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I agree, I avoid all the mainstream news channels. Gah.
As opposed to non-mainstream news channels?
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Has anyones life changed for the better as a direct result of a new government coming in? Mine certainly never has.
My thoughts exactly!
I always find all the election promises a joke, but on the back of the expenses scandals it's even more amusing watching one politician after another try to convince us that they're more trustworthy and likely to do what they promise than the next
Try and vote a party in who will?
All our politicians are a joke, we would have more luck randomly choosing a name out the phone book lol
These elections are no more important to me than choosing the x-factor winner.
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If only it was true democracy and not the stupid 'First past the post' system where my (and many other UK residents') vote isn't worth a damn.
Why can't we have a system of proportional representation where every party has a fair chance and equality? And yes, I'm bored of the election stuff too, its a farce. Either Labour or Conservatives will take power, go ahead and flip a coin, its really no different.
What a sad reflection of the public majority. If people actually took an interest and listened to what people (politicians, critics, the media etc.) are saying, they might find out something worth their while. As it is, it's easier to turn a blind eye and then moan about the result as if it was someone else's fault.
Quite frankly, I'm not surprised the country is in the state that it is if this is the reaction to probably the biggest and most important event in society's calendar.
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Yeah, the politics have bored me no end too. I hate it when the main parties **** each other off. "Oh, I'm better than party X", but then they don't back their statements up. It's just promises, brainwashing people, then later on, the promises turn into lies.
Mind you, I can think of 3 topics that bored me more than the 2010 election:
1. Fox hunting. That went on for so long, that it got boring. The debate should have gone on for 1 week max, then a law passed through the Lords, or where appropriate, then fogotten.
2. Next was the 2003 war in Iraq. Although the war was short and sweet, the unrest that proceeded it went on for far too long.
3. The Michael Jackson paedo claims. It dragged on for just short of a year. It was BORING! Guilty or not, the media was just in it for the money.
Mind you, I can think of 3 topics that bored me more than the 2010 election:
1. Fox hunting. That went on for so long, that it got boring. The debate should have gone on for 1 week max, then a law passed through the Lords, or where appropriate, then fogotten.
2. Next was the 2003 war in Iraq. Although the war was short and sweet, the unrest that proceeded it went on for far too long.
3. The Michael Jackson paedo claims. It dragged on for just short of a year. It was BORING! Guilty or not, the media was just in it for the money.
Yet when they cut your Grant/Loan (if youre a student) or raise your taxes (if youre employed) or take away your benefit (if youre not), you will complain and say who voted for this lot....I didn't (because you didn't bother)
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Gaidin - no I don't like mass death. It bugged me that we were constantly sending in our own people to die, but it was also the unrest that went on for too long.