Ideas 34...Why Do We Need A World Technocracy

If one wants to become a politician in a multi-party democracy, one invariably has to join a political party. This is because the electorate mainly vote for the party, and not the individual. Political parties provide the advertising, organisation, business model and PR. Because it is expensive, parties are always looking for financial donors, be they individual millionaires or companies. The individuals tend to own companies. As a result, political parties go out of their way not to upset their donors. Conversely governments can and do threaten to pass legislation that can upset a companies profitability, if it is not a donor. As a result, multi-party democracy tends to be corrupt. To get around this problem, some countries outlaw political party contributions, and instead substitute it with party finance from the taxpayer, the amount received being based upon the number of votes, or percentage of votes a political party last received. The UK has no such civilised structure. Its blood on the carpet, first past the post system, is epitomized by the parallel red lines on the floor of the house of commons, spaced apart to accommodate two politicians fencing to the death. As such the UK political system breeds contempt for the opposition, through a no holds barred, corrupt if necessary attitude, that has little to do with serving an electorate, and more to do with serving ones self, through self interest. In other words its illegal, if the press find out. Incidentally, in the UK, PR stands for public relations, and definitely not proportional representation, where a voter selects a primary and secondary candidate. Additionally MPs (members of parliament) are kept cocooned away from the national problems of state, having been ordered not to communicate with anyone other than their constituents. (That's my emails wasted) Another enigma is the House of Lords, which despite costing taxpayers a fortune, appears to have little to no influence on parliamentary decisions. This effectively keeps real power confined to cabinet ministers, although more likely the inner cabinet ministers in times of war. It is this state of affairs that deters retired professionals from entering politics, whilst the establishment's abhorrence of referendums, effectively telling HMG what to do, ensures the longevity of this chaotic system. Then there is the monarch's Order of the Garter, whilst not even AI CoPilot could tell me what powers it has. Its motto is 'Shame on him who thinks this evil'. Well that's me sidelined.

The following is a letter I sent to the Queen many years ago. Needless to say I didn't get anywhere, possibly because of the date. Maybe you can write pleading letters better than I, to King Charles III or to the millionaires and billionaires of the world. The movers and shakers.

With one political scandal after another, and a declining economy that appears to know no bottom, I have decided to write in desperation to you. I have concluded that you are the only person with the necessary authority and charisma who can put this nation back on its tracks. Before I advise you what to do, I feel it necessary to explain the current situation and how we have arrived at this unenviable moment.

The general public and media call it the credit crunch. The prime minister calls it an unforeseeable global event. I call it treason. I am not referring to the expenses scandal that appears to go on and on. In any other organisation one's expenses would be a standard amount based upon staying at Travelodge (if they'll have 'em), plus essential commuting costs.

Whilst the media concentrates on the few thousand pounds that MP's have misappropriated through their expense claims, the real cost to the nation has been largely ignored. I of course refer to the cost of financing political parties. This problem dates back to the 1980s when high interest rates decimated engineering and manufacturing companies and the jobs they provided. Huge unemployment, which undermined the power of the trade union movement, plus the high cost of mortgages, resulted in reduced financial support for political parties from the general public and trade unions. Political parties were therefore obliged to obtain funding indirectly from major corporations, notably directors of financial institutions, who tended to favour a global economy, plus directors of energy companies, who tended to favour the consumption of fossil fuels.

There was no referendum on joining the global economy. Whilst the European Commission ensured that trade within the European Union was on a level playing field, clearly trade with the USA and tiger economies in the Far East was not. Few of these countries had state funded welfare benefits, state pensions, health and education systems. As a result, UK companies were operating at a disadvantage due to relatively higher overheads in the form of taxes and national insurance. The tiger economies were not even participating in UN and NATO peace keeping operations in a big way. I worked as a design engineer. I did about ten academic years of higher education, and yet at the age of 61 I have worked only fifteen years. In that time I have worked for over forty companies, almost all of which no longer exist. Such has been the scale of decline in UK engineering and manufacturing.

This economic system was pursued by both major political parties, their economic strategy's decided behind closed doors away from civil servant scrutiny. The damage inflicted was greater than Hitler's Luftwaffe could ever have achieved, and all in the blind quest for political party funding. Whilst banking executives and traders walked away with massive pensions and bonuses, the average man in the street saw their careers go up in flames, their marriages torn to shreds and their pensions destroyed. Student debt sky rocketed as siblings were forced to sell their parent's home to pay for their stay in a nursing home, instead of inheriting it. Two million people relocated to London in the hope of a new beginning. Gone are the days of wages councils and real earnings. It is now dog eat dog, a Dutch auction at job interviews. Many failed to make it, only to live in a community where they have no friends. Others faired worse, having succumbed to heart attacks due to hard work and stress, many in their forties. All those decades of effort now amounting to a numbing nothing. They are slowly learning the meaning of the word, peasant, as the spectre of lower welfare benefits and higher taxation looms on the horizon.

