The people of America base their lives and pride themselves on their hard fought for “freedom”. I put it to you that their freedom has been in decline for decades. You have become so influenced and dependant on your media for your thoughts and opinions that you no longer know how to think for yourselves. This became lethal when paired with the dangerously violent way in which everything is conveyed to you by your media, especially your news networks. Violent behaviour should never be tolerated. Period. There should be no place for it in a modern society.

You need to wake up. But I’m not sure if you can be woken. Your whole lives you have been programmed not to think for yourself, not to be different, but to be a good American and quietly spend your life consuming all the products your TV tells you to without making a fuss. This is because a nation of people like this is easy to govern. Hey they don’t even need to govern well, because even if they don’t you are not going to do anything about it.

When was the last time you asked yourself what you really wanted from life? When was the last time you had a well thought out opinion of your own, not just something that you saw on TV? When was the last time you really needed any of the shit you bought? Wake up! The America you are living in is a dream world controlled by the rich, who by the way, don’t watch TV.

I want you to understand 2 points. Point 1: I believe in freedom of speech, but I do not believe every man’s voice is equal. Do you know why? To use one example, a lot of American are idiots, ignorantly achieving nothing of any significance in their entire existence, other than ensuring the continuation of a broken self harming system that they are prisoners to. Does that make me better than them? No. But it’s not their fault. Point 2: Everybody, and I mean everybody, is a victim of circumstance. But perhaps more importantly, everybody has the same potential. The potential to be happy in an honest universe.

To explain my first point, an example: in a vote on actions that should be taken relating to climate change, I do not believe than my opinion should count as much as someone who is an informed climate scientist. My opinions may well be completely irrelevant to the situation. I am not qualified to make the right call on this subject, an neither is your average Joe. Our opinions have no relevance to the facts of the matter, the facts in which a studied expert is in a far better position to conclude on the appropriate way. We need to live in an honest society. We live in an honest universe whether we like it or not, and our opinions will never change the real truth of this. I believe you should have the right to say what ever you want whenever you want to, but you should not necessarily have the right to have people listen to you when you do no know what you are talking about. Especially if what you say is harmful or evokes the will to harm other people.

As for my second point: You don’t get to choose where you were born. You don’t get to choose your family. You don’t get to choose the environment, education and influences you are exposed to exposed to in your childhood and youth. These are the things that will eventually define who you are. We are all victims of circumstance. Until we are taught to be self aware in the honest universe, taught the real importance in the choices we make, taught that we really are powerful enough to make our own choices and have our own values; until this happens, we are being dumbed down and are ignorant to the truth. You are victims of circumstance, and it is not your fault. It is not your fault because your system never allowed you the opportunity to be a free thinking human being. America is that system.

Wake up, reboot, do whatever you have to do. At least begin by opening your mind to the possibility that you have never truly been honest to yourself, because your system has never been truly honest to you.

The greatest robbery ever committed has been happening for decades and it still happening in front of our eyes and no one is doing anything to stop it. We have been convinced that all of our “stuff” is so important, that our savings accounts are important. No body cares about our freedom any more because we are convinced we are free. We are prisoners held at ransom. Here is the system explained in its simplest form.

But 2011 will see a much bigger landmark in global change. According to National Geographic, the population of the planet will grow to over 7 Billion. Global population has grown 700% over the last 130 years. This is a truly massive change over such a short period of time, one that we have yet to grasp the effects of.

The financial, social and political systems that make up our civilizations have done us well over the past 150 years, but the fact of the matter is that they were not designed to cope with this many people. They have allowed us to grow and excel, create and share, but it simply cannot continue. These systems that are outdated and at their very core, cannot continue for long without self destructing.

Over population is the single biggest threat to humanity over the rest of the century. It is likely that world population will hit 9 Billion over the next 30 years. But discussing it is seen as political suicide. In fact, continuing to ignore it will prove to be suicide itself. What we have to accept is that our civilization and society has run it’s course. If we continue to carry on without vital changes to the way we do business, vital resources will run out, our environment will be damaged beyond repair, and eventually when these things will lead to shortages/outages of the basics like food, fuel and electricity. Paired with an ever growing and demanding population, this will lead to the self destruction of the civilization we have built.

