... Of course, this is mainly because it's the same people pulling the strings and writing the scripts now, as it was 100 years ago, and - much like the seasoned soap opera scribes they are - they keep recycling the same plots...

In introducing this article, I must first make a book recommendation. I don't get the chance to read many books these days, as almost all my reading hours as dedicated to scouring the news looking for clues to decode the Matrix ("33! Masons! That 'woman' has very broad shoulders...", is the sort of cyclical muttering you will hear emanating from my room of an early morning...), but a series of books I have read several times, and would recommend to everyone, is the Call The Midwife trilogy. These formed the basis for the BBC series of the same name, which began as very faithful to the books, but soon descended into nothing but cynical and overbearing vaccine propaganda (vaccines are barely mentioned in the books).

The books are written by former midwife, Jennifer Worth, reflecting on her days as a young nurse and midwife in the immediacy of the post-war years, serving the very poor and delipidated East End districts, prior to the comprehensive slum clearances of the 1960s. Worth encounters grinding poverty and hard, harsh lives, but also a tremendous sense of community and hope, and she makes many friends amongst the eccentric cast of characters she encounters.

These characters often regale her with stories of a time gone by, which she recounts with great vivid articulacy in her books, with many of them remembering - and having resided within - workhouses. The stories of workhouse life are as pitiful and bleak as you might imagine, and what Worth shines a particularly insightful light on is how families ended up in these situations in the first place. With no welfare state to fall back on, just one bout of illness or lost job (or - as was quite common at the time - sudden death in the family), and a previously relatively comfortable family could be hurled into complete crisis, with no way of paying their rent, heating their home, or feeding their children.

Sound familiar..?

Worth recounts an utterly heartbreaking story of a hard-working family with three young children, whose father dies suddenly, leaving the mother alone to care for three children, too young to fend for themselves for any significant amount of time. She tries to make ends meet through early morning cleaning jobs, undertaken whilst the children are still asleep, but cleaning freezing office buildings in the dead of winter, when she herself is desperately thin and starving, takes too much of a toll. When she collapses on the job one day, she realises she cannot go on like this, and makes the agonising choice that she must go with her children to the workhouse - that they will starve or freeze to death otherwise.

Back in those days, despite the lack of a modern welfare state, the state did nevertheless provide free warmth, shelter, and food for families who could not provide for themselves, and the first night at the workhouse - where the family is given a hot meal and warm beds for the night - feels like bliss. But the mother knows all too well what lies ahead. I'll spare you the details, but, needless to say, there's no happy Hollywoodised ending.

Having read these agonising accounts, and reflected on how indescribably awful those times could be for families down on their luck, I started to think that, for all the many and manifold faults of modern life, at least struggling families are no longer put in those kind of horrendous positions. So, I felt a deep twist of nausea when I read the following passages in The Guardian regarding so-called "warm banks":

“We got the bus here but that’s all we’ll spend today. It’s difficult, the shopping is going up so much, even the nappies and baby milk,” said Lucie Jacquin, 29, who was with her three children, eight-year-old Maison, six-year-old Millie and six-month-old Ruben. “We have had the money off the government to help with energy bills but we live in quite an old house so it doesn’t go that far.”

“Everything is going through the roof. Everybody is struggling enough as it is and it keeps going up and up,” said 33-year-old mum of three, Katie Boyle. “But this place is great, everything is free. It’s just great to be able to get the kids out, and get some support. They’ve been amazing.”

My immediate thought upon reading these accounts was that they could almost have been lifted from the pages of a Jennifer Worth novel about the unthinkable levels of poverty and desperation as existed in this country more than 100 years before the Guardian article was written.

When we are back in a situation where young families cannot afford to provide for themselves in their own homes, but most throw themselves on the mercy of centralised state-run facilities in order to acquire the most basic essentials of survival, then we are in a very dark place indeed. We have "food banks", we have "warm banks", so how long until the advent of "sleep banks", too, where - to earn your keep in these centralised state-controlled facilities that provide you with food and shelter - you perform some form of state-ordered menial labour? (For anyone who hasn't watched Oliver Twist lately, that is an exact description of a workhouse.)

The whole point of the welfare state (ostensibly, at least) was to provide a lifeline and safety net when times are tough, so people can continue to live autonomously with their own children in their own homes, without having to resort to utilising the services of sinister state facilities in order to survive. Whether we call them "workhouses" or the more cuddly and modernised "warm banks", the principle is exactly the same - a malevolent and ruthless ruling elite systematically destroying people's abilities to live free and independent lives by destroying their capacity to provide for themselves. At least, that is to say, ordinary people who cannot financially absorb the stresses of an ever-more-desperate - and entirely engineered - cost of living crisis. Naturally, the Mr. Bumbles and Sunaks of the world - who have now entirely infiltrated and control the UK Government - will be fine.