Of course their savings are safe, unless of course you happen to be like my 92 year old mother who has little understanding of bank and building society accounts. Because of the 50,000 pounds guarantee limit my mother needs to move part of her savings from her building society to her bank account, but cannot. Because of her age she has no driving licence and when she applied for a passport it was rejected, by the Peterborough office, because the photographs showed her with her mouth open. She therefore has no ID to enable her to move her money around or make withdrawals. She has given up the quest, including maintaining her ISA account annually. There is more to economics than reading a balance sheet, before making a speech at the Mansion House.

As the pound sterling continues to lose its value the seeds of revolution are floating in the swearing breath of many workers, realizing that they are increasingly working for nothing. As the rich transfer their millions abroad into safe foreign currencies, or commodities such as gold, the pound is likely to go into free fall. Industrial disputes at British Airways and Royal Mail are likely to be just the beginning of a conflict that could lead to revolution, or worse, civil war that would likely spread to other nations.

This has happened because we have no safe guards in our unwritten constitution to prevent this abuse by a handful of individuals. The abuse is continuing. Whilst the Irish Republic has had two emergency budgets, HMG has calmly notified the rich that they have until next April to move their liquidity abroad before a measly 50% income tax rate is imposed upon them. Many economists agree that it should be 65%, whilst the last time we were in this mess was at the end of WWII when the rate stayed at 90%, plus food and fuel rationing. But many of these rich will be unaffected. As owners of companies in the UK but living abroad, they pay little or no income tax, paying corporation tax at the much lower rate.

When the pound fell out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism under the Tories it became plainly obvious to all politicians that the global economy was too large for any government to influence. And yet when BNP Paribas issued its warning that AAA mortgages from New York were more sub-prime than anticipated, the only real action from HMG was for PM Tony Blair to jump the sinking ship. Some say it was over the legal case for invading Iraq, but I have my doubts. I am certain that these politicians knew the inevitable repercussions of what they were doing during those years. Computer simulations of economies exist within governments and multi-national corporations. Some might call these acts the asset stripping of a nation in order to finance political parties and thereby safeguard the careers of politicians. I call it treason, for destroying the nation's military industrial complex to the point where it can no longer provide the resources to fight a large protracted conventional war, thereby deserving the arrest, trail and inevitable life sentences for all involved, including those who manipulated government policy through party contributions and those who could have stopped it, that knew what was going on, but turned a blind eye.

In May 2009 the Metropolitan Police set up a special panel to investigate corruption in parliament, at the request of the Mayor of Middlesbrough. Thus far no big fish have been arrested, although the PM Gordon Brown has been asked to return 12,415 pounds in cleaning expense claims since 2004.

The question now arises, 'how do we save the British Economy.'

It is not possible to export our way out of this problem in the near future. It takes just a few days to shut down a company. It usually takes seven years to build up a successful one. In the mean time, many of our manufacturing companies are heavily in debt. Most companies in the FTSE 100 are not making a profit. Many cannot get the necessary funding from the banks since most UK banks are hampered by an existing portfolio of risky loans and bad debts amounting to up to three times their assets. The ratio is even worse in the USA. Even if they had funding, it would take at least a year to recruit the necessary skilled workers and train them. This assumes of course that these companies had a cutting edge product to manufacture that cash strapped families in the global market really wanted. UK manufacturing output fell -11.3 % year on year, -1.9% in the month of September 2009. HMG should also state what its policy is towards the creation of a UK CV Centre, a computer database serving Jobcentres, that contains everyone's annual work report, employment, education and training record, all necessary in order to speed up company recruitment and a society of equal opportunities.

As with the United States our national debt continues to grow, at the rate of 15 billion pounds per month standing at 824 billion pounds (59% of GDP), due to HMG's weak response to the crisis and our growing welfare benefits bill. The Bank of England's quantitative easing climbs to 200 billion pounds, as HMG pours a further 39 billion pounds into RBS and Lloyds Bank in November 2009. This increasing bill will ultimately have to be paid off by the British taxpayer, who is already lumbered with personal debt of 1.4 trillion pounds, and in many cases a home whose mortgage is worth more than the value of the property (negative equity). This could lead to people abandoning their homes, disillusioned with the capitalist system, as has happened in the USA. Needless to say financial institutions are attempting to regulate this possibility, by restricting mortgages, thereby creating artificial demand. No one knows whether quantitative easing is working, as banks withhold loans to small businesses, which are then forced to borrow at higher rates through credit cards, or use their own homes as collateral. Despite the fact that the UK is about the only nation still in recession, there exists with ever growing national debts in the US and UK, a growing realization that the spectre of a global banking collapse has not gone away. Personal bankruptcies in the UK are now running at 35,242, up 28% from same time last year.

