Details Published on Friday, 10 April 2015 10:20

If you're a beneficiary of the economic madness of quantitative easing, bank bailouts and all the other subsidies to the rich and big business, you'll be rooting for a Conservative victory in the forthcoming UK general election. If, however, you're a victim of stagnating income, the spiralling cost of living and increasing insecurity, you'll look to Labour or one of the other parties for salvation. Some will look to UKIP because, through media indoctrination, they're convinced EU membership and immigration have caused the decline in living standards. Others are concerned with the environment, wars or other issues which will determine how they cast their vote on 7th May 2015.

All the hopes, aspirations and debates won't mean much thereafter because little will change following election day. Yes, there may be a hung parliament and the Westminster bubble will be a frenzy of intrigue, plotting and media hysteria but the system will grind on regardless.

Because in truth, governments have little power but act according to the will of the Structural Elite (SE) and take the line of least resistance. Media power will dictate the direction of travel. That is not to say principled people won't enter parliament but whatever their aims and desires, to achieve real power they will need to comply with the system. Catch 22. You can have principles and ambitions to make real change happen but to achieve the power to do so requires that you compromise or abandon those principles.

You only have to look at recent history to know this. Following 18 years of Thatcherite Tory government, "New Labour" swept to power on great promise only to out-Thatcher Thatcher. Her Tory successor, John Major played the game, privatising state assets to enrich his benefactors. He now sits on the board of Carlyle Group which acquired the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA which was privatised as Qinetiq) on the cheap. Tony Blair and his cronies sold their souls long before they were elected on false promises. So for all Ed Miliband's virtues, they will come to nought in office.

Power resides with the same class as acquired power under Magna Carta, a charter for the aristocracy, not the people.

Economic power determines who rules and the economic system contains three fundamental flaws which were laid by these people centuries ago, the control of land, money and labour.

Real change requires changing the system to implement the following principles:

The value of land, resources and other commons (such as water, the radio spectrum, genes, nature and knowledge) cannot be appropriated by individuals, corporations or governments; they are gifts from the universe or are communally created. The value of these must be shared for the good of all to fund public services and an unconditional citizens dividend.

Debt should be unenforceable in law and usury (lending money at interest) made illegal. Debt must revert to a social construct rather than a mechanism for wealth extraction, exploitation and oppression.

The Means to Life cannot be conditional on paid employment but is a right for all and must be provided in the form of an unconditional citizens dividend sufficient for a decent life.

Our political system is incapable of enacting these essential changes. We need a participative, non-hierarchical means of organising to transform the future for people in the UK and around the world.

So instead of being sucked into the circus and puppet theatre of party politics, explore what lies beyond the Westminster bubble and your TV screen.

Something different is possible but not by succumbing to false hope of elections.