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Your foffing opinions are foff-all use in healthy governance - get over yourselves.

I''ve had enough of it. I'm done with it. Genocide cannot be ignored, set aside, treated as an historical aberration.

We Europeans have all endured a colonial education, design din the 19th Century, reformed but never confronted or altered at its very core - every single one of us, and it was designed to ensure we internalised sets of values of use to the the colonial mindset, and most of us have not yet decolonised our minds and hearts.

I watched the US elections and millions of people voted for two genocidal political organisations rife with Racism, Misogyny, Bigotry - two parties also dominated by Wealth as Power, as it happens.

Both parties morally bankrupt to the core. We warned voters in the UK.

They did not listen to us. Starmer is a genocidal politician. He knows he is. He used to be a Human Rights Lawyer, but he has turned.

European, American, Canadian, Australian and Kiwi political classes - Wealth as Power - are directly enabling and abetting a Genocide since October 2023, 13 months ago.

'just say the word - the word is Genocide'

The Emperor, master and owner of Darth Starmer, and a portrait of a King.

Haka for Human Rights - the correct way to confront a predatory monarchy.

Emperor Trump (ET) Of Orange has been elected, both US Federal and many if not all of the States legislative assemblies are dominated by Wealth as Power's representatives.

They want him in place, otherwise he would not be where he is.... It is clear that the Democrats threw the election. Maybe they wanted to get as far away from direct liability on Gaza and Genocide as they could, without losing their lucrative jobs and the sponsorship that goes with them? Let Trump handle the mess, of he can.

Now there are families all across America arguing with each other, saying they cannot spend 'thanksgiving' with each other because of how they voted and the results the election generated.

Each are as messed up as the other. None of them have any morals worth mentioning. Trump is more evil, only by degree. Starmer is more evil than Sunak, by degree.

What a bunch of selfish, foolish, lazy, entitled colonial educated muppet voters that we are, we European western civilisation citizens who live in USA, in Canada, In Australia, in New Zealand, in Britain and across Europe.

Everyone of us has voted into power people more than willing to enable and assist a genocide which is being perpetrated by White Europeans upon people of colour in Palestine, right in front of us, unapologetically.

"I have never described what is happening in Gaza as Genocide" - It is not happening, it is being done, it is being perpetrated, and the ICJ, The UN, and almost every NGO and most states in the UN have called it a Genocide, citing well known international laws and treaties. His refusal to state the facts does not change them.

I think that politics, or more importantly how we are governed and how we wish for healthy governance is way too important to be left to bias, opinion and/or wishful or magical thinking - it needs to be evidence led, and that means both electorate and those we elect are well briefed on the evidence, (we all share a responsibility in that regard) and that we choose that in order to be in the best position to make good decisions accordingly - uninfluenced by Wealth as Power, Militarism, Religion or any form of bigotry or hatred.

This is the 21st Century after all. Facts matter....

Your foffing opinions are foff-all use in healthy governance - get over yourselves.

Say the word, Starmer.

It is GENOCIDE.

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The Problem of Adversarial Politics.

The Problem of Adversarial Politics - Bullying as a modus operandi.

a brief overview

Adversarial dynamics and struggles for power tend towards bullying as an underlay for the flooring of 'debate' - the point is to win, rather than to arrive at an accurate understanding that informs and reassures all involved.

"In good conversation, there is neither victor nor vanquished - there is only better informed and reassured participants."

quote from Tim Field.

https://www3.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol1_1/Burton.htm

"The party political system is historically adversarial. It evolved out of past feudal landlord and commoner confrontations.

It became even more politically divisive with industrialization.

It retained consensus support and remained viable as long as its authorities were in effective control.

The hierarchie's political adversaries and grass roots activists could be criminalised and exiled. Poverty and poverty based crime could be contained by criminalising the impoverished, building more jails and by 'transportation' of the convicted poor and many more impoverished people as indentured workers to build colonies on foreign lands, at the expense of the native peoples.

But with communications that help to establish a separate culture for the under privileged, and with the availability of weapons, effective control of the alienated became ever more difficult.

With economic growth in industrialisation and their democracies there has evolved a dominant middle class. Its members have no desire to be caught in the cross fire of any historical we-they confrontation.

The press, radio and television and, more recently, social media have brought to its attention the absurdities of party political debate as a decision making process.