In 1975, there were 3 cities in the world with a population of over 10 million (AKA Mega City). There are now 21 Mega Cities across the globe, and by 2050 70% of people will live in a Mega City. How can we expect a system which allows only the rich to get richer to function with this many people.

At an event titled ‘What makes a good entrepreneur?’ the Chinese criticised British entrepreneurs for being ‘overeducated, too conservative, lacking passion for entrepreneurship and too afraid of failure’. According to Randt, Branson ‘agreed that British entrepreneurs are over-educated and that schooling does not prepare one for entering the business world’.

Branson is one of those oft-quoted inspirational examples of someone making a success of themselves the other way; a dyslexic who struggled to concentrate in class, he left school at 15 to run his own business while his mates were still studying. It’s also true many other famous entrepreneurs failed to complete a formal education: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Simon Cowell and Mark Zuckerberg, to name but a few. And he almost certainly has a point that schooling is no substiture for real-life experience when it comes to business.

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates and Facebook founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg have both pledged to give away most of their wealth to charity over the rest of their lifetimes. The pair together will likely donate tens of billions between then to charity, but this does not eclipse the power of the average working man. One particular ‘average man’ has started a campaign to prove it.

Toby Ord, a university researcher at Oxford University, ears an average yearly sallery of £25k-£30k per year. But he has pledged to give away £1m over his lifetime to help address global poverty. In the past year alone, Ord has given£10k, more than a third of his earnings, to charities working in the poorest countries. He also gave away £15k of savings to mark the start of his pledge to give away £1m over his lifetime.

Ord’s current income breaks down like this, with over 1 third now going to charity:

“I realised that by donating a large part of my future income to the most efficient charities, I really could save thousands of people’s lives. Since I already have most of the things I really value in life, I thought — why not?” Toby Ord

Arguably, Ord is giving more than the likes of Gates and Zuckerberg. He has also started a campaign to recruit other people to give up at least 10% of their lifetime’s earnings in the same way. After 1 year, 64 people have joined him in pledging 10% of their lifetime earnings for charity donations. His movement called “Giving What We Can” now has a pledge of £14m from a few average people with average incomes.

When we break it down, we really don’t need most of the stuff we think we do. All these things spend all our money, we can live without. We are just taught to thought that we can not, so we keep spending out money, and it keeps falling into the hands of the rich. In the mean time, there are millions of people who don’t even have the very basics of life that we take for granted every day.

This man is releasing facts and truths. Yet has been held without bail for a crime he probably didn’t commit. All funding to their perfectly legal website has been frozen and all of his personal accounts have been frozen. This is a blatant attempt to silence someone who is exposing truth. This is not OK. This is far from OK. But yet most people do not care.

Just like most people didn’t not care enough to do anything about the worlds banks getting trillions of dollars for destroying the worlds economies, illegally I might add. Why don’t we care any more? People don’t care when they see students rioting in the streets over trebling the tuition fees. No one cares about them or what they have to say.

The reason people don’t care enough to fight for what is right anymore are 2 fold. First: Information.

We are the information generation. The internet has caused such a mammoth change to human behaviour, so much more that we realise. We now have a world of information instantly available to us at any time. This may give us more knowledge, but we are sacrificing a very real part of ourselves in the process. The real problem about the information generation is that there is simply too much to process. We constantly go from one story to the next, one video to the next, pictures, songs and news all consumed within seconds of each other. There is no time to pause for thought or even process the information we are taking in. This is why nobody cares about anything any more, perhaps other than getting our feed of new information. It has become an addiction. Most of us never even stop to consider what it is we actually care about.

No one is telling us that we should care. In fact, no one is telling us anything, except for advertisers. All of this information is not a free as you think. It is all funded by advertising. So all this time we spend furiously consuming information, we are also being called upon by businesses to consume their products. So we consume and carry on, ignorant to the fact that the very human part of us that got us this far is dead.

