Ideas 27...The Present UK Constitution...Sugar Tits!

The UK has no written constitution, just a series of fixes written over hundreds of years. I cannot remember ever being part of a referendum in the UK, except Brexit, whilst the vast majority of people I have voted for meant absolutely nothing to me. They were just names representing a political party. Such is multi-party democracy. The blind leading the blind. There was a referendum on whether or not we should leave the EU in 1975 and of course in 2016. As for the Swiss, they have them all the time. They speak three languages, French, German and Italian. They live in cantons. Sounds a bit like Birmingham's ethnic minorities living in ghettos, but it isn't. Sort of like Ulster and Eire. Only,......it works?

In the UK the absence of referendums has led to the trashing of marriage and the family, through an alternative social order based upon gay rights and women's liberation. No consideration has been taken by parliament of the effect on straight men, often leading to imprisonment or suicide, nor its impact upon public health in the form of sexually transmitted infections in a liberated society, nor upon the financial impact, due to a need for more housing, notably for single mothers, many of whom become welfare or vice dependent. Does a society based upon single living provide a greater incentive to work than one based upon the family? I think not.

Many entrepreneurs will not invest in the UK because they regard our political system as archaic, preferring the US system instead. Establishing a technocracy in the UK, backed up by a long established monarchy and its associated stability through the Magna Carta, etcetera, would prove far more attractive to investors, compared to the alternative hot headedness of that cast off bunch of gun slinging white supremacist's across the pond.

When you compare HMG with USG architecture, you just know the UK is the underdog. White House verses 10 Downing Street, and the white Romanesque Capitol with the dark Gothic of the Palace of Westminster. Just the appearance of our major government buildings is off putting, whilst the layout of Washington DC is.....I'm trying not to say breathtaking, but I really can't think of anything more accurate. The Washington Monument (obelisk) and Lincoln Memorial verses the Great Fire of London monument and London Eye?

The Houses of Parliament are located within the pleasure Palace of Westminster, located along the northern embankment of the River Thames. It was built in 1834, from sand coloured limestone, after a fire amongst tally sticks brought down the original structure. The House of Commons was rebuilt after it was bombed during the second world war, whilst the Elizabeth Clock Tower which houses Big Ben is presently under refurbishment. The remainder of the building is due for a fix costing 3.5 to 14 billion pounds, personnel moving to Whitehall in 2027 for up to 20 years. 8,000 people work there. Masonry has been falling, whilst there have been numerous fires, no doubt reflecting the state of the nation. Like the Capitol, Parliament is divided into two. The House of Commons seats 650 Member's of Parliament (MPs), whilst the House of Lords seats 800 peers. It was originally 1144 when 666 hereditary peers lost their seats in 1999. All MPs are now elected by the general public, whilst peers are selected by HMG and the monarch. Needless to say MPs and peers are expected to vote along party lines. The Palace of Westminster is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. In my opinion it reflects the wrong corporate image. It looks antiquated and out of step with the modern world. It is clear to me that HMG, both parliament and ministries, should relocate to somewhere more central to the UK, namely the Wirral. Government buildings in Whitehall and Westminster would become centres for tourism, museums and the like, with numerous foreign currency spending visitors clutching their tourist oyster cards. Too much of the nation's heritage is presently gathering dust in large warehouses, when it should be on display to the general public, including big spending tourists. Should Whitehall and Westminster then be known as Britannia Land?

In addition to debating chambers, offices and libraries, there is also a gymnasium, two gift shops, hair salon, creche and rifle range. Amongst the intricate architecture, MPs have twenty-three restaurants and cafes, including eight bars. The peers have a similar number. Many are for members only. It is in effect a pleasure palace, to take one away from reality, namely the problems that most people have to endure whilst living in this country. Bright lights, big palace. It's easy to see why parliament appears to be totally removed from reality and inept. It is plainly obvious to me that people in an environment like this are totally incapable of knowing the meaning of the word austerity. They clearly don't know the difference between million and billion. It's easy to see why entrepreneurs don't want to invest in this country.

