Hello readers
My deepest apologies for not writing in here much sooner. I’ve been going through one of those times where everything I seem to write just seems to be rubbish, one look at the thousands of saved drafts in my inbox that started brightly but faltered would back up my point. But what was it that the guys of Wet wet wet once taught us…oh yeah I believe it was along the lines of ‘Il get by with a little help from my friends’, and that is exactly what has help rejuvenate me to start writing in here again.
Anyhow sentiment aside and back to business. It’s now official, on May 6th 2010, the general election to decide the next government of the United Kingdom will take place. But you could forgive the winning party for not been too overally impressed with their prize. For the prize that awaits them is a country. A country that is limping out of one of the worst worldwide recessions on record, a country that is so divided, than an outsider may think that each county was it’s own individual state, a country that needs one hell of a refurbishment to get it off its knees.
You may think ‘hang on that’s a little over the top’, but is it really? The modern day legal culture means someone is as likely to sue you as they are to say hello to you. In fact just saying hello to someone would probably bring a harrassment lawsuit against you. There is just no spirit left in this society and it’s quite saddening. There was a time when been fellow countrymen meant something to people, no matter who they were or which part of the country they came from, everybody got along with one another and did there upmost to help each other. Nowadays people class one another as suspicious even if they live as close as next door. This is just one example of how backwards this society is really going.
So, what kind of qualities would I be looking for in the party that get’s elected then? Well the first thing I would be looking for is commitment and dedication to the cause. Politics has been publicly humiliated by the expenses scandle, corrupt politicians looking to line their pockets with money. This country’s core is rotting as it is, so what better place to stop the rot than at the top. I admit politics without corruption would be like Treacle sponge without custard,you cannot have one without the other in the sense that you need the custard to make the sponge nice but anywhere there is a political system, corruption follows suit anyhow, but the new government must clean up corruption to the best of it’s ability. It’s polticians must remeber that they are there to serve the people, and not serve themselves. Admittedly though there are already some good honest politicians out there, one that comes to mind is my local labour MP Natascha Engel. I have met her in person and seen the work she has done and if all politicians could be this hard working, then politics would get it’s reputation back very quickly.
Secondly, the party itself has to look at this broken society and admit that we have a serious problem. Drugs, binge drinking, teenage preganancies, broken familes, one-parent families, these are just but a few of the things ravaging this society. More often that not I see examples of these sorts of things and to be perfectly honest it makes me ashamed. These ASBO families you see on television, they are sick. Terrorising people in their homes, raising children who wouldn’t look out of place in The Omen, sponging this country’s benefit system for all they can, it make you wonder just how things got this bad. This new government needs to have the steel to come down hard on these things, to make people realise behaviour of this sort will not be tolerated and most importantly of all, to put some pride and some hope back into people’s lives. They say English society is moving forward in leaps and bounds, only a sick man would be able to see that and keep a straight face if they realised just how bad things have become.
And finally, to the party who come to power, please for once be a party of some action and not all mouth. It would be nice to see things getting done rather than you just rambling on about them on the television. I am as yet still undecided on who to vote for, so you have approxamately a month to persuade me that you are the ones who closely fit the description of what I am looking for in the British government.
So to Brown’s labour party and Cameron’s conservative party, may the best team win. (Sorry Clegg but we all know your party doesnt stand a chance so I thought it best not to include you, no hard feelings I hope)
Until next time, which will be very soon (I promise)
Au revoir
