Who do you rely on?

It's easy to ignore politics, stay away from the radio, the TV, the internet, the cinema, bus shelters, bill boards, newspapers and libraries and you can just about avoid politics.

Which is also unrealistic unless you live in the woods like Simon Dale does.

Lovely, but he had major battles with the local council and planning authority (note that word) to build his house and live in it. So even he was obliged to deal with politics.

It is virtually unavoidable if you live in the UK.

This Governmental influence on our life has many different layers and each layer has many different departments and sets of rules to ensure that you live within a framework described as 'the common good'.

Except; again and again we find the the 'common good' means different things to different people. You may think that it is protecting the environment or securing your rights. I'm sorry but that's rather a quaint view.

He is some advice for you, whenever someone talks about 'the common good' or 'sensible rules' or laws, look at where the money is flowing.

Today on the Daily Telegraph web site we learn of yet another proposal to charge for road usage. (One of the MPs proposing this is Andrea Leadsom a previous employee of Investment fund Invesco Perpetual who surprise surprise, invest in big infrastructure projects) You may think this is a very sensible approach to saving the environment and deals neatly with the polluter pays principle. You would be wrong to think this way.

The polluter already pays, in fact we all pay around £38 Billion a year for driving, through the fuel taxes we pay. Drive further and you spend more. It's a simple enough method.

By the way, very little of this money is spent on the roads, most goes into the general taxation pot.

What is more interesting is that the bank NM Roschild has put proposals before government before to privatise the roads. Now where do you suppose the money would go if a privatisation scheme is being promoted by a bank?

Follow the money. Always follow the money. The Government is not there for you to rely on. Social Services are not there for you to rely on. (Just check the child abuse scandal in Rotherham for confirmation of this,)

So now to the question I posed at the beginning of this blog piece; who do you rely on?

You can rely on the Government if you like but recall that most MPs seem to spend their time working out how to take more money from you whilst feathering their own (already luxurious) nest(s). Your MEP? Not likely, they're on the gravy train and they can't even propose new laws or suggest the removal of old ones.

No in the end it's you. You must rely on your own skills, your own knowledge, your own ability to see through the visual noise to what's really happening. Only when you decide to be in charge of your life will things make sense for you.

The structures and systems that should provide a framework for you to work within are corrupt and often not fit for purpose. Or put another way, you can't change the wind that is blowing but you can set your sail towards your goals accordingly. Along the way you may meet like minded people, fellow travellers with a common goal. But remember always, that in the end it is your life, and no one else has the same investment in it as you. Self reliance will be the key to surviving the turmoil that continues around us.