, as they did not feel that miner pay was keeping pace with other industries. Consequently, Health took the decision to conserve coal stock, after a failed strike vote, this would always become known as the three-day week; more interesting however, in January 1974, The National Union of Mineworkers overwhelming voted to strike, after the rejection of a 16.5% pay rise?

This would see only essential services, like hospitals being adequately powered through the week, where even the BBC and ITV would close at 10.30 in the evening.

Even so, if the NUH were not satisfied with the proposed increase, would 16.5% not have indicated the Government were prepared to negotiate, retaining the unions’ participation at the negotiation table?

In response, Health would call a general election with the message ‘who governs Britain’ on the premise that the nation would side with the government; a fateful move that saw the formation of a Labour government due to a hung parliament and the Conservatives losing their majority.

Subsequently, Labour would end the pay strike with a 35% increase, only to accept a further pay increase in 1975, from the Coal Board of another 35%?

By 1979, James Callahan’s now leader of the Labour Government would suffer a similar fate, with financial issues facing the nation in 1976, multiple striking by unions ensuing, peaking for this government in 1979, the ‘Winter of discontent’. With public services ceasing, high inflation and rubbish building up in the streets, Parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the Labour government, triggering a General election and the Beginning the Thatcher era.

Nevertheless, contrary to a plethora of articles written by apparently well educated, well informed Project centric, Millennials, France & Germany were not faring better economically than Britain. In 1973, UK GDP growth was 6.5%, France 6.345%, Germany 4.777% and Italy 7.126%; by 1974, this had fallen in the UK to -2.484%, Italy’s GDP -2.09%, Germany dropped to -0.89%, France never dropped below 4.3%.

The Thatcher years were also turbulent with a great deal of change, then eventual growth economically & culturally; however, there is a wide range of opinion about her Premiership, ultimately being vilified by the Union’s, Labour, their supporters and the Left wing for closing the Pits and breaking the unions. If we are to be honest doubtless Margaret Thatcher did close a large number of Pits, to be accurate 160; nonetheless, during Harold Wilson’s Labour Government 1964-70 & 1974-76, they would close 290 Pits. Furthermore, with a decade plus of endless striking over pay issues orchestrated by the unions, this would take its toll even on the public.

Regarding the demise of Margaret Thatcher, this has been subject to speculation, although, there have been a number of recurring themes, that include: the Poll tax, her opposition to the European Monetary Union, Alcoholism; and not making any true effort to start a leadership campaign. In 1987, Mrs Thatcher had already begun to publicly air her views in the press and at conferences of the coming, political alignment with the then EC, expressing that Britain’s future lay outside Europe. Subsequently, when it was proposed that Britain join the European Monetary Union and scrap Sterling, Mrs Thatcher’s opposition was challenged by Chancellor Nigel Lawson and Foreign Secretary Jeffery Howe. Along with others, these would join the Head of the Bank of England Robert Leigh-Pemberton and urged Thatcher to join. However, Mrs Thatcher had already been warned by David Norgrove, her private secretary about these machinations; further to be told by Nigel Lawson now (Sir) that there would not be greater freedom outside the EC.

On the day infamously to be known as Black Wednesday, it had been feared that the ERM that later become the Euro would not survive; nonetheless, on 16^th September 1992, Britain began aligning with ERM, only to be countered by Currency investors pulling their money and George Soros shorting the Pound to make a £1b. Resultantly, Britain would stop pursuing further integration with the mechanism and this would perhaps be the only decision of merit, taken by a British Government, for next 24 years.

Why did investors lose faith with their investments in the Pound?

In regards to George Soros, putting the money to one side, there are no questions to be quantified, proposed, or contemplated!

On 7^th February 1992, the succeeding Conservative Prime Minister John Major, signed the Maastricht Treaty, without consulting the British Public and would be the flashpoint of the tangent universe.

In 1997, with new promises and a new brand, new Labour would win by landslide victory, by this time the Conservative party had been in office for 17yrs and inevitably a spent force.

In the past 6 years, we have seen a shear dichotomy of ideology open between the two main parties that has seen Labour progressively unelectable over five general elections; astonishingly, continuing to brand themselves as the party of the working class.

However, for a great many generational Labour supporters this philosophy parted ways a long time ago, further still, they have completely abandoned their ideology. Now unrecognisable, making them unpalatable to even old socialists in the party, who were opposed to the single market at the outset.

Recently, there have been regular dispersions cast by left wing ideologists that Britain is a right wing nation and further that the Tories had moved even further right also. The reality here is that the Labour party has moved so far left, that the Conservative Party appear to have moved further to the right. Such a revelation would have only seen to support their campaign and swaying voters if this had been true, the issue is that the current generation of left wing supporters have been educated to believe that Politics is a straight line from left to right.

In reality, Politics is circular where extreme philosophies move so far in opposite directions that they meet at the other end.

When you consider the extreme ends, what is difference between Communism and fascism?

A question that has received a heady amount of criticism and offence at the left wing end of the political spectrum on social media and the internet in general; we would challenge you to research and then consider the National Socialist German Workers’ Party?

The Conservative Party is no further right of centre now that it has been in the past 40 years.

The prevailing message, without compromise, Britain has always voted based upon which party has the best ideas that will support the nation or is believed at the time; however, it must be established that Labour and Conservative rarely resonate with equivalency in the hearts & minds of the nations at the same time. In England, voters will elect the party they feel will best support the nation until they no longer serve in the nation’s interest or the other party has better ideas.

Britain, has always voted firmly centre, though often described as Conservative with a small ‘c’, furthermore could only ever be a two party nation, as the Liberals could never get their act together for long enough to develop any kind of significant power base.

To brand the nation as right wing in way that is being insinuated, the British public would have to vote BNP!

The fabric of our society is tethered to conservative foundations, by introducing liberal ideas, this stretches the fabric away from the centre to bring about change and growth in society; without forgetting the ideals of which that society has been built. However, when liberalism is allowed to expand unbridled, will only see to tear the fibres that hold society together until there is no fabric of which to stretch; and the distance travelled, can only be measured by the last point changes were made.

34. The Low pay Low tax Zero investment Paradoxical

Traditionally Britain has been a higher tax nation in comparison with our many of European and Anglo counterparts. In past economies where pay and the cost of living variables were in greater balance, we paid greater tax and as a social democracy, with a stable infrastructure we accepted this. The benefits of this included money available for vital services and investment capital.

Due foreign investment, more people than jobs, lower paying jobs and a significant trade imbalance, then the global crash, we found ourselves in a paradoxical situation. The surplus accumulated in the Treasury before 2008 was spent on going to war in Iraq II, when the crash hit, you would have expected fiscal instruments to be applied, with Government investment to stimulate the domestic economy. What we would see was a number of reductions in income tax and investment in public services slashed, where by 2015, we discover we had been applying the German austerity model? With a lack of disposable income, people did tighten their belts, though this did not stop major Businesses making greater profits than before the crash. More interestingly, keeping wages stagnant and little expansion of jobs, with most major companies being foreign owned, profits were not benefiting this nations economy.

Now, in a low income and lower tax state, with Covid present globally, we find ourselves in a post WW II situation, this Government has promised new infrastructure, though slowed in the current crisis. There will come a point where if we want the quality of life we experienced 25 years ago, with our hard work in restoring affluence to the country, we will need to pay the higher taxes of yesterday, to secure the pride in our NHS, lower crime, better education and better community services lost over the past 15 years. Many left wing groups have reported the global crash as a failure of Capitalism, do not believe it, there are four major factors that lead to this:

1. Britain becoming a part of the EU trading block, make no mistake, despite anti-British propaganda, we created two of the three worlds economic hubs, London and Hong Kong, New York being the other. Further where the basis for how the World trades and many of the bilateral agreements are largely because of the British Empire.
2. Trading with EU, means they can tender for a countries local services, you must pay fees to trade and the trade balance is always weighted in their favour.
3. China was allowed to become the world manufacturer, freezing out India, Pakistan Southeast Asia and anywhere else. Consequently, China is extremely wealthy, with the ability to buy their way into any Country through debt acquisition and investment. Further still, they now have become increasingly aggressive toward their neighbours including India.
4. China has now effectively torn up the one country two system policy created by Britain in 1997, when the lease agreement expired on Hong Kong. Hong Kong as a democracy and the economic hub of the east has now been lost.

Even if you hated Donald Trump as man, he was right that bilateral trade agreements are better for promoting free trade.

However, left-wing groups like to play fast and loose with the terms trading block and group when comparing the EU to the Commonwealth and the TPP.

35. Corporation Britain

When a Company expands so far, they look to buy or merge with rival firms to widen and dominate the marketplace with their products & services, forming corporations and legally acting as a single entity. Once they control a share of the market, they have the power to steer its direction. Notably, there are a number of different forms of Corporatism, that can be traced to the end of the 19^th Century; though, even as far as Ancient Greece there were concepts of Corporatism created by the great philosopher Plato, concepts of which the Romans would adopt. Not unsurprisingly, only Corporatism as instrument of Capitalism is ever mentioned, this shares a comparative with Liberal Conservatism, in that they are diametric opposites.

Capitalism works on the premise that markets are free and open, to encourage and stimulate production, sales & growth to generate profit. Though, in the modern era no market is completely free, governments do maintain some controls and use the instrument like fiscal policy to stimulate growth, in times of deep economic stagnation or decline, otherwise these are self-sustaining systems driven by competition. Ultimately, this driving innovation coupled with mass production to drive competitive pricing.

How do companies create competition, where many of the firms are owned by a small number of Parent groups or Corps, whom control rollout and pricing between them?

China is run by a Communist board of Government and a Capitalist Market system, the Communist Party have members on the Board of Directors of all manufacturers and corporations. Chinese companies operate at the convenience, the control and directly report to their Government; further still, where all manufacturing and private sector firms are run by Corporations & where Technology companies spy globally for China.

If within the concept of the corporate structure, corporations are subordinate to the state, we know that the new adopted culture within our workplaces is not of this nation’s moral consensus. In Britain, the structure of corporations are a little different, in that a huge number of the quintessentially British products, then services, utilities, even football clubs are now foreign owned, this due to more than two decades of uncontrolled foreign investment. With the great leap in Prices of food, clothing, services and then the stagnation of wages and regular redundancies v the companies that made more money since the 2008 crash than before, ask yourself to whom do they answer or affiliate themselves?

With so many of our employers owned by foreign Corporations, they can have little caring for jobs, pay or customer loyalty beyond their own bottom line.

36. The Matrix Reality

We are living in an age where perception is seen as reality, what we read shapes that reality, through social media’s lens is the focal point of someone else’s narrative that becomes our perceptions. For some this perception always aligned with their own, notwithstanding, when your perception is the echo chamber, there needs to be a consensus on whether reality is what has been purported or whether a maliciously placed perception from an agenda of obscured origin.

The issue of misplaced trust in the internet has been omnipotent in colouring the minds of readers globally, with the prevalence of opinion as truth and that otherwise truth is merely subjective or politicised. Even to the openly understood dangers of the echo chamber and clickbait, how can we as reasonably educated or streetwise individuals continue to consume socio-political information of questionable origin without trying to verify from other sources?

With the influence of the echo chamber over the past 15 years or more, there has been a shared consensus that opinion trumps facts over a great many issues and an unfamiliar history of events in our society that have not aligned with the truth.

There is deliberate and clandestine machinery at work within social media and the infiltrated mainstream media in general to convey racism, hate and fear throughout our society. Further, such machinery could have only been created to attract the impressionable and like mind to perpetuate negative attitudes, so to become commonplace in Britain today, never forgetting that the ‘Minority is the Majority’!

Nevertheless, it could reasonably be asserted that the bulk of such explicit behaviour of opinion left and right could feasibly being uttered, within the anonymity of cyberspace by the same people, with the only purpose to engender conformity, though also, confusion and anarchy.

When a group uses a single adjective repeatedly as a derogatory descriptor of another, this becomes them and then they will become excluded from the social debate.

When conducting a broad assessment of public opinion in relation to the internet, many would advocate that this has been a force for good, additionally with younger people stipulating that the world has been better because of the its existence. For many older people the internet has been the ruin of our society, only to be countered by accusations of racism; however, this has become the buzzword for dismissing dissenters in any matter. The internet is now dominated by dangerously emotive, seductive qualities conveying political agenda.

Imagine a sea of people at a masquerade ball, conversations are flowing, some are sharing whispers, then some smile and invite you to join them. While they type, they appear to phase or shimmer, are they men or women, young or old…Are they even human?

In light of the clear and present danger inherent in the internet, we would be suspicious of anyone that would promote this media as a vehicle of free speech without advocating any kind of caution.

37. Equality or Equivalence

In a debate that has endured for millennia, with differing opinion in a multitude of civilisations to equate Male & Female in society. Since the birth of our Generation X, we were educated to value women as equal. Moreover, the first to work under more than one female Manager in our working life; in a comparison between Male & Female Manager’s, good and bad, in truth we do not always, want the same things or think the same way, equivalent or equal is the same!

We are a Yin and Jang of one another existentially inseparable and socially diminished when we are apart.

With the battle of the sexes being raged in every corner of our society, in more than 25 years of observing men and women working & cooperating in the business environment, the perpetual and tedious narrative of ‘which sex is the better’, had already shifted closer to centre by the late 1990’s, when fighting the previous battle for equal pay. The prevailing argument which sex is better is false, it is the suitability of the individual to a role or profession V another individual; further still, there are multiple factors involved in determining this.

38. An engineered phenomena

There are certain institutions that iterate they must not be silenced, when in actuality demand compulsory adherence/orientation. Nevertheless, in any society there are morals of national concurrence that must be adhered to in law, further there are ideologies of varying content that must be for the individual to choose to subscribe.

As we stand in 2021, here in Britain and in US, men are in crisis and this phenomenon has stretched to our family nations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, though further to our relations in the Irish Republic.