Furthermore, the members of the dominant `capital' and `labour' parties are now seen to be in conflict largely for personal career reasons, not because of policy differences.

There is a growing consensus that the problems civilization face must be tackled by less adversarial processes in which analysis and reason prevail."

Political Grooming and 'wedge' politics are designed to exacerbate the adversarial dynamics.

Use of dehumanising language targeted the perceived adversaries and marginalised groups within society is evident everywhere.

The 10 stages of Genocide - Sprouts Schools

The term 'sheeple' is a good example of that process, in that it inspires a sense of superiority among those who would use the term to describe others, who are deemed inferior.

We are all familiar with political and vernacular use of the words animal, cockroach, rat, vermin, monster, ape, snake, infestation, parasite, alien, savage and 'hate marches' as weapons.

The lack of humane understanding, the lack of empathy and the reliance on incomplete or inaccurate 'information' bias and curated bigotry are all stimulated by the term 'sheeple'.

This is one example familiar to me within my own situation and I cite it here because so many among my contemporaries, left and right, feel it is fine to use that term. I have always been appalled by that term.

I find that when I challenge it, I experience push back, dismissal and derision and an unwillingness to explore the meaning of use of such terms.

'Sheeple' is no less dehumanising than 'towel heads' or 'faggots' or 'dykes' or any number of similar terms.

Debate or Discourse?

Adversarial dynamics and struggles for power tend towards bullying as a underlay for the flooring of 'debate' - the point is to win, rather than to arrive at an accurate understanding that informs and reassures all involved.

"In good conversation, there is neither victor nor vanquished - there is only better informed and reassured participants."

How bullying works: projection and scapegoating.

Written by Kitty S Jones

https://politicsandinsights.org/2015/01/22/how-bullying-works-projection-and-scapegoating/

"Very few people, when put to the test, have the integrity and moral courage to stand up against bullying, harassment, abuse, threats and corruption. The targets of adult bullying are selected often because they DO have the moral courage to challenge; many people will pass by on the other side.

A target of adult bullying is most often chosen because of their strength, not their weakness. Research shows that targets of bullying tend to have highly developed empathy, and sensitivity for others, a high degree of perceptiveness, high moral values, a well-developed integrity, a strong sense of fair play and reasonableness, a low propensity to violence, a reluctance to pursue grievance, disciplinary or legal action, a strong forgiving streak and a mature understanding of the need to resolve conflict with dialogue.

Often, targets of bullying are independent, self-reliant and “different” in some way. Weak people often disingenuously confuse these hallmarks of character with weakness.

Bullies aim to inflict psychological injury more often than physical injury. Their main aim is to control, discredit, isolate and eliminate their target.

The word “victim” also allows disingenuous people to tap into and stimulate other people’s misconceptions and prejudices of victimhood which include the inference that the person was somehow complicit in the abuse. (See just-world fallacy and victim-blame narrative).

I use the word “target”, which is also accurate because bullying involves the intentional singling out of a person or group for abuse.

Bullies, who have no integrity, are vindictive, aggressive, demanding, and regularly violate others’ boundaries; displaying aggression does not respect peoples’ rights, and a bully’s “requests” come with a negative consequence if the course of action demanded by the bully is declined.

A bully’s bad behaviour is entirely his or her responsibility, they intend to cause their targets harm, to undermine them and damage them socially, emotionally, psychologically and sometimes, physically. And they often do."

Corbyn - making an example

Jeremy Corbyn and the false anti-Semitism, ‘friend of terrorists’, ‘communist spy’, ‘protest politician’ and ‘he’s unelectable’ charges laid against him present a recent and very well documented example of this dreadful behavioural dynamic. It’s sole purpose was to prevent a genuinely honest politician with a track record for integrity, honesty, empathy and a good understanding of the issues facing the body politic and society at large from gaining the position of Prime Minister, with a majority in the House of Commons.

That bullying campaign was perpetrated within the Labour Party by a group who were aligned with Blairism (and its wars) and this was replicated throughout the News Media and online, through social media micro targeting campaigns, funded and supported by those concerned with Wealth Extraction and their power to protect Wealth Extraction from accountability for the avoidable harms it refuses, repeatedly, to avoid.

Healthy Governance - avoiding avoidable harms.

The function of a healthy governance system is to maintain and support the population in living well and at peace.

Part of that process is the deployment collective resources to avoid avoidable harm and to prevent preventable harms.