The problems of course don't stop there. When they're not bonking their secretaries in work's time, they are fiddling their expense accounts, or at least were until it was stopped in 2009. Five labour MP's and two Conservative peers went to prison, along with numerous resignations, sackings, de-selection, retirements and apologies. Still it was not illegal to claim mortgage payments on a London property as business expenses, even though you were allowed to sell it later and keep the proceeds. How anyone can claim expenses for a duck house, I simply do not know. Half of MP's were thought to be over claiming expenses.

And of course there were the real scandals:

In 1961 The John Profumo affair, where a doctor Stephen Ward procured women, Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, for the secretary of state for war. Captain Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché and intelligence officer in the GRU, also knew Keeler, which of course implied a security risk.

In 1974 Minister of Posts & Telecoms John Stonehouse faked his own death, fleeing to Australia, after an affair with his secretary Sheila Buckley. Suspected of being a Czech spy, he was later sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud.

From 1979 to 1990 Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of the UK. In my opinion she was the most corrupt and incompetent politician in modern times, having reduced the top rate of income tax from 83% in 1970s to 40% in 1989, closed around 100 deep coal mines, after a year long industrial dispute with the National Union of Mineworkers, so that the UK could then import cheaper coal from Australia, and telling British industry to relocate to the Far East and Eastern Europe. The logic of monetarism (Thatcherism), otherwise known as Reaganomics in the USA, was that tax revenue could be obtained through VAT on imports, rather than subsidise home enterprise. It destroyed the careers of millions of professionals in the UK and USA, totally undermining the nation's capability to R&D the next level of technology. She laid down the foundation of one corrupt government after another, with prime ministers more interested in enhancing their own investment portfolio through lower taxation, than in serving the needs of the many, particularly in not awarding the national minimum wage to carers. Today (2023) the top rate of income tax is still at an unrealistically low level, and every HM government since, knows it. Does that mean, that every UK government since, has been corrupt?

As a result, there is precious little investment in the nation's future. The economy is treading water, whilst the stockmarket has definitely seen better days. Manufacturing has declined so much that it can no longer provide the basic equipment for our defence forces. When it comes to solving the problem of global warming, I believe that the hydrogen boron 11 nuclear fusion process may well win the test of time, because it can potentially be manufactured rapidly, as quickly as an automobile, but a Manhattan style enthusiasm appears to be missing. It appears that many politicians have their eye elsewhere. They are more keen upon serving themselves rather than their constituents, the nation, or even the world. At the time of writing this, prime minister Rishi Sunak wants inheritance tax abolished, and other taxes reduced still further, when he's not giving blood curdling support to Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. Whilst at the next general election his party will be announcing the thousands of homes they will build. The UK housing shortage is a scandal, which few people understand. Political parties don't want more cheap social housing, as this can undermine the value of surrounding properties, upsetting voters. With the introduction of 3D printed homes, some costing just $10,000 in the USA, this problem is even more risque. This is also the reason why the present Conservative government won't build wind farms on land. All this at a time when billionaires, embarrassed by the amount of wealth they are accumulating, are calling for levels of taxation to be more responsible. In my opinion, Margaret Thatcher has set this country on a course that may well destroy it.

In 1999 Jonathan Aitken was convicted of perjury, over dealings with Saudi's, and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment.

In 2006 the cash for honours scandal emerged, with political parties offering life peerages to people offering political donations.

In 2006 Deputy prime minister John Prescott admitted having an affair with secretary Tracey Temple.