However, comparing the actions and public mission of the organisations riding the Toxic masculinity wave, now synonymous with any male behaviour, it must be questioned the true intentions of such social organisations.

For younger generations the incoherent rearing between parents and or an 80’s wave of feminist indulgent parenting that started in the US, through a lack of authority balance. Then only focusing on daughters, feminising and or belittling sons, consequently leaving ill prepared and inadequate males. Furthermore, children raising children, with a lack of responsibility and not defining parent and children roles; however, it must be expressed girls are no more mature as adults, only filled with a self-serving ideology of a movement that instils a perception of independent purpose.

First there were slights of disapproval, later came the gossip of incompetence in life & the workplace and then we heard the shaming through the perception of Toxic Masculinity.

After that, came the left wing debate of White Male Privilege, now paralleled with the publication and politicised smearing of men as Predators.

Unfortunately, progressive movements to instil purpose and create balanced mature males have been vilified as organisations of misogyny, by the collective social power of radical feminist groups; this forcing a narrative of misandry, with male inadequacy the purpose and the removal of unwanted competition in the workplace.

Though society has progressed along a negative path, there are still many systems available for appropriate male behaviour, with a great many rules that stand. Feminist organisations iterate a great need for the modernisation of male behaviour in the 21^st century; however, the standard of behaviour in many women also needs to change, where the aggressive adolescent male persona is unproductive and unbecoming.

In the west, there has been a shift in the place of ordinary men, with the new workplace culture, where men have experienced greater trouble being hired in the roles they were trained and experienced. Further still, moving goal posts to favour graduates, relationship breakdowns and difficulty in finding relationships. This has only been compounded by the affliction of Job losses, accumulated debt, a lack of social support and negative media; and where men make up as much as 88% of homelessness.

With an ensuing depression rooted in a lack of purpose or direction, a loss or lack of pride and self-respect, moreso, the inability to actuate any self-determination, has left men more risk adverse in many ways; and not unsurprisingly has seen an increased interest in gambling. The damming narrative of white male privilege, with working class men being decidedly unprivileged, now mainstream in the workplace and society, this disparity will only continue in a widen.

In 2019, the suicide rate among men and boys was 16.9 deaths per 100 000 on the same scale, the suicide rate among women and girls was 5.3 deaths per 100 000.

There are not enough decent men to marry, as they are not earning enough nor have the economic stability to be viable and they do not have the same level of education for women to be interested.

In deliberating the factors in the most gruesome subject of Suicide, we must consider the infiltration by a polarised narrative in the Social sciences. Though there is a great deal of research in this area, it is difficult to form any defined consensus in regard to the extent of the current male suicide problem, without knowing the philosophical/political beliefs and motives of the researchers involved in authoring many recent papers.

The state of being a real Man is not measured by conquests, tattoos or the size of our biceps, though it must be iterated that a ‘healthy body’ does contribute to a healthy mind. It is the way we face up our problems, accepting responsibility and dealing with the challenges within and without, self-sacrifice and the defending of others, our very behaviour and the resultant actions moral & forthright, these are the measurements of a Man.

• self-improvement professionally and personally
• advice and support – mentally and even spiritually*
• address fears
• learning
• engaging in competitive sport – channelling aggression, fears and anxieties
• Building self esteem
• improving self-image – through dressing better and more confidently
• regular exercise
• organisation
• Self defence
• Music, Writing and Art

If people currently in crisis, are to survive and prosper, then they will need to learn and find again purpose, meaning & reason in their lives, however, fundamentally seek advice when needed.

39. BME

Although, this is a recent memory, after the death of George Floyd on 25^th May 2020, this instigated rioting in Minneapolis, with a group calling themselves Black Lives Matter that lasted more than a week; and within 3 days, these riots had moved to London. However, unlike in the US where protestors were rioting against the Police and the unlawful death of George Floyd, in London they would deface and try to pull down statues.

In light of the riots of 28^th May 2020, the Home Secretary Priti Patel would brand this as ‘dreadful’, as the damage they caused was wrong and that there were other ways they could have protested. When asked if the Home Secretary would take the knee, she stated that she would not. Nevertheless, 32 Labour MP’s of the BAME community signed a letter condemning her for using her heritage and racism experience, suggesting that she had been Gaslighting ‘the very real racism faced by Black People’. Though further stating that with their shared experience of racism, this allows them to show solidarity towards a common cause and not silence or define others feelings?

Such narratives negate debate or opinion and only function in the realm of moral superiority and moral absolutism.

In a tweet posted by Priti Patel, she would state, “I will not be silenced by @UKLabour MPs who continue to dismiss the contributions of those who don’t conform to their view of how ethnic minorities should behave.”

No one, has the right to trivialise or dismiss the racism experiences of anothers, this simply diminishes the argument and perpetuates the ideological belief that one race is more important than another.

40. Classism

A little understood and rarely contemplated form of discrimination that has been rife in our society since the Norman Invasion, though more suitable in nature is covertly prevalent in many institutions. In contrast to Racism that discriminates against colour and race, Classism is orientated on the premise of affluence, background and education.

However, it must be established that this form of prejudice will be mistaken for Racism, in an investigation to identify a culture of racism within an establishment that is in fact institutionally Classist, would only see a partial confirmation. Moreso, this would be dependent upon the objective of the enquiry, it is paramount that it must be ascertained that the level of disparity and discrimination has grown and changed in the last 20 years. Nevertheless, in the current witch-hunt of so-called anti-racism, that has only seen to obscure the ubiquitous growing poverty in the working class and the growing phenomenon of the underclass that does not discriminate against race, colour or creed, though is branded as racism. How do you protect the most vulnerable in our society with a generation of Social Justice Warriors that are obsessed with colour?

In a politically exploited war between the poor and the rich, the destruction of the Middle Class and the establishment of the Technical class have only widened the level of inequality.

41. Death in police custody

As a comparative, by May 2020, it had become apparent the Covid 19 epidemic was killing people of all races especially those over the age of 60. However, statistics showed that this was disproportionately affecting those of ethnic minorities, where BAME were the first to make it clear that the disease was killing more black people. Notwithstanding, in the UK it would later be indicated that it had been more Bangladeshi’s that were dying, the public did not question why people were dying so much as why particular minorities were more susceptible. We accept that SARS-Covid-19, is of unknown origin and a pneumonia like illness, that is still being researched, where the nature of the disease and contributory factors that lead to death are still to be fully determined. With the prevalence of disease and illness throughout history, further with the state of technology we accept that this can and will happen.

However, if we change the circumstance to deaths in Police custody, as educated people and citizens of the UK, we have some understanding of how arrest and custody works. Since the wrongful death of George Floyd, this has attracted a great deal of emphasis with regard to the number of Black people dying in custody and the disproportionality in the death of this ethnic group.

According to the BBC, from a report published by the IOPC, in the 10 years to 2019, there were 164 deaths in custody, broking these down by ethnicity there were 141 White, 13 Black and 10 for other Minorities. This disproportionality is in relation to 8% of deaths being people of Black ethnicity, in a group that only represents 3% of the population; it must be acknowledged that this does require investigation and to root out racism, corruption & ineffective practices where present.

Nevertheless, it must also be acknowledged the high standards of the British Police in comparison with most of the world.

However, a more obvious question, that must be articulated, why, is it that in this modern age of the world’s oldest Police force, that anyone is dying in Police custody?

42.1 Britain started slavery

There have been recent accusations from the Left of Britain starting the slave trade and further being the largest in the world, what left wing agitators have been referring to specifically is the Transatlantic slave trade. In actuality this was started by the Portuguese, where they were already transporting Slaves by the 1480’s, this would be followed by Spanish(enslaving approx.1m) in the early 16^th Century, then followed by the Dutch(enslaving approx. 550k). The first English slave trader was John Hawkins in 1562, where he began three voyages, selling slaves to St Domingo, followed by a second in 1564 and his final as his third in 1567 would be disastrous.

Between 1553 and 1660, Britain’s trade interests were with indigo, ivory and gold among others not slavery. Notwithstanding, according to the National Archives, Britain did not enter the Slave Trade as a major exporter until the mid-17th century, where Britain (enslaving approx. 3.2m) and the Portuguese would be biggest traders between 1640 and 1807, ultimately, Portugal (enslaving approx. 5.8m) would be largest Trader continuing after our abolition.

However, in order to ascertain a more complete picture, we need to start in the 9^th century when the Moor’s, North African Muslims, Arabs and Semitic Africans all of many nations, would invade southern Europe, these invaders would occupy Italy and what is now, Portugal & Spain, where Christians would be enslaved.

Paramount to the investigation of Britain starting slavery and what actually happened, there are questions that must be addressed, these pertaining to which nations were selling slaves, whom was profiting and with whom gained from this these transactions?

42.2 The Trans Saharan slave trade

This by many accounts started in 7^th century AD, although, according to an international conference organised by UNESCO and the CBAAC, which was to examine the involvement of Arab traders, this ran between 652 and 1960. It is true that by all accounts Arab traders were involved in the buying and selling of African slaves throughout the world, this is not to say that the Arabs were the Global player in the trade of slaves. The Chinese and Indian’s had also been involved in the trade and usage of slaves as a matter of culture.

This was also the case in Africa, further still, we cannot omit the Roman’s, the Greeks, the Persian’s, later Early Islam and then the Ottoman Empire, where slaves were used in occupations as Servants, labourers and Soldiers, though also as part of religious conquest. The complexity of the African trade would require theses for each area involved, of which encompasses the North, West, East, Sub Saharan and are also connected to the Trans Saharan slave trade.

Traders and the rich of all continents either profited or gained from the slavery and the sale of People, where in Africa the objective of Slavery had mostly been attributed to the accumulation of Gold and Ivory. It must iterated however, Arab traders transported between 10 and 18 million slaves, to a small degree these traders enslaved Europeans and further still Africans of many nations have been the market owners and dealers. Nevertheless, if you look up slavery in Africa and you are conditioned through media & education to attribute slavery in Africa solely to Europe or in this case, Britain, it does seem that the internet is predisposed to generating the transatlantic slave trade as the greater number of results, if you had never known, you would have never looked.

42.3 Barbary Pirates

These were essentially north Africans of Morocco Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, with Ottoman’s, so they were the Moor’s seven centuries later. Between the 16^th and 18^th Century over a 250-year period, attacking Italy to as far as the Netherlands, 1,250,000 people were taken into slavery. In Britain, it was documented in Cornwall that in 1640, 2000 – 3000 people had been taken to Algiers, then in 1645, Pirates raided the Coast capturing 240 women, children and men. Parliament would send Edmund Cason to Algiers to negotiate the return of ransomed English captives.

Cason would manage to release 250 captives at £30 per Man, women and children were however, more expensive, then would spend the rest of his life trying to secure the release of another 400. Attacks became so frequent that in 1650, this threatened the Fishing industry, as Fisherman did not want to leave their families unprotected; as a result, Oliver Cromwell decreed that Pirates and Privateers captured would be taken to Bristol and drowned slowly. Further still, despite an attack on their base in Salé the raids continued on Devon, Dorset and Cornwall.

For some of us only few generations ago, our ancestors were indentured workers, slaves and many were in workhouses or destitute until the early 20^th century. African countries are quiet aware of their historic contribution to slavery, individual nations however, still have pride in their nations achievements and history, as slavery is only an aspect of their culture, where ordinary people have not been involved in trafficking.

As British People, we are aware of this country’s contribution to slavery and the history of our own slavery since the Roman occupation, as for many we are aware of other countries contributions, further as the British nation overwhelmingly is represented by the descendants of the poor and the poor of other nations.

We have accepted people of other nations and we have formed unions and many of us are the product of those unions, further not connected with modern Slavery and cannot be made responsible for crimes of the Rich and Elite. Finally, as Britons we have the right to feel pride in our nations achievements and use our history as a compass to guide us through a nations battle of moral philosophy, and as a nation does take pride in making law the abolition of slavery. Crimes of Slavery were committed by all countries and religions, against their enemy, their own and were for the building of Empires or simply for profit. The reality of the African slave trade is that this has endured for millennia and is quiet complicated, Moreso, Slavery is still alive and successful in many African nations today.

There are Political movements exploiting social disparities of inequality as racism, sexism and sexual preference, this is in actuality facets of identity politics. Without a doubt, like in any society there are levels of discriminatory intention/mentality among the population, which must be reiterated exists in members of all ethnic groups, male and female. Notwithstanding, the single most annoying truth that angers, insurgent political agitators, is that Britain has one of the least racist cultures in the western world.

The phenomenon of the underclass is rarely discussed and is endured by Black, White, Asian and all in between alike with the only classes generally classified, the working class, resurgent class, middle class, and the elite, there are others mentioned, though these are the most often categorised. As discussed in other areas these classifications are out of date or irrelevant and upon investigation you would find that the working class only make up 13.5 – 14%, with a little gerrymandering, traditional working class jobs and salaries can be assigned to other class groups, with the fundamental point, these do not emphasise the cost of living in Britain.

However, we can venture deeper into discrimination, the level of inequality are so varied that being over forty is a deep negative in the work place and being overweight. Further, attributing home ownership to a level of affluence, which people of the previous two generations, had bought homes when they were much cheaper and have had to sacrifice through recessions and higher interest rates to maintain their homes.

It is a little difficult to be vigilant of your neighbours’ plight when you have spent 20 years of gradually darker nights in a downward financial spiral, keeping you and family from drowning.

The attribution of home ownership, has for many not increased their personal wealth, when you equate the cost of living, when including job losses, accepting lower paid roles and accumulated debt, while trying to maintain a family. You will find that the political agitators, who do not own homes, are financially more secure or those that do, hold posts that are far above that of the people that they are attacking.

Certainly some of the marginalisation attributed has been engineered by the use of partial minority statistics to emphasise a particular perception and further, omission of information that more widely details social disparity and class.