The Second: Numbers

This is the part we have got very, very wrong. We have convinced ourselves that due to the ever-growing number of people in this world, we are too small and insignificant to make a difference. No. It is not true that as numbers increase we become any less important. You being alive, coherent and intelligent, with the ability to communicate with other people is perhaps the single biggest and most beautiful thing that has ever happened in the universe. You have evolved from atoms for Christ sake!

You may be correct in thinking that one voice in 6 billion is not enough to make a difference. But there are 6 billion voices and you are part of that. If you disagree with the actions of your government, it is your duty to do something about that. You individually have no more power than anyone else, but you are not alone. If we all sit at home on our leather sofas, thinking to ourselves that we are individually too insignificant to cause a change, then you will be defeated. But together we have to power to do anything, to change anything to what we want. We have been convinced, whether consciously or unconsciously, by our society to believe that we have no power, but the truth is we have it all, together. The actions of one man did not form this empire, it was the actions of every man.

The fact of the matter is that over recent years, the richest people have been getting richer, whilst the poorer and middle classes have been getting poorer. That is fact. It is also a fat that in America, the top 1% of earners, now earn 23% of all earnings, more than the entire bottom 50% of people. That is not a society prospering.

Yet even with a $14 Trillion national debt, politicians still propose a $1 trillion tax cut for the richest 0.3% of Americans. The same Americans that fund the very politicians into office that have the power to make these decisions. Americans are prisoners to the rich. Where is the protest? Where is the riots on the street? Where are the calls for politicians to be held accountable for their corrupt actions? There is no speak of freedom in the United States of America.

Except for maybe one man. Sen Bernie Sanders gave the speech of his life to the senate recently. How can anyone watch this and not want to do anything about it.

But what really puzzles me is that this sort of thing is starting to become more common, and the internet has let the reach of this voice of reason expand to more people than ever. But no positive changes are being made. Things are only getting worse. How are we letting people just accepting the fact that banks did lose the money from our current accounts and that we have to pay the price? Why are people accepting the fact the the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? It is not because they are working harder. It is because their greed is allowing them only the abuse the power of wealth to gain more wealth. And that wealth can only come from us.

The time of calls of conspiracy theory have passed. The facts are there for all of us to see. There is no crime in protesting the the way banks, businesses and politicians have corrupted the social economic system of our society. Our crime is sitting back and letting them take the power from us more and more. They have succeeded in making us powerless, by convincing us that we are.

But you still have the power. We have the power of numbers. These people and business and banks are nothing without us. The only successful way forward is for us to unite against the real criminals of our society. Change is coming, embrace it or be prepared to succumb to the stamped of people who will.

Everybody want’s to be young. If you don’t then you are probably already dead. The young always take a lot of heat from our predecessors for all sort of reasons, but predominately for being different. But each generation brings with it change. Change is the only way to achieve progress. We need to embrace youth, a new perspective, with new thoughts and ideas and ways of seeing the world.

The current generation of youth, which I am proud to say I am a part of, perhaps has the most freedom and the most potential of any generation to date. We are the independent generation. The internet generation, where content is free and we can share and communicate freely with anyone anywhere at any time. We are the information generation, with access to anything we want to know instantly.

You must respect us or we will struggle to respect you, and you must embrace change. We are unstoppable both in numbers and in power. We are perhaps the biggest leap towards individuality ever. Everything from our dresses to our music tastes to the way we talk must in it’s own way be different. This poses a threat to the powers that be and have been, because we are more unpredictable and more unique than ever before. Yet in the systems that control us there is no voice that represents us. 18-24yr olds are adults, and we are the biggest group of adults, yet there is no voice for us in politics or business. Businesses that represent us are like us, they are many in numbers and each individual, new and unique, but as a result they do not have the power that the big giants have. They would have us all be defined in less catagories so we are easy to target, but those days are over.

To define a country by having to choose between 2 parties (or even 3) is simply absurd and totally irrelevant and offensive to modern culture. It is time to stand up for the change we deserve. We are the voice of change. To not embrace us is to give up.

Recent studies suggest that there is a £300 Billion savings gap in the UK at the moment. What this really means is that, according to the report by insurance company Aviva, people in the UK currently have savings amounting to £300 Billion less than the 70% of their salaries recommended to retire on. But what is the reason behind this sudden lack of savings?