In May 2012 The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter fiasco emerged. The last Labour government had ordered the F-35B STOVL (Short Take-Off & Vertical Landing) variant. The next Conservative government decided to opt for the F-35C carrier variant which required catapults and arrester wires for carrier operation. Owing to the cost of adding these to the two carriers under construction, approximately two billion pounds each, the Conservative government made a U-turn and opted for the F-35B. This change of contract was to cost one hundred million pounds of hard earned tax payer's money. Whilst the F-35C had greater range and payload carrying capacity, it should be born in mind that carrier based aircraft have only a 25% life span of that of a similar shore based aircraft, due to higher stress loads during rapid horizontal take-off and landing. The F-35B could also be used on shore without a runway. So why switch to the F-35C? The project was already projected to cost ten billion pounds, and we were already bankrupt. It's all down to political party ideology and keeping up with the Americans, isn't it? In November 2021 a British F-35B fell off the end of carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth's sky slope, into the eastern Mediterranean Sea. At £100 million each it's a very expensive mistake, which makes one wonder whether a declining world power should have bought them in the first place. This is the sixth F-35 to be lost, the others belonging to the USA and Japan. HMG is now planning to take the military to the Moon etcetera. Will tax payers be expected to cough up to finance the British equivalent of the USAF Mach 6 SR-72 aircraft armed with hypersonic missiles? Why should we pretend to be a world power when even the European Commission hates our guts over Brexit, and therefore isn't worth defending?

In 2017 First secretary of state Damien Green resigned after extreme pornography was found on his computer.

In 2017 Minister Mark Garnier admitted calling his secretary "sugar tits" and making her buy sex toys. Complain about politicians and millionaires by name and you are likely to be threatened by a very expense libel suit in the British courts. There lies another stumbling block to true democracy and freedom.

In 2019 Leicester Labour MP Keith Vaz resigned after being invlved in providing drugs to male prostitutes. Problems with the Leicester East constituency Labour party (CLP) continued, resulting in its suspension in August 2023.

In November 2021 Sir Geoffrey Cox MP and QC was accused of using parliamentary facilities to conduct a Zoom or Skype based conference in his office, whilst also doing work in the British Virgin Islands, for which he was paid around £700,000. not bad pocket money is it? Whilst MPs are plainly allowed to answer telephone calls, emails and letters relating to their private business, it does beggar the question, 'just where should parliament draw the line?' Ultimately his constituents will decide at the next general election, if he is selected by his party to do so.

Also in November 2021 the Conservative MP Owen Paterson was accused of paid lobbying, for which he resigned. Lobbying is however legal in the USA, so why shouldn't organisations be represented in parliament, provided the MP concerned makes it clear at the outset of the communication. that they are a paid lobbyist?

On November 11th, 2021, it was announced the death of the last white president of South Africa FW de Klerk. He had released the terrorist and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela from Robbin Island prison, near Cape Town, and in so doing brought to an end apartheid. He was president from 1989 to 1994 and was awarded the Nobel peace prize with Nelson Mandela. I had been to Durban, whilst in the merchant navy, in 1967, and saw for myself what apartheid amounted to. It was applied to all races including whites. It was a demeaning process, because it made you compliant with the rules, even if you didn't agree with them. I can well understand why the president wanted to get rid of it in the face of international sanctions, however he chose the wrong route. In a nation perceivably full of ignorant savages hell bent upon revenge, he should have created a technocracy. As it is, the multi party democratic system has led to the murder of white farmers and a breakdown of law and order, a large number of deaths from HIV amongst black people, who have clearly lost hope of seeing their lives improve, plus the exodus of many indispensable members of the economy. His wife Marike, was murdered in 2001 by a black security guard. Of course this is exactly the mistake that HMG made over half a century ago, when it abandoned the empire instead of creating a technocracy. The size of that empire can be imagined when one looks at all the wreaths being laid at the Westminster Cenotaph on remembrance day, usually on a cold November Sunday morning.

