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Contrary to popular belief, not all politicians are blood sucking vampires. Though, it is true, and according to reliable media articles quoted herein, there are many societal leaches, not pulling their weight. And of course a few who are simply corrupt to the core. The revelation as to links, of slave trading ancestors, should come as no shock to tax payers in awe of the ever rising National Debt. And of course the housing and cost of living crises.

The raw truth is, that to even consider a career in politics, you have to learn to lie better than the opposing parties. Because, in truth, if you told it like it is, and proposed genuine solutions. You'd not be elected. Thus, you have to dance with the devil to stand any chance of making a difference. And then you realise the enormity of the foul up that is British politics and policies - all based on leaching on decent honest workers. Newly, by banks and councils who will not provide sustainable solutions. Because, they want to get rich without working. And hey, that is what they have always done. Along with rows of stock market investors, all looking for a free lunch.

Fighting the system is like a salmon swimming upstream to spawn.

SIR KEIR STARMER'S LABOUR PARTY CABINET 2024

WERE YOU TRICKED BY A SYSTEM YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER? - Did you enter into a service contract, or were you tricked into thinking it was legal. That you had to accept their terms without being able to challenge them. Firstly, how was the Band value of your property arrived at, and did you agree with it? And what were the published terms of the (deemed) contract to provide services?

A basic human need is shelter. Where then are the affordable homes? If there are none, then the (deemed) valuation is artificially high. Meaning that the charges are not correct. Are the roads fit for purpose? If not, the taxes being charged are excessive and you are entitled to a discount. The first thing to do is ask you local authority to qualify their position. To set out the basis of their ability to seek money in return for services. That you may find are not being provided. When the council refuse to answer your reasonable questions. Only a fool pays more that they should. And only a fool does not read the terms of a contract - deemed or otherwise.

How many staff are employed to provide the services they claim to be providing. Are those staff being overpaid. Are they receiving fat pensions and retirement bonuses? Are they working from home? You are entitled to know if the wages and salaries are excessive. To know if the services you are being charged for are reasonable, or if you are looking at Culpable Overcharging.

Nobody has the right to take away your shelter. You are not a slave. We are all born equal. Nobody is above natural law. If you cannot change their rules, you do not have to accept them. But even playing by their rules, you may find your council are attempting to defraud you. And that is illegal.

STATE OF PLAY APRIL FOOLS DAY 2024 - THE GUARDIAN

Why are so many voters so unsatisfied with Britain’s main parties? In the opinion polls, despite Labour’s strong lead, their combined support is low by historic standards. Barely two-thirds of people say they will vote for them. One poll from this weekend predicted the Conservatives’ worst ever election result: only 98 seats. Meanwhile Labour’s membership is falling fast. Also, unusually, the main parties’ leaders are unpopular at the same time. While Rishi Sunak is one of the least-liked prime ministers ever, Keir Starmer looks likely to succeed him with his personal ratings firmly negative and trending downwards. The unacceptable replaced by the unpalatable.

This is not how Britain is meant to move towards a new political era. In the run-up to 1964, 1979 and 1997 – our three most mythologised modern changes of government – there was widespread excitement about the administration in waiting. There was also keen anticipation across the right before the 2010 election, until Cleggmania and a muddled Conservative campaign produced a hung parliament. In all four cases, a common desire to be rid of a tired old government was at least partially transformed into enthusiasm for the likely new one.
Yet since Starmer became our probable next prime minister more than two years ago, as Boris Johnson’s administration began to disintegrate, such a transfer of political energy has stubbornly refused to happen – and nor has a Conservative revival. Some of the reasons for this stasis are fairly obvious: Sunak and Starmer’s limitations as public figures; the lack of serious Tory policies and eye-catching Labour ones; the rise of Reform UK and the revival of the Greens and Liberal Democrats.

A less noticed factor is that the Commons has become ever more fragmented, with more than a dozen parties represented, as well as more than a dozen independent MPs, most of whom have effectively been ejected from the main parties. The absence of Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, in particular, has made Labour blander and less appealing to leftwing voters. Meanwhile, the Tories’ seemingly endless shift to the right is alienating their more centrist supporters. That some voters are switching off from this repetitive, ideologically limited two-party drama is hardly surprising.

However, the disconnect between the main parties and many of their supporters goes much deeper than the unsatisfying politics of the past few years. Its origins are in the turbulent 1980s, when so much of today’s society was created.