For these reasons I can guarantee no successful outcome to the following advice.

It is clear that the UK must join the Euro immediately at one pound : ε1-30, not ε1-07, where its at the moment. In addition the European Central Bank must take on the task of supporting the major international banks in the UK (Lloyds Group, Barclays, HSBC, etc.). The Bank of England has carried the burden, for the entire euro zone, for long enough, hence the realistic rate of ε1-30. Any more quantitative easing will result in our credit rating being downgraded by Standard & Poor, etc. This could result in a collapse of the pound which will have global repercussions. The international investment arms of banks must be separated from their domestic arm which itself must be broken up into local banks each serving one million people. Credit cards must be banned. Mortgages should cover no more than one third of the property value, whilst company shares must be retained for at least seven years. Commodities must be retained for at least one month and only be bought by approved companies with the necessary processing, distribution and or retailing infrastructure, to put a stop to speculation. Derivatives, including credit default swaps must be banned, as they can promote disruption of markets. All schemes promoted by financial institutions must first be approved by the FSA and Gambling Commission.

HMG must ensure the introduction of a level playing field throughout the global economy. In mid October 2009 the EU signed a 17 billion pound trade deal with South Korea removing some trade tariffs in the process. A lot still needs to be done. Free for all capitalism is destroying the planet and with it the human race. As such, environmental import controls should be introduced, particularly on sea and air freight.

Despite the fact that we no longer have a diversified economy, HMG must support the design and manufacture of cutting edge products. I warned HMG years ago, through a letter to my MP Gisela Stuart, that as soon as TFT TV's took off, CRT based television factories in the UK would be shut down. This warning went unheeded. The UK no longer makes television sets in large numbers, nor even pianos. The UK should immediately make 3D OLED internet televisions. Although much of the technology was invented here, most of it was financed by foreign companies who have no sense of loyalty to this nation. As a result this is a nation that manufactures hardly any home entertainment systems. Note: Internet television will become necessary as programme producers switch to the internet due to falling revenue on terrestrial TV channels, which unlike the internet do not have person specific advertising. All media will one day be on the internet, whilst passing legislation banning all other types of television transmission on environmental grounds would compel the populous to become IT literate. This is an essential stage in the build up to AI (Artificial Intelligence) within the community. It is also time for HMG to announce its policy towards the financing of public libraries as, in the last couple of weeks, Google has stated it is putting all books on the internet, whilst Amazon have introduced the Kindle e-ink reader, to compete against Sony's model. Despite central government's financial problems and these technical advances, Birmingham City Council intends to commence construction of a new 200 million pound Central Library in Centenary Square within the next three months, at a time when HMG needs to shift resources to developing the internet, particularly to improve our export potential.

To pay off our national debt, it is necessary to export high value cutting edge products. Other high tech products we could manufacture, would be self driving, zero polluting taxis, to replace most of our existing transport system (before some other nation does it), the Skylon space shuttle which would be a great morale booster, and electrically powered tilt rotor air taxis, for inter city transport. They would revolutionize transport, be a boon to the disabled, as they travel from door to door, and be eco friendly. The export of numerous advances in medical science, not to mention mass produced eco friendly homes, would definately improve our balance of payments situation.

Research into clean energy must succeed, particularly in photo-voltaics, where efficacy has reached 40% but costs $10,000 per square centimetre, super capacitors based upon nanotube and virus (as in electric eel) technology, superconductivity, hydrogen from bio-engineered organisms, the production of charcoal for agricultural land from power station CO2 filters to boost agricultural production, coastal wind turbines where the cliffs funnel in the wind, the mass production of helium cooled uranium fueled pebble bed modular nuclear reactors to replace fossil fuel power stations around the world, etc. Whilst politicians are prepared to spend tens of billions of pounds on rail electrification (but not British designed and built tilting trains to run on them) and a London airport in the Thames estuary, or extra runways at Heathrow, they are loath to spend it upon related research and the training of scientists in fields such as super capacitors and zero-g travel.

British companies have failed to compete in the global economy for at least two main reasons. The first is the failure of our higher education system to train people for a job since the closure of Government Training Centres and Skillcentres in 1988, particular;y in the field of management. Lecturers tend to whittle the course syllabus down to a minimum, being more concerned with getting students to pass exams than training them for employment. Often student drop out rates are manipulated by only mentioning the student count at the end of the first term. The major failing of UK management is its inability to communicate regularly with its workforce in writing and verbally, and without a holier than though mentality. It is more intent upon sacking someone than rectifying the cause of failure, often management failure (harassment, poor working environment, no training). HMG has a similar mentality, namely via the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, which must be repealed, as its cost to the nation's economy is enormous. One third of adult males have a criminal record. As a result most are barred from their desired profession. Is this a policy of divide and rule by lowering people's self esteem?