Let's just put this into real, sharp perspective: here, in 2022, in a modern liberal democracy, we have a multi-millionaire (and son-in-law to multi-billionaires) playing the role of Prime Minister, whilst scores of young children all over the country have to spend their evenings - not safely at home in their own warm beds, comfortably full after a lovely hot meal - but in draughty public libraries surrounded by strangers, and getting a few lukewarm Cup A Soups if they are lucky.

This should scandalise and appal every sane and straight-thinking person in this country, not least because we have, in a matter of less than three years, eradicated all the social progress we have made in the last century. The long-ago, almost forgotten, almost mythical times Jennifer Worth writes about - when the shadow of the workhouse still loomed all too largely in every working-class life, all families knowing they were only a few runs of bad luck away from ending up in one themselves - is now replaying itself right in front of our eyes.

I wish it were "just" the warm banks depicting the country's dramatic devolvement to Dickensian levels of desperation, poverty, and disadvantage, but sadly, it is not.

The ruthless ruling elites are also taking aim at the education of ordinary children. For the large majority of families who cannot afford a private education (and many who could up until recently, no longer can), they are now being faced with their children's prospects - already significantly damaged by all the disruptions to education during lockdown - being further undermined by a crisis of schools' funding which will likely see the school week slashed to four days, staff cut, and learning hours reduced.

Not only will this put intolerable strain on working families, many of whom are reliant on schools for childcare; not only will this create further financial crises for those employed by schools who will have to endure a 20% reduction in wages in the middle of a cost of living crisis, but it will leave struggling children in a worse position than ever - less likely to begin adult life with basic skills of literacy and numeracy, which more children than ever lack since the lockdown school closures - and with less prospects of gaining the qualifications necessary to graduate onto work, apprenticeships, and further study.

I am certainly no fan of the current schooling system, and were it being dismantled to be replaced with something better, I would be all for it. But it is not. What is currently happening to schools is going to leave children in a much worse position than they were before, as struggling families will not have the wherewithal to home-school or set up independent education co-ops etc., they will simply be thrown into crisis, with children at home they cannot care for as they have to work, which will leave these children even more vulnerable to damaging influence.

What we are seeing with a slash in schools' funding (resulting in less teaching hours and less staff), is paving the way inexorably back to the same system we had in the days of the workhouse - where a decent education, and the qualifications and opportunities that provides, is the sole preserve of the moneyed elites, whilst ordinary children receive the bare minimum (probably from unqualified volunteers in library "warm banks" - hey, they have books, don't they?) and leave at the earliest available opportunity to take on all the menial jobs the ruling classes don't want to do.

That's how it was for hundreds of years, and the more egalitarian and socially mobile culture we have enjoyed for the past 75 years is really rather historically unprecedented, because the ruling classes have always been strongly incentivised to crush social mobility - to keep the proles in their place - in order that they can maintain and grow their own power, wealth, and influence.

We appeared to be moving away from that model throughout the post-war decades, yet now, seem to be hurtling at the rate of knots back towards it - to a kind of medieval feudalism, which is further underlined by the extraordinary phenomenon (which I actually did think was a "conspiracy theory" when I first heard about it, but sadly not) whereby the deeply sinister operation, Serco, is bribing private landlords to turf out their tenants in preference of housing "asylum seekers" whose (inflated) rent, bills, taxes and more Serco will fully bankroll for a period of at least five years.

What landlords, in a cost of living crisis, where many have been forced to put up rents to cover their own increasingly expensive mortgages, and where many of their existing tenants are already in arrears, are going to turn this down? A handful of decent and principled ones, I'm sure (hopefully including my own...), but for many, it will be an offer too good to refuse.

And so what happens to all the evicted tenants? The private rental sector is currently collapsing and it's harder and more competitive than ever to find somewhere, whereas it's becoming effectively impossible for "risky" (e.g., self-employed) or first time buyers to get a mortgage - a situation exacerbated by the fact that those who are unable to pay ever-spiralling energy bills risk losing their credit rating, and therefore being unable to get a rental contract or mortgage anyway.

Please remember all this is 100% by design and all a result of the gargantuan money printing undertaken to deal with the entirely fabricated and fake "pandemic", and could all, therefore, have been completely avoided. None of this needed to happen and none of it has anything to do with (for heaven's sake...) Putin. This country is currently in a perfect storm of disaster, because (and this is the only reason) it's what the social architects want, so, of course, they can swoop in to "save" us thereafter - once we have endured a period of time so tough and turbulent we are begging for serious and all-encompassing "change".

"Normal life" as everyone born after 1945 remembers it has gone. The trajectory of being able to be in full-time, free, reasonable quality education until you are 18, then going on to get a decent job (maybe enjoying some subsidised further study first), and being able to comfortably provide for yourself and a family with that job, whilst enjoying mini luxuries like cars and holidays, all in a largely predictable and stable environment, has been manipulated out of existence by the malevolent social engineers. They allowed us to enjoy that lifestyle - really an unprecedented level of wealth, luxury, and opportunity by any historical standard (where no ordinary person could afford, for example, to live by themselves, to run one or two cars, or to go on regular foreign holidays - all "normal" trappings of life for most in the West these past 50 years, but sole preserves of the moneyed elites at all other times) - in order to lull us into a false sense of security.

