Naive, or in denial?

Hello again, i'm assuming blogging has gone a bit out of fashion during the half term so I havn't really bothered to update again. I think its more of the fact I have too much to say that I just couldnt put it all into blogs. Plus, I have better things to do with my time. This is a blog instead of doing easter work...

As always I wont bore you with my Easter and I will refer to it as I will do in the next week as 'abusing my 18thness' as it saves going through day by day of what I did. Anyway ive decided to pretty much keep this blog now to a political/ranting blog as its always hard to describe a social life or whatever. On this note, its the political high season isnt it?! People who normally couldn't care less about politics are now making there decision on which of the, quote Lord Pearson, "failed old parties" to send their vote too. But this election is one that is surprisingly close, after the apparent success of Clegg the Liberal Democrats in the television debate they are now above Labour in the polls? Hmm, I smell a hung parliament. But lets face it, polls are normally rubbish anyway. So they ask 1,000 people who they would vote for. Its only a small and very rough guess at who will win the election. I mean, will the Lib Dems beat Labour? Plain and simply, no. What is quite interesting is how people are so easily swayed by an hour and a half or debating, to actually cast themselves as a Lib Dem just because they basically say they will go in the middle of Labour/Conservatives.

But as Nigel Farage said in Question Time after the debate, will anyone really remember anything? I know I can't. Could you honestly say that you can tell the differences between the parties? Of course not, thats because there all the same. The only thing they have different views on is where the cuts should be made and the issue of the unelected House of Lords. The Lib/Lab/Con also seem very indecisive on big issues within Britain today such as immigration and education. With regards to immigration all the parties talked about 'non-EU' immigration being controlled. Fair enough. But thats not the problem at all, the real problem is EU immigration where we have no control, and will never get this control until we leave. As for education, no party is really giving any solutions to the failing education system. The Tories are heading the right way, with ideas that teachers should have more power and not be undermined by a committee who can overturn decisions such as expulsion. But what Cameron does not address is the lack of grammar schools, it is well known that children get a much better education and at the moment all three parties will not build more of these schools and are therefore denying us the right to a good education.

One thing I have noticed from people I have been talking too about politics, is that people do seem to generally have a better understanding of politics and parties, which is good. The electoral seem to be taking a much better interest in politics, however many of these people are still blinded when looking at smaller parties (Greens, UKIP, BNP). Are people just oblivious to these parties or just naive? People in society today need to open their political scanner and understand that these parties are growing at a stupedous rate and they should all be in peoples minds about voting rather that the "big three". I know many people will not vote a smaller party as they know they have "no chance" of winning, but every vote really does count, expecially in a hung parliament. My view is that you should vote for what you believe in, regardless of what people say or how large the party is. Take for example UKIP, they started in 1992 and were obviously then unknown. But look at them in 18 years, they are fielding 500 candidates in the General Election and have a real chance of winning a seat (fingers crossed Buckinghamshire).

My last point for today is the naivity and preassumptions that people make of right wing politics. As a women said on Question Time "If I vote Green... Or God forbid UKIP". Whats up with the "God forbid", I dont understand why UKIP should have any bad stigma to their name? I hate this assumption that UKIP as they are right wing they are automatically racists. Take for example Conservatives under Thatcher, would you say they were racist? Of course not. However they were in the same area as UKIP are today. UKIP are the real conservatives, and if control of immigration and nationalism becomes 'radical' then I pity this country.

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