There are harms that cannot be avoided and there are harms that can be avoided.

War can be avoided. War can be prevented.

However as we see, again and again War is not avoided and we know too well that within war the murder of civilians and the destruction of civil infrastructure which form the essentials for ‘living well’ - schools, health care facilities, housing, roads, utilities - which are the basic human right of a civilian population caught in the crossfire of warfare - tends not to be avoided, more often than not by conscious choice. The destruction is intentional, not accidental.

Collateral Damage : A euphemism designed to throw a veil over the realities of warfare.

We cannot stop a violent hurricane from causing destruction - we can however build infrastructure designed to withstand the impact of such natural catastrophes. We could deploy resources to protecting the affected people’s welfare, supporting them in the recovery process.

Resilience

Rather than raw personal human resilience, we could choose to build in resilience as an infrastructure policy and thus offer more effective and efficient support for the people made vulnerable by the storm.

Likewise, regards Climate Disruption, we cannot stop the process underway because it is the result of a few centuries of build up of Carbon Dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere that will take centuries to reverse. We can reduce or stop further pollution yet the effect of such action will take decades to be felt.

What we can do is design resilience into infrastructure, social care, wealth sharing, aid systems and so on to offer best support and protection of the people made most vulnerable by Climate Disruption - that would be a matter of avoiding avoidable harms in the near, medium and long term.

Bullying in politics is lethal.

Bullying in politics undermines all these objectives and more by at attacking the proponents of equitable industrial, social and economic policy as a method of defending the status quo, a status quo born of adversarial violence as described in the beginning of this piece.

What is Egalitarian Culture? What Do Babies Want? Alloparenting?

Four videos looking at elements of human cultural behaviour variations.... with information and wisdom to offer terms of nurturing ourselves, our families, our communities, our land.

The how to maintain a healthy sustainable culture problem is mostly a matter of human to human relationships than it is of a question of technology.

Power Hierarchy culture generates unhealthy behaviour at scale. This is well evidenced and incontrovertible. This is because Power becomes the means to maintain Power.

Those who occupy positions of Power will tend to internalise the positions root values which are power and maintenance of power. 'L'Etate, c'est Moi!' and so on. "I represent the institution, not myself, yet I have internalised the institution." That is a profoundly unhealthy psychological state to be in.

Over time, and with wealth the Ruling Hierarchy culture have extracted the ruling class have worked to institutionalise the population into instruments to promote and maintain those values, do the work, fight in the battles. All the time understanding fully that this is oppressive cruelty, that it generates resistance, naturally enough.

They understand the injustice. And so they live fearful of the majority population, and the maintenance of dominance becomes an endless end in itself, a way of life.

That is a behavioural and cultural problem.

We have brilliant minds and imaginations set to solve problems by understanding them correctly, these are innate critical thinking skills.

If those minds are deeply rooted in healthy relationships that nurture, then their efforts will produce nurturing resolutions, if that is materially possible, to avoid avoidable harms.

We're literally born with that in mind, in evolutionary terms. That is what our DNA and biochemistry is in : a default setting to learn behaviour that is healthy.

To cooperate and live mutual aid is optimally healthy for human species.

An egalitarian culture on a gathering mission, at play. In spite of being surrounded by extinction level threats.
~Two Videos :~1. What is Egalitarian Culture? The evidence. A talk, and a Q&A.
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2.
What Babies Want - Evolved for Nurturing Brain Development - a moving, inspiring documentary.

3Allan Schore: the study of neurobiology of brain development.
The carer brain to infant brain relationship and the biology of healthy brain and endocrine development.
No species is evolved for less than optimal biological health of each organism, and for the species.

In my mind, these three subjects intersect to inform a more radical understanding of human health presenting as nurturant behaviour as the biological optimally healthy state, psycho-socially and practically.
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In addition, Mothers and Others. Alloparenting and human behavioural evolution.What are the behavioural implications of evolving for alloparenting?

Alloparenting is when all the members of a group care for all the children, collectively.It is close correlated with Egalitarian culture.Healthy human relationships.Peace.

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COVID is Over, Give Greed a Chance!