In that decade, the Conservatives became the party of deregulated capitalism, above all else, thanks to Margaret Thatcher’s economic reforms. Meanwhile, Labour began to be less associated with economic equality than before, and more with multiculturalism and social liberalism, through Labour-run bodies such as the controversial but influential Greater London Council (GLC). These respective party roles and identities have been challenged periodically since, but they have endured and profoundly changed the country. Britain today is ever more accepting of diversity, and ever more damaged by market ideology. In effect, since the 80s, Labour and the Tories have each won one big, society-shaping, battle.

A less noticed factor is that the Commons has become ever more fragmented, with more than a dozen parties represented, as well as more than a dozen independent MPs, most of whom have effectively been ejected from the main parties. The absence of Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, in particular, has made Labour blander and less appealing to leftwing voters. Meanwhile, the Tories’ seemingly endless shift to the right is alienating their more centrist supporters. That some voters are switching off from this repetitive, ideologically limited two-party drama is hardly surprising.

However, the disconnect between the main parties and many of their supporters goes much deeper than the unsatisfying politics of the past few years. Its origins are in the turbulent 1980s, when so much of today’s society was created.

In that decade, the Conservatives became the party of deregulated capitalism, above all else, thanks to Margaret Thatcher’s economic reforms. Meanwhile, Labour began to be less associated with economic equality than before, and more with multiculturalism and social liberalism, through Labour-run bodies such as the controversial but influential Greater London Council (GLC). These respective party roles and identities have been challenged periodically since, but they have endured and profoundly changed the country. Britain today is ever more accepting of diversity, and ever more damaged by market ideology. In effect, since the 80s, Labour and the Tories have each won one big, society-shaping, battle.

But have they won the victory their supporters most wanted? Research into the underlying attitudes of Tory and Labour voters suggests otherwise. In 2020, a report by the thinktank The UK in a Changing Europe found that Conservative voters were far more likely than Tory MPs to believe that “big business takes advantage of ordinary people”, that “management will always try to get the better of employees”, and that “working people do not get their fair share of the nation’s wealth”. This surprisingly leftwing outlook suggests that, in the eyes of many Tory voters, Thatcher’s economic revolution was either misguided, went too far, or both.

The report found a similar Labour tension over social values. Labour voters were more likely than Labour MPs to back the death penalty, to believe that “young people don’t have enough respect for traditional British values”, and that “schools should teach children to obey authority”. On this evidence, the conversion of all Labour supporters to social liberalism remains far from complete.

What many Labour voters do still strongly desire, the report suggested, is a more pro-worker, more equal economy – while many Tory voters still want a more ordered, less permissive society. In other words, both groups yearn for the country that existed before Thatcherism and GLC-style liberalism began the great unravelling of paternalistic postwar Britain.

The Tories’ culture wars and Starmer’s constant calls for “an economy that works for working people” are attempts to satisfy these yearnings – and also acknowledgments of the need to reconnect with alienated supporters. Yet neither party has produced policies of the scale and systematic quality that an economic or social counter-revolution would need. Under the stern, methodical Starmer, Labour may have the seriousness and work ethic to change the country – certainly more so than Sunak’s blustering, manic Tories – but truly transformational governments are much readier to take on vested interests than Starmer has so far appeared to be. It’s likely that many leftwing and rightwing Britons will go on feeling in their gut that the main parties have let them down.

For more than 30 years, more people have been switching parties from election to election than in the postwar period. Weakening class identities and strengthening individualism have fed this volatility. So have party-fracturing events such as the Brexit and Scottish independence referendums, as well as Britain’s perceived decline and the increasing hardship many individuals are suffering. Millions of voters are rushing from one party to another, looking for a saviour.

This flux and instability is not confined to the main parties. Last month, the political analyst James Kanagasooriam, the first person to identify the “red wall”, examined the attitudes of supporters of the Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Reform UK, alongside those of voters for the main parties. “Each party’s [policy] platform isn’t that well calibrated to its voters,” he concluded. For what attracts people to a party: “Vibes seem to be the order of the day.”

After 14 years of disastrously over-promising Tory premiers, and Labour policies that have never been enacted, many Britons have stopped listening to what politicians say they will do in office. But being guided by a party’s “vibes” instead feels unsuited to a time when concrete solutions are needed for so many crises. Until the electoral system changes, Britain is probably stuck with Labour and the Tories. They could connect much better with voters. But voters could also try connecting better with them.

GLOBAL WARMING - The Sun provides us with an infinite supply of energy upon which all life on earth depends. Our blue planet has experienced many climate changes in its history, including the ice age when amazing creatures such a the Dinosaurs and Mammoths suffered extinction. Man is artificially warming the planet by burning fossil fuels in some kind of economic arms race that cannot be sustained and must be brought under control if we are not to extinguish the lives of many more species such as the Polar Bears in the Arctic.

