So what do you think of UK history as it is taught in schools?

There is a lot of nonsense spoken about Human Rights and dictators…….. nonsense about governments happy to spend millions on weapons to supress their own people and build themselves opulent mansions. All I believe is that any spending by any state originates from Trade.  Influencing international Trade is the only way to influence Human Rights in any country.

I believe that the rights to develop independent businesses free from government corruption, rights to trade unions, to vote, to observe religious practices or woman’s rights all stem from the same thing, …………   Those that control the factors of production seeing that in the long term its more profitable to observe human rights than to suppress them.

Money talks everything else is worthless.   I ask you to take the following idea as your own and use this idea as you see fit, promote it, lobby for it, or set up you own trade mark and market it.

The idea:   A scheme to ethically label the packaging of imports into our country, a voluntary scheme for any company wishing to use a simple universally recognized mark.  A wee mark on goods that simply denotes FREE COUNTRY.

This particular scheme has the aim of certifying commercial goods to say, that the originating country is a state which conforms to the articles of the Universal Charter on Human Rights.

A Simple system, with simple audits, and the articles of the UNCHR are used as a simple standard, eventually allowing the consumer to decide if they care about human rights abroad.        ‘i.e. ‘Country allowing 6 year old children on chain-gangs, no stamp on goods in the High Street.  If a country allows ‘All fair & free elections’ it will get its stamp.   Preferably a scheme managed under the auspice of the great and good, rather than by politicians and corporations as a marketing stunt.

My opinion is that the consumer is sick of being told what it should and should not buy, and should have the choice of supporting the economy of governments which suppress civil liberties.

I do not think this scheme will happen overnight, and because of the time this campaign will take to gain momentum, concerns about the well-being of the population affected by sharp changes in the market will be diminished. 

I believe the timing for such a campaign is right, as world markets readjust following a global recession.

I hope that slowly in the same way that Fairtrade pushed producers to reconsider their supply chain operations, this scheme may coerce vicious regimes to consider their actions, but from a profit motive.

I believe that this is a matter of conscience for all, regardless of political persuasion, and may in the long run raise awareness of civil liberties.

At this time I simply wish to ask you and through you,  leading public figures, business leaders, supermarket chains, campaign groups and Politicians to declare if they would support such a scheme, or be against it.

If this is not a good idea, tell me why,.   But don’t try to tell me the politicians and diplomats are changing the hearts & minds of dictatorships,  money talks………

If you think this is a good idea, please pass this message on

Once upon a time there was a journalist called Thomas Paine,  he wrote a version of truth and many clubbed together their meagre means to purchase a pamphlet of his written observations.

He had a good go at this truth malarky but the progress he made in exposing injustice was always beset by the governing Muppets who decided how men and women should live .

After his time the ‘News of the World’ was born, from a model of telling truth no matter the outcome came spinning stories no matter what the cost to create. Slowly a death of ideas was sold as pretty newsprint, coloured stolen visions and rehashing of powerful men’s ambitions camouflaged with gossip, wrapped in flags of convenient patriotism.

Newspapers over the next 200 years developed stories to satisfy simplified common denominators of interest, with each new issue they renegotiated the averaging downwards, each new campaign saturated the streets and houses of the ordinary people with thicker veneers of headlines to hide diminishing substances beneath.

Newspapers began relentlessly goading or avoiding fears to take countries into war, often whole populations harnessed to the will of one single media owner whose interests straddled the globe.
It came to pass that any politician seeking office would trade his strongly held views for the expedience of pandering to a newspaper’s.  The only way to stay elected was to become embroiled in an incestuous relationship with journalists, the two groups locked in a media mating dance like an orgy of indistinguishable scorpions embracing, yet poised to strike.

Thus the Politics of the many was no longer reported, but openly directed by the few.
Newspaper owner’s openly managed what could and could not be reported and ensured politicians were reminded frequently to fear the power of their editorial, the newspaper elites sneeringly wielded this power with vicious retribution on any public figure who called into question the newspapers self-appointed authority.

Politicians and journalists became interchangeable sluts in the whore house of ambitions, fresh meat always on display standing to attention when told and curiously silent when one of their own was dragged out kicking and screaming before them to be stripped and beaten by the pimps.

The public could not help notice the changes, the changes were not hidden but advertised with sickening arrogance. The average man no longer had to club together to buy a glimpse at the truth, but even though the words on paper were so much cheaper, ever fewer wanted to buy this new model of journalism. 

With the dawning of the electronic age it became the norm only to glance at a headline to understand what newspapers had purposely left out of the NEWS transmitted by the internet.
So editors spluttered in anguish at failing sales, and spilt more blood across the pages to gain a little extra influence in the shrinking pool of circulation. 

The actual words were increasingly replaced with salacious pictures as many Newspaper’s value became so openly worthless that 200 years after Thomas Paine - words themselves became redundant…………..And then so did the journalists.
 

After the closure of the News of the World – the media was filled with Journalists bleating about the loss to journalism, those engaged in the honourable profession of knocking on doors to disturb the grief of the recently bereaved, were no longer feigning sympathy with families whilst stealing the last remaining photos of a fallen solider from a mantelpiece…..They were now screaming they’d “never been suspected of hacking a phone message, it must have been a colleague”.
 

Aye well it’s no wonder so many in the world of print have no bloody union, they see themselves as lone wolves who merely hunt in packs, too busy looking at the rest of the world with cynicism they forgot to have a long hard look at themselves.
 

The stock in trade of journalists moaning of their loss is elbowing past a colleague for a photo, a Fibonacci formulae of hack eating hack, struggling for one more by line than your drinking buddy so they lose their job instead of them at the annual cull.
 

Journalists! You have already gained my contempt, when you struggled with your subjectivity over champagne flutes at your sponsors regular chicken ranch soirees.  There you massage egos and smile whilst mentally crafting a knife for the unwary, aye with your gaze on the six figure salary to be tucked into your garter belt for appearing the most pert on display.
 

Do you not realise your desires to be up there as a success are what distance you from the readership you pretended to still represent, every shocking bit of hubris is what GOTCHA!
 

The Vanity of attacking or defending a political position with no efforts to extort a fact, or struggle to shine a light on those facts you stagger across was too often advertised.
With arrogance too many journalists have sat scribbling in the house of others achievements  - now your industry is dry of honest ink  and crumbling as your pens shake out  pleading justification for the second chances that were never seen in your own front page smears.
 

I concede only that a few weary writers still haunt journalism stumbling through editorial policy, oblivious to their co-dependent relationship with editors who use them for an outspoken pretence of “look at us we are still have credible writers” a few pearls over used as adverts for a  trough of vicious shit peddlers. Journalists you still don’t get it - the majority of you are responsible for This Sky TV game of thrones that you created - It is the cause of your own demise, you did not man the wall of journalism and winter is coming…..You are the weakest ink …Goodbye!!