Fast communications in a global economy are essential. Whilst Rwanda is about to switch on its 4G (one giga bit per second internet) system, UK businesses are stuck with only a three mega bits per second bandwidth. In addition there are no laws compelling limited companies to have and maintain at an acceptable standard, an e-commerce web site. How can they compete in the global economy without one? There are not even consumer laws in this country compelling retailers to sell PC's with approved operators manuals, maintenance manuals and all software drivers on a disc. HMG's failure to police the internet is a major reason for its poor take up in this country by businesses and homes. Security software requires no realistic compliance to a British Standard or European Norm.

All this takes time. A quicker but partial solution would be to mobilize the entertainments industry. People need cheering up in a recession. Movie and television programmes made in the UK tend to be popular abroad and relatively quick to make. Falling advertising revenue is curtailing programme development to the point where all television will probably be on the internet within fifteen years. The music industry could be encouraged by obliging all public houses that have discos to provide live entertainment, approved by the Musicians Union, the same day, for the same period of time. HMG could also insist that workers be paid weekly in order to boost pub takings and reduce the crush at the bar at the end of each month.

On November 10th, 2009 the Governor of the Bank of England stated that bank lending would remain weak for the next three years and that the economy would not be back to pre credit crunch level until the end of 2011. I fail to see how our economy can get back to normal when there is virtually no engineering and manufacturing left to pay off the $15 billion per month in interest charges on our existing national debt. Do not be surprised if you find the crown jewels being valued for quantitative easing in the near future.

It is plainly obvious that a new constitution should be created. One that would not experience corruption over financing political parties and MP's expenses, and would have no difficulty in making correct but unpopular decisions, without fear of being voted out of office. One that can be emulated around the world and eventually become a world technocracy. I have written letters to my MP and one to the European Commission on the subject, some of which is enclosed. I trust that you will take these recommendations more seriously than HMG has.

A technocracy is necessary anyway, because according to the IT industry there will be a watershed in artificial intelligence in around 2016. When that happens, if the present constitution is maintained, backsliding bureaucrats will leave the decision making to AI. Before you know it both central and local government will be run entirely by AI because the necessary fail safe systems will not be in place. No one will dare to pull the plug on it, fearing a total collapse of the accounts system. At that point man will have lost control of his own destiny and will eventually be enslaved by this technology. Currently AI does not exist, but advances are being made, particularly in the field of memristors, which were discovered two years ago.

If AI becomes a reality before the creation of a world technocracy, then it will likely lead to WWIII. A world technocracy would channel all the trillions of dollars presently spent on armaments, into improving housing, education, health and communications. Populations could be moved to coastal regions (between 45N and 45S) where the state could protect them from conflict, such as that in illicit drug producing regions, providing them with a standard of living second to none, well almost. Extended families would live in biomes, producing their own food, because there would be little else for them to do. This is how to win hearts and minds. In a science based society, religion would go the same way as capitalism. Both being seeds of conflict. You do not need capitalism in a world of AI, where human workers and their incentives are no longer necessary. There would be population control, full racial integration, near vegetarian diets to reduce CO2 emissions, all made possible through a strict social code, including laws to protect marriage and the family, that could only be imposed by a world technocracy.

When it comes to policing the world, only a world technocracy has the resources and political infrastructure to make it possible. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not against Islam. It is against a pre-history mind set that existed long before the prophet Mohammed had his thoughts written down in the Koran. A world technocracy would remove all the women and children away from the conflict zone, to where they can be educated and trained in western values. The men would be employed restoring the environment for ten years, through tree planting, etc. Alternatively, today it might be possible to achieve peace by letting the women and children run the country. For a country of thirty million people spread over a quarter of a million square miles, NATO resources and political resolve obviously do not stretch far enough. In reality, this war is also against a feudalistic mindset amongst one hundred and eighty million people over an area of three hundred and ten thousand square miles of Pakistan, where the Taliban at least believe the two countries should be united. In a world technocracy there would be no paper money, no military industrial complex, no factories from which terrorists could get their weapons and explosives. Armed services would not exist, thereby enabling those resources to be used to build a better world, winning hearts and minds in the process.