This is only being inflamed by the notion of white privilege, when more than 60% of population are enjoying a life of micro poverty at one end and the other a state paid existence, much of the middle class lost their affluence and joined the ranks of the working class 10 years ago.

In addition regularly publicised is the matter of health inequality, with differing types of disparity in different areas of the UK, with a lack of services, poor quality services and rank incompetence. This has been a concern for some decades now and is often described as a postcode lottery, though where racial inequalities have been raised will need to addressed and eliminated separately. However, issues pertaining to receiving tests and screenings, drug unavailability or poor quality substitutes, lack of interest in adequate treatment of long-term chronic illnesses. Then fobbed off by health authorities, with holistic treatments, painkillers and antidepressants that will decide the economic status and lives of sufferers.

In a final twist of disparity plaguing us, where people with chronic illnesses and disabilities that have been declared unfit for work by their consultants and professors are then cleared a week after serious surgery or even 6 days after resuscitation from a major heart attack by administrators of an outsourced company. These are also inequalities that do not discriminate, gender, race or class and we cannot solve as individual ethnic groups, only as British People.

43. The death of the middle class

By the mid 1990’s, the middle class had expanded with the growing opulence and most ambitious of the working class, this had been considered a strong indicator of progressive affluence and change. For more than a century, the Labour Party had argued that the upper and middle classes had been profiting through the exploitation of the working class. Decidedly, against the expansion of the middle class, to the dismay of Labour officials and activists, progressively affluent and previously generational Labour supporters, in the Thatcherite and post era were now voting Conservative.

However, by 2015 much of the middle class had disappeared, only to be covertly replaced over time, by a new ‘Technical class’. With job losses, lower paying jobs, crippled with debt, now zero disposable income and the relentless rise in the cost of living, has only seen to re-expand the working class, a more than transparent indication of the decline in affluence and for many a death of self-determination.

Nevertheless, when publicly in the defence of the working class, the Labour party were no longer using the middle class in their derogatory repertoire, now to only use the term ‘the Elite’. A strange turn of phrase considering that in Britain this descriptor was only for the 1% and the aristocracy; and moreso that the Technical class are as elitist as the upper middle class that are still in place.

44. Uniting the people

The 20^th century has seen many cultural developments in fashion and music, especially, since the birth of the teenager in the 1950’s; in the areas of music, film and literature we have been a centre & influencer to other nations on the world stage.

However, in relation to fashion, clothing styles for men have changed little since 1998, with skinny and poorly cut then progressively skinner the only alternative, though perhaps soon even ‘spray on’. This a very clear indication of fashions cynical cost cutting attitude towards men, though also a sizest attitude restricting larger people from buying clothing without having to pay even higher prices for big and tall man products.

This has led to progressively less and less choice in clothing establishments over the past 15 years and a perpetual expansion of women fashion.

At no time has there been so little interest in men’s clothing, coupled with the pervasive narrative that men do not spend as much as women, it is true men have never spent quite as much as women, this simply will not wash. Nonetheless, the low quality ragbag casual and ill-fitting business ware on sale at unreasonable prices, does little to inspire men to part with their money, crucially does nothing to instil a sense of pride and self-expression for men in the way fashion does for women. Furthermore, this fashion for men that was of better quality from the market stalls in the 1980’s has, just relegates a great many men of all ages to that of second-class citizens.

Unlike today’s fashion, had been an association of choice, though now with little other than the indoctrinated activism of another’s narrative, only available to young people. This has done nothing encourage individual self-expressionism or independent thought, men will need to find a new/old smarter fashion to inspire and express themselves, looking back as far the 1950’s and 1960’s despite great social change with explosions of colour, culture, fashion and music were a fundamental part of the growth and survival of our nation.

However, despite the social decay through endless striking and the war of wages in the 1970’s, continuing into the 80’s, there was still evolving culture prior to the millennium.

Until, the world of fashion decides men are still a lucrative commodity and not potentially, a political and social pariah in their market, Men will have to look to history for their self-image; and further still, people will have to make their own choices to forge their own artistic culture again. What is clear is the engineered, polarising expectation of social grouping has not manifest as intended.

National identity in European states receives little coverage, this is either ignored or often simply described as populism, the issue of national pride and national identity has become a contentious argument. In Britain, liberalists vilify national pride and identity as Alt-right ideology, synonymous with fascism and racist thinkers. Simply as a comparison, for those that are not aware of the extent of nationalism in Europe, we would challenge you to explore the dissident counterbalance to EU fiat. Nonetheless, the politics of Germany are quite complicated where centred reformist citizens are making choices on a wide political spectrum, are fighting a battle against the EU branding of right wing, while ever vigilant of the potential echoes of dark days.

When deliberating a rationale for Nationalism is this simply the pride in the history of a people’s achievements and culture, or does this, illustrate Social regimentation, Autocracy and the forced suppression of competing ideologies or any kind of dissension. Having said that, does the later not sound familiar?

Since the formation of the European Union in 1992, there has been no unifying culture only a cult of Eurocentrism, a divided (unifying theory) culture that has overly focused and politicised the group identity of race, gender, and sexual preference. Previously such culture or (Tribalism) evolved more broadly around national identity with music, class, geography, religion, race, fashion and history, or a mixture or all of the above.

Notwithstanding, the group identity narrative by its very nature can and has only divided people, with an unparalleled level of suspicion and mistrust that has never been seen, and further exploitation of the situation by some, in less than a generation has torn this country apart.

However, a question that does need to be contemplated, is group identity through Europeanism/European unionism not simply nationalism by another name?

45. Free school meals

This issue has been documented for many years and those children not eating during the day, has shown impaired learning among the poorest pupils, although, it must be articulated that since lockdown, this situation has illustrated the prevalence of debt and low-income families struggling in the UK. Nonetheless, it is not just malnutrition that is being reported, it is a lack of clothing or appropriate clothing like coats and shoes, this suggesting a level of poverty that we have not seen since the 1970’s?

Children eating at school would go a long way to support two major issues, firstly this would support the progression of child learning from poor backgrounds and putting the effected back on track, that will likely worsen and secondly, would help alleviate some of the strain on household incomes. Further still, with the potential mass unemployment not seen in many years, this will be one of the most simple strategies as a measure to support tackling the malnutrition and poverty issues tearing through society right now in the short term.

We will need to stem the systemic growing phenomenon of the underclass, which should not exist in the world’s 5^th largest economy; nevertheless, this is a symptom of a wider issue of disparity being experienced throughout the United Kingdom.

46. A Parental Crusade

Addressing the very real issue of the Sexification of children, this has been a contentious argument of parents for some 30 years that is a morally bankrupt practice in the name of profit, with a fear of children attracting the wrong attention. Parents were keeping children as children for as long as a possible, nevertheless, with sex education starting at the age of six, and an inadequate & inappropriate curriculum at this age, is a strong factor in premature advancement in maturity of children. In reality children are inquisitive and parents do have concerns in how to answer these questions, however, there have always been age specific narratives for parents to use as tools to explain to young children the ‘birds and the bees’.

Notwithstanding many parents seem to be unaware of these or are compelled to be driven by quasi-social pop psychology liberalist narratives.

• Smartphones/Social media – the ubiquitous and pervasiveness of the smart phone has allowed children access to material and other children/users of questionable authenticity, engaging in conversation beyond the maturity level of many users. This has been without the knowledge or the ability of many parents control, children are being exposed to themes of an adult nature or not uncommonly far worse, grooming and still, though, more rare children’s misplaced trust resulting in their death.

• Fashion – It has been publicised that children have been asked whether they want to be fashionable and wear clothing like adult, this has seen to promote adolescence prematurely, though worse this has put children further on the radar of paedophiles.

• Music – decades of kids and young groups singing songs about love and relationships that are aimed at young audiences that have no reason to be contemplating complexities evolving around romance, that they do not have the emotional maturity to process.

• Politics – drawing younger and younger children into the environmental and future generation’s debate, where children have been given control and freedoms over their lives, that are for parents make and children to experience and learn. The point is to teach children vital lessons of decision-making, responsibility and then dealing with consequence at an appropriate speed of their age and then maturity.

Despite the concerns and resultant campaigning by parents over the past few decades, all of the above factors have contribute to the premature adolescence of our children that has consequentially given rise to the immature behaviours prevalent in the adults of recent generations.

47. Objectification

The objectification of Women has been vilified regularly, by Women’s Groups for some time now, however women believe it to be acceptable to objectify Men and further, has seen no opposition by the same Groups? You cannot have this both ways!

48. Responsibility

The last two generation, have been educated the abdication of any responsibility for any actions, where the consequences become someone else’s responsibility and the actions of these generations have been defended or dismissed as unimportant by political groups, absolving any ensuant consequence. The education system must be held to account for relinquishing their responsibility as educators, further where the liberal doctrine of many parents’ has created a lack of empathy that has supported the unravelling of western society.

49. Sex and Education

In light of the societal issues relating to sexual violence, socio-political institutions have been demanding a change in male behaviour, in addition to Sexual studies discussed in education, this must be appropriately addressed with balance. Notwithstanding, these supplemental topics cannot be taught in a single year and must be aligned with age as teaching by rote may not be enough and maturity in comprehension when imparting sex education as a whole. This will require two or three years of rote to sufficiently fill the gaps, of what is now required and in what has been an inadequately designed curriculum, as this must now contain, the Social, Moral, Psychological and Practical aspects.

The current narrative of teach your young sons’ ‘don’t rape’ women’ is an unproductive and a frankly perplexingly complex conversation, for parents, with negative connotations. Where teaching your sons to respect women is a better lesson.

In support of continuing positive change, establishment of a government website and freely available information in schools of moral and appropriate behaviours in these situations with the nations moral code, for young people to read. Further still, this should include information for parents as a helpful guide, with references and links in raising children, also displaying the danger of accessible porn and its detrimental effects on inexperienced and immature minds, with support on the dangers of social media and safe guards for parent’s protections. However, this must be a literature of social relevance and not the work of political narrative. Although, sites like ‘internet matters’ have situated themselves to serve this need, the issue is far wider and will need to include adults as are now vulnerable to much of the internet’s content as previously illustrated, for their families and themselves.

It has been of questionable morality where over the past two decades social that are now political organisations have seen to dictate the place of men and women in relationships, as People find their own equilibrium and what makes any particular relationship work almost intangible to another. In truth, if both parties of adult consent, needs are being nurtured with safety and happiness then it is not for others to judge or dictate. However, it is not to say that there should not be syllabus for a minimum standard of moral and acceptable/appropriate behaviour in relationships for the novice.

• The teaching of feminism is inappropriate in sex education and only a reinforcement of equality and equivalence of men and women can be allowed.
• A balance of teaching the aspects of misandry and misogyny, what constitutes these and what does not
• The dangers of porn for the inexperienced and the unrealistic perception its convey about relationships
• The negatives consequences of social media and myths conveyed within the echo chamber
• The fashion industries publicised narrative of image expectations and truth of self-image.
• Genuine discussion of appropriate and inappropriate behaviours of sexual advancement & interaction

50. Sexual Violence

Rape culture has been described as prevalent in British society, though it must be understood that this is a multidimensional issue, now plaguing our society and must be broken down into distinctive intersecting and separate issues:

• Social media’s impact on the prevalence of rape,
• the act of Rape,
• Political exploitation,
• The perception of fear being conveyed v the actual societal risk.

The dangers of Social Media, with malicious and very apparent narratives portrayed throughout the internet. Scepticism and cross-referencing of violent and even political information of antiestablishmentarian are valuable tools. In truth, we cannot know the true motives of characters adding information to the internet or of its origin, so we cannot take anything for granted especially in light of the current political spectrum.

Is the fear of the potential danger greater than the danger itself and in that is danger now far greater because the perception fear insinuates? Even the strongest of minds can be brought down by fear.

Once the mind is convinced that there is danger, real or not that danger exists and fear ensues, nevertheless, when there is measurable danger, even small, if our perception is negatively adjusted then fear will override higher reasoning and the fight or flight instinct can hold us hostage, negating the hope of debate without embedded preconception. With more than 45% of the British population deriving their news from social media, unequivocally has related many having exactly the same opinion with regard to the same issues. However, with the prevalence of deceptive behaviour and false identity in the echo chamber, there does need to be healthy scepticism and cross-referencing information of such sensitive and important issues?

In light of vocalised fears and observed behaviours of women, as a direct response to the prevalence of sexual violence over the past 5 years, especially in respect of ‘Me Too’ and Feminist groups, there needs to be studies into the relationship between individual perceptions of safety and where, they take their news. Further still, there will need to be a study into the authenticity and the prevalence of such information unmonitored and unquestioned. Unfortunately, as with men under 35, it would be near impossible for women in the same age bracket to detach their perception of society with that of the internet, where social media paralleled society almost their entire lives.

More alarmingly, has been the speculation in the levels under reporting of rape incidents over many years, although the most prevalent explanation has been that women experienced a system of what perhaps could be described as ’institutional doubt’ when reporting incidents to the police. Consequentially, these issues have been used by some organisations as political capital when this is a Social and Criminal matter and has only seen to increase levels of fear.

• There will need to be a serious independent investigation into information conveyed through the internet and in relation to how this reflects in the feelings of women, with regard to their safety.
• An investigation into how social media and women’s current fear of sexual violence is affecting their mental health.
• There will to be a further investigation conducted into the prevalence of sexual violence reports conveyed through social media and whether is a reasonable representation of the current situation in our society.

In a Circle of whispers, brings personal validation, a shared belief, and a resultant truth when the perception becomes the reality. The more blinded in ensuant chaos, consequential fear and misery prevails.

51. Lack of police

Over time as a nation’s police force is depleted, the criminal minded, the reluctant and the opportunists will find greater confidence in committing crimes, still maintaining a level of anonymity. In a survey of police officer figures across Europe from an EU report with Eurostat and statistics from the ONS, as an average figure in 2016, there were 316 police per 100,000 as average across the EU.