I was in my local chip shop, yesterday late afternoon, it's been a while since I splashed out on a bag of chips.
A bag of chips costs me £2.40, which is the same price as 2kg of Organic Potatoes, and so for me to buy chips - eating out - is a rare luxury. Some will say buying Organic is also a luxury. I have eaten Organic food all my adult life, and I deem it an essential element of my approach to food as the first medicine. I do not remember the last time I ate at a restaurant. I cook for myself everyday, using whole foods. Thus far I have fared well enough, I think.
It's mostly good luck. Health is. Most of us do not understand exactly how much good health is a matter of luck and circumstance. Ascribing personal responsibility for good luck is also a common error. Survivorship bias is among one of the most common biases.

I know because all of these are errors I make almost every day.
At 63, I can run 2 km without collapsing, I sleep 6 hours most nights, my cholesterol is 5.1, (recent blood test) and apart from genetic gum disease and loss of teeth exacerbated by 40 years of smoking (I have stopped smoking this past year, and feel so much the better for it) and neglect due to an irrational terror of dentistry, and the teeth grinding, a symptom of cPTSD from childhood and adult trauma, I appear to be in robust health. 'Appear' being the descriptive word.

I have not been to a doctor in 40 years, for any kind of detailed check up. I do not know what lurks within this battered body and mind in terms of chronic disease.
I feel the aging process, and I think am comfortable with it, (that said, I am thinking of getting rid of all mirrors in my home... lol!) and I can see into a future with more frailty. That's the nature of life. We grow, and we grow older, if we live long enough, we become decrepit. I'm well aware that I am very, very lucky. So far.

Health, Luck and Circumstance

There are millions of people who are not so lucky, who live with chronic disease, which they suffer through no fault of their own. Millions of people, active, working people, live with a vulnerability and an endurance and grace the fit are largely unaware of. Ableism is the conceit that anyone with a disability is somehow inferior, that they are lessor human beings, rather than simply unlucky in health. Ableism is also the un-realisation that some chronic disease states are almost invisible. There are a myriad of factors that determine a persons life health chances, many of which are determined even before that person is born.

So like I say, I know I am very lucky indeed. The fit are more lucky than actively fit.

Johnson and his sponsors are about to change all that. Again.
So there I was, buying a good sized paper cone of chips, (my chippie is generous with his portions) splashing out on a luxury, and whilst exchanging pleasantries, my Chippie Man was explaining his plan to move the business to a site opposite the local train station, a process that had been delayed by successive COVID surges.
He told me he hopes he will gain more passing trade. I have been buying chips from his shop, and from the previous owner, for 19 years. Their chips have remained the best standard throughout. I love those chips. He deserves more trade. He's also a really nice person.
He told me "COVID is over now, it's all going back to normal! I'm really happy about that."
"Hmmm..." I said as I handed over my payment, in change, in 5p coins. I am digging into my reserves for this luxury.
I suggested he might want to rethink that. "The Pandemic is not over." I said. "The virus is still circulating."
He was having none of it. He rejected my assertion. "It's in the papers! Covid is over. They are lifting all the restrictions."
I responded by asserting that Johnson was a liar, and a real danger to all of us, and that he could not be trusted. He accepted the liar allegation, (everybody does now, apart from other liars) but he did not my Covid risk assessment.

Arrogant Repetitive Reckless Serial Endangerment .
He was not angry, nor was I. He smiled, I smiled.
I said to him "I look to the epidemiologists and virologists, rather than the politicians or news papers."
He smiled back at, me, shook his head and repeated "It's over. We'll be fine."
Hope springs eternal, and flows more easily through knowledge gaps exploited by News Media and Politicians working for Oligarchs whose Wealth Extraction Cult dominates our lives.
Of course, I said none of this. Indeed that through did not occur to me until I was down the street a bit, munching on the slightly cooled, salted chips on top. That's when I started thinking about writing this piece.

My chippie is a hard working guy, looking after his small business, his family and he's not greedy. He's a good person. One of many, many millions. The vast majority of people are indeed good people.

Johnson is not a good person.
The UK Government - The Johnson Regime - is going to end the legal requirement for Covid positive tested citizens to self isolate, and that will also allow them to end payments for those who test positive, payments designed to support them self-isolating, as a way to reduce transmission of the virus.

Savige Javid, a CDO salesman at the heart of the fraud of the 2008 crash, is criminally insane, and he's working for JP Morgan, and their agenda.

Criminally insane! Reckless Endangerment

It's not about saving money, it's about their hatred of giving ordinary people 'money for nothing'. That game is for the wealthy and their cronies. Well, it's money for connections, rather than nothing. Those connections are part of their currency of power and influence.

