I am now embarked upon the final third of my Blogging Odyssey. I have more to say about Global Warming and have yet to complete my blogging of the Anna Lindh Dossier. There are also more to be gleaned from earlier writings from The Canterbury Papers, The Wealth of Villagers, The Little EuroBook and England’s Economic Politics for A New Century. So I do not find myself short of non-fiction material.

However…unless events intervene…I also plan to introduce into this Shop Window of mine a number of Creative Writing Projects…The Return of the Ancient Mariner; The Little Prince; The Private Letters of Crocodile Uppsala; 2034; Creaky Tales and The King of Buen Consejo.

But William of Salisbury may yet take up much of my attention. The first of his two parchments…Letter to King Charles III…appeared in last Saturday’s Blog and his Eight Points Local Programme two days ago. But this local programme was the second and last part of his Second Parchment. The first part contained the Marching Orders for the Five Transition Years between the Election of the Royalist Party and the Abolition of Centralised Government.

The idea that a thousand years of English History can be turned upside down in 350-words may seem quite absurd. William of Salisbury would agree...as long as business carries on as usual. But this is a radical programme designed for a situation where business is anything but normal and the alternatives are Chaos, Tyranny or Military Rule.

Five years ago Kirkpatrick Sale predicted that we would be in just such a situation within 20 years. It is also 15 years since John Seymour conceived Retrieved From The Future set in Suffolk in the years after the Oil Tankers failed to arrive and England’s City Dwellers froze to death after two devastating winters. The War on Terror, Global Warming and the other products of the Fear Factories are distractions from Reality.

Western Europe and the USA are about to go the way of Eastern Europe…and to do so at the same speed. Collapse will not be gradual but sudden. We are living in a Golden Age which is rapidly drawing to a close. The only form of planning that makes any sense in times like these are plans for the reconstruction of Civilisation After The Crash. This is the message coming from John Seymour and Kirkpatrick Sale. William of Salisbury is a contributor to this debate.

One of the great Strengths of Diversity is Redundancy of Institutions. This is what the Uniformers & Harmonisers of the World fail to understand. England is blessed with three parallel Structures of Governance…Monarchy, Parliament and Church.

The collapse of Parliamentary Governance provides an opportunity for The Church or The Monarchy to take on the Power of Governance. William of Salisbury reasons that with Parliamentary Governance discredited the Sensible English Thing To Do will be for Charles Windsor and Rowan Williams to put their heads together. Their task…ahead of Crash…is to design the ways to bring the English people safely through the difficult times ahead.

Much of William of Salisbury’s 20-point Programme of Transition will be rightly seen as a savage assault against Private Banking and Big Business. This will come as no surprise to anyone with Historical Consciousness. These are the forces that have abetted the rise of Parliamentary Governance and instrumental in its fall. Even a cursory reading of the rise of the Property Owners’ & Merchants’ Parliament in the 17th Century will banish any doubts about this. Here is William of Salisbury’s 20-Point Transition Programme…the alternative to Chaos, Tyranny or Military Rule.

1. Issue a Guaranteed Income of £ 100 per person per week of public issue and establish a programme for Issuing Authority to be at Village and Urban Parish level by Year Five;
2. Establish Common Property Commission;
3. Establish Debt & Usury Commission;
4. Establish Trusts & Corporations Commission;
5. Establish Farm & Food Commission;
6. Repeal every Legislative Act of all Parliaments;
7. Abolish all Rights other than Personal Property Rights and Common Law Rights;
8. Register all Private Property as Personal Property within 12 months;
9. Establish programme for election of Common Property, Debt & Usury and Equity Commissioners in each constituency after 12 months;
10. Establish programme for the reconstruction or abolition of all Corporations, Trusts and other Joint Private Enterprises by Year Five;
11. Increase bank deposit ratio to 20% and issue public money to replace private bank deposit money at 20% per year until 100% Money Economy by Year Five;
12. Abolish Central Government Taxation after 12 months;
13. Remove Central Government Control of Military Regiments after 12 months;
14. Common Property Commission to dispose of one fifth of Common Property to Competent Receivers each year and to be operating on a County basis by Year Five;
15. Establish Home & Rent Commission in each village and urban parish and transfer all un-dwelled residential dwellings to them as Competent Receivers from the Common Property, Debt & Usury and Equity Commissions after 12 months;
16. Issue Gold and Silver Coinage to replace the National Debt and introduce a Wealth Tax levied in a way that exempts nine out of ten households from taxation at all times;
17. Debt & Usury Commissioners to treat as ‘fully paid up’ all loans for which repayment has exceeded ‘principal plus thirty percent’ issuing public money to clear surplus indebtedness;
18. On reaching their 18th birthday each woman to be given a Home without Encumbrance from existing housing stock;
19. On reaching their 18th birthday each man to be given Five Acres and a Cow and freedom to build upon their land;
20. Establish a Royal Order of Master Gardeners.