However, Cyprus a nation of 876,000 had 573 police per 100,000 people, in England and Wales this was 223, Scotland 318 and N. Ireland 362. Nevertheless, it must be declared that Prime Minster Boris Johnson has promised 20,000 new police officers and since 2020, we have seen an increase in police staffing levels, though it must be iterated that this by many may be less than required.

We would suggest that in light of the malaise of issues currently being suffered in this nation, that this quota of 20,000, should be revisited at the end of 2021 and 2022. In a nation with widest population spectrum and most densely populated, further still, with the second largest population in Western Europe, this nations’ policing levels equate with some of the small populations in the Western World.

Notwithstanding, a top down investigation will need to conducted into police corruption, racism and redundant unproductive practices, if we are to address the burning issues currently at the front line of socio politics. This more easily attracting people of all races to create sustainable personnel levels reflecting inclusive British representation, that have been marred by negative cultural feeling.

52. Institutional doubt

As previously iterated, the most prevalent message that has been aired by rape victims has been a reluctance to report incidents, as they have felt not believed and or the matter has gone unreported by police, leading potentially to repeat offences by assailants and then only identified some time later or even never. The invariable consequence of this behaviour has led to melange of malignant social issues that are tearing our society apart. This situation must be changed, it is obvious that the current system of reporting is not fit for purpose and the matter will require immediate action, where all incidents must recorded and instigates an appropriate balance of initial investigation.

In order to thwart the crime of rape, those found guilty by legal judgement must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

• Though the government has instituted changes in light of recent increase in murders of women due to domestic violence, feminists feel that the new laws do not go far enough in tackling this cancer on society, notwithstanding there needs to be constructive discussion without misconception, between male and female organisations & the Government to determine how to end such malignant behaviours.

• An investigation into the echo chambers effect on society in relation to sexual violence

For many of us the teaching of our parents was that we were to respect women and we should not be violent toward them. Despite this, radical feminists made public statements that they did not need men or their help and then chivalry was branded as Misogyny, where simply holding a door for women, even with their hands full, resulted in verbal scoldings.

However, with the vilification of all men as either perpetrators or complicit in the matter, has only seen to elevate fears and resentment, that so far have done little to stop the plague of incidence. Consequently, good men backed away and stopped supporting women, now in the current situation, feminists are telling Men to step up and start calling out immoral male behaviours? It is paramount that as men we resume our role as a matter of moral conscience for the welfare of our families and female friends. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Each day, we make complicated decisions upon the choices presented in our lives, even with the information available and against our own intuition regardless, we sometimes take decisions that involve unacceptable risks and we must accept our responsibilities.

If we are to fix our society’s problems created from within and without, there are many aspects making up that society that will need to be addressed and debated and progressively/regressively repaired. Unfortunately, with the damage done, there can be no quick solution especially in light of insurgent political oppositionists, happy and supportive of the narrative direction this country is being dragged in.

Copyright © by Stephen Pryor 2021

16. Education and it’s pertinence in the future sustainability of our society

In the past 25 years we have seen a slow decline of an international standard in British education, with some schools favouring the Baccalaureate as a higher echelon. The ensuing degradation resulting poor job skills when entering the workplace, a deeply politicised view of history and an increasingly militant destain for our laws. Potentially we have lost two generations to an agenda that has left older generations slipping down the work ladder and deeper into poverty. Furthermore our children are slipping behind in the international employment arena!

Until the late 1990s Colleges included a wide variety of courses with night classes readily available, this allowing people to study courses including A levels and Degrees while still working full time. Although in the last 20 years with the decline in the variety of courses we have witnessed a great increase in fees, making the possibility of studying far less desirable.

To put icing on the cake in 1998 Tony Blair’s Government introduced tuition fees in universities, starting from £1000 per year this would increase massively to £9250 per year, now in 2021 though in Europe however fees range from Zero to £4000 per year? The sheer dichotomy in fees charged in Britain and that of the continent, although the education system has encouraged students to go to university, the Education for Profit model has left them raddled with a minimum of £27000 of debt and is further likely facilitated the foothold incursion that the neo-Marxist movement has on British Universities and the University system.

Additionally the high fees versus job opportunities and steady decline in wages has undoubtedly deterred some prospectives students.

This invariably raises some obvious questions of the ensuing impact of decisions taken over the past 20 years, however initially there are pertinent questions as to why?

1. A question that has certainly been reiterated over an again in the last 25 years is why has the British education system been slowly dying?

2. Why were the range of college course reduced and further fees increased?

3. Why in 1998 did Tony Blair’s government introduce university fees that massively outweigh any charged in Europe?

A strong investment and realignment in the education system as it stands now pre and post GCSE for children and adults is desperately required. This reform cannot simply be financial but also fundamental, with the very structure of the British education system compromised. Some of the most prevalent issues plaguing our failing education system can be broken down into

• Neo Marxist Teachers and Teaching union

Teachers has been working against the interests of the British public in providing an unfit curriculum of study and certification for the jobs market. Further with a captive audience teachers of a Marxist and pro EU ideology have been tainting our education with their personal politics and opinion. This resulting in the disturbing ungrounded worship of the EU and a violent destain of Britain and our laws, but further an alternative teaching of past and recent history? In addition they are the same individuals that want to instate the Baccalaureate to replace the education system, a system that was frankly inferior to the old GCE O’Level?

• Pupils encouraged to take too many subjects at GCSE

The current education system is encouraging pupils to certify in more GCSE’s, with on average 10 and a maximum 16 being taken. There are simply not enough hours in a day to to learn this many in depth and reach a certifiable standard.

• The internet and technology has become the focal tool of learning

There is too much emphasis on the internet as the tool for learning, this system circumvents the basic skills required to learn or even the subject in question, with IT superseding all else. This framework including where to search – what area of study is pertinent, how do you know the information you have found is relevant or the most relevant, from the information gathered upon request can I write or explain confidently to an adequate depth answer. The issue with the internet is that this search media will just offer you an answer to whatever you desire and is compromised by paid Search Engine Optimisation for websites, consequentially there is no guarantee or understanding if that information is correct without cross referencing. Cementing the ubiquity and pervasive nature of the echo chamber more publicly understood as Social Media.

• NLP must be removed from learning and return to rote

This form of orientation uses emotional content to less teach but programme information, as this process circumvents reasoning in the learning process.

To create balance and support deprived & decaying communities, there must be equal opportunities in education for all ages, that are either free or affordable that have classes at times that are accessible to the young, the unemployed and the employed.

Otherwise this can only add to the ensuing depravity in communities, where local jobs market changes and new skills are required individuals have the ability to chart the course of their own destiny and not see their live torn in unemployment and government benefits. This is a right and the sign of a functioning society in a changing world where we can we move and change with it.

17. The reinstatement of the 1960s GCE and CSE education system

With the current state of our education system, our nations parents must take more interest in their children’s and our own continuing education as the economy and it’s sectors are in constant flux. With the environmental feud, the blight of Covid and the acceleration of the new fourth industrial age in relation to technologies as AI, though there is likely to be a period of economic stability to follow, as through the effects of the 2008 crash to survive in uncertain times we must be adaptable.

Asian families in Britain are known to outstrip their White and Black counterparts in education, as a matter of culture they try to ensure the future affluence of their children. Though now in the current climate White working class children in the most impoverished areas have already failed and have been failed by the education system before they reach GCSE. Now as a result of cancelling GCSE and A Level exams in covid lockdowns for the second year, teachers and the teaching union are looking to remove exams entirely and to scrap GCSE & A level for the International Baccalaureate? Although this is likely to be spin and the European Baccalaureate is what they are trying to instate!

The current consensus is that exams are far too stressful for pupils and is unfair on them, the degradation of our education system has been ensuing on this path since the Labour Government from 1997 and what we have seen is a pro EU teaching establishment complicit in moving our Globally recognised qualification to an unsustainable car crash.

It seems that on average pupils are taking 10 qualifications to a maximum of 16 in some cases? This is far too many subjects being studied for GCSE exams, you cannot expect to have any depth of a subject when you have 2 years to try and bring these to examination standard, even the brightest should not try to certify for more than 10. The mystery of certifying for so many subjects is that Colleges and Employers are only interested in 5-7 GCSE and it is the grade of those qualifications that is more important.

What also must be considered is the academic focus of the current GCSE when in reality people are not all wired this way, some are academically minded and some are more practical & trade focused, this is where the GCSE is no longer fit for purpose and has been manipulated to create under skilled job seekers that believe that they are most highly qualified generation ever?

Such a regime can only reap a negative consequence with the ensuing impact of Stress, Depression and inadequate job skills, though further the current system has produced an unadaptable, inflexible even unimaginative workforce!

As a matter of history this qualification was criticised at its inception in 1986 for being somewhere between the previous GCE and CSE what was an international standard produced better work ready and adaptable personal. The question that has been asked and has never been more pertinent is why? The public has never been happy the explanations and lead to left wing press producing unsatisfactory comparisons between O level and GCSE tests by pitting children against their parents to answer question on subject as GCSE trigonometry as a measure to validate the difficulty. Though conveniently forgetting that most parents would not have utilised this kind of formulae for more than 20 years and where the o level and even some GCSE questions were on A level papers.

A documented and known factor that has always marred the Labour Parties continual defence of their Comprehensive School concept and vilified the Grammar school, has been the fact that there are three categories of pupils, Low, Middle and High achievers. The Comprehensive school concept believes that all children will receive a high standard of education, not only has been proven to be not that simple, but in the past 25 years in impoverished communities will completely fail children of poor backgrounds.

The issue is that Low achieving pupils require the most support and the Highest achievers will become apathetic when the subject work does not stretch them appropriately, requiring more advanced material to keep their interest. This leaving only the middle group adequately stimulated and can learn requiring less support. Realistically only two of these can be appropriately educated, removing the Low achievers to another school is likely to see them achieve less and keeping the highest achievers in the classroom would be detrimental to their development, the system cannot be all things to all pupils!

Grammar Schools have long been met with Labour party disapproval stating that they don’t work, labelling the 11+ exam as unfair and flawed. This is an interesting stance and we would challenge people to research the number of Labour MPs and their Children who have attended Grammar Schools or even Private Schools since the 1997 Labour government alone? The fundamental difference is that the Comprehensive framework tries to support all three learning streams, but only to be compounded by pupil numbers making balanced and focused teaching a profoundly difficult task, hindering current and potential future learning.

The strength of the Grammar school framework is that it only focuses on one stream of pupil, with the support of the 11+ exam these institutions pool the brightest local students to teach in greater depth and to a higher level, allowing even children from poor backgrounds to excel and reach higher economic status.

However, this does beg an obvious question ‘why are the Labour Party so opposed to their voters children attending Grammar Schools?

Britain’s future talent can never be realised in a compromised education system that will see the poorest decidedly hand to mouth for the length of their employable lives. It is for parents to decide whether they believe their child can achieve better and if so to prepare them & seek out schools that will allow them to reach their higher potential. In some Labour run cities the Grammar school has been removed, though there are selective schools that require an entrance exam but educate from the state curriculum.

In recent years we have seen the implementation of STEM schools, these being the modern Secondary Technical that will produce our future scientists and Technicians, but to the point though there are schools offering training for pupils to become builders and plumbers, however as a whole what of those that are less academically inclined or those striving for non technical careers? Although these still require a good standard of general education in Science, Maths and English is this enough to just leave school with 5 average or lower passes competing against millions of other post 16’s? What is required are Trade style schools incorporated into the secondary school framework, preparing children of lower ability or lesser interest in academic studies the opportunity to train at school in careers that will pay wages and bring apprenticeships with local and regional firm. Though the T level qualifications are a welcome addition as business has given input as to their requirements for the workplace and does offer 3 A levels, these will unlikely attract many of the lower stream. They will be looking to enter the workforce and further their skills in the role and potentially expand their horizons through hard work & real world learning or potentially being the only or full time breadwinner. Such areas of employment can include Cooks, Chefs, Hospitality, Construction skills (Bricklayers, Plumbers, Plasterers, electricians, painters & decorators), Administrator skills, Customer services, Hospitality, Warehouse operatives etc.

All of these require a minimum of level 2 skills to start work and learning one or more of these skills will expand the opportunities for employment, with working and paying taxes a better start to life than the many that find themselves relying on state benefits to exist.