Someone asked, if we were back in 2020, and knowing what we know now what we have done differently?

I replied we would have removed the governments that ignored the epidemiologists, virologists, immunologists, public health experts as soon as they showed any signs of ignoring the science and gaslighting the population or enabling profiteering.

We would have chased down misinformation generators, and imprisoned them for attempted manslaughter
All of which still needs to be done.
The Johnson Regime, with Health Secretary Savige Javid (lately of JP Morgan) in political control of our NHS, and our National Health Policy, are going to end free test availability, be they Lateral Flow or PCR tests. Austerity was always a punishment strategy. Universal Credit : Sanctions, removing funding. Making the claimants scream! Making low paid work seem more attractive by maintaining or escalating poverty levels.

Circumstance
This new strategy of ignoring COVID, of removing support for self isolation, ceasing free availability of tests, and mandating full return to offices etc, is something that will impact most heavily upon those on the lowest incomes, the minimum wage and just above it - hospitality staff, shop assistants, care workers, prison officers, teaching assistants and many others whose work brings them face to face with lots of people, many of them clinically vulnerable, on a daily basis.
Low income workers who will be forced to pay out of their already meagre and shrinking budgets to assess their own risk in order to act as responsible citizens. Some may well decide to take the risk. We know that lack of economic support - lowest sick pay rates in Europe - has undermined suppression of the community transmission of the virus.

One cannot see what one does not measure.
The reduction in testing will of course lead to a reduction in the numbers of confirmed cases, but it will not reduce the numbers of cases. As noted by Trump and John Hopkins University, albeit it different contexts, less testing means less numbers of confirmed cases - but it does not mean less cases.
The reduction in PCR testing will diminish the UK's world beating genome sequencing, and we will begin to go blind to the virus and it's variants. What we don't know could well kill us, harm us, expose us to life long chronic disease.
And with regards SARSCOV2, what doesn't kill us quite evidently does not make us stronger.
This Johnson Regime policy is head in the sand, arse in the air: see no virus, hear no virus, virus is not happening. Pretend it is not happening. World beating denial. There were no parties. Well there were parties, but I was not there. OK, I was there but all guidelines were followed. Russia is on the cusp of an invasion. Brexit is working.
This is called living with the lying bastards. This is a world beating strategy. Tony Blair, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell. Liars that rule the world. Giving the world a beating.

In the most simple terms, the Johnson Regime is intent on ignoring the virus, letting the little people take it on the chin. We, the impotent plebs - oh my, how we are understanding our impotence in ways we never expected to or wanted to know - you and I and our elderly relatives, our vulnerable neighbours, everyone in our communities, we must take it on the chin.
Protect the Hoard, let the Herd take it on the chin.
The last two years has shown quite clearly that the poorer members of 'the herd' which includes people who are disabled, people from ethnic minorities, low income citizens and the clinically vulnerable have taken the most on our chins, with devastating harms inflicted upon these more vulnerable parts of our population.

This report is just one of a number detailing how ethnic minorities have fared worse than others throughout this pandemic.
https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2022/february/keele-comment/covid-poverty-ethnic-minorities.php

"Ethnic minority groups have suffered the highest risk of COVID mortality in the UK, according to the latest official figures. In the first wave (before the vaccine roll-out), the risk of death was highest for those with a black African background. During the second and third waves, it was consistently highest among those with Bangladeshi origins.
Those high levels of risk are partly to do with where people live and how they earn a living. Members of ethnic minorities tend to work in sectors which require face-to-face contact such as social care, retail and transport. They are also more likely to live in places where it is difficult to practice social distancing."

"Our research into rates of ethnic poverty (systemic poverty within an ethnic group) found levels before COVID of 50% for Bangladeshis, 47% for Pakistanis and 40% for black people, compared with 19% for white British people. Our work also supports fears that the pandemic risks making things even worse if action isn’t taken to reverse its effects.
For example, reports suggest that while ethnic minorities had higher unemployment rates before the pandemic, they then suffered a higher proportion of job loses during it. Rates of ethnic unemployment in the period from October to December 2019 were 4.5% for Bangladeshis, 7.7% for Pakistanis and 8.7% for black people, compared with 3.4% for white British. A year later, after almost a year of COVID, those rates went up respectively to 6.4%, 9.8%, 14% and 4.5%."
It is important to note that while the impacts of pandemic mismanagement and poverty impact ethnic minorities are as described, the mismanagement has caused immense harm to the ethnic majority as well. Nobody is safe under the Johnson Regime.