The recession has left a lot of people out of pocket, but it hasn’t cost us anything personally, that is excluding the billions if taxes of course. Interest rates have plummeted to near nothing on savings accounts in recent times, but that still indeed does not cost us. So what do the public blame for saving less?

Most consumers blame confusing and inflexible financial products and not consumer apathy. Some 87% of respondents cited this as either the only or a contributory reason behind their lack of savings, despite almost 60% admitting they are worried about their finances. The study also shows that the amount of people saving for s specific item or goal has declined from 26% to only 14% over the past 2 years.

But it is not just poor financial products that are loosing us money. It’s consumer products too. How often do you have to dig into your savings when you didn’t plan to? Our computers, laptops, mobile phones, televisions, mp3 players, stereos and even household electronics break or become obsolete so quickly nower days that we are always having to dig into our savings to update them. But they shouldn’t.

These products are designed to break with time. Companies and banks want you to buy new things, so they can have more of your money. It makes little business sense to build a product that will last forever, when they can building one that will last 18months, making sure you need to make a new purchase rather than keep your money for yourself. It is unfortunatly how our broken system works and must continue to function. Here is a new video from the makers of the “Story of Stuff” we featured last year.

We need a new system. Period.

The Winner? According to the survey, Vienna in Austria is the best city in the world to live in with the highest quality of life, for the second year in a row. European cities dominate the top 30, with Zurich & Geneva of Switzerland scoring second and third respectively. Vancouver in Canada and Auckland in New Zealand are tied at fourth place, with German Cities Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich completing the top 8.

Other rankings include Sydney Australia at number 10, Copenhagen in Denmark at 11 and Amsterdam in the Netherlands at 13 (take that Bill O’Reilly you massive idiot). Canada scores well above the USA with Vancouver at 4th, Ottawa at 14th, Toronto at 16th, Montreal at 21st and Calgary at 28th.

Both the UK and the USA scored pretty poorly compared to the rest of the world. The only city from England to make the top 50 was London at number 39, out placed by Dublin at 26th. The highest ranking city for the USA is Honolulu at number 31, followed by San Francisco in joint 32nd. Japan’s highest entry was Tokyo at number 40. Paris was France’s highest scoring city at number 34, just ahead of Helsinki of Finland and Brisbane Australia.

New York City and Seattle rounded up the bottom of the top 50, just behind Chicago and the USA capitol Washington. In the Middle East, Dubai and Abu Dhabi scored 75th and 83rd respectively, and last place on the list of 221 countries went to Baghdad in Iraq. Iraq’s score improved slightly from last year, but remained in last place due to it’s lack of security and stability.

A second list was also released showing the top 50 Eco-Friendly cities in the world. Canadian City Calgary scored highest, with Canada also achieving 3rd (Ottawa) and joint 13th (Vancouver & Montreal). Aberdeen is the cleanest UK city in at number 19, with Belfast (30) and Glasgow (47) also making the top 50. Surprisingly, Eco capital of the world Copenhagen in Denmark made only 8th on the list.

You can see the complete lists here

Lost followed a seemingly random group of survivors of a flight from Australia to Los Angeles that crash landed on a mysterious Island before reaching it’s destination. The show told the story of  their struggle to survive on the Island, as well as the stories of the characters previous lives via flashbacks.

My first memory of Lost is the first UK trailer in the summer of 2005. Living in the UK, I missed the initial launch of the first season in the USA, yet the hype had made it across the sea sooner than its August 2005 UK premier. Lost was an instant hit the world over and for many reasons. Perhaps the most important of all was the timing. The dawn of the digital age was in full swing and the Internet was the driving force behind changes in pretty much everything, and the revolution of the way we communicate.

The past decade saw Television move in a new direction. As technology progressed, it became easier and cheaper than ever to get movie quality special effects into television budgets. Still this didn’t stop Lost’s Pilot episode becoming the most expensive TV episode of all time. But to this day it is still hailed as one of the best episodes of any TV show ever. It set the tone of action packed, mystery filled drama that immediately got audiences asking questions and craving answers. This was not your business as usual American TV Drama.