18. Technology before creativity
    The use of technology is now so deeply entrenched in the education system where it is almost more important than the subjects being oriented. So long has the use of computers and the internet been a prerequisite of education that parents buy their children mobile phone toys and educational laptops for their 2 and 3 year olds, as they are afraid that their children will fall behind in a future of ubiquitous computing. This is an interesting idea but a sadly false assumption as boomers and Generation X saw the expansion of Mainframe, the advent of the Honeywell bull, Home Computers, PC’s, games Consoles, the mobile phone and the internet.
    We have grown and worked with these technologies from the first in the 1960’s to the 1990’s and today. What is clear is that the only change in these generations is that constant advancement of computer technology frankly begins to lose its lustre in middle age, but we are by no means incapable of flowing with the continual tide into our 60’s. For a great many of us our experience of computers were in our homes with systems like Binatone, Sinclair, Tandy, BBC, the PC and Commodore where we played games, programmed and imagined what could be achieved with the new interface hardware being added as the technology advanced and tuning in weekly to Tomorrows World. But also using BBC computers in Schools to learn word processing, spreadsheets and digital media, even graphic design.
    The fundamental difference being that IT equipment was strictly for use in this area only, with subject books and libraries the tools of our expanding education. It has become obvious that the use of ICT is dominating our lives and has circumvented part of the learning process leaving later generations under skilled with a difficulty in adapting to new or different methodologies.
19. NLP
    A seldomly discussed issue that has contributed to the poor level of education and lack of work associated skills has been the implementation of NLP is the classroom. Neural Linguistic Programming is a controversial technique that by its very nature circumvents the reasoning center of the Brain and will hinder the development of objective thought.
    This has created generations of imbalanced minds that lean to hysteria, traits not beneficial in a working environment, further still this suitable form of manipulation is deployed in the press and throughout social media. The use of such suitable emotive persuasion from an early age can only lead to more easily malleable or suggestible thought patterns in adult life, effectively leaving a backdoor into the frontal lobe, making scepticism unlikely as there is little room for the development of independent thought. This is not to say that the general public are not susceptible to manipulation through media and advertising, but older people have developed multiple layers of reasoning to filter information through before making a decision that include experience, wisdom and older styles of education that can help distinguish fact, fiction and emotion, applying the objective process. Applying such a technique to adults is a decision that lies that individual alone but the use of such a technique in children can and has only been detrimental to their ability for higher reasoning.
    What would the purpose be of using such technique when they be required to show Independent thought in multiple work and life situations as they advance?
20. Evolution and the advent of AI
    Our evolution and continued growth of society is directly related to our wellbeing, to our curiosity and our desire to learn & experience new things. The dominating and misguided belief in the power of technology over wisdom and experience has been helping to drive the lack of creativity and the brain drain being witnessed over the past 30 years. Now escalating toward the technology singularity, the development of the quantum or biological computer was believed to advent the dawn of Artificial Intelligence, unbeknownst to anyone the currently dying silicon based technology has received a temporary new lease of life.
    With the creation of the Graphics Accelerator or now known as the Graphics Processing Unit, this being a Graphics card with its own CPU, when used in multiples can greatly improve processing ability but further has been found that in use with large scale computers and supercomputers will produce leaps of computational processing. As a result it is now believed that we may only be a year away from Artificial Intelligence and that the dullness in culture and progression of our society can in part be due to the ubiquity of computer technology.
    It is not our intention to be seen as a new Luddite movement, though it must be stated that their cause was just and echoes through history to show new relevance in the light of coming automation leaps in business. Computers have only ever been able to process results based on the quality of data inputted and limitation of the technology itself, though now it must be acknowledged that with the pervasive nature of computers in education and our lives we have abdicated our creative responsibility in the belief that computers are superior.
    Our ability to input perception, experience and passion allow us to contemplate and resolve multiple problems, but with the way our brains are structured we can do these at the same time throughout our lives in the conscious and subconscious, further thinking in the abstract, but also to dream and these are the qualities of the human mind that define us from computers. A gift that has an unknown number of evolutionary leaps before us, that we can either embrace with the right stimulation or squander with the unsustainable lives and environment that we are told is for our betterment but really the profit and control of major corporations who have their own plans for the future.

Since the first world war computers have served a vital function in society few though more vital than Turing’s Bombe in cracking the enigma codes and the supercomputers utilised in mapping the human genome. Medicine, computational modelling and quantum mechanics & astrophysics, though even the furthering of our understanding and practical application of terraforming will bring answers and a deeper understanding of environmental change.
These are the functions that will serve society in the future as the length of numbers in calculations and number of separate types of datasets in solving single problems would take too long to for the human mind or even a collective of mathematicians to calculate. It is speed in solving vital issues that make computers essential in areas of society, but it must be emphasised that as far back as the Egyptian empire and Mayan culture that it was mechanical computation machines that have been found to be build to solve problems such as astronomical calculations.

So why do we expect computers to realise our dreams & drive the future of our society and not simply support in the manifestation of the design of own creations?

21. Longer hours in school
    There are many skills lacking in the workplace today but further with the new 4th industrial age our children need to be able to compete and with the current financial demands on parents, the current cost of child care and with parents working to school operating hours, especially since the corona virus epidemic with a good balance of mental and physical education, families can survive better at the best of times.
    Japan has one of the best education systems in the world, where children have an 8 hour day and are required to certify in 8 subjects at age 16, though many children also attend an evening school, with a good balance of learning, sport and after school activities children and families would be better supported & better adjusted when they leave school.
    This is not a maverick or unfounded notion but simply a return to a successful education style of the past, private and public.
22. Military cadets
    Our world has become a more violent place with a general mentality of pure self interest among many younger people. These are all facets of the growing nihilism stemming from the ensuance of unbridled liberalism, producing further undesirable traits as a lack of self responsibility and a destain of our history & culture. A society devoid of the basic morality past down through our parents and grandparents leading to a decent toward a chaos many of us can see in less than a generation or is already here.
    In some Schools around the country military programmes have been attached to the educational curriculum to instil positive traits including courage, respect, hard work and loyalty. Making this a part of the national curriculum from the age of 13 to be taught alongside academia and sport such experience would go a long way to preparing young people for the working environment and skills necessary for behaviours beneficial to creating a wholesome and progress society.
    Furthermore such cadet programmes tailored to direct entry can provide career avenues for those whom are of less academic interest and expand the horizons & worldliness of many that would not have thought of such a path otherwise.
23. The Frankfurt School and the Architects of society’s undoing
    In the past 20 or so years it has become increasingly obvious that school, college and university education has become held hostage to a counter political ideology in Neo-Marxism, this movement though mixing ideals of Carl Marx are in fact a Nihilistic philosophy born out the work of a group Marxist Psychologists and Psychoanalysts, upon witnessing the failure of a Socialist revolution in Europe and the ensuing horror of World War I, in 1932 this group of individuals would come together at the Frankfurt School in Germany.
    Here they would create a new programme of ideological belief woven into a fabric of Marxist socialism, though unlike Marx their theories and ideas did not promote the betterment of society, with such movements as Political correctness, Critical theory, Social grouping, environment change, Feminist theory, the concept of LGBT, diversity as a weapon and marginalisation of the family. The names listed below have been highlighted as their published and even previously criticized work are the architects of our broken society.
    Below are the names of the Psychologists and Philosophers of the unspoken cabal that appear to be the architects of the madness now twist and manipulating the damage in our society:

Max Horkheimer
• Theodor W. Adorno
• Herbert Marcuse
• Friedrich Pollock
• Erich Fromm
• Otto Kirchheimer
• Leo Löwenthal
• Franz Leopold Neumann
• Henryk Grossman

Within 70 years we were witnessing the decay in the fabric of our society with record levels of divorce and by 2015 a hatred of older people, where there is zero balance bias in the teaching of sex education, where sexual preference and the over identification of racial identity to create further divide and fear of violent retaliation from voicing any opinions & truths unless they are inline with the perception of the mob and even the concept of white male privilege?

This is a concept that does not hold water as in mid December 2020 as White children from impoverished communities have not even been reaching GCSE level education, this resulting in limited job prospects and continually lowered lifetime income.

But most importantly where the leftist movements go so far left they become right wing at the extreme end, though ask yourself what is the difference between right and left at the fringe ends?

This leading to an anti democratic movement that has been defiant against the 2016 referendum result in relation to our detachment from the EU because they did not want to and that the other side were stupid and or simply racist?

Politics has no place being taught anywhere but within the confines of the subject that it is encompassed unless pertinent to the topic of study at the time and further without the added context of opinion disguised as fact though equally the inclusion of the impact to society and the lives of those within.

It has been alleged that the infiltration of the culture within Universities began more than 35 years ago, this the staging platform for a new Technical elite that would replace the already debt ridden middle class of old to spread a new and unfamiliar but decidedly insidious ideology. The counter culture in relation to neo-Marxism infiltrating our institutions has been the direct consequence of a campaign described the Long March, a little known and suitable insurgency into Western Culture that has been 70 years in the making, now plaguing our society driving division and ban any freedom of speech other than their own.

Do we not send our children to University to prepare them for higher roles in our society? But what is abundantly obvious, that fact we do not rejoice in their acceptance for them to return, less with a degree but an ideology that despises everything we are!

In the battle curb such an undebated and enforced culture, we have little choice but to legislate changes to ensure that learning is the paramount objective and that freedom of choice & expression are upheld. There are two such circumstances have lead to the dominance of this prevailing edeology:

• With the autonomy of universities free of non left leaning Government observation, this anti-British culture has gained an uncontested almost military foothold.
• The extreme cost of tuition in British Universities has bred an atmosphere conducive in attracting like minded personnel.

Finally and perhaps one of the most important issues spoken with great frustration for more than 30 years has been the regularly ridiculed and conspicuous destructions of British English. A cornerstone of our identity the original form of modern English is being swept away for the international standard, a Phonetically devised version of our language is spoken devoid of many the evolutionary changes and suitabilities that form a part of our history. Though further rejects much of the grammar and vocabulary that formed a language of articulation and diplomacy.

Leaving a final question that for many as with previous topics discussed in the section conjures memories of Orwell and 1984, why has someone been so hell bent of destroying the English language?

There are many changes and additions or realignments that are required now to fix our ailing education system for children and adults:

• British history (unpoliticised) should be fully reinstated, illustrating the positive & negative attributes of historical figures, but with the additional studies of our laws including the Magna Carta and the Bill of rights 1689. Though further still a history of the first Parliament & our Constitution, finally an update of our modern history to include Windrush. Our American family teach their law and democracy with great pride, why should we not as the worlds modern democracy styles are based on the English Blueprint.
• The fundamental British Values to be included from Primary school
• Freedom of Speech must be included in our education to explain their right of expression in our nation.
• Political ideologies and opinion should removed any and all educational settings unless pertinent to the subject or political science as a matter of law with prosecutable consequences.
• A real music lesson programme with teaching of real instruments, this has been proven to improve the learning skills and comprehension of growing children.
• The removal of sex education before 9 years of age and that further homosexual and heterosexual relationships to be taught in balance
• The reinstatement of British English and the removal phonetic learning
• Military cadets as a mainstream part of the education curriculum
• Computers must removed from the learning process, they currently have too much involvement.
• Qualification at age 16 should be focused to no more than 5-7 subjects and up to 10 for pupils that prove they have the capability.
• The education system will need to reflect the practical and academic requirements of employers/jobs market.
• The reinstatement of the GCE and CSE system
• A wider variety of sport to include Boxing, wrestling and other martial arts.
• The removal of extravagant and unjustifiable fees in Universities.
• More direct administration of universities from Government with stronger penalties for Shill Lecturers teaching opinion as fact and injecting political ideology into subjects where there is no parallel.

These changes are a core reflection of the issues that have been undermining our education that would need to be implemented to begin the process of reversing the damage inflected upon our society that we still have years to overcome. We will take these to the Government however we need your support to apply the public weight required to force the change fundamental in this fight.

Copyright © by Stephen Pryor 2021

1. Communities and the environment

In formulating what might define a viable community and environment, it must be articulated that in the last 10 years, for so many what facilitates healthy society and socialisation, is a stable internet connection.

This misconception can only be for the perpetuation of social media, where consequentially this has facilitated online grooming, fatalities and the fear of physical contact.

Sadly born out of a lack street wise experience, criminal behaviour and misappropriated trust, the evolving consequence of cyber space has created a prevailing negative influence and perception that has perhaps for many deliberately embedded the outside world being a more dangerous place, this marring positive growth and change of our society.

This invariably supporting the cognizance among many, a malaise of loneliness, depression and even sociophobia among young people.

In defining a viable community and its environment there would be some diverging opinion as to what this constitutes, though there are a core of elements that contribute to homeostasis:

• Affordable & available housing
• An expanding and or vacant jobs market
• Liveable wages
• Good standard of education that can also reflect the needs of the regional economy
• Libraries
• Free further & higher education
• Reasonable hours at work
• Local social activities
• Advice & support
• Pubs and with reasonably priced alcohol
• Places of worship
• Local conveniences
• Music venues
• Clean streets
• Respectable local health care facilities
• Reliable & affordable local transport
• Respectable air quality in urban areas
• Affordable food & clothing
• Playing/practising Sport & hobbies as a pass time
• Affordable spectator sports
• Safer streets with some police visibility

In an evaluation of our core elements it must be accepted that for the under 35’s and those of convenient memory, this is nothing more than a wish list that left leaning political groups would claim to have been struggling to incorporate in communities for the poor and working classes. However, what does needs to be acknowledged is that at least 15 of these core elements were present in communities only 25 years ago!

2. Community centres and Community activities

If there were, anything that can be agreed upon would be the slow and apparent death of local facilities either physically or monetarily, in many cases the absence of local services have been felt for even 8 years or more. These facilities educational, sport, entertainment, hobby, support based activities were vital in all communities, especially in deprived areas while the cost of living has continued to rise, jobs scarcity, stagnant wages and the crash, putting food on the table and keeping up with bills has been the priority. Although where purchases were needed to be made the credit card for many has been the choice of personal torture. In relation to council gyms and sport facilities these have been in line with fees of £27 per month in areas and £5 for a swimming session?

Certainly, 25 years ago, hobbies and interests would have been covered under the unicorn of ‘disposable income’ though were not at the price we find them now. Moreso to the point these activities and support services are deeply tied into the health of the nation physical & mental, with increasing job prospects, relieving stress, better health & happiness and even financial advice.

• Attracting & Encouraging sports groups and hobbies to offer their services 7 days a week.
• Day and evening activities that nurture and support vulnerable groups including the elderly and the lonely to socialising.
• Regular entertainment activities that support community and socialising.
• Community education and learning for work, interest and social activity.
• Crèche and family daytime activities
• Grants and support for community sports teams new and existing

There is a duty of care for city councils to provide support services during a growing public health emergency, but we also have a responsibility to ourselves to address issues relating to our own health and seek advice, but as in this situation when lockdowns are finished to take advantage of services, socialising and finding a life beyond work again.

Though remaining community centres have continued to try and facilitate services despite perpetual cuts, more community support and activities will need to be provided to counter the rising levels of mental illness and addiction of the last 10 years. But not forgetting the ensuing consequence of multiple locks downs, this will be cheaper than exasperating the potential long term high volume of psychiatric services that will need to be funded and will overwhelm the NHS for some years to come!

Covid has only seen to accelerate and Illuminate the issues of social isolation that began many years ago, from only superficially interacting at work as part of the new culture, now in lockdown for many we have become merely a shadow for one another.

