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There comes a time in each person’s life where we are forced to reflect upon what we have achieved, what we have done for the nation. As we come to an election which could decide the fate of the United Kingdom in the coming month, I reflect upon what I’ve done and the reason that I have decided politics is a greater natural enemy in the British Isles than Canada and Ireland.

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Most people will be aware that I have been a member of a multitude of parties from having first joined the United Kingdom Reform Party to having moved to the opposite in the political spectrum, The Unity Party to finding centrist ground with Every Single One. In each of these parties, I profess to having made friends and enemies. What is a concurrent trend across each of these parties is not a flaw with them but rather with me. Politics, it would seem, creates in me a force that I cannot contend with. Like Mr Hyde, the opposite of Dr Jekyll, I find that politics stirs within me a creature that I am most displeased with.



It is for that reason that I respect enormously those people who have departed from politics and nevertheless retain universal respect. One person who comes to mind is Octavian Ratstrangler, former under-Minister of Finance and operator of the successful military unit, Rampant. Octavian has no political affiliation and nevertheless commands respect. The simplest explanation for this universal respect can be entrusted to the man, not the politics (or lack thereof). Universal respect comes not from an alliance with politics but with how one handles oneself in the midst of such competition.

Part of what has been such a crippling part of the United Kingdom’s part is how we have become enclosed in individual communities. Rather than engage ourselves as a singular community, both parties and individual characters are guilty of this “internalisation”. What politics does is force people into a natural state of criticism, rather than a natural state of positivity. No government should go unaccounted and, as Minister of Home Affairs, I am prepared to accept that there have been instances where I have failed in those duties and it would not be appropriate to ignore those failures.



Nevertheless, it is a rare moment where two parties unite to praise the efforts of an individual. It is a rare moment where the nation unites in an effort to defend its shore. It is this distinction which forces me to make a difficult decision. Politics, I have come to discover, is not my forte. I am forced to act in a particular manner, forced to make executive decisions and adopt a facade in order to please people. What is most frustrating is that people come to collect a particular opinion about me as a result.

These opinions both disappoint and upset me because I had hopes that each person I came into contact with would not be an enemy but a friend or, at the very least, neutral. So, it is with that in mind that I seek to depart from politics, to bow out with both grace and dignity. Many of you may have come to know me as the Minister of Home Affairs. I would much rather come to be known as a person and not as a title. What I will focus on next will come to me in time. Perhaps I will seek to revive faith in the media module or perhaps I will become more of a friend to the people who once knew me as an enemy.