It was closer to a movie than a TV show in both quality and scale. This was not the story of one man, or one island. It was the story of a big group of people, who had to discover each other at the same as time we discovered them. It had everything, and yet was unlike anything else that had ever been on television before. The first season was flawless, arguably the best series of any TV show still to this day. It was perhaps the mystery written into the show that made it really stand out. Each week would leave the audience with more questions than answers. And it was these questions that go people talking.

The timing of the show, coinciding with the way the internet was revolutionising the way we communicate, that played right into it’s hands. Everyone wanted to know why there was a polar bear on the island, or what was in the hatch. Everyone had a theory. The internet meant that we were no longer confined to talk about last nights TV around the water cooler, but could share thoughts and ideas with people anywhere in the world at any time. The show had been very well thought out and the continuity and consistency was unparalleled. The writers made it knowing that every single part of every episode would be scrutinised for clues to solve some of the mysteries of the show. Every line, every prop, every single frame could hold a clue from the writers to the fans. The writers knew it and played along with it. It was this communication between the writers and the fans, and vies versa, that really took Lost to the next level.

Fans flocked to the internet to find answers and share their ideas on the mysteries of the show. It was truly the first show to create a real community on the web, with sites like DarkUFO and Lostpedia becoming havens of information on the subject. It was also the dawn of the Podcast and fans flocked to download the latest theories from the biggest names in the community. The writers paid close attention to fans reactions to every twist and tale. Never before did an audience have so much of a say into what they wanted from a scripted show. It lead some critics of the show to claim that the writers were making it up as they were going along. The claim, denied by the writers, may have been true to a small extent, but certainly worked in the shows favour when it came to eliminating dull characters (Nikki & Paulo in Season 3) that fans quickly grew tired of. But the writers never really deviated from the overall path of the show.

Lost not only worked for the hardcore fans that delved themselves into the mythology of the show, it also appealed to the casual viewer. TV shows before Lost generally followed the idea that you had to dumb down the narrative to make it appeal to a large audience. Lost managed to prove that that was no longer the case. It may have been the overall story ark that brought the hardcore fans back every week, but they did not make up for even half of it’s millions of weekly viewers. Lost managed to intertwine an amazing map of story arks both long term and short term. And it was perhaps these easier to understand short term character plots & developments that consistently kept the average viewer tuning in.

Despite all its hype, all it’s mystery and it’s massive external community, it was Lost’s characters that were the real stars of the show. What a lot of people failed to realise, despite constant reassurance from the writers, was this was a story about these individuals and not about the island or the mysteries behind it. It was these people, these flawed individuals forced to live together or die alone, that really made Lost excellent Television.

So when it came to the final season, we were promised the answers that everyone craved. The writers knew they would never please everyone, and the fans knew that they couldn’t all be right. The writers wanted a legacy. They would never end Lost in such a way to ruin its status they had worked so long on building. True fans of the show (myself included) could figure out that we would never get all the answers to everything on the show. But that’s not what the show was about. It was about the characters and their path to redemption. And that is exactly what they got.

After watching the finale, I can comprehensively say that it gave me everything I wanted as a Lost fan. It was the damn near perfect way to end the perfect TV show. There were no big mythological answers or huge revelations, just the very emotional and sombre endings of the stories of these characters. The writers made it very rewarding for those of us who have been there since the very beginning and ended it the way they clearly set out to from the start. It was probably the strongest emotion reaction I have ever felt from TV or film and one I feel is unlikely to be beaten. I hope that when I die I get to hang out in a room with all the cool people from my life.

So for me personally, Lost has to go down as one of, if not THE best TV show of all time. It consistently pushed the boundaries of TV and was consistently flawless on almost every level. So Thank you all to everyone involved! Well Played Chaps!

It’s understandable then that Facebook can regularly make the headlines, often being criminalised for something it didn’t personally do. Much like how Grand Theft Auto will get blamed for every crime committed by anyone who has ever played it. But that’s another story.

Facebook has hit the headlines big time in France recently as a new craze sweeps the nations capital of Paris.  Dubbed “Facebook aperitif” in France, it is basically a cocktail party that gets listed as an event on the website, which gets shared between friends and that anyone can attend. Recent parties have been attended by an estimated 10,000 people each night in Paris and Montpellier.

