I’ve been increasingly unhappy over many years that the UK has been declining on multiple levels.

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Declining more rapidly. Evidence points to the incompetence of our politicians, anxiety about knife crime and the criminal justice system, increasing dysfunction everywhere we look, living beyond our means as a nation, rapidly rising population putting our public services under terrible pressure, our food security Borders and Green Belt under extreme pressures, the decline in quality of the civil service - to name just a few.

My overarching feeling is that our politicians and most institutions of the state no longer represent us, are no longer fit for purpose, are no longer good for us, indeed are betraying us by causing our decline.

Many serious reforms are urgently required at every institutional level. QUESTION: Which institutions? ANSWER: – all of them: the Head of State and the Royal family, the House of Lords, House of Commons, Departments of State, Government agencies, devolved government, local government at all levels, decision making processes. It will take 6 years to enact reforms, but this is now absolutely urgent and vital for the better functioning of our State.