This article from December 2020 by a human rights advocacy group looks at the failures of the Johnson Regime in terms of protecting the populations right to health which, as it happens, is the legal duty of the Government.

"The UK’s response to COVID-19 has been widely criticized by scientists and the public. According to EuroMOMO, a European mortality monitoring initiative, the excess mortality that may be attributable to COVID-19 in England is one of the highest in Europe, second only to Spain.

"In this article, we observe the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify some issues that have emerged in such exceptional times. We argue that the right to health as enacted today is not sufficient to address these issues. The current international human rights framework is robust, but states’ obligations should be clarified so they can be adapted to public health measures in times of pandemic. At the same time, international public health documents to prepare for pandemics are not sufficient on their own to protect the right to health of everyone. We offer some recommendations to that effect.
Writing about issues as we witness them allows us to construct reliable historic memory. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many deaths that could have been avoided had we been better prepared with strong rights-based provisions. These are essential lessons to be learned, and the human rights community has a crucial role to play to ensure that future responses to pandemics are grounded in human rights law."

The People's Covid Inquiry laid out in greater detail the legislation on protecting the populations right to health, and how this Government has failed to uphold the law, and in some cases transgressed laws, including committing the offence of Misconduct in Public Office in relation to protecting the populations right to health.
Risk and Vulnerability.
Poverty aside, there are 11 million people in the UK living with chronic disease, 6 million of whom have two or more conditions - these people are clinically vulnerable. Many of these people are part of the working population.

There are are 1.3 million clinically vulnerable children.
A similar number of adults are now enduring Long Covid. We do not yet know or understand the long term implications of their condition.
Is this Government embarking on a strategy towards total population infection?

Are they assuming that the vaccines will keep the harms below the radar of public awareness?

Are they anticipating that the deaths of the vulnerable will reduce pension costs? Is that potential saving of any real economic significance? Or is it just spite?

Are they hoping that the apparently healthy survivors will retain some kind of immunity?

Are they planning that the cases of Long Covid will be excluded from Insurance under pre-existing condition clauses?

Is the strategy of failing to control transmission of the virus congruent with the plan to proceed with privatisation of the NHS and steady withdrawal of state funded and operated social care as laid out by various Free Market think tanks and writers?

As things stand all state funded and operated services are being unreasonably stressed, staff are facing burn-out, staff retention is at record low levels - ripe for take over by private capital to 'solve the problems of socialistic state inefficiency'.

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A Metric for Governance - A People's Metric - Making Governance Safe for People.

Healthy Governance - A Metric

I think of Healthy Governance as being focused on the practical realities of administering a communities shared resources for the equal benefit of all members of that community.

Healthy governance sets the context of governance as operating within as a shared responsibility of duty of care for one another. In that regards healthy governance has to be evidence led at all times. Opinion and belief are insufficient to meet the responsibility of duty of care.

Healthy governance sets the global context of governance as nurturing, caring for and stewarding of the habitat within which the community lives and from which that community draws living materials and other resources.

In the case of States, and in relation to healthy Governance we can apply this metric of care to taxation, which is collected from all, in one way or another, by the State, and is therefore a primary community shared resource. Healthy governance will determine that that resource is deployed with wisdom and equity to nurture the whole population.

Taxation is a resource which does not belong to the Government, as a possession, but is rather a resource held in trust, to be dutifully and carefully deployed on behalf of the whole of society, and the population the Government governs for.

State borrowings are borrowed on the collateral of the States ability to pay the debt with taxation, which is gathered from the population. The population underwrite Government borrowings on behalf of the population.

State currency, issued by State owned banks, must also be understood as a utility. Money as a medium of exchange that is deployed to nurture the whole population.

Against that back drop, we can look at those who extract wealth from economies, and who sequester wealth away from the people, and who deploy that wealth as a political utility to preserve their political power, in order to impede regulation of their extraction of wealth. Who do they serve? Who do they harm?

Governing for is not the same as ruling over.

Apply that metric to all areas of policy.

Update on metrics: "Ignore death and disease, look at wages!"