DEMOCRATIC SHAM

The United Kingdom is a democracy with a Sovereign head of state that is presently HRH Queen Elizabeth (Windsor) II. The UK has no Written Constitution, leaving it open to potential bias, where decisions in the Courts form a kind of ever changing law, that can be manipulated and/or influenced by membership of secret societies, and even the honours system. Some argue it may be time for change, to align the country with international Human Rights law, and take us away from our past misdeeds, in plundering other lands by colonization and (privateers) piracy, granted that most of the subdued have now fought to gain their independence, against unfair taxes.

The King or Queen of England appoints a Prime Minister to run the country for them. In turn, the Prime Minister assembles a cabinet of MPs to run the country during their term of (administration) office to run the country for the Royal head of state, presently (and not so very popularly, according to the media) King Charles III. Next in line to the Throne is Prince William, the new Prince of Wales, former Duke of Cambridge. It's like playing musical titles, instead of chairs. None of the recipients could lead us into battle, as with Kings of old.

It's hardly surprising British royals are being pelted with eggs, and banners being waved, since they have presided over the rapid decline of the UK's economy, with untamed corruption in local authorities, seeing unsustainable house building, favours for mates, etc., ruining the nation's infrastructure (what infrastructure) and charm. And all because of massive overspending - trying to be what we were based on slavery in the colonies - and exploitation of their natural resources. We don't have slaves anymore, instead we have too many Civil Servants, leaching off the productive workers in society, causing higher taxes. But Conservatives and Labour parties are carrying on as if we did have cheap labour to support cronyism, and a massive pension bill, that is not at present underwritten. More of a Ponzi scheme. 

In other countries they have Kings, Queens and Presidents to run their countries - sometimes also Prime Ministers and dictators. One President who stands out as achieving a lot in the USA is Barack Obama. Others would be George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Wouldn't it be nice if we got along with all other nations? With two World Wars already under out belt you'd imagine that the world did not want to fight any more. In terms of DNA we are all related to each other, so we are brothers and sisters. In terms of geographical boundaries and political and religious beliefs, we may as well be different species when it comes right down to it. It is like a fox and a rabbit being the same species. That is how different we are to the natural world. Imagine foxes eating foxes, and rabbits eating rabbits. And, it's all because of money. In the natural world, an animal can only benefit from their immediate environment. In the human world, we enslave other nations, steal their minerals and crops, and export people to plantations. Then work them to death, to reap buckets of cash crops. Royals of old promoted such ideals. Britain is/was thus based (benefits from inheritances, palaces, castles, stately homes) on slavery. Putin trying to increase his political power by invading Ukraine, and Hitler, invading most of Europe and then Russia, are two good examples, demonstrating that such abuses are unlikely to cease. Not until an alien force invades earth, to steal our resources. However fantastic that prospect might seem to you today. Any invader deeming humans to be too irresponsible, to be in control.

CABINET & MPS -MAY 2023 - DESPERATION STAKES, GAMBLING WITH A BURNING PLANET & YOUR LUNG CANCER FROM DIESEL/PETROL FUMES

UK SLAVERY POLICIES - SWEATSHOP BRITAIN

In truth in the UK we have economic policies based, in essence, on the Empire days of slavery. Slavery being where one human being is shackled to another to toil for the slaver for little reward, in fact to be worked to death. Where there is not enough cheap labour to underpin the society that has risen from the ashes of a Ruling Class ideology borne of our Empire days. We have allowed and encouraged immigrants to work at significantly below the minimum wage to underpin colonial losses - and that brings us to fiscal policies that are flawed.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

It's not all bad, there are some rays of sunshine amongst the Brexit in-fighting, that frankly, is embarrassing our country. The UK has taken centre-stage concerning climate change, even with fence-sitters like Michael Gove, who cannot afford to be a man with passion, or potentially lose his seat if his gut feeling is wrong. But, playing it safe will never get the job done. So well done to Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn for standing firm on principles.

THE MINIMUM WAGE

A Minimum Wage in a truly Equitable (fair) Society is one where every working person can afford to live a life where that person can enjoy a reasonable standard of living and retire at a reasonable age to enjoy the fruits of their labours.

We must then have affordable housing for all that only absorbs a percentage of the working wage/salary, such that the remaining proportion of income may support saving for retirement, transportation and being able to afford to bring up a family is secure circumstances. At the moment our society falls far short of these ideals with an increase in homeless people sleeping rough. This can only be blame on policies that are not working. Mainly because the present system is geared to keeping the Ruling Class in comfort no matter what it takes - even the subjugation of a good percentage of those coming out of education into the cauldron of life. Subjugation, restraint or however else you may care to describe it is the modern form of Slavery. We call this version of slavery: Financial Slavery.