January 2024 saw another climax in a scandal that has been going on for decades, ever since the third world came face to face with Dallas on TV. They want a piece of our action. I am of course referring to illegal economic migrants. Some of course are terrorists, or gangsters, whilst others are misguided families, pushed out of their country by terrorists and gangsters, then of course there are those suffering from ailments looking for free long term medical care, there are the inevitable bone idle seeking our world renown welfare benefit system's handouts, food banks, Oxfam's clothes, social housing, etc. Now, along comes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with another plan to transport these unfortunates to Rwanda, a country renowned for genocide, located in central, or should it be, darkest Africa. Now, somehow this plan has already cost the British taxpayer £240 and currently no person has been sent there except presumably a few lowly politicians and civil servants. The opposition are claiming that the cost will soon rise to £400 million, of honest hard working taxpayer's money, and take at least 100 years to send them packing. Now in my day you paid on delivery. I thought Africa was a bit backward but evidently someone out there has been to the London School of Economics, or is possibly a Las Vegas autistic savant. This exchange will not take place until it's certain that the deportation does not amount to a violation of human rights. Well that's one escape clause. What are the others? Just why parliament hasn't kicked him out of politics I fail to understand. Parliament simply carries on as usual, as if this was an everyday event. HS2, F-35 and now migrants. History repeats itself. And no doubt most of them will get voted back into power at the next general election. There's no chance of a technocracy. Any director losing £240 million wouldn't last five minutes in industry, more likely thrown out through the back door, dead, but it would appear that our ministers are untouchable.

Now think of this. There are four countries who will accept migrants, no questions asked. They are Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. The only democracy in the southern hemisphere away from Putin's nuclear fallout is Chile. Surely if we paid these migrants £5,000 and a free trip, the Chilean government would welcome them, to work in there lithium mines, that would serve the British auto industry. I mean, what the hell would they do in Rwanda, beat a drum, or hold a raffle for the Conservative Party? And if you haven't worked it out already, that amounts to 48,000 learning what hasta la vista means. It's time the PM also learned Spanish. This disaster is at a time when local authorities in the UK are £97.8 billion in debt, with some going bankrupt, according to figures released by the BBC.

January 2024 saw a climax in the Fujitsu - Post Office Horizon software scandal, in which over 700 sub-postmasters were accused of fraud, resulting in some going to prison. It was the greatest miscarriage of justice in the UK. 500 of these cases were private prosecution by the Post Office, employing a legal system that was totally unsuitable for trials that questioned the accuracy of exhibit A, namely the Horizon software. The details of this affair are in Ideas 6... A Crime Free Society

2024 also saw the brainless injustice inflicted upon one man held in prison for 12 years for stealing a mobile phone, for which he had been sentenced to a 2 year indeterminate sentence. Thomas White was now aged 40 years. How many more people are rotting away in our prisons because we have a failed political and legal system.

And since I don't read newspapers, there are no doubt many other scandals I don't know about. What these incidents show is that politicians are just ordinary people, and not all knowing beings that many members of the electorate believe and acquiesce to. These are not the kind of people we need in government. We urgently need geniuses, and nothing less. We can only get them by raising recruitment standards. For some reason political parties have failed to raise theirs. This infers that the only way to do it, is to create a totally new structure of government, new ideas, new values, new constitution, something completely out of the box. The first nation to adopt electronic voting was Estonia in 2005, and since the PRC has a financial system based upon face recognition, its plainly obvious that the technology is a whole lot more secure than the present system in the UK and USA. The Profumo affair is regarded as a water shed, replacing inherited power with a meritocracy. The present Brexit debacle and Covid-19 pandemic could well prove to be the necessary fertile ground for the creation of a technocracy, forward with the citizens of Hong Kong and elsewhere, marching together, towards a world technocracy.

On May 6th, 2021 the councilor, police commissioner and mayor elections led to a Conservative victory. It's clear to me that the electorate either can't remember the 270,000 killed by HMG incompetence, or don't want to remember, or can't see an alternative. Some voted for the Green party, whilst others in Scotland voted for the SNP (Scottish National Party). Over the decades the Conservatives had brought in lower taxes for the rich, scrapped job training in GTCs and Skillcentres, undermined the power of trade unions, created a low wage warehouse economy by relocating manufacturing jobs to the Far East, devaluing the pound in the process, and we're spending a bloody fortune on the pandemic, which would one day come back to haunt everyone. And despite promises at the last general election the ruling Conservative Party government still hasn't agreed to finance social care for the elderly and infirm at a realistic level. It would seem that the entertainer could do no wrong. This is why I do not believe in political parties and allocating the right to vote to everyone, including the nine million UK adult dyslexics who can't even read the names of candidates on a voting card. Maybe it's time the UK adopted the third world solution employed in India, namely the use of an icon against a candidate's name. This time around there were no circulars delivered to my home detailing the candidates and their party's policies, whilst there was very little mention of these proceedings by the media. We should at least have a circular detailing these issues published by an independent government body, with more details on an approved website.

Whilst the electorate may believe in forgive and forget, its clear that others do not. The PM Boris Johnson has been inundated with questions relating to who exactly paid for the renovations to the flat at the prime minister's office, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, London. Was it for favours? A few days later much to everyone's surprise, on May 12th, 2021 their appeared an outstanding county court judgement against the prime minister for non-payment of £535. For a man who earns £157,000 per annum, and is known to be a scrouge when it comes to repaying his gambling debts, why would he risk being barred from having a loan or insurance, not to mention losing his job, over such a small amount of money? The next day the alleged defamation was struck out.

Whilst the PM was clearly financially better off, that was not the case for HMG. It was announced that the DWP (Department of Work & Pension) had lost £8.5 billion amounting to 14.5% in over payments of universal credit during the lockdowns, much of it through identity fraud. Not having a technocracy was proving expensive.

Whilst overpayments to the peasants of society was bad enough, fraud from companies supported by the government's bounce back loan scheme must have been even worse to Conservative MPs, since it is mainly company contributions that support the party. The fraud, exposed by the National Audit Office, is thought to amount to 11% of claims, amounting to £4.9 billion. Will HMG get it back? However this is the least of the problems. Due to the longevity of the pandemic, 100,000 companies are now in pay back arrears. This means that an estimated £17 billion may never be repaid. Clearly an incentive to get politicians to run the nation competently needs to be imposed. Just why did they create these schemes when their advisors must have told them that this pandemic would run on for years, financially crippling both families and businesses. Only the existing welfare benefits system should have been used. HMG had been only too eager to hand over money to their cronies and their companies, in stark reality to the meagerly handouts to people in care.

In June 2023 ex-prime minister Boris Johnson resigned as member of parliament after reading the conclusions of the parliamentary committee into the partygate events, which recommended that he be suspended from parliament for 90 days. There was great disgust amongst MPs that the queen would be required to award peerages to his loyal colleagues, mentioned on BJs retirement honours list, some of whom had partied at 10 Downing Street during the Covid-19 lockdown, whilst the queen was inconsolable with grief at the recent loss of her husband Prince Philip.

In July 2023 I watched the BBC Panorama programme about how the Conservative Council of Thurrock bankrupted itself, by paying around £400 million for solar farms, to a man who lived a billionaire life style. Meetings took place, some in hotel rooms, and decisions made, for which there are no minutes. The financial loss to the citizens of Thurrock amounted to about £200 million of hard earned and honest money. I watched the programme aghast. With my experience of photo-voltaics and a qualification in electrical building services, my investment management, not to mention my tight fisted mentality, I felt eminently qualified for the task of project engineering this investment. And I'm sure that many other viewers felt the same. HMG's Audit Commission, which kept an eye on council finances, was scrapped in 2015, effectively creating a perfect storm. How could this have been allowed to happen? It's quite easy. HMG does not employ people with criminal records, which inevitably means employing people who have never made a real decision in their entire lives. If this isn't a good reason for having a technocracy, then what is?

For further reading on problems within parliament, I suggest you read, 'Code of Conduct' by Sir Chris Bryant MP, a member of the Commons standards committee. In my opinion Parliament can't be fixed, it can only be replaced, with a modern technocracy as described on this website.

The UK has no written constitution, but somehow government works. It may work, but does it work well? There is piecemeal legislation on government debt and military expenditure, whilst restrictions on standing for parliament are minimal. Education qualifications are irrelevant. Since the establishment doesn't give two hoots for the professionalism of government, then it all sounds like a huge con. The desire and force for change will come, either through the electorate or AI. Don't underestimate the latter. It maybe a rank outsider, but it could well end up creating a world technocracy.