Metrics for Healthy Governance: https://t.co/RNz1bTNxcI
Not Johnson.#SchoolStrike2021 #JohnsonLiedPeopleDied #JohnsonOut #Starmermustgo #unitygovernment #ZeroCovid pic.twitter.com/y9mDl5gZim
— Egalitarian Corneilius (@coreluminous) October 3, 2021

What are the implications of administering a community shared resource?

- Policy must be evidence based, as a fundamental duty of care - opinion and belief cannot supplant evidence. All available evidence must be brought to bear on any issue.

- Governance must not be submissive or beholden to special interests of any kind. It can and must be aware of all interests, and seek to balance those without causing harm to the people or the shared commons. No costs can be externalised.

- Adversarial dynamics must be rejected. Labour vs Tories is toxic. Christian vs Muslim is toxic. Atheism vs Religionism is toxic. Difference ought to generate richness and complexity rather than conflict.

- Avoidable adverse outcomes must be avoided, and where they occur, by accident or lack of foresight, or due to changes beyond human agency, or by deliberate action by the State, or any others, they must be remedied immediately. Allowing avoidable harm to persist once it has been identified is unacceptable.

- Long term health and safety is as much a priority as short term health and safety

- The policies must be proven to nurture the whole community, in a balanced and healthy manner.

This metric applies also to the seas, waterways, lands we inhabit. These too are shared community resources, and not just for us humans of developed societies.

We share this Earth. Fact. That has social and psychological implications.

Healthy Governance acknowledges this.

This is a discussion to be had across the grass roots, at parish council level, in schools and in places of religious faith worship, in pubs, in clubs, on buses, in all settings. It is an understanding that must begin from the ground, must come from the people for whom Government governs.

For me, the old politic of competing powers is, in humane terms, immature and dysfunctional - it is a diseased way of conducting matters, and utterly toxic. War is a mental health issue, and a health and safety issue, as well as a matter of morality.

I cannot participate in current political discourse as a loyal citizen, loyal to the people, my, family, my neighbours, and all who live within the State, loyal to the common good, the shared commons, without being a dissenting voice, precisely because this fundamental truth is being ignored, denied, avoided across all mainstreams, and beyond.

The system is in reality characterised largely by a behavioural dynamic of habitual bullying that has become institutionalised, and I cannot vote for it to continue.

Who to vote for in a Warring State?

The Power Inquiry 2006

The Power inquiry, an independent investigation into the condition of democracy in Britain, was set up in 2004. The members of its commission (chaired by Helena Kennedy) hosted meetings around Britain and heard submissions from a wide variety of interest groups, professionals, and concerned citizens. The commission published its report on 27 February 2006.

The Power Inquiry of 2004, which is now 20 years ago, was curated by Joseph Rowntree and many across the community voluntary sector, the civil service, social care, education, healthcare and others relevant to the discussion.

A stellar team mapped the potential of devolved, decentralised legislative power out in some detail.

It was and remains a very well reasoned, evidence led, peer reviewed masterful thesis on how to make Government responsive, accountable and responsible to a democratically engaged population. More integrity, more engagement, more trust.

You can read an executive summary and recommendations here and the full report here.

I felt at the time that The Power Inquiry was in part an acknowledgement that the democratic voice of the electorate, which was ignored in March 2003, must prevail. Or the Law remains unheld. One funder told me that there was a concern that if populations did not have strong local political and legislative engagement and infrastructure in place which is the material outcome of human solidarity, things might be very difficult if disruptive agencies enter into the political legislative domain.

What is envisaged in The Power Inquiry, is a political action engagement shared responsibility framework that devolves decision making responsibility to the electorate through local assemblies, where local people sit at the policy formulation table as equals sharing the responsibility for proceeding with any given measure and where required, striving to resolving problems as they emerge. They propose 47 changes to the existing traditional system, a system which all agree is inherently unfair and anti-democratic.

An article about The Power Inquiry on OpenDemocracy.

"After eighteen months of investigation, the final report of Power is a devastating critique of the state of formal democracy in Britain. Many of us actively support campaigns such as Greenpeace or the Countryside Alliance. And millions more take part in charity or community work. But political parties and elections have been a growing turn-off for years.

The cause is not apathy. The problem is that we don't feel we have real influence over the decisions made in our name. The need for a solution is urgent. And that solution is radical. Nothing less than a major programme of reform to give power back to the people of Britain..."

