Is ‘diversity’ pushing out whites?
6th June
I came across this brilliant yet quite concise article explaining that whites are not be pushed out of the world or atleast the UK from ethnic diversity.
The Telegraph newspaper, a very pro-Conservative party supporter, has followed its conservative and tradional ways by writing an article on how white people are basically not being treated unfairly because the BBC somehow ‘favours’ ethnic people when they apply for jobs/apprenticeships. The New Stateman political magazine has wrote its own article highlighting the Telegraph is wrong to suggest white people are now being discriminated against. And I agree—people need to look at the bigger picture and realise racism does occur and disadvantaged people need to be given chances like the advantaged people get!
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tags: society
It’s not over yet
8th May
The results of the General Election in the UK gives the Conservative Party the most ’seats’ (there are 650 seats in parliament) but they still didn’t have enough to win with a majority of seats. therefore we have a ‘hung parliament’ which means that two parties may work together to become a majority.
Conservative (36% of the total vote)—306 seats
Labour (29% of the total vote)—258 seats
Liberal Democrats (23% of the total vote)—only got 57 seats due to the fucked up electoral system.
Because the top two parties dont have enough seats, they are both trying to get Liberal working with them so can get more seats.
This puts ‘my’ party in a sort of a powerful yet difficult position, Liberal Democrats need to see which party will offer the best deal, for instance will the party promise a reform in electoral voting which would make the voting system better. Will the party keep their promises?
Meanwhile at my college and high school, my party won, mainly due to my strong debating and campaigning (I can’t be bothered being modest!)
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tags: politics
General Election
4th May
Other than the exams I have in June. I have been focusing on the General Election 2010 that is occurring in the UK, where a political party and prime minister are to be elected. The system is quite complicated but thats generally what happens.
I’ve always been a ‘Labour’ party and ‘Liberal Democrat’ supporter, mainly Labour since Liberal Democrat don’t get a chance to shine often in politics. This is because two parties have dominated politics in the UK, the Conservatives and Labour.
However this election is different, through live TV debates, Liberal Democrats have gained much needed recognition, so now its a three-horse race. And I’m a complete Liberal supporter now because I feel like my vote will be worth something, due to the party gaining awareness. I agree with most of their policies and they have a fantastic team behind them, who could really improve the economy and other issues in the UK. You can get a little taste of what each candidate wanting to be Prime Minister believes in, by checking the Youtube Debate channel.
This week, my college and high school (they are linked together) had a ‘mock election’ where people stood up for a party and campaigned for votes. The students and pupils had a chance to vote in this mock election and a few were chosen be the leader of each party for this mock election. I was the Liberal Democrat leader and had a live debate with 4 other main parties infront of 200 college students and some teachers. And I won the debate!! (basically I got the most cheers and votes after it).
The mock election isnt finished yet because the high school kids vote hasnt been counted yet. It would be brilliant if I could get a majority vote in that as well. I can only hope…
The results of the actual real election is tomorrow evening I think.
Sitewise: I have moved hosts to the wonderful Floriental and have finally been able to use Fanupdate.
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tags: updates, politics