Notwithstanding, the prevalence of left wing ideological feminists dominating the social sciences today, when considering the melange of mental health concerns now visible in our society.

Are men being afforded the same level of care as that of their female counterparts?

​3. WHAT YOU WANT IS NOT THE SAME AS WHAT YOU NEED

In a short note, over the past 30 or so years, with the power of emotive advertising and the sale of available credit, we have seen an increasing level of debt that has been partially based on conveying the perception of what we need in our lives and the perception of technology we cannot live without. It must be iterated that advertisers have been employing psychology to market products for many years and further must be stated, they are now very good at convincing the public to part with their money. Often predicated on the flimsy narrative of technological upgrades, with the mobile phone the most prevalent and even pervasive in society, witnessing rises in prices of £200 or more with each new version, only a software tweak and even simply a cosmetic change.

With the prevalence of emotionally indoctrinated literature throughout the internet, it cannot come as a surprise that great numbers of the population are so susceptible to current advertising and evidently, why some technology manufacturers are among the richest in the world.

With the prevailing consequence of Covid 19, is this not the time to take a step back and to weigh any of the perceived benefits versus staying with your existing model or whether your contemplating buying a new product that you need now or at all. With the misguided and misrepresented belief in retail therapy, has only seen to make companies richer and for many a further debt to pay with a short span of psychological benefit.

4. Family and Support

The current epidemic has seen families creating support bubbles to ensure the welfare of one another. As we have seen in previous years with families struggling to juggle bills and put food on the table, in this crisis we saw people ensuring those in their bubbles, were supplied with food, their prescriptions were always collected and people supported each other in their isolation & loneliness.

Though the pandemic maybe under control by the end of 2021, this doubtless has consequences on the economic situation in relation to people in the most deprived areas, where unemployment and need for benefits are likely to continue for an undefinable length of time, while the government invests in infrastructure and the economy for some years to come.

In relation to the home, it has been a British culture of great pride for families, to see children leave home to move into their own property to start lives; alternatively adult children who have not left, have found jobs and may have bought new cars on HP. However, in these uncertain times would it not be better for families to stay together for longer, not making unnecessary purchases, saving for deposits on a first home, pooling incomes and supporting the family through sharing expenses?

No one chose the situation we now find ourselves, nevertheless the decisions we make now may have unforeseeable consequences that flow in multiple directions positive or negative. As in every crisis previously, it has invariably been the prevalence of the family in society; in support of one another, that has held the fabric together.

5. Affordable homes and homes available

It is no revelation to the public, that there is and has been a housing shortages for 15 years, this has been an issue of a great deal of contention. With a high volume of migrancy, the lack of investment into building more infrastructure from 1997, but not forgetting after the crash developers and construction companies went out of business, killing off much of the building trade.

Due to the current situation many surveys have not been undertaken so accurate figures are hard to find right now, though according to a .Gov report as of October 2019, there were 648,114 empty homes in England and 225,845 had been empty more than six months? In Scotland 39,100 homes, Wales 23,000 and Northern Ireland 19,111.

In the past four years there have been despite repeated complaints from Labour of empty homes that could help ease the housing crisis, in an emoov report 2019, 70.3% of vacant properties in England were in Labour run areas?

So why are councils not looking to their own empty properties and the local long term empty properties to help alleviate this problem, councils do have the power to make compulsory purchases of long term empty homes? Further the process of commissioning housing projects, sourcing of sites, and building new housing developments takes time.

As a consequence of Covid 19, due to redundancies and the reduction in employment we will need more council rented properties to support the ensuing crisis, though moreso this would have provided revenue into councils and local economies, despite this councils have been only interested in building student accommodation? Granted these projects have brought in revenue but has only seen to create greater disparity for residents with taxes diverted to projects they do not benefit from. Further still many of the building developments in the last 10 years have seen property building in areas where prices are out of the range of residents that again hold no benefit to locals, inviting in people from outside the area and still not alleviating local shortages, but also do not come with local amenities and only benefiting councils.

If we are to address the housing crisis then serious consideration will need to be taken when building large developments that factor local needs and requirements including:

• What is the city’s housing shortage figure?
• How many people are waiting for council properties?

• What kind of properties are needed?
• What is the local economic situation?
• What are the prices of neighbouring properties?
• What amenities / facilities are required to promote healthy growth of the local area?

Due to the outcome of Covid Crisis one consolation of people working from home, will see businesses looking to capitalise on savings from shedding increasingly redundant office space. Previously long partially filled offices have already been repurposed into hotel complexes and Councils will have many opportunities to purchase soon to be redundant buildings and repurpose into desperately needed affordable homes. With the housing crisis now desperate in the four kingdoms, the national administrations could ethically be purchasing long empty commercial space for national home building programmes. This potentially could have several benefits including:

• Saving time and money on new projects
• Office building in city centres are closer to amenities and jobs
• It would relieve the long running moral debates over building on Greenfield site.
• Where city and city centre office buildings could be repurposed, public transport links are already in place, reducing the need for cars and reducing pollutants.

In retrospect many of the private housing projects in recent decades have done little to resolve local housing issues and has only sort to widen the disparity of communities in the name of profit.

6. How we contribute to the deterioration of the community’s oxygen and life expectancy

There is a long held misconception that oxygen is free when in actuality our post-industrial lifestyle and our never-ending pursuit in the accumulation of things has made oxygen a costly commodity. But further that this is a finite resource that is our responsibility if we want to keep breathing.

The Extinction rebellion argument that it is solely the responsibility of government to correct this problem with electric vehicles, solar, wind and water power generation to be implemented and further that we need to convert farmland back into forests, this is nothing more than a political play. In the first instance the government does have a role to play in rolling out renewable technology and helping to develop fusion, but we are contributing to the pollution of our air everyday through the use of combustion engines for short journeys, powering our appliances and transporting food & goods.

If we are to reduce incidence of lung disorders and the degradation of our physical and mental health, we must play our part also.

As an ever growing species it is our responsibility to have some awareness of the facts of critical changes created by human civilisation. Though, it has become abundantly clear that any and all information distributed through media outlets is likely to have been politically tarnished, by cross referencing the most pervasive of facts that often have their origins in social media platforms we can more clearly make informed decisions about matters that affect us directly.

In the sphere of political motivation in the second incidence with regard to Extinction rebellion, they demanded that farmland be reverted back to forest as more trees would help combat climate change, by removing Co2 from the atmosphere, backed up with emotive statements such as ‘the amazon rain forest are the lungs of the world’!

In opposition to these statements and demands, in a UN report only around 6% of energy is drawn from wood as much of the world has been using coal now for more than 100 years and the result being that the earth has more trees now than in the 19^th century. On a more negative note earth is greener now than in the last 300 years due to the levels of Co2 being produced. To make a clarification to the statement of the Amazon rainforest being the lungs of the world, there have been many scientific papers published in the last 30 years or so that debunk this narrative, illustrating that Trees produce at best 20% and at worst only 8-9% of the world’s oxygen. In a global emergency that may ensue ultimately an extinction event facts are everything, although we have further been told that we have 10 years to turn this around with some stating that we have already past the point of no return. It has been shown in counter studies that it is in fact earth’s oceans that supply the other 80 – 92% of our oxygen, more specifically algae and plankton. Due to large-scale disasters like volcanoes several mile long algae slicks have appeared in the ocean to absorb Carbon Dioxide.

Research, is being conducted and tested, in the industrial use of Algae as a means to reduce Co2 and circulate oxygen in the urban environments, which will perhaps help to reverse the falling air quality.

A technological advancement would see an invention called the Photobioreactor applied to the ISS in 2018; however, these Co2 scrubbers are looking to be applied to the climate change issue, though the most important component of this technology is still the Green Algae, where the application for decarbonising the environment is not a new idea. In developing algae farms when placed near high areas of pollution, these farms could serve to replace the Co2 by-product with oxygen. Certainly, it does bare thought in relation to places such as Heathrow Airport but what about applications in other settings:

• In city centres, the building of Photobioreactor may be a viable solution in consuming much of the carbon dioxide from urban traffic.
• While infrastructure is being upgraded, renewables, nuclear and eventually Fusion, applying these kinds of apparatus to filtration systems of coal fired power station chimneys.
• However, as a more low-tech solution, could more easily see the application of Algae farms to power station sites.
• A final application of the Algae farm could see the creation of city gardens and taller buildings with flat roofs.

All applications of this naturally occurring life form are still being explored but currently green algae is being applied as fuel for biomass and unlike blue-green or red Algae is considered safer and does occur naturally in fresh water. Even garden moss absorbs Co2 showing that nature has a wide variety of life that feed on by-products from industry and ourselves. In this fight against the apparent danger of polluted urban communities, we must explore all avenues for the most effective and applicable methods in saving the world habitat. In an analysis of our options and the situation presented to us, we as a species must go further to learn all we can, ready to lead in this emergency, not be led by those who have personal agendas; but ultimately support & point Government in the right direction in unprecedented times.

As a species we have a tendency to fight against what we perceive to be the inevitable and in that vein humanity has been known to change the course of history when it is imperative.

Although, if we consider that we only have a finite amount of time, placing all your eggs in one basket to solve such a vital issue is misguided, especially when that action is based on disputed or even debunked science.

However, not discrediting the relevance of trees they do serve a vital function in the ecological system, including that they do absorb Co2, but further still, they provide habitats for varying species of animal and plant life, not to mention that they help stop flooding.

What must be considered in the implementation of renewable energy technologies, they are relative new in the national grid, with infrastructure being an ongoing construction project and these technologies only as reliable as the weather permitting in regards to solar & wind.

We as consumers are tapping the power grid exponentially and must consider our contribution to Co2 levels, especially if you want to breathe cleaner air more immediately in this new decade.

Once this Corona virus phase is under control probably by the beginning of 2022, greenhouse gases will likely return to pre 2020 concentrations.

Below there are a number of examples of power conservations that we can implement as a nation to support the health of our communities and the ecological system damaged by our actions:

• We have become reliant on our cars to make school runs, commute to work and even visit local shops and there are many commuters that need to travel greater distances to reach their place of work. But in many short distance commutes these could be accomplished by bus, train, cycling or even walking.
• In the situation of school runs many are only a few street away and at peak times where possible walking may only take a few minutes longer but contribute to better health a situation that is no different when visiting local shops.
• As a result of Covid 19 we are likely to see a permanent change in work commuting, with office based workers only being expected to travel work premises once or twice a week and some even less. Once again to avoid travelling by car in peak times accept in a longer commute, opting to use public transport and cycling or even walking would go a long way to improving air quality, improving mental health and longevity.
• Another alteration that can be applied to the weekly routine is varying the times when we go to retail outlets to avoid peak times as best we can, but further patronising our local corner shop/post office for food. People have become a custom to buying certain brands for the foods they enjoy, but this is often due to the fact that they are the brands the supermarkets supply and your corner shop will offer more local brands that may be just as good and did not require travelling by car.

Simply reviewing the history of the 20^th century, ideas that were forgotten with the birth of the Atomic age, where in the US during the 1950’s, Ford had showcased the future of the car with the concept of the Nucleon, further the US Air force were to convert two B-36s in the MX-1589 project. The NB-36H had been modified to carry a nuclear reactor, however, this was never connected to the engines and the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion programme was cancelled by President Kennedy in his annual Budget message to congress in 1961. Notwithstanding, in our current stage of technology, with Mini nuclear reactors and 60 years of accumulated experience, would this not serve as a viable stop gap until the rollout of fusion reactors, to support air quality and emissions targets.

Specifically, we would looking to persuade government to encourage the use of nuclear propulsion in Commercial Freight, Lorries, Trains and Aircraft, this is not ultimately a solution, as there are ongoing waste issues, though in concert with other alternative energy solutions, this is a source worth pursuing in our current situation, when considering the nuclear ships can run for 10 years before refuelling. The ensuing issue that has always remained over the past 60 years has been the ethical storage or disposal of depleted nuclear material of which is disputed.

Furthermore, what of our use of power stations, every year people are accumulating more electrical items many that remain plugged in and running or on standby?

There are phones, tablets, TVs, Bluray players, PCs, games machines, laptops and lights but what about how many times a week you run the washing machine or the tumble dryer?

• When was your boiler last serviced?
• All of these require fuel that have an effect elsewhere, so how many of the entertainment and communication devices need to be switched on all the time?
• How many times a week do you need to run you washing machine, larger load less frequently or small loads more frequently?
• Do you always need your tumble dryer after washing, when best way that leaves clothes at their freshest is to hang them on the line, weather permitting?
• How many lights do you need on in the house and when you are not using the room? Using available daylight and turning off unneeded lights all make a contribution to conservation.
• Even turning down the gas or the rings when cooking, supports conservation.

In our daily lives each day we make decisions that contribute to further production of CO2 and at a local level the contamination of our oxygen supply.

In a final analysis, one further action that can be made is to continue petitioning government to legislate for manufacturers to continue to reduce the power consumption of their electrical products.

7. Healthy or unhealthy

Regular evaluation and care of our own health is paramount and has always been the responsibility of the individual and the family through the choices we make. For 15 years there has been a push to make takeaway and junk food evermore accessible, though in a strange turn of events one of the consequences of the corona virus pandemic, specifically the lockdown would see families cooking from scratch as there grandparent had done before them. A vital contributor of our physical and mental health has been reintroduced to our lives.

Although many have continued their eating habits and this healthy change in lifestyle may in the long run merely be seen as a fad of 2020, only to return to the homogenised, semi-manufactured, processed and unidentified chemical/additive based designer foods, portrayed as healthy or the food of choice.

In preparing our meals from scratch, the choosing of ingredients through the process of cooking to the outcome, these are all mechanisms for stress relief and better bowel health. Furthermore not forgetting the time that we eat dinner, these were among the first casualties of our 21^st century lifestyles, further still with the length of this neglect to our mental and physical state it will take time to find individual equilibrium.