There have been many, many attempts through recorded history made at scoping out healthier metrics for Government. from Ancient Chinese and Sumerian, Greek, Roman, from Magna Carta to The US Constitution, from The Chartists to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

The Power Inquiry of 2004-2006 fits comfortably into that tradition.

I have written a more detailed blog on the many recommendations of The Power Inquiry.

Power Disparity

The asymmetry of leverage Power Disparity infantalises those exposed to it who in all honesty hold little power. By infantilsiation I mean the relative capability of exercising power between the two is similar to a adult and and infant.

For Democracy to be genuine and effective it must involve and engage the citizen in much more than voting. Voting on it's own confers little power to the electorate. In fact it reduces the electorate to an audience. It voids the electorate as a participant in policy deliberation, decision making and over sight, it removes all responsibility from the electorate. Indeed voting infantalises the electorate, precisely because the State system pretends otherwise.

Other 'better' people, entitled to rule, better suited educated to stand as 'superiors' who will make the 'tough decisions' and we, the people vote as supplicants.

That was the careful political power set-up determined in the 19th and 20th Centuries, by the Establishment, to preserve their order, their dominance and to protect their Wealth Extraction indefinitely. Wealth infiltrated every political and social movement that emerged from the abject social conditions that ordinary folk were forced to endure, during the start of the Industrial Revolution and beyond. That is still the case.

That experience of slowly learning to organise politically as a class, within a rigid class system, is where Socialism in England was birthed. Watt Tyler and the peasants gaining rights after the Black Death Plague was a step in that direction.

The Power Inquiry continues in that tradition, bringing it up to the 21st Century.

We need a metric for Governance that is truly 2s1st Century best practice, wisdom and skill oriented,

That 19th Century set-up has led directly to Climate Change, Air Pollution, Poverty, War Fare, Plastic Pollution Environment Degradation and more corruption. It succeeded in it's aim, but is putting the entire human species at risk and therefore it is inadequate to the task of confronting the problems it has created.

Denial of this is a comfort on the death march to hell and I just can't do that. Can you?

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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The core responsibility of Healthy Governance.

When it comes to Governance, that is to say the administration of a community's shared resources - for example, taxation, which everybody contributes to - opinions are inadequate as a basis for decision making.

Only the data, the evidence, all of it, the whole picture, all that is reliable, available and assesed quantitatively and qualitatively can be utilised to meet the requirements of effective, just and sustainable Governance.

Miss out any one part of that available data, evidence or picture, for any reason or bias and we will generate problematic policies. That much ought to be rather obvious.

This is the discipline required, and frankly, too few people, anywhere, are prepared to exert that discipline on behalf of the entire community to deliver genuine equity.

Taking ideological or religious 'sides', the left/rightism of political discourse are all based on fundamental biases that will omit or ignore or play down any evidence that challenges their core beliefs. News Media and Schooling all function to embed these biases, in that they are top down, hierarchies of information.

That is immature, and honestly it is an abysmal failure, of due diligence and duty of care. We are all part of this problem.

I do understand that bias emerges in any system where forms of hierarchical violence are perpetuated and 'sides' within that structure groom people as 'supporters'.

To me, from my perspective, the 'sides' are irrelevant, a distraction.

I think the millennials get this in a way that previous generations do not.

They all grew up watching the adults around them allow a war against other young people their age, in other countries, be prosecuted .... in Iraq and Afghanistan..

.. and that showed them the immaturity of the adults around them who failed to confront the bullies in Power, the bullies in the media, the bullies in executive roles across society and as a direct outcome people, millions of people died and were maimed and traumatised, entire civilian structures destroyed.

Because we failed them.

I am 57.

I am of that generation.

They are rightfully appalled at that.

We should be ashamed of that at the least, and we should be honest about this.

We should be doing what we can, where we can, to remove that shame, by being honest, by taking no side but the truth (the available evidence in full) and to do that we need to up our game, seriously, to meet the duty we owe all the children, across the world, each and every one of us, as adults.... and get involved, get informed, get real.

We fund Government. We are paying for it. Those bombs are our bombs, and where they fall is our responsibility. Indeed it goes without saying that they ought not fall at all, even if they exist. That they exist at all speaks volumes. A bomb is a bullies extension , a mechanism to project power through murder and destruction.

The millennial's know this. Imagine how frustrating it must be to have parents who refuse to look at and see this.

The 'generation gap' is a culture gap. The difference between a culture acclimatised to violent bullying and a culture that refuses to bully.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"

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