The Form of Britain in 2015
This essay lists the current form of Britain in 2015 in descending order in terms of state and nation role and number of people involved.
It then draws conclusions as to the nature of the form of Britain in 2015.
In Terms of State and Nation Role
1 sovereign.
16 royal family.
1,200 royal court.
14,000 diplomatic service.
1 prime minister.
24 government ministers.
650 members of parliament.
800 members of the house of lords.
1,550 parliamentary staff.
2,700,000 central government employees.
73 members of the european parliament.
21,000 councillors.
2,400,000 local authority employees.
571,000 armed services.
81,872 her majesty’s revenue and customs.
3,800 security services.
214,168 police and borderland security.
57,104 fire brigade.
3,500 coastguard.
1,700,000 health service.
31,222 schools.
9,766,994 pupils.
532,703 teachers.
448,980 agriculture.
25,784,280 employed in the services industry.
5,836,740 employed in industry (manufacturing and construction)
30,000 architects.
27,000,000 households.
1,315,406 criminal population.
493,570 criminal cases per year.
912 legal courts.
30,000 laws.
5,200,0000 businesses.
38,000,000 employed.
2,560,000 unemployed.
46,139,900 voters.
49,292,900 religious believers.
22,000,000 households on welfare.
60,000,000 population on welfare.
64,100,000 total population
In Terms of Number of People Involved
64,100,000 total population.
60,000,000 population on welfare.
49,292,900 religious believers.
46,139,900 voters.
38,000,000 employed.
27,000,000 households.
25,784,280 employed in the services industry.
22,000,000 households on welfare.
19,294,100 education.
9,766,994 pupils.
5,836,740 employed in Industry (manufacturing and construction)
5,200,0000 businesses.
2,700,000 central government employees.
2,560,000 unemployed.
2,400,000 local authority employees.
1,700,000 health service.
1,315,406 criminal population.
571,000 armed services.
532,703 teachers
493,570 criminal cases per year.
448,980 agriculture.
214,168 police and borderland security.
81,872 her majesty’s revenue and customs.
57,104 fire brigade.
30,000 laws.
31,222 Schools.
30,000 Architects.
21,000 councillors.
14,000 diplomatic service.
3,800 security services.
3,500 coastguard.
1,550 parliamentary staff.
1,200 royal court.
912 legal courts
800 members of the house of lords.
650 members of parliament.
73 members of the european parliament.
24 government ministers.
16 royal family.
1 prime minister.
1 sovereign.
Source: http://www.royal.gov.uk/
Source: http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Overview.aspx
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-office/about/recruitmen
Source: ONS
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/apr/23/who-works-most-teachers-or-mps
and assoc Gov. refs.
Source: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/electoral-bias/
Source: www.ons.gov.uk/.../electoral-statistics...uk/.../stb---2013-electoral-statistics
Source: CIA World Factbook 2014.
Source: Architects Journal. Are there too many architecture schools? 25 July, 2013 | By Jonathan Sergison
(Number of Architects in UK constant at about 30,000 since 1980’s)
Sources:
‘Number of schools, teachers and students in England’ FOI release 2014. From Gov.UK
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/12/06114834/4
Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland, No.2 ¦ 2011 Edition 7th December, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Wales
http://www.deni.gov.uk/32_statistics_and_research-northernirelandsummarydata_pg.htm
Schools and pupils in Northern Ireland 1991/92 to 2013/14
Full-time equivalent teachers by Education and Library Board (ELB) area and management type.
http://www.deni.gov.uk/statistical_bulletin_-enrolments_at_grant aided_primary_and_post_primary_schools_201415_ _final
Northern Ireland Statistical Bulletin ‘Statistical Bulletin Enrolments at grant-aided schools 2014/15:
Basic statistics’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Age_structure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19990208
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-19151749
http://wales.gov.uk/statistics-and-research/examination-results/?lang=en
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28868510
Sources:
Police Powers and Procedures England and Wales 2011 – 2012 and 2012 – 2013
The Crime in England and Wales figures issued by the ONS
Open Justice .Gov.UK and the Ministry of Justice taken from averages over 367,727 cases.
Source: Open Justice .Gov.UK and the Ministry of Justice
Conclusions.
The state and nation role of components indicates a pangaia, panaceric, society focused around a very complex, hierarchical, sovereign state, republican, democratic, administrative system.
The same list in terms of number of people involved indicates a society focused around welfare, religion, voting and dwelling.
There are multiple overlaps in the administration and non-administration components.
To interact with the component system the individual needs to be identified and registered in terms of genetics, origin location, age, birthday, parents, parental location, religious belief and practice, behavioural record, medical record, current address and communications contact details.
Once registered they are tracked by the state and nation throughout their lives and even into death.
The individual can only access the state system, engaged in discussion with it and propose alterations to it through 3 key interaction points. Their Local councillors, their local MP’s and MEP’s. Contact with other UK MP’s is possible but they are prohibited as UK MP’s from commenting on other UK MP’s constituency matters. It is possible to ask a question of any MEP, irrespective of the member state from which they are elected and how they respond to any question posed is entirely a matter for each individual MEP.
Answers to non-constituency questions relating to the whole of the UK are therefore easier to get answered through the European Parliament directly.
Lobbying through the media is possible to raise awareness but eventually the questions raised must be processed through the former 3 contacts in order for it to be presented for consideration by Government.
Once consulted Local Authorities, UK Parliament and European Parliament can then only guide the individual or group raising the question to existing sources of solutions since the whole system operates on a ‘what worked before’ or ‘what is allowed’ basis.
The general public therefore have to both raise and action solutions to solve their problems.
Considering the whole state in terms of numbers involved another endemic complexity shows up. One that must form the nature of the whole decision making system in Britain. This is the belief that the whole system is designed to allow each person in it to benefit themselves by contributing to the whole. The belief in Welfare.
Welfare; a form of democratic state imposed philanthropic feudal noblesse oblige communism; provides a greater stability in terms of need, values, qualities, appreciations of beauty, cultures and society. Its failing is that it creates an apathetic, low self-belief mentality.
Nothing can be born in it, have parents in it, have an extended family in it, be educated in it, work in it, create in it, produce in it, eat in it, drink in it, import into it, export out of it, move within it, communicate about it vote for change in it, benefit from it without state intervention and an insistence that the product of the individual be distributed throughout the nation.
Britain is therefore currently a country balancing between an evolving, complex, hierarchical, sovereign state, republican, democratic, philanthropic feudal noblesse oblige communism, pangaia, panaceric, administrative system and an apathetic, low self-belief mentality maintained by Welfare.
Ian K Whittaker
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14/03/2015
14/10/2020
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