Nevertheless, a small deviation just as side note, if we go out into the world wearing our better clothes when going to the shops or simply out of the house and interacting with one another; this can help improve how we feel about ourselves and the response of others, supporting our mood. We must express the best of ourselves in our individuality to be better and promote a better society.

One of the tools for coping with trials and tribulation of our chaotic lives was engaging in competitive sport and activities. For many in this country the only activity away from work has been attending the local gym or at worst gaming.

The athletic pursuits in our lives can greatly support our physical and mental wellbeing whether this be Football, Rugby, Cricket, Martial arts, boxing and swimming. Even regular cycling and walking,

certainly in the last 11 years we have seen a dramatic fall in prosperity, longer working hours, greater debt, the worst quality of food and much less free time for personal activities, finally alcohol has become a luxury. Up until the late 1990’s morning television included a 10 – 15 minute workout slot with various instructors over the years that would end with the much loved Mr Motivator, though it has never been clear why this was removed?

Unquestionably, in the last 10 years the NHS has been pushing people to eat more healthily and to exercise, but just to get exercise. Now government run support scheme for better health seem to be solely for women, but gives little incentive to support men who are struggling, when you consider the extravagant price of Gyms and Swimming fees? For many simply exercising like running or going to the Gym and measuring success by lifting more or running further or longer was not enough of an incentive to keep going and what happened to having fun while you were doing it? The answer was always socially active competitive sport like many of the examples mentioned above, but for those that feel these are too strenuous an activity there are football teams for the retired and over 60’s.

8. Technology and junk food

For those of us that grow up in the 1980’s with home computers are only too aware of the addictive nature of computer games, but to counterbalance this activity we played sports and would go out with friends. If this didn’t happen in any given week our parents would force us to go out and get exercise.

The very nature of computer games is that they are a stimulant feeding the brain like sweets. Children and Adults spend a considerable amount of their free time gaming consuming a lot of cognitive function and raising Dopamine.

When we are not at our consoles, on our phones or consuming copious amounts of junk food of which we are accustom even dependent, with a drop in dopamine coupled with the difficulties in our lives become unhappiness and depression, an inability to cope!

But what of diabetes, obesity, ME, Fibromyalgia, Crohn’s disease, cancer, anorexia, bulimia, dementia, schizophrenia, asthma, COPD and others?

This is about living well and as a nation we must take control of our health, we need to start thinking for ourselves again as many of the illnesses in our ‘modern society’ that have and will blight our lives can be reduced or even avoided by the choices we make. Evidentially, the chances of contracting colds and spreading viruses can be reduced by our actions, as an individual introducing a balanced diet and exercising, reduces stress and decreases your susceptibility to illnesses.

Monitoring our health, administering good self-care and making time to see your doctor when there are problems, can reduce the strain on the NHS caused by poor lifestyle choices like regular colds, or illnesses that if spotted sooner would have been easier to treat. The perfect example in winter with waiting rooms full of people claiming influenza after 3 to 5 days to ask for antibiotics, when in reality you would not be able to get out bed if you did. This leaving people with more serious ailments and the elderly unable to secure appointments for weeks at a time, but not forgetting that the waiting room just became the new one stop shop for viruses.

The spread of disease has been understood since the time of the pharaohs, even the nursery ‘rhyme ring a ring a roses’ which was about the plague mentions sneezing. Nevertheless, for all of our understanding of how infection can be spread, modern medicine, closed sewers, indoors plumbing, daily washing and the invention of antibiotics, we have become complacent.

Every year millions contract colds and flu, then thousands die from the flu! What we see on a daily basis is that people either do not cover their mouths and noses or use their hands to cover their faces when they cough or sneeze? So they either spread germs into the open air or pass germs by touch until washed, though handkerchiefs are considered dirty the use of tissues or your sleeve are better options.

The public either do not think or simply do not care about the impact of their actions, with conscious self-management as a community and as a nation would go a long way to reduce the spread of seasonal infections. By example the ebb and the flow in the spread of the Corona virus has been closely documented and has shown is directly related to our behaviour and the lack of interest demonstrated by some, which is no different to any other type of infection.

Cleaning our hands regularly when we are out, washing our hands before and after meals, washing ourselves and our hands after we have spent a longer time in the toilet, these are extras that can support a safer environment when conducted as a matter of course as a nation. However, not surprisingly such practices are nothing new and have been understood on and off for millennia.

9. Pharmaceuticals and our abuse

There are two issue pertaining to the pace of our lives in relation to illness, firstly our dependence on antibiotics and over the counter remedies. Our abuse of these has led to antibiotic resistant strains or superbugs, liver damage and imbalances in gut flora. Through not adhering to the regime of antibiotics many infectious strains are immune to many of these drugs and repeated use on a regular basis has left our immune systems compromised.

Further, the delicate balance of bacteria and yeast flora that aid in digestion have been damaged with bacteria all but wiped out and yeast overgrowth causing many of minor to more serious ailments that plague our lives and pharmaceutical remedies can with prolonged use leading to liver damage.

We cannot just believe our action are simply our own, humans have a hive mentality and are more likely to think in the same way about the same situations, though the NHS will emphasise the importance of adhering to drug regimes and most will be conscientious following the rules, as with many situations in our lives there are those that will unconscientiously dismiss the consequences of their actions.

10. To Sleep or not to Sleep

Though the second issue pertaining to the pace of our lives that does not get enough coverage in relation to degrading physical and mental health, is sleep or the lack of quality time sleeping. It has been suggested that in the 1980’s the nations average amount of sleep per night was 7 ½ hours, by contrast in the last 15 to 20 years this has dropped to 5 ½ hours! As it stands, if the average person needs to be up for work at 6.00 in the morning and will likely go to bed at 11.30 or 12.00 at this point you are rushing towards 6.00.

But firstly what were you doing before you went to sleep? Likely you were either using your mobile phone or watching television, but both stimulate the mind, not really conjunctive to quality rest and supporting normal circadian rhythms. Though further recently there has been an argument suggesting that the length of quality sleep is different for everyone?

Certainly in the last 50 – 60 years the recommendation has been 8 hours, in considering the fact that a lack of quality sleep over time leads to mental illnesses like dementia and Alzheimer’s, but more immediately cognitive impairment including damage to the short term memory.

• Another factor that many fail to consider is that the recommendation is 8 hours in sleep and there is an undefined length of time from going to bed to REM state beginning, this depending on how active the mind is at that time?
• Meaning that 8 hours in bed becomes 7 ½ to 7 hours of sleep potentially and the quality lowers or even less time in sleep is experienced depending on how stressed or worried you are at the time.

It is ultimately for the individual to decide how much time they spend sleeping per night but considering the plethora of evidence linking health and sleep this needs to be an informed choice.

11. Covid an ensuing legacy

In evaluating the global response to the Covid epidemic, this has invariably left some unanswered questions in relation to the British & European V Southeast Asian response, but further still why have immune responses differed between races and even within?

However, without a vaccine, a fundamental question that must be broached, for 60 years science fiction and horror writers have been telling tales of viruses that could bring man’s extinction. Even during the cold war, the Americans had speculated the possibility of future enemy attack via chemical and biological warfare, in the film the Andromeda strain America had a contingency plan for fighting deadly pathogens.

In that situation, they had designed purpose build containment and research facilities to expose and try to fight what would turnout to be an alien virus that had been wiping out towns and villages. So why were there no protocols for a proactive response to the news of a new potential pandemic among nations or the WHO spreading from the other side of the world? In an uneasy potential stalemate between us and the virus’ future mutations, we have known that this was coming for sometime and if we are completely honest, so far we have gotten off lightly as we have seen with previous biological threats this could been far worse, we have been expecting far worse!

In future, we will need standard Global protocols that halt the spread of potential threats with contingencies once the virus has reached populations, most of which we have endured this past year that include:

• Prime Ministers warning of a potential threat on the way and what are part will be in curbing that threat.
• Border closures
• Quarantining

• University and pharmaceutical facilities ready to turn resources to pending threats with government instruction.
• Hospital preparedness and emergency protocols
• Curfews
• Controls on city and regional movement
• Stay at home

The public does not want to return to the events of the last year, though our behaviour had a direct impact even as a minority on the health of the nation. If we do not want see the costly events of 2020/21, then as previously iterated if we are not more vigilant in the face of ensuing storms we will see maybe more than this virus has had to offer and a return to the most draconian of measures that infringed our civil liberties. Although we have the technology to track and control virus’ always remember Captain Trips.

12. Between the old order and the ensuing snow storm

Until 2020, our society had been extending toward infinite velocity, life moving at such a pace that the consequential acceleration started fraying neurons, stripping away our memory and our ability to reason. In the all-encompassing blizzard we lost sight of any kind of sanity as we were swept along in its wake. Until the end of 2019, the working week had been 42+ hours on average, though many of us working a great deal more.

During the first Lock down, which you could illustrate as a scene from the day after tomorrow or the original survivors, you start to remember life as it was. Which incidentally since 2012, has appeared like a tangent universe and an ensuing chaos with work the only schedule.

However, we did not always live this way, for those that can remember clearly the 1980s there were a number of fixed point in our 7 day week of which we would navigate by. Although it must be highlight that industry was closing and unemployment 4M+.

• Though it must be expressed that despite the largest fixed point of our week was work, the average time spent was 35 hours! Another rather important fixed point and notable difference in our lives was that until 1990 it was illegal for businesses to open on a Sunday, as this being a day of Christian rest. You would have found some corner shops and then later only the local petrol station, unless you were to attend a morning service the only open place was the Local pub.

If you were a football fan then you would see your favourite team play with a season ticket at £26 – £100, a match ticket at £1.20 – £8.00, this was very much a family pass time! But most importantly a more relaxed time in the pub. Although the day would have evolved around the Sunday Roast, despite surprisingly still a ritual today in Britain, with the 7 day working week the day no longer evolves around it.

But finally with Music culturally an imperative in our functioning lives, the Chart shows of Radio 1 and Capital FM, listening in and even recording the new releases of the week. Truly a day of rest and socialising for the Nation, before the start of the new working week!

• Our evening entertainment of the working week had been a constant war for some 40 years between the BBC and ITV to produce the best comedies, drama & soap operas. With the TV times or Radio times you could schedule your evenings by the programmes broadcast, though not forgetting you still had your favourite radio shows. However even by the standard of the day could not compare with Christmas programming a paradox or extinction event of films and television, the money spent to cater to children, families and adults that could blow minds with disbelief!
• Friday truly the special day of the week, with this being payday and 5.30 the start of weekend, further if you lived in London then ITV would change to LWT(London Weekend Television) with this a different schedule of programming and the BBC showing Top of the Pops to see your favourite bands & Artists. Friends and Colleagues going to Pubs, Clubs and the Cinema (£1.50 ticket) as a matter of cause to unwind & socialise after a hard week at work, with average price of a pint at 80p. Further still if you were staying in you could go the video shop and rent the latest movies on release.
• Finally Saturday’s fixed points were Shopping day but also the day you went to record shops to look at the latest singles and album releases you heard on last Sunday’s chart show & through the week, not forgetting even seeing your Team play, leaving evenings free to out at all of the above and local restaurants.
• Moreover, it must be iterated that wages are relative to the cost of living with the lowest wage at under £3.86 and on average £7.76. The cost of living was simply lower than today!

In contrast, between the order of the past and the ensuing chaos of the 24/7 everything available at once lifestyle, it is transparent that life has been simpler with a full social life, freer from stress and reason to be happy, all of which are now absent!

Despite being constantly reminded of the forced belief life has never been better, why has our world been increasingly intolerant of life?

Further, a question that must be iterated, is why the cost of goods and services, greatly outstripped the rate of inflation?

​​13. A FIVE NATION COMMUNITY

In the last 3 decades, there has been less interaction socially within the four nations, where generation have been trained to look to the EU; this has allowed nefarious and clandestine agendas to drive a wedge between nations. This undermining any work that people have done to close the divide and seen a rise in young generations of England openly supporting the IRA with a hatred of his or her own country? We need to do more and work as a nation socially as well as politically to start dispelling myths of English hatred; we are kin in the Blood and not a business deal or political contract. However, this must include the Irish republic, as we are not just trading partners, Irish genes account for some 20% of English blood. We would like to propose the nations to interact more within the Kingdom, beginning with more internation sport:

• The reinstatement of the four nations Football, though to also include the Irish republic
• Further still, potentially this should include such tournaments as Olympic and World games pre championships for the support of competitors. Though also, social interaction between nations, but also the sports of Cricket, Tennis, Rugby and more.

​14. NHS

In an analysis of one of Britain’s largest and most cherished Institutions, too many accounts of failing have been witnessed in the past 25 years or more. However, in that analysis for each observation of failings that require change or improvement, contributing factors and explanations that have been formulated or surmised, were only to be countered with statements that contradict any explanation. By recent accounts and in relation to unfolding political events, we may have another foothold situation.

We would challenge anyone to unravel the systemic issues that have plagued this Institution. In honest reflection of the matter, our pride in the creation of this grand achievement has blinded us to the growing limitations of our health service, where rival nations have surpassed us in their overall provision of care. In recent observations at the point of entry in emergency situations, we have a very high standard, however in other areas such as cancer treatment we lag behind many of our counterparts.

In response to recent failings in the health service, the Government is to take measures that will see them relinquish much of their responsibility, a perhaps welcome development as the NHS has not operated as well since delegating responsibility to self-management and private companies. Nevertheless, this Government will need to make a Top down investigation into the way Hospitals and trusts are run, to gain any true prospective of the reasons for the systemic failings before being able to make changes, a hope that we and the public will be holding our breath for! However, we would speculate that many of the independent assertions made over the years may prove to be true, but further still, after the government’s intervention, some of the problems and issues simply evaporate.

In 2014, the public were asked whether they would pay more to ensure the strength of the NHS, the public were happy to pay more, consequently no changes were made. What is apparent is that new funding strategies need to be formulated, with an already stretched service, the strain of mental health support and the scandal of nursing home care over the course the century so far. The care sector will need to be brought into the NHS; our families should be receiving the care that they spent 40+ years paying Taxes & National Insurance contributions paying their own way.