Propaganda is everything. As the media portrays our dead being brought home, it beggars the question, 'what happens to the enemy dead?' I assume there are some. Are they treated with respect? Are their bodies repatriated? There appears to be no propaganda on this subject, and presumably not even on Pakistani radio, TV and newspapers. Is there a positive minded BBC World TV Service, via DBS to the Middle East, that does not show the fallen being transported through Wootton Bassett? Where are the remotely operated CCTV and remotely operated mines in known areas frequented by the enemy? All we see are WWII type patrols, targets for I.E.D.'s, which is exactly what the enemy wants. Are the generals serious, or is this really only a live fire training ground for NATO, just as Northern Ireland was for the British Army for thirty years? This conflict will not end until women's emancipation becomes a reality and the entire population of the middle east is re-educated in modern thinking.

Like many members of the general public, I used to think that governments knew everything. In recent years I have come to a more unpalatable conclusion. Basically they are uncaring, bone idle and therefore incompetent. When one looks at the thirty thousand plus nuclear warheads that existed on both sides during the cold war, it beggars one question. Why was the USA and USSR so keen upon building so many unnecessary warheads and at huge expense? It would probably take only about one hundred ten megaton nuclear bombs to destroy the human race. If one targets them on geologically sensitive parts of the Earth, one can induce earthquakes, tsunamis, super-volcanic eruptions, methane hydrate effervescence on the edge of continental shelves and tundra regions, and basalt flow events at geothermal hot spots. It would appear that no study was carried out by the major powers in the 1960s, to determine how geologically sensitive this planet is to nuclear missiles that go off course. We now know that we live on a planet where the future of the human race is not only threatened by back-sliding democracies, but also by rogue states and even nuclear equipped terrorists. It is only a matter of time before South Korea and Japan, exasperated by the prevarication of the USG, attack North Korea. More reasons to have a world technocracy.

Failure by existing governments is displayed clearly when it comes to global warming. The first environmental protest took place in the USA in 1970. What have these nations done in the meantime? They have signed multi-national deals for natural gas lasting at least twenty years, the latest being HMG's deal with Qatar, whilst both the EU and Russia want the South Stream gas pipeline across Turkey and the Black Sea to Serbia and the rest of Europe. The Kazakhstan to Sakhalin Island pipeline dwarfs the lot. These governments have not intentions what so ever of upsetting their political party financial contributors, whilst others, notably that of the PRC appear to be misfits. Seeing most of Northern China becoming a desert, they still insist upon building at least one hundred coal fired power stations. HMG is not much better. Through irresponsible consumption of natural gas in power stations, instead of going nuclear, we are now dependent upon importing fossil fuels that soon, we may not be able to afford.

This month Greenpeace protesters scaled to the roof of Westminster Hall as CO2 and sea level data over the last twenty million years was published in Science magazine, showing rises of 25-40m compared to today's sea level, whilst the Catlin Arctic survey from Cambridge University shows that Arctic ice will disappear completely during the summer in about ten years time. This will speed up the melting of the Greenland ice cap as warm ocean currents, from the Pacific Ocean via Bering Straits, and Atlantic Ocean, hug the coastline. In September 2009 the UK's Met Office computer forecast a 4°C mean atmospheric temperature rise by 2060, well above that that governments are assuming in environmental summit talks. Environmental warnings on global warming are occurring on a weekly basis issued by thousands of concerned scientists, and yet the reasons for inaction are clear. Political party funding from energy companies and the failure to create a one world technocracy will ensure that this forthcoming apocalypse will wipe out a substantial part if not all of the human race. HMG cannot admit that the 3km thick Greenland ice cap will collapse. It will in stages, as its structural integrity gives way. It will take approximately one to two hundred years to complete, but HMG will have only about ten years to plan and evacuate the UK when it happens, in order to avoid the mini ice age that millions of icebergs will create, blocking off sea ports and disabling airports in the process. Meanwhile HMG has given the green light for new nuclear power stations at ten coastal sites, all of which, if built, will cease operation the moment their rotating sea water filters clog up with ice. If that does not stop them, then HMG's admitted sea level rises probably will. Currently there is no site for a national radioactive waste depository. They may as well dump it all at sea, because eventually it will probably all end up there anyway as sea levels rise.

It is plainly obvious to me that this government is living in a dream world. There appears to be no one in the present cabinet that wants the job of prime minister. Over one hundred MP's intend to leave parliament at the next general election, many of whom I'm sure can see the disaster that lies ahead for this once great nation.

At the next general election the media are offering the electorate no alternative to political parties. There is no basic difference between Labour and Conservative. They are both composed of opportunistic members riding on the reputations of great statesmen who went before them. Why vote for political parties that have failed the nation for at least the last twenty-five years? Where are the relevantly trained and qualified independent technocrats? The government is not training them. No one is. You should set up a global college, financed by governments and billionaires, to train technocrats for a world technocracy.

Parliament does not want reform, not even to political party contributions. We have too many MPs. Committees that are too large, where good concepts are mulled over for too long, and eventually turned into half baked ideas. Politicians use psychology to win votes, with great success. They do not feel the need to do real work and behave in an honourable fashion. In addition, democracies cannot make unpopular decisions for fear of losing votes, hence the slow response to build more nuclear power stations. In order to boost one's position in the pecking order one has to manage a budget larger than one's colleague. The expenditure of almost two hundred million pounds on Birmingham's new central library, once the archaeological dig has been completed, is a typical example of tax payer's money being spent like water at a time of stringent expenditure cuts. Will HMG cut its losses by ordering community police to chase after overdue books, CDs and DVDs, not to mention children playing truant?

Parliament certainly does not want a technocracy, nor even the foundations of one, namely a UK CV Centre (database), which would enable everyone, not just technocrats to get a job. There are tens of thousands of employment agencies in the UK, many of which have close links to MPs. There is of course a second reason why such a plan would be unpopular. Once implemented it would clearly show to the electorate the human state of the economy. This government cannot even get the computer terminals in my local Jobcentre (Broad Street) to work consistently. And judging from the mentality of some politicians, it will not be long before those on JSA and ICA are all signing on every two weeks at their local Jobcentre, with a civil servant android sitting across the desk from them, urging them to find employment.

When it comes to the global economy I have this to say. As an engineer I know it is only a matter of time before the entire consumer needs of the world will be satisfied from a handful of factories, not just Nokia churning out one million mobile phones per day, creating a huge number of unemployed. As for bonuses, I no longer believe in incentive schemes. I use to work as a work study engineer in a leather tannery. I've seen workers on incentives push two sides of leather through a machine at once when it should have been one at a time, in order to waterproof it. I've seen workers deliberately sabotage machines because they made as much money during down time as when working. Incentives bring out the worst in people, whilst quality and safety fly out the window. What were the supervisors doing? All they wanted was a soft life, which basically is what most of our politicians want. When our leading politicians say, "companies do not want regulation." What they mean is that, now they are in power they are going to sit on their backsides and do as little work as possible. Which company directors voted in this referendum? That tannery had a 100% turn over of labour per annum because of the Dickensian working environment, that existed because our factory regulations are so inadequate. This managerial mentality still persists.

If you want our financial sector to have bonuses, then I have this suggestion. Financial institutions exist in order to serve the economy, not the other way around. A bank's profit margin should be no more than the average from their established commercial customers. Those that have existed on their books for at least ten years. Any excess profit should go to HM Treasury to subsidize income tax. How the bank's profit is divided up, between share dividends and bonuses, should be decided by and independent body or regulations in an act of parliament. This scheme could also be applied throughout business. Thereby ensuring that primary businesses do not exploit tertiary companies, such as food suppliers to supermarkets, materials providers to major construction concerns, and parts manufacturers for automotive assemblers/retailers, etc. The wages' councils should be re-established and jobs made more secure in order to ensure that people can both pay off their debts and stimulate the global economy.

Most employers do not give a damn about their work force, which is why they will all be made redundant by global competition and AI. This is why the UK needs a dual economic system. The existing capitalist system managed wholly by the Bank of England, and a socialist science based society managed by HMG. I say 'society' because, being based upon government projects, it would not be part of the capitalist system. AI, which is just another step in fifty years of automation, will drastically reduce tax revenue, ensuring that an alternative economic system be adopted for the majority of otherwise unemployed.

This nation is in a state of long term decline. The lies and lack of professionalism from HMG is undermining the nation's morale. Many people no longer dress up before going out in the evening. Alcohol abuse emanates from a feeling of helplessness, that everything will inevitably come to an end, there being no way of stopping our economic and moral collapse. Our electorate appear to have little idea of what or who to vote for in the forthcoming general election. UKIP, BNP, SNP, Green are all alternative parties, but are they likely to be any more competent? People in Birmingham are poor and angry. I've seen people go to the bar in pubs, order a drink, and then realizing they cannot pay for it, walk off. Others ask me what the prices are before ordering. About ten bars and pubs have closed in my area in the last five years. The neighbourhood, indeed society, is collapsing. Environmental protesters are arrested at Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal fired power station as another year goes by without any reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions, never mind a reduction in the Earth's carbon dioxide and methane gas levels. It is only a matter of time before the gas and electricity networks are attacked, and all because our political parties are financed and dictated to by energy companies. School truancy is the highest ever, as their parents increasingly become part of the long term unemployed or low paid. (I proposed academies years ago, but the square bashing and the portraits on the walls of industrialists and inventors, to inspire the young, does not appear to have been taken up.) Many British are apathetic when it comes to voting, and it is this apathy that can lead to a dangerous situation, where many people feel that real change is not attainable through the democratic process. No discipline, no pride, no empire and no sense of purpose. A parliament that promotes divorce, homosexuality and women's lib instead of the family, as political parties become dependant upon minority votes. The slide has gone on for long enough. HMG has put its faith in a disarmed society, but that does not stop people from setting fire to their own homes in protest, or camping on the streets of London in their millions for months, in order to get a peoples' government. You do not need political parties to run a country any more than you need them to manage a limited company.

There is never a good moment for this, but it appears that now is the time to dissolve by royal decree (royal prerogative) this incompetent, callous and corrupt parliament. A parliament that has already rejected the prime minister's recommendations on expenses, exposing to the electorate that it is corrupt and determined to stay that way. It is a liability, not an asset. An interim technocracy based upon a wide spectrum of idealistic professionals that have experienced military service, must be established. It should preferably contain people from throughout the UK and Northern Ireland in order to gain general public acceptance. Now is not the time to say that there is no precedence for this, nor to say that there is no structured way of updating our unwritten constitution. Constitutional reform committees have proven, by their inaction, to be a failure. The fact is that acts of parliament limiting the power of the monarch are now discredited, since they were passed by a parliamentary system which today has no credibility. Until you act, the exposé of our political system by the media will continue. Death by a thousand editorials, as the buck ultimately stops with you and you alone.

Unfortunately the problem is more extensive than at first appears. With closer links (dependency) to the EU, the next problem is how to rid the European Parliament in Strasbourg of its corruption. There needs to be an exemplary British politician appointed, with the necessary intelligence and resolve to sort out this matter once and for all. I cannot think of one, unless of course you can pursued Mikhail Gorbachev to change his nationality. With rising national debt, it is likely that HMG will be unable to pay our ever rising EU subscription. You may well consider it easier for the nation to adopt an isolationist policy, and then evacuate the general population to Australia and New Zealand to counter the inevitable threat from a collapsing Greenland ice cap.

I can remember in my youth when the exchange rate was £1-00:$3-75. The rot has gone on for long enough, most of it, if not all of it, during your reign. All caused by bad management from the top down. At the next general election I will again, along with many others, vote BNP, not because we are racist but because voting for chaos is the only way to get change out of this sham of a democracy. When you retire or pass on, what will you bequeath your son, a third world nation? Doing nothing is no longer an option. You have pursued that policy for fifty-six years.

The future of the nation, and indeed the entire world is in your hands. In the last one hundred thousand years modern human society has evolved through the discovery of primitive tools, speech, agriculture, pottery, metallurgy, etc. Creating a technocracy, a world technocracy, is the next necessary step along our evolutionary path.

Please, pick up that phone and contact Prince Charles and the parachute regiment at Aldershot.

Good luck. I'm sure the general public and the media will be on your side.

The appendices can be found elsewhere in 'My Ideas.' You can also conclude your letter with the terms,'I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty's humble and obedient servant.' However, I find little pleasure in being a member of a bankrupt nation, being led to oblivion by a constitution which is clearly unfit for purpose.

There has been plenty of criticism about the political system in the PRC in recent years owing to the unrealistic stand the PRC had adopted towards Taiwan. It was just another step backwards in the great leap forward which resulted in the famine of 1958 to 1962 which killed 20 million Chinese. Chairman Mao Zedong had ordered the nation's birds to be exterminated because they ate the crops. Of course he couldn't see that the birds ate the insects that ate the crops. I well remember the tragic tale of two swifts, or was it swallows, that committed suicide by flying into a glass window after the residents had repeatedly destroyed their nest. In addition local cadre inflated the crop production figures, thereby encouraging the leaders to export the grain, resulting in mass starvation. The famine was ended by Defence Minister Peng Dehuai (1954-1959) who was later purged for criticizing Chairman Mao Zedong. Mao had ordered the people to build cast iron furnaces in their back yards, into which went cooking pots and cutlery. Mao had clearly lost the plot.

In 1966 the cultural revolution began. Designed to reform the schools, universities and even the Chinese communist party. It ended in the stoning to death of teachers by red guards and cannibalism. Anyone who was not prepared to eat the victim became the next victim, in a society where Mao mania knew no bounds. The cultural revolution cost another 20 million lives. By 1972 order had been restored to enable a visit by President Nixon. Formal diplomatic relations were not restored between the US and China until 1979. In 1980 the PRC started its one child per family policy, which continued until 2015, by which time couples could no longer afford to have more than one child. The policy created a population imbalance, with not enough young people to look after the elderly, and not enough women to satisfy the men. Many couples had aborted girls or committed infanticide.