A Facebook organised Party in the London Underground, after it was announced drinking was to be banned.

But before we can all go jumping on a flight to Paris, take a minute to morn the sad death of a young man at one such party yesterday. A 21 year old male died after sliding down a bridge railing and hitting his head whilst heavily intoxicated. It is obviously a tragic accident. A very similar thing happened to a man of the same age who went to my school not long ago so I can certainly appreciate how tragic it must be for the people involved. But already people are blaming Facebook and the parties for the death.

On the same night, authorities who got wind of the event banned the sale of alcohol but it was impossible to enforce. Fifty-seven people were hospitalized for drinking too much and 41 people were jailed. Sounds like a average night out in Cardiff to be fair. If you are flying to France anytime soon, be aware that the next party is planned for May 23rd at the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Police have already issued warnings on Facebook claiming the party will be illegal, and are expected to be their in force

Yesterday, in the wake of a breakdown of talks between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, Primeminister Gordon Brown stepped down from his role, opening the door for Conservative leader David Cameron to essentially take control of the country. After Brown yesterday announced that he was to step down as Labour leader, all expected to see a Labour – Lib Dem Coalition to take control of parliament. But before it became apparent that talks between the two parties had failed, Brown announced that he was conceding leadership and was off to see the queen. Less than 2 hours later and we have a new Primeminister in David Cameron. Less than another 2 hours later and we have a new cabinet. That’s British Politics.

So we now have a Commander in Chief that only 34,000 people voted for. That is the 34,000 people in his constituency of Witney. No one else voted for him. Only 36% of the country voted for his party. And this is supposed to be democracy. The country voted for no single party, so that means the people we did not vote into power get to make up their own mind about who runs the country. It’s the system that is broken, not the country.

I am however glad to see Nick Clegg taking an important role as the Deputy Primeminister. I am also glad to see him apparently getting on with Cameron, dispute my personal opinions of him. No body wants to see a dysfunctional government. I am glad to see what is hopefully the end of Peter Mandleson. William Hague as foreign secretary? Is that really the impression you want to give to the world? New Equality Minister Theresa May voted against the repeal of section 28.  And Osborne for chancellor? No thanks. If you are actually serious about combating the deficit, then why are you going to spend £100 billion on replacing the ageing Trident Nuclear missiles? I WILL NOT continue to live in a country that would rather spend that much money on something that can only be used to kill thousands of people, than on health-care or schooling or public services. We do not need nuclear weapons. Period.

The one good thing that could come from this is a compromise of the all the voiced of the British people might be achieved. But it’s early days, and it has never worked before and is unlikely to now. In the run up to the election, the Tories had almost opposite views to the Lib Dems. Are we supposed to believe that they can now run a country in harmony? We can only hope.

We don’t need electoral reform. We need social political reform. Will we get it? No. Because that’s not what politicians do and that is certainly not what Conservatism is about.

Conservative: “Disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.”

A vote for change my arse. Enjoy the furniture in No.10 Cameron. Who knows how long you will sit there. Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds

Tomorrow will be the first General Election where any of the 3 leading parties could actually win in (my) living memory. But this is not a good thing. We are not choosing between 3 worthy candidates, we are being forced to choose the lesser of many evils. Our votes are not being cast for who we agree with the most. Instead people are more motivated to vote for who they disagree with the least. This is not democracy. This is Politics: a outdated, irrelevant, pompous, ignorant farce. Giving us the public the illusion that we actually get a say in our country.

So lets take a look at the “Options” for those about to Vote:

Labour

Labour are massively incompetent, quite ignorant and fairly stupid. They have not broken Britain as the Tories will claim, they have simply made us broke. Labours biggest crime of their previous years in office has been their hideously wasteful spending. For more on this you can read my previous post on the Failings of Government. Labours spending behaviour often resembled that of how I imagine a group of pre-school children, were they given No.10′s annual budget. Spending Millions on things that seem cool, that they then get bored of after 10 minutes and end up throwing away. Their intentions are good (well at least they think they are), but Labour have not supplied us with a satisfactory form of democracy or government in their term in office, