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Yea it was a few weeks before the general election IIRC. And that was organisers from thesite going out to the politicians, rather than them coming here of their own accord.
I may spam some politicians e-mail addresses with the URL of this thread :chin:
C) They don't do anything to interest the young.
D) It's the way democracy falls. Interest declines, politics stagnates, one extremist group come along... say interesting stuff, take actions people can see... get support, take over.
It's more worrying how many older people are not interested!!
Everyone is assuming that it is 'good' to be involved in politics and 'bad' to not be but there is no grounds for this.
People aren't as interested in politics because things are generally OK. The parties differ on very little because the answers are quite obvious for a large number of important issues, especially with regards to the economy.
If there was a big recession then I would guarantee that the numbers voting etc would see a very large upswing.
When things are going quite well and there is little difference in the economic policy of the parties then there is little reason for large numbers of people to vote.
I think that's a shame.
It's a damn shame that we can't add our comments and opinions to the end of articles such as that. At the time, I wasn't going to vote for any party. We were told "So please, I urge you to vote on May 5. If you don't, then maybe you would rather not be living in a democracy at all". Rest assured I was none too pleased to read such blackmail. Am I going to vote for Tony Blair? Well, I can't, as he's not standing again. Or so he says. We don't know. Nobody trusts him, nobody knows whether he actually means this promise. He didn't mean any of the others in the last nine years.
Which shows clearly one reason why young people don't vote. You can't trust any of them. The people you could trust don't stand for Parliament.
Why should they? You won't vote anyway so the usual arseholes will get in.
Young people are interested in politics. This forum proves that. They aren't as interested in this as they are other things... but then if you look at my generation, you could have said the same about us, ditto my parents generation...
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OH GOD WHY DID I USE THAT PHOTO!
Im interested in politics, im studying a degree in it. But nowadays the main political parties are all the same and do nothing for me....how things change in a year. It was the booting out of Kennedy what done it. New Labour were voted in and they were just the same as the Tories. Ive been reading a lot of books and documentaries recently and they are just the same...the 1980's killed off any major changes among the main parties and i beleive the election of 'Dave' Cameron as tory leader and Blair Mark II has just closed the gap between the main parties.
For people to have any vaguely REAL say in the government this country needs a system of PR. However this wont happen...why would a government scrap and undemocractic first past the post voting system which means the government rests on a few marginals when its beniffited them.
I think the Cold War may have something to do with this. Yes, that may have finished 16 years ago - the same time Thatcher left office. Does that indicate anything to our politicians? And no, "Call Me" Dave Cameron, that doesn't mean you've got to be the same as our current lying scumbag of a Prime Minister. The LibDems used to be absolutely fanatical in their support of this, but have gone quiet recently. Aside from having an utterly silent leader, what other reason do they have?