Following the death of General Secretary Hu Yaobang on April 15th, the funeral reception led to something more serious. In May 1989, a series of protests took place in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. That was put down by the army in a very unsophisticated manner, resulting in numerous deaths. Many were impressionable students studying politics, demanding an end to corruption. Protesters came from all over the country. Farmers wanted higher prices for their produce for instance. Eventually on May 30th a statue looking remarkably like the statue of liberty in New York, was wheeled into the square. This was too much for the government who immediately declared martial law. The party leader Zhao Ziyang gave tentative support to the students, only to be removed from power later. Deng Xiaoping ordered in 180,000 troops, composed of armed infantry and armoured personnel carriers. A few thousand protesters are thought to have been killed, mainly in the western suburbs. At least twenty were killed in the square as a dozen tanks arrived, only to be stopped by one pedestrian who was later taken away by the police. Video of this massacre was smuggled out of China by the BBC. According to their report, the bodies of protesters were cremated on the spot and flushed down the drains. As in Beijing the situation in Hong Kong from 1997 to 2020 deteriorated badly as free speech and the right to protest has been replaced with prison sentences. The occupation of the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea was a clear indication that the government had no respect for international law, creating protests from the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. Since the creation of the Chinese Communist Party, the PRC had gone to war with Chinese nationalists, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, and invaded Tibet. This was an attitude that had triggered the second world war in Europe and political leaders in the west recognised it as such. This is turning into a long march for diplomacy, in a world desperate for peaceful co-existence and zero carbon.

Democracy is not something that can be established overnight. It took Europe hundreds of years to create it, much of it through the acceptance of Christian values. Many countries, including the UK and US have endured similar incidents, large and small. The Peterloo massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which 18 people were killed when cavalry charged 60,000 demonstrating for better parliamentary representation, was unfortunate. In 2021 Americans were reminded of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. One of many such incidents in the USA. And of course both the US and the UK have endured costly civil wars. And you rarely read about slavery in your history books. China's own civil war forms part of the greater conflict, namely the start of World War II which began in the year 1937, not 1939. The Chinese government has been based upon a technocracy, since the days of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BC. The government has always been wary of threats, ever since the boxer rebellion, where Chinese peasants rose up against Christians and foreign influence, at a time of famine in 1899 to 1901. About 100,000 people were killed on all sides. Afterwards China was occupied by numerous foreign military forces. The nation was plundered, and was obliged to pay heavy compensation to western powers, including the British. Today, the People's Republic of China, is confronted by Islamic terrorism in the eastern state of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where one to three million people are held in vocational skills education centres. It beggars the question, is this the right way to win people over to the views of the majority? Plainly not, as it now appears that the state intends to keep these people in confinement possibly for life, for they are actively engaged in mass sterilization. At least that's what the western media is saying. Clearly the government in Beijing has over reacted just as the British did at the start of the mau-mau uprising in Kenya (1952-1960), where only 32 white civilians were killed verses 11,503 official mau-mau deaths.

The Turks have rehoused Kurds from mountain villages into towns (without criticism from western media), in order to remove the opportunity for conflict and autonomy, something which they have in Kurdistan, Iraq. The Americans on the other hand have a history of getting bogged down in other people's fight for self determination. Vietnam became independent in 1945. It was witnessed by members of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the forerunner of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). It was based upon the US declaration of independence, and if it wasn't for the French and Russians dividing up Vietnam, and the USG forgetting its history, there would be a lot more people living in Vietnam and the USA today. Bombing the hell out of people does not create a multi-cultural nation, as the USG has now discovered in Afghanistan, where it was defeated by the Taliban. The war from 2001 to 2021 cost $2.261 trillion in a country with a population of 35 million people. That's sixty-five dollars per person. If you really want to create a kind of global melting pot, you can't do it through coercion or conflict. Having said that I am reminded that Nazi Germany was the most multi-national country in Europe by the end of the second world war, mainly due to the presence of slave laborers.

The alternative is to provide people with a higher standard of living, including freedom of religion and a first class home and family, and they will reject terrorism and fight to defend what is theirs. Unfortunately, politicians and the military are only interested in a quick fix, necessitated by the forces of capitalism, budgets, etc. Plus of course governments have no interest in abolishing wars, pandemics, famine and crime, since these justify the need for government in the first place. A WT (World Technocracy) has an almost unlimited budget to spend on people's wishes, since it requires minimal military expenditure. CCTV at every door, and incarceration for trivial reasons, with scant respect for human rights, is not the way to meld a people. It will only lead to long term deep seated resentment. The Romans tried it in Britain for almost four hundred years and failed. Whilst it is easy to criticize other nations, one should first look at one's own history first. There has to be a better way. The failure of the United Nations and its offshoot, the World Health Organisation, to manage this pandemic directly and effectively, clearly shows that people need to consider a better organisation to manage the human race. An organisation where intelligent people vote for intelligent, relevantly trained and determined representatives. This pandemic clearly shows a need for nations to come together and co-operate, for the good of all.