According to NHS Digital data in April 2013, there were 56M patients attending surgeries, with the mergers of medical practices and an increase population size by 2020, there were 60.3M people registered. This was an 8% rise in the population vying for community medical care and effectively a 4M rise in patients. Notwithstanding, throughout the Kingdom there have been scores of surgery closures, with some of the greatest losses during the Covid Crisis.

It had already been difficult enough to book a GP appointment prior to 2020, in the next year there will be sharp fall in the number patients securing an appointment, unless there is a serious investigation into how city councils run district health care. The resulting consequence may see an already previously swamped A&E being further filled with patients seeking medical support.

As many may not be aware, unakin to Hospitals GP Practices are not a part of the NHS in the same way, where GP’s are run as small businesses governing their own budget. Further still paying their own Indemnity insurance, however in parallel, with rising litigation surgeries are paying as much 25% a year, effectively insurance of £1700 16 years ago to as much as £10K by 2017.

We would ask, is this the best way for our Surgeries to operate, with expanding practices and the long austerity measures have not been conducive to patient care, do we need to look at local & National government having a more direct influence on GP care? Furthermore, with the size of patient lists in many area and regions, a new Government framework to effectively, add new surgeries and Clinics to rebalance the current urgency in the GP network is desperately needed.

15. The Centre of Social life

There is a plethora of data going back decades that clearly defines the dichotomy in the reality between long term social drinking and drinking alone. In Britain the Pub has been a beating heart of the community for a 1000 years, a regular social event that would bring joy to millions as a fanfare to mark the end of a hard working week to meet friends and family for conversation, fun, sport, meals out and quite Sunday afternoons; though most importantly to alleviate the stresses and shed the stressors even temporarily that plague our working week and lives. We as British people are no heavier drinkers than our Northern European counterparts are and in areas where alcoholism has been, most prevalent is in direct relation to poverty, but moreso the suffering local economies and social decay.

Alcoholism is not a problem of society it is a systemic symptom of social dystopia and issue of mental illness, the alarm bell that the community is suffering from economic or political failure, alcohol is the right of people to bring happiness and deal with pressures of their lives, but is not the same thing as Alcoholism.

With the EU intervention to curb drinking in member states through levying high taxes on alcohol bought in Pubs, clubs and restaurants drove drinking underground unchecked and unmetered. The ensuing storm of Alcoholism plaguing British society has never been higher until 2019, from the early millennium the missing symptom that would fuel this cancer on society would be supermarkets selling alcohol cheaply.

Traditionally the treat of imbibing alcohol had been more associated with going out than staying in (barring Christmas, Birthdays and Parties), but with the economic crash, loss of jobs, stagnancy in wages, debt and the rise in living costs staying in literally became the new going out and supermarket alcohol smoothed the way to make this more bearable. Although never quite alleviating the painfully long dark British winters of which there have been too many to think about, many drinking alone, unable to vent their frustrations, then only numbing and internalising their pain & anguish, with the disparity in society ensuing over the last 10 years, high levels of mental illness have become prevalent with Alcoholism an inevitable symptom. A terrifying revelation if the public had not already been aware of the precarious relationships and inevitable consequence, leaving people to reflect this

suspicious consensus of logic; what was the real reasons behind this legislation more taxation or something nefarious in nature?

Where Drinking in communities border on abuse the failings of local government and economy need to be sort and addressed, though to advise and campaign for healthier attitudes towards alcohol are sensible and moral, to impose restrictions will only seek to further damage the economy, remove jobs and end community behaviour.

Now the ensuance of mental health has gone into free fall since March 2020, alcoholism does not make a society unhealthy; disparity leading to an unhealthy society makes people unwell and can drive them harder to drink.

It must be however, addressed that for the same reasons of an unhealthy society, due to difficulty in meeting the demands of this wonderful and modern world, with little support in local services and outreach programmes. There has also been a steady increase in the use of prescription and illegal drugs, which has been a further symptom of our decaying communities only to be exasperated by lockdown. Nevertheless, just as disturbing as with Alcoholism this form of addition cannot be age classified with 6% + frequent users in 2020 in a .Gov report for England and Wales. According to Health Scotland, this figure was 1 in 60 in 2018.

For a number of years CAMRA (campaign for real ale) has written many articles asking for duty to be lowered and promoting the benefits of local establishments.

However in the past 20 years we have lost far too many of our pubs, 25% by 2018, but this industry contributes £23b per year to the economy and £13b in tax, with 900,000 employees although this was around 2019?

With the closure of this vital organ in many of our communities urban and rural alike, has facilitated to a death of society and local economies. Closing these speak easy environments and the sheer cost of a pint of beer in relation to the cost living, contrast to the fall in wages in the past 11 years has greatly contributed to the increased rates of depression, but also greatly lowered the rates of social interaction. If the lockdowns resulting from the pandemic are any measure, this has only highlighted the British public’s need for public houses.

Happier people are better workers and are less of a strain on public services and the treasury, further still reasonably priced alcohol in a controlled and social environment means more money into the community and more money into the public purse. The fundamental nature of Public houses are that they are deep rooted and mass closures of these Center’s of social life with a wholesale embargo/ abstinence attitude or be punished has been seen as a frontal assault on British culture one that we will not forgive or easily forget!

The final nail in the coffin for those closed pubs was that they were sold to developers repurposed or even demolished for luxury homes, in many areas out of the price range of local residents and leaving no trace of what the land formally held.

Between 1918 and 1939, British breweries started the inter-war pub programme to build 5000 new pubs to attract women and families into their establishments replacing the debauched drinking dens. As a result this would create some of the finest examples of British reproduction buildings as Pub in the Kingdom, that were held with great pride in towns and cities, later becoming listed, but now many gone and just the memory of those who frequented them or just photographic history.

We propose and advocate repopulating the nation with public houses, though as with the inter-war building programme, Pubs should be built to encompass the traditional grandeur that many of our drinking establishments used to boast as Tudor, Victorian, Edwardian and Elizabethan. Though these are reproduction as with their predecessors they should reflect our heritage and with pride. But further as with the previous restoration programme these should hold such facilities as function rooms, ballrooms, games rooms, stages, restaurants and gardens.

We need the support of you the public to address this issue with a number of steps needing to be taken to facilitate a positive climate for a rebirth in this very British project:

• First of all it was the oppressive tax levy added to alcohol in the name of preventing alcoholism that actually caused this situation and we want to petition the government to lower this tax and allow the pubs to flourish through socially accessible drinking to promote local economies and growth of the workforce.
• Tax incentives for the promotion of opening and building new pubs
• Extra support for new independent pubs with Licensing
• We need to collaborate with groups such as CAMRA and British Beer and Pub Association to try encourage the major breweries to start a new programme similar to inter-war pub building initiative.

In the ongoing lockdown, the need for social and group activity, venting frustration, drinking and celebrating is understandably a pressure cooker right now. This will likely see a huge boost in the economy and just like after the Second World War perhaps a new baby boom and coupling all in all a return to the belief in hope and prosperity in our future.

Finally in retrospect, the current culture of ‘do what you want, be who you want be’ is factually a contradiction that invalidates individuality and replaces this with collectivism, as individuality through the indoctrinated narrative. Such ideology flies directly in the face of the fundamental core principle that has held Anglo and then western culture together.

This stating we have the right to express our beliefs and hold individual thought; this does not negate the fact that in Anglo culture there is the right for others to challenge our beliefs and ideas, though further still the right for an evolving society to challenge outmoded ideology. However, neither side in any debate can be allowed the use of censorship to silence counter opinion that may reflect the national and cultural consensus, especially when it is apparent that censoring instruments are being applied to the opinion that contradicts the loudest narrative.

As long as festering conceptions and dangerous ideologies are not properly aired and debated, it only compounds situations that consume the fabric that holds society.

Copyright © Stephen Pryor 2021

Crime

The 21st Century has witnessed a notable rise in criminal activity in line with growing levels of disparity, especially since the 2008 economic crash. A quantifiable comparison that has been maintained since a Scotland Yard investigation into Crime in London during the 19th Century; this report illustrated a direct relation between crime and poverty, though it must also be accepted the negative ensuance of the Lisbon Treaty’s Schengen zone. This would encourage a further increase in crime with an influx of false migrancy that would form various eastern European gangs competing for status around Britain.
But moreso high profile the growth of county lines and other youth gangs due to their use of children to sell drugs, though further committing murder, as an initiation through the forced early belief of a lack of opportunities in adult life. This is a multifaceted problem or a melange of issues that has in part been politicised with the statements of ethnic minority disparity, generated by a radical left movement.
However, in reality these problems have been living and growing throughout the population regardless of colour for more than 15 years, though many crimes are in fact opportunistic and even petty in there nature, but all contributing factors to a society in decent.
The issues pertaining to this decay are far reaching in our society and all ensue individual, banded and accumulative consequences these including:

• A failing Education system
• A depleted National Police forces
• Regional poverty relating to the unresolved scars of redundant industry
• Mass immigration without investment since 1997
• A lack of housing or affordable housing
• Accumulative and unsustainable debt
• Low paying service economies 
• Foreign ownership of utilities and public transport charging high prices of usage
• The high price of low quality food
• The lack of jobs and the lack of non graduate roles at a reasonable wage
• A widening of graduate only preference roles in white collar Administration.

The post industrial regions of the four nations have never recovered from the closure of industry and for the most part has been neglected in the past 30 years, only replaced with an expansion of the service industries Retail & Hospitality. Though successive Governments and labour councils have done little to improve the lives of people, with a history of financial scandals that include Liverpool in the 1980’s and Nottingham 2020-2021, but it must be mentioned the conduct of the Labour council in Lambeth in the 1980s also.
Labour have long since parted ways with their traditional working class representative policy and readily blame Conservatives for a lack of funding in conjunction with a Northern history of local corruption. These are just simply scenes of cheap theatrics with taxpayers footing the bill.
Boris Johnson has promised to invest in the North, which has always lagged behind the South East in Jobs and living standards. Though it must be stated that the working class in London earn little more than those in the North, but do pay higher living costs, despite this the greatest lack of opportunities and facilities that result in poverty are witnessed most in the Midlands and beyond.
But do hope that these writings resonate with our family in those areas and will spark support for the intentions of this grass roots movement.
It must also be understood though that with the ensuing plague of Corona virus investment projects will be slowed. In retrospect, what this pandemic has allowed is a freeze frame of situations that were unravelling and now giving a clearer view of changes that need to be made. If the Government are to make a heavy investment in deprived areas, then there are issues that require immediate attention and a future of these regions cannot prosper without addressing these.

You have to understand a thing before you can destroy a thing!

In an effort to resolve these social issues having an understanding of the psychology of how these situations manifest is not enough, there must be detailed investigation into the factors that have led to previously mentioned behaviours at a local level, to be comprised nationally and in the union as a whole, so that we can better and more quickly put an end to otherwise unnecessary survivalist and then nihilistic & pathological behaviours representative of a broken society.
As previously discussed many crimes that plague our society today are opportunistic in nature and could have only been repeated with such frequency due to a lack of Police presence and further with the substitution of the false economy of community protection officers.
In response to the currently depleted constabularies the Prime Minister has pledged to recruit new 20,000 officers; however, in truth the domestic safety of our nation is as much to do with our belief and participation in that ideal as it is for the Government to facilitate.
Further there are factors that are unchanged that contribute societies disparity and are obvious at first glance of when comprising an overall picture that do include such negative consequence as Alcohol and Drug addition. With the urgency of this crisis in our communities we advocate and would like your support in the petitioning of measures that would act as a broad instruments with the following:

1. Firstly a detailed investigation into County lines and other youth gangs in Cities, with further emphasis on their reach into schools
2. An inquiry in schools to understand recruitment and the causes of youth involvement into gang culture.
3. The establishment of outreach programmes or better funding for outreach programmes in communities or town centres to further investigate the crisis and to give young people believable role models; although, ultimately to try and deprogramme compromised individuals & dissuade youth culture that often glamourises crime as a justifiable lifestyle.
4. Greater Investment into education of addiction and rehabilitation. 
5. The development of new economies and work programmes to regenerate communities.
6. Accessible relevant free adult education that is provided in a safe and non intimidating environment.
7. Better funding for communities centres & adult education centres with more community based activities and accessible sports facilities locally.
8. An Olympic sponsored development programme to refocus and create ambition for future sports people and better adjusted adults.
9. The removal of Asbos that have further contributed to bad behaviour in the community and better sentencing for repeat offending with the option of military service and hard labour to repay more serious offences. 
10. Finally deportation for individuals that have been found to come to these shores for the purpose of spreading misery and death in the name of profit.

Though there are other measures that could be taken and some measures may have greater relevance in some regions and not others, we feel that these are those that are most widely needed and have been missing in our communities.

For far too long now the punishment has not appropriately fitted the crime.

As a nation we place too much faith in the current Prison and Correction system, where young people and adults can find themselves sentenced to prison for repeat offences. In the US, Prison is seen often as the de facto punishment and where longer sentences are prevalent, there are millions of people serving prison sentences and prisons are full.
It must be iterated there are those that are a danger to society and their incarceration supports the safety of the innocent public; notwithstanding, when imprisoning repeat offenders of lesser and non violent crimes this has led to a quantifiable history of career crime. The way we view crime & punishment must be reevaluated as we cannot keep building new prisons and where inadequate spending in the correction system is simply becomes a cost to the public financially or personally in society.
Crime must have consequential and appropriate punishments, but without mandatory education and rehabilitation those maladjusted & poorly skilled individuals that enter the prison systems will return to society just as ill equipped or as better criminals. These simply become a continued or greater burden to society and further still where some more violent criminals complete sentences only to commit violent crimes again.

Copyright © Written by Stephen Pryor 2021