IT'S very popular today to talk of the importance of 'local' this, and 'local' that. Indeed the word 'local', has become a very distorted, abstract concept.

Like the word 'sustainable', it has lost nearly all potency and meaning. Perhaps for now, in the world of transatlantic freighters it serves best as a marketing pitch, it's wisdom redundant in a virtual world seemingly without logistical limits.

But perhaps, as we look into an uncertain future, we may see the benefit of making sure that the Forest of Dean can look after itself should London find itself 'otherwise engaged'.

Even our benevolent father figure, the state, has cashed-in on the need to talk 'local'. So called 'local authorities' are currently writing 'local plans' in accordance with central government's Localism Bill.

Pun intended? Pity the idea of 'local authority' hadn't caught on sooner – the Vorrist wud a betta kept itz own tongue instead of it being bullied and beaten out of us, by successive generations of centralised state 'schooling' just like in Cymru and Alba (Scotland) – and that's just if you look for cultural conquest by foot.

Political 'localism' is just another way to allow the investment class to privatise land we once called 'common' and now call 'public' (as in public schools) along with our built heritage and community-owned resources. It makes for a very dull discussion.

The idea of 'localising', minus the branding, contains some golden nuggets of sanity, visible only if you ignore the popular rhetoric of poli-tricks – the tricks of the City.

Consider the benefits of more 'localised' systems of decision-making, we'd have home-building instead of 'housing developments', rural livelihoods instead of abandoned industrial estates. Resilient local food and fuel production, without protection rackets (tax) and endless legislative hoops (designed to generate gov-friendly monopolies) making high-quality food affordable to all.

Imagine decisions being made by the 'real-people' who will be directly affected. Utter madness, I know.

How could us unruly Foresters -old and new- provide for and protect ourselves? We'd cut down all the trees and start a war in no time.

We need London – wise and powerful – to guide us. After all, they have far more experience cutting down great forests and starting wars. They do it the world over.

Miserable people, those apparently 'in power', I do pity them, they have never known their true place and know little or nothing of the non-human world, of the beauty outside their gilded city.

It's artificial reality of amusements and illusions. Illusions like 'progress', human-centrality, and the idea that PC's and refrigerators somehow made us above nature's will.

Is it simply because they do not know the land?, They do not know the basic truths of our place on Earth. Do they honestly believe they can 'develop' wild places? Improve this billions-of-years old, ever evolving system we call 'life', it's unimaginable complexity and beauty that turns light and air, into plant matter, decomposing and cycling it, to create innumerable lifeforms including ourselves.

It seems like us Foresters are always on the defensive. Until we stand against Westminster's self-professed 'right' to make decisions that affect our beloved Forest, our ancestral land.

We are complicit in their self-deception and crimes, and can claim to possess no honour or self-respect.

Just as we individually learnt to deal with schoolyard bullies, we must collectively remember how to deal with tyrants be they politicians, banksters or their henchmen.

They hide in their fortified citadels, issuing laws and demands that impoverish the land and it's people.

These are the people you obey, why? Owta fear? They're cowards and liars, every child knows it – and yet we tolerate their reign.

Oi tael thee, Foresters would be better off providing for and protecting ourselves, we should be a Sovereign land subject to no greater authority than ourselves and the Oaks that stand with us, betwixt the two rivers. Cross if you dare!

Who's with me? Towards secession and the declaration of Vorrist Independence and Sovereignty. 2015 is the anniversary of the Magna Carta.