Sheep No More

Sheep No More and how ordinary people like myself might go about fixing 'Broken Britain' may have dominated my thoughts for a number of years now, but the events of the past couple of months and the last week in particular, make it feel as though a significant beginning is upon both me and the country I care about. Other than a minority of overly insulated from reality twits atop the pecking order, individuals whose attitudes highlight them as being central to 'the problem' and therefore irrelevant to the cure to its many ailments the country needs, most of us know we cannot carry on as we are but must find a way out of the mess we're in. Obviously I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, and searching for sensible answers to our many problems is what SNM exists to do. Of course we can get ourselves out of the mess bad leadership has allowed us all to sink into. 'More of the same' is not acceptable when we're capable of so much better.

Two months ago I was asked to consider standing for a seat at the County Council election held last week and agonised as to what to do for the best. I really would have liked to have given it a shot, but in the end decided no, because of the time and effort needing to be invested. Had I stood and enough of the electorate placed their trust in me, promoting SNM would have been forced to take third place to earning a living and serving on the council and to be frank, promoting this project is where my heart is and where the contribution to society I can make has the most potential, provided that is, the formula is correct and can be made to work. Only time will tell on that score.

On the Isle of Wight where I live, Independent Candidates have made a massive breakthrough taking almost half of the seats and have broken the stranglehold, bog standard, self-serving, jobsworth, mainstream politicians held, abused, and have messed the Island up with. I take my hat off to the sorts of women and men coming forward and getting involved in politics now, people who refuse to put up with and more crap, think for themselves, and wont be whipped. Good on you guys! Nationally UKIP have frightened the wits out the political establishment by taking 25% of all the votes cast. I'm not a UKIP supporter but I understand entirely where they are coming from as regards the EU and open borders, two major problems requiring the will of the people to be listened to and acted upon.

I have just completed a new booklet to compliment this project and that is currently being proofread, the community I am a member of has a spring in its step following the election result, Cameron is shitting a brick as a result of UKIP's surge and I am now ready to start pushing hard this project. Interesting times!