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And exactly what do you do?

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This really is the question of the day…And just exactly what is it that you do? Have meetings, listen to presentations? Talk to your advisors? Practice your dance moves for the Barwell shuffle?

Honey, whatever you are wasting your time at, it’s not working… Start with something simple, go and install smoke alarms in the other towers in spitting distance from Grenfell. There a virtual flood of documentaries tonight about the other 4,000 tower blocks with the same problems as Grenfell. And, 5 days later there is still almost no one “in charge”…

So, do the right thing, get some adults in who will do something…

It really is time to start over now…

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There is no good way for bad leadership to come to an end, other than just to end.  We awake this morning to yet another disaster in London, this time someone deciding to take it out on Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park.  Some very bizarrely confused person thinks that you can take justice into your own hands  and somehow “fix” anything. But it is  actually quite a bit worse than that, citizens now feel that they cannot and will not get any justice from the government, so they’re saying quite clearly “we’ve had enough”.

Bizarrely, the Prime Minister used that very phrase just a week ago when she said “enough is enough”.  But the ongoing saga of incompetence has reached a whole set of incredible lows this morning  with so many stories that are all now beginning to blend together into one giant continuous nightmare.  And on top of that, this morning, is the front page interview with the Chancellor talking extensively about how incompetent the prime minister is. What?  One of them needs to go today, this very day…

The difficult thing of course is that it all spirals back to the concept of belief. If you don’t believe in anything then you can’t lead anyone.  If all you believe in is getting elected again, then  you don’t actually believe in anything and the whole thing falls apart.  We have a whole group of people in parliament whose only belief is in getting elected again, it’s not surprising that they are unable to lead anyone.

We need leadership based on Belief…

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It would be pretty hard to imagine how our prime minister could last for the next few days before she is tossed out.  We have a system here which forces, ultimately, the leaders to actually lead. It appears that if 48 of the MPs tell her that she needs to go, then that’s it.  But the problem is, it’s  damn difficult  to find any leaders who can actually lead. It seems that everyone has to have a giant coterie of advisors telling them everything they need to do. That’s okay except now we live in a real-time world.  Now you have to know what to do, you can’t be off asking people and advisors all the time. The fact that the Queen and members of the Royal Family are visiting this disaster every day and she cannot be bothered to even speak to the residents on-site  says it all.

The real crisis in the Conservative party now is: so are there any leaders out there?  But, the central problem here is that to lead you have to have Belief.  Belief in something other than how much you want to be in power. The Conservative party had five pillars of its ideology and belief, which Margaret Thatcher articulated in her now famous interview with Maurice Saatchi.  Where is that now? It seems that 99% of the current Conservative party doesn’t even realise that there are five pillars to its ideology.  You can’t have leaders unless you have leaders who believe in something.  Somehow we’ve gotten to the position where we glorify leaders who don’t actually believe in anything and accept everyone’s belief in everything.  Nice idea, but it doesn’t work in the real world, and certainly not in this one.  It is time for us to have leaders who lead based on belief, that’s it…

Denis Fuller, the man who got me here

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At the start of this campaign, I need to pay tribute to the man who started it all for me: Denis Fuller. I can’t really take too much credit for getting into Politics, Denis is the man that got me here… It all started about 7 or 8 years ago when the Cowboy Clampers came to destroy Frimley. The local Borough Council members didn’t want to get involved, they didn’t care that the elderly and handicapped were having their lives destroyed, but Denis did… He organised the protests, organised the actions, and gave me the encouragement to take it to the conclusion…

The important things he taught me were:

1-take care of your residents first, they are more important than the council or anyone else

2-don’t ever settle for sorry excuses by the council for bad performance and non-performance

3-don’t ever compromise your commitment to your residents for the Conservative Party

In his two terms as County Councillor, he has made a profound difference in a number of areas, he had enormous influence on education, how accounts are handled, and how governance is improved… But mostly he fought relentlessly for the residents…

I’m an Independent today because Denis has given me the encouragement to know that serving your residents is the only thing that matters…

Yes, I voted for the loser…

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Extraordinary number of calls, texts, and messages this morning. And I am just as shocked as everyone else… Some good comments from “Left Futures” this morning:

**The recoil against the dominant politics of the centre-left over last twenty years stands revealed for all to see. In short, the Third Way is over.

**In Britain, discontent has been mounting for more than three decades, rooted in the deindustrialisation that destroyed many communities long before globalisation got round to finishing the job. Cash for questions, cash for honours and the MPs expenses scandal have generated widespread disengagement from all major parties, culminating in the sort of widespread alienation as much at work in the Brexit vote as hostility towards the EU and immigration. Earth calling Planet Westminster, can you hear us?

So, what can we take from this?In short, all these tax-and-spend Liberals dressing out as Tories is about to come to a crushing end. Whilst political party membership is at an all time low both here and in the US, political interest has never been higher.  A great time to be in the middle of it all…