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Originally Posted by Mickyjaystoned
... the truth is that the youth has been alienated more than ever before,
What exactly are you basing this on?
My everyday life.
Let me tell you a secret, i work with kids who are homeless and live in sheltered accomodation, there are various problems facing these kids, many have been expelled from school without any exam grades meaning a search for work ends in minimum wage employment and reliance on benefits, most have no faith in Government policies such as New Deal and welcome to Work and many even lobby for changes in Gov. policy via petitions, but nothing ever seems to happen about the situation, every month there is a new child with the same problems, our whole job is to help these guys feel accepted and valued in society, because they are simply not, there is a terrible storm surrounding young people and crime at the moment and media is behind it again, there are old people too scared to step outside, my own Great Nan who is nearly a hundred lives in London and is constantly harrased and disturbed by youths.
Trust me, you go into a school in Bradford, south London or similarily poverty stricken area ask the kids and they will tell you their situation, but to get a realistic view i suggest you also ask some of the 9,200 kids actually not in Education, i suspect they will feel ostricised and alienated from society, whats more i don't think the majority of them give a f u ck, which is also another factor limiting todays youth, industry and society in general Apathy is rife here in britain and it is most evident in areas of social deprivation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4022123.stm
What exactly are you basing this on? Are you 'claiming to know' someone, based on 'a few sentences'? I could have sworn I read that complaint somewhere before
I am talking about society in general there, i think that people are to comfortable in capitalism to see that there is actually major social problems in this country.
I know various people who would rather buy drinks from the bar than give their time to the homeless for instance, i know many who hold no view on reality or their country, but spend their wages on media and designer clothing.
So i do know people who are blindly consuming things they don't even need while people are going without food, in 21st century Britain this is a sorry state of affairs!
I've talked to a few Brits, via forums of course; how do you account for their entirely different perspectives?
Well the very fact that they are online is a sign that they are reasonably well off, probably suburbanites who commute to the city, or university goers, definately middle class and certainky not from places of social depravation.
I am sorry but i am talking about the Britain where there IS social depravation, this is a fact, the whole point of this is: there are people too poor to afford Internet media etc, i would therefore conclude that YOUR perception is limited to only include those of us in Britain with internet capabilities and a reasonably healthy bank balance.
Now think, if people like you think like this and disregard the facts surrounding poverty in britain who's to say the politicians aren't doing exactley the same thing?
Out of interest what are these alternative perspectives from england you brought up?????
Well if you favor ignorant replies and biligerance, why bother with an internet forum? You're the bada-ss, get yourself on the street and start busting heads.
I pity tha foo'
Sucka you better hope you stay outta england, man you dun get merked if ya step in my endz.
Rassclart!!
Well what you said was that 40% held your view and didn't vote. Not voting and agreeing with you are 2 different things.
So you think %40 of Britain voting is simply a statistic that is to be used to discredit me.
I think from the non-voters i have spoken too that this non voting is caused by mis-representation or in some cases no representation at all.
Your attempt to make me out a kunt in the above post is a good effort but i can do that for myself thanx Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch.
Absolutely; steer yourself away from the tough guy bit and talk. Maybe then we'll have a better understanding of each others viewpoints.
So the first half of this post is talking i hope you might pick up on some of the points i have raised, and answer some of the questions i have asked.
Binary Digit:
That's actually a good sign in at least one way. It indicates that people are more or less satisfied with the government.
It means that sixty percent are given a choice of two centre ground thatcherite spinsters, a third party filled with pooofs and alchoholics
, or the stark raving looney party (UKIP) as it is known:lol:
While the other forty percent are left with kids being expelled, benefits cheques and generally day to day survival with next to no prospects for a future worth dreaming about.
Another worrying factor is the lack of diversity this encourages, you have in essence a large part of the Black population without representation, the muslim population without representation (ntil George Galloway's Respect victory)and the working class without representation, all the while the well to do middle class whites can debate about choosing the lesser of two evils.
This is a sorry state for such a supposedly liberal and modern society!