‘We want change’ they shout. ‘Time to get the Tories out’ they cry.

Whilst there may be general agreement that the Tories have done a spectacularly bad job over the past five years, and most people are eager for something to change, there has been little in the way of hard policy from any of the other political parties. 

This is a real problem.

All the candidates are shouting for change, using it as a rallying cry and hoping to get people to march behind them, but there’s one big elephant in the room.

Change to what?

It’s great that so many people want change, but what change do you want? And how can you be sure, even if you do know what changes you want, that those changes are what the country needs?

Wishing rid of the conservative government is a change that a lot of people desire, but what do they think any incoming government will do to improve their lives? 

We’ve seen very little detail over the past couple of years, just a set of vague ideals and promises from Kier Starmer and the shadow cabinet. Even now there is a lack of willingness by him and his party to commit to doing anything if they are elected. There’s a vacuum of policy ideas from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, still reeling from their leaders’ involvement in the Post Office scandal, seem bereft of original ideas.

None of them actually offer change. They all appear to be offering a tinkering around the edges with a guarantee of continuity, slightly left of centre socialism. 

Reform UK are different. We’ve had fully costed proposals available for people to read for the past three months. Policies that get to the heart of the problems facing the U.K. today. Policies that are radical in some respects, but necessary to ensure that our society and way of life can continue.

Because one thing is crystal clear to anyone who stops to think about it for a moment. If we carry on along the path we currently occupy, things will only get worse.

We need to find a new path, a new trajectory for Britain. 

Remember, Einstein famously said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting a different outcome. We’ve elected the main parties in and out of office for the past quarter of a century and they’ve brought us to this point. To do so again would simply be insanity.

Something needs to change, and that something is Reform UK.

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In the end over 1.2 million people added their signature to the petition, and faced with that public pressure she handed back her C.B.E.

The angry public, however, are still looking for justice and have now started asking the question, who else was involved? Various political names have been embroiled in this scandal including Ed Davey, Tony Blair, David Cameron and Sir Kier Starmer, who was Director of Public Prosecutions during a large part of this scandal. His defence is that he had no ideas the office of the DPP were prosecuting sub postmasters as it was a tiny number in a sea of prosecutions. Subsequently, this has also turned out to be incorrect.

The key point here is that over the past 25 years we have been governed successively by Labour and Conservatives governments and none of them should escape this scandal unscathed.

So, anyone thinking of voting Labour or Conservative should remember this outrage. It happened on their watch and despite their best protestations, the public are now demanding answers. After all, they were supposed to be working for us, not against us.

What this sorry episode demonstrates is that there are inherent dangers in entrusting your life to technology. We need good governance for when tech fails, as it inevitably will. For this reason we should be wary of how we choose to embed technology in our everyday lives, including CBDC’s, AI and Digital ID’s. This is not to say that we should rail against them, simply that if we are to adopt new technology, we need to understand what we should watch for to identify when it’s going wrong, as history tells us that inevitably it will.

Another point that struck me whilst watching the drama and the subsequent public outrage is that we are a nation of proud people with a keen sense of injustice. We may be four nations with slight differences, but we are one people.

The drama struck home quite hard in our household as I am married to a man who’s hobby is stamp collecting. As a philatelist, he has been aware of this scandal for many years and together, we saw Nick Wallis in 2022 as he toured the U.K. raising awareness of this issue through his book ‘The Great Post Office Scandal”. So, when I asked my stamp collector to find me an image for this blog he chose stamps from each of the nations that make up the United Kingdom. As you can see, they all have their differences, but in essence, they are one. One United Kingdom.

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