At the moment is you earned the minimum wage, and ignoring any uplift from well heeled relatives, you would be paying high rents to a landlord that would rob you of any chance of a decent life. You would be caught in what is called the Poverty Trap.

This cannot be a way to structure a society that is humane and caring.

EDUCATION

The cure when it comes to political and religious misgivings is education and information sharing. The cures when it comes to national borders are energy and food security. Both food and energy security are high international priorities to keep the world stable. Hence, a sustainable planet is what we should be aiming for. One with as few prejudices as possible and a higher level of cultural understanding. At all costs we must never allow a World War situation to develop again. This is where Homeland Security comes in, to allow us to recognise when there is a potential danger situation and work together to resolve any matter before it escalates into any kind of demonstration or civil revolt, such as may happen when governing policies are so obviously wrong in Human Rights terms that the citizens are driven to state their case in a manner that is likely to get attention.

WHO COMES FIRST - Thomas Jefferson got it right, but the founding fathers had to escape to America to reach their societal objectives where each man worked for himself and his family, sometimes without any government support in the wilderness. Why would such a man need to contribute to a government? He wouldn't of course, but in the UK today many people look to our elected representatives for support and leadership. In the end, the American rebels defeated their British taskmasters and created the United States of America. Thomas Paine

MISGUIDED LEADERSHIP

The following is a list of MPs that have contributed to the success of the UK, or in some cases made poor decisions that have cost the country either in monetary terms or in the  matter of world standing. Whether good or bad performers, these are the  Members of Parliament who matter. Mostly, MPs are dedicated hard working types who do their best to represent and cater for the ordinary citizen, striving for a fairer society for all. We must though report on the Good, Bad and Ugly in politics. For, by doing so, the voters can define for themselves the kind of future they want for themselves and their children. This is on the basis that election promises will be delivered. Unfortunately, all too often - indeed - almost never, they are not. One Prime Minister that got the job done was Sir Winston Churchill. But only because of the desperate stakes, and cast iron code of conduct. He truly was a Knight of King Arthur's Round Table. Sadly, just a legend.

CABINET MPS -MARCH 2020

CONSERVATIVE MPS 2017-2020

ALEX CHALK - JUSTICE MINISTER 2023

ALUN CAIRNS

ALOK SHARMA - COP26 PRESIDENT - COP27 EGYPT

AMBER RUDD

ANDREA LEADSOM

BARONESS EVANS
BORIS JOHNSON

BRANDON LEWIS

BULLSHIT BOJO

CAROLINE ANSELL

CAROLINE DINENAGE

CAROLINE LUCAS

CHLOE SMITH - SCIENCE & INNOVATION 2023

CHRIS GRAYLING

CLAIRE PERRY

DAMIAN GREEN

DAVID CAMERON - LORD CAMERON, HOUSE OF

DAVID DAVIS

DAVID GAUKE

DAVID LIDLINGTON

DAVID MUNDELL

EDWARD JOHN THOMAS - HONEST JOHNSON (TELLS IT LIKE IT IS)