Slowly, inexorably, in the years since the industrial revolution, the social engineers have unseamed our traditional, self-sustaining communities - where we produced much of what we needed ourselves, and relied on close and intertwined networks to educate children and care for the old and the sick - and encouraged us instead to become ever-more insular and isolated, more and more dependent on state services to replace what once extended family and community networks provided.

What the ruling classes cynically marketed to our ancestors as "independence" - moving away from their traditional farming communities to faraway cities and towns to pursue money and jobs (thereby necessitating the availability of state services to care for children and others unable to care for themselves) - was really just a gilded trap, because - as they now show us - they can snatch this atomised and disconnected form of "independence" away from us at any time.

"Independence" isn't having a "good job", since you can so easily lose it - as so many in the NHS and other industries mandating experimental poisons learned during the course of "the pandemic". It's not having money in the bank, as your access to that can be switched off by the state at any time - as Canadians saw with the truckers' protest, and as many of us around the world saw with the PayPal debacle. That's "independence" as deviously devised by the ruling classes so that it benefits them - so that, in reality, they are completely in control of our lives.

They have incentivised the breakdown of all traditional human bonds in so many ways (I know of many couples with young children who have had to pretend to the state they are not together, as if they were, it would negatively affect the benefit payments they rely on to make ends meet) to encourage people to be as "independent" (disconnected and isolated) as possible, so that they have no sustaining safety net when a crisis hits.

This means the state can then engineer that crisis into being when in suits them, and manipulate and corral people accordingly. For instance, the housing crisis they have created and are now intensively exacerbating will be "solved" by their offering desperate people the single-occupancy, city-centre SMART pods that are shooting up everywhere (every city centre across the UK is a building site, leading many of us mystified - "who is going to live in all these flats?" - well, now we know).

We must always remember that the overlords always play the long-game and have been cynically strategising what we are experiencing now for many decades. I mentioned at the beginning of the article the "ostensible" purpose of the welfare state was to genuinely help people, but that was never its real purpose - the real purpose was to make people dependent on a form of assistance that remained completely within state control, so that said state could at any time whip it away. The NHS, equally, was never about benevolently providing 'free' healthcare, but rather, controlling the nation's health, by giving the state total, monopolised power over it.

We've seen the NHS' true colours over the course of the past two years, and in reality, they were always this psychopathic and misanthropic (look at the toxic, potentially lethal concoctions they routinely inject into tiny infants, were you in any doubt). Of course, there are many good people who work within the NHS, and they provide some limited good services (almost exclusively in terms of trauma/acute care, e.g., something you might go to A&E for like a broken leg). But the entity itself is psychopathic and was always designed to be - it is about stripping autonomy, independence, and choice from people and making them utterly helpless and dependent; pathetically servile and "grateful" that the grand masters of medicine deign to bestow their attentions upon them.

I mean, look how nauseatingly "grateful" we were all mandated to be during "the pandemic", clapping like seals on doorsteps, whilst the untouchable NHS murdered with impunity, through midazolam, ventilators, and ("run, death is near") remdisivir, our elderly - callously forcing them to die terrified and alone. If that's not psychopathic, I don't know what is, and this is because the NHS is: it is an institution designed by evil people for evil purposes, and maintains its original mission to this day. It's just that it's been a bit better at hiding it in the past.

What is happening now is a grand reveal of this decades' long deception; that what we've thought of as modern, "progressive", normal life - and not just that this is normal 'for now', but that things will never change and we've now reached the end of history - was always a cynical mirage, exceedingly similar in nature to the concept of The Truman Show (a popular 1990s movie depicting the story of a man who is adopted by a TV station at birth, and has a whole world built around him - to him it seems all too real, but, in reality, is nothing but a fabricated movie set stage-managed by backstage directors).

The ruling classes have been deeply invested in obscuring reality from us for a long time - that is why they have spent such a gargantuan fortune on propaganda attempting to persuade us to believe in a fake plague, and this is only one of the many, many vastly expensive psy-ops they have foisted on us over the years. They are in the process of dismantling the current Truman Show style mirage, but their intentions are simply to replace it with another one ('The Great Reset', '6uid 6ack 6etter' and so on). So, it is incumbent on all of us now to reject their endless elaborate stage shows and convoluted parlour tricks, and to confront and embrace unobscured reality instead.

We have the power to dismantle their deceptions and reconstruct our own reality, just like Truman does when he hits the back wall of the movie set, walks up the stairs, and exits stage left. He has to weather an intense, elite-manipulated crisis first (nearly capsizing his boat as he tries to negotiate the choppy waters of the storm), yet he perseveres, and he emerges, a little weather-battered, certainly - but victorious - and ready to start his real human life.

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