GAVIN WILLIAMSON

GEORGE EUSTICE

GRANT SHAPPS

GREG CLARK

HEIDI ALEXANDER - LABOUR TRANSPORT NOV 2024

HUW MERRIMAN

JACOB REES-MOGG

JAMES BROKENSHIRE

JAMES CLEVERLY - FOREIGN SECRETARY 2023

JEREMY HUNT - CHANCELLOR 2022

JEREMY WRIGHT

JESSE NORMAN

JOHN MAJOR - SCANDALS

JUSTINE GREENING

KAREN BRADLEY

KEMI BADENOCH

KWASI KWATENG

LIAM FOX

LIZ TRUSS - PRIME MINISTER FOR 44 DAYS 2022

LORD DAVID FROST

LUCY FRAZER

MARGARET THATCHER - MAGGIE'S POLL TAX AND HOUSING CRISIS

MICHAEL GOVE

NADHIM ZAHAWI

NADINE DORRIES

NIGEL ADAMS

NIGEL FARAGE - UKIP & REFORM UK GB PARTY, NIGEL FARAGE

NUSRAT GHANI

PATRICK MCLOUGHLIN

PENNY MORDAUNT

PHILIP HAMMOND

PRITI PATEL

RACHEL MACLEAN - HOUSING FEB 2023

RISHI SUNACK - PRIME MINISTER 2022 - COP 27 EGYPT

SAJID JAVID

STEPHEN BARCLAY - CABINET RE-SHUFFLE SEPTEMBER 2021

STEVE DOUBLE

THERESA MAY

TOM BRAKE

VICTORIA PRENTIS - ATTORNEY GENERAL 2023

ZAC GOLDSMITH (LORD) BARON OF RICHMOND PARK PC

LABOUR SHADOW GOVERNMENT 2017-2018

Andrew Gwynne

Andy McDonald

Angela Rayner - Housing Secretary

Barbara Keeley

Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon

Baroness Sharmi Chakrabarti CBE

Barry Gardiner

Cat Smith

Christina Rees

David Blunkett, Lord

David Lammy - Foreign Secretary

Dawn Butler

Debbie Abrahams

Diane Abbott

Ed Miliband - Energy & net Zero 2024
Emily Thornberry

Gordon Brown

Harold Wilson

Ian Lavery

Jeremy Corbyn

John Healey - Defense Minister 2004
John McDonnell

John Trickett

Jon Ashworth
Kate Osamor

Keir Starmer KCB QC

Kerry McCarty
Lesley Laird

Lisa Nandy

Lord Richard Hermer KC

Lord Steven Bassam of Brighton

Mary Creagh

Nia Griffith

Nick Brown
Owen Smith

Peter Dowd

Rachel Reeves - Chancellor

Rebecca Long-Bailey

Richard Burgon

Shabana Mahmood

Steve Reed

Sue Hayman

Thangam Debbonaire
Tom Watson

Tony Blair
Valerie Vaz

Wes Steeting

Yvette Cooper

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY MPS 2017-2018

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT MPS 2017-2018

ALISTER CARMICHAEL

CHRISTINE JARDINE

ED DAVEY

JAMIE STONE

JO SWINSON

LAYLA MORAN

NORMAN LAMB

STEPHEN LLOYD

TIM FARRON

TOM BRAKE

VINCE CABLE

WERA HOBHOUSE

ABOUT THE CLIMATE CHANGE TRUST

Our job is to help officials to work towards a Circular Economy where they sometimes lose their way because of the day to day chores such as bin emptying and road sweeping. These are important functions but housekeeping tends to cloud issues and clutter a desk that should be tasked for a secure future. Our job is then to help those in local and national Government to focus on the important issues of our time.

WHAT IS A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

A circular economy is one that is equitable - and for that reason sustainable. The "Circular Economy" is a United Nations objective and a European Commission target that is generally endorsed by most other nations around the world. The fact that we may be exiting Europe with Brexit high on the political agenda, does not diminish the duty we owe to protect the natural world from human waste. Just as importantly, we need to provide affordable housing for future generations and aim towards a society where not so many people can exploit the system for personal gain. That is not to say that businesses should not make a profit. Profits are needed for forward investment, provided that they are not the fruit of immoral earnings. Here we are talking about financial slavery and the modern poverty trap created by the renting society we have created.

We hope to show politicians that clean energy and high quality pre-fabricated housing can help them to achieve their political ambitions. We are advocated of clean transport such as electric vehicles and we want to do what we can to help politicians understand the full import of plastic packaging as it affects our future food security.

These are the important issues that we hope to bring into focus for the benefit of all the citizens of the United Kingdom. Politicians looking for an easy ride who try to focus attention on issues of lesser importance to carry them though their terms of office - leaving the core issues outstanding for the next guy - should not be entering the political area. We need climate change gladiators, not kittens pretending to be Bengal Tigers.

CAROLINE ANSELL

CAROLINE LUCAS

CHARLES CLARKE

CHARLES HENDRY

CHRIS GRAYLING

DAVID BLUNKETT

DAVID CAMERON

DAVID MILIBAND

ERIC PICKLES

GAVIN WILLIAMSON

GEOFFREY JOHNSON-SMITH

GEORGE OSBORNE

GORDON BROWN

GREG CLARK

GREGORY BARKER

HUW MERRIMAN

JACK STRAW

JOHN GUMMER

JOHN PRESCOTT

KENNETH CLARKE

KIM HOWELLS DR

MARGARET BECKETT

MARGARET THATCHER

MARIA CAULFIELD

NICK CLEGG

NORMAN BAKER

NUS GHANI - NUS GHANI

PATRICIA HEWITT

PHILIP DUNNE

PHILIP HAMMOND

SAJID JAVID

STEPHEN LLOYD

STEVE DOUBLE

TERESA MAY

TESSA JOWELL

TONY BLAIR

VINCE CABLE

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

WINSTON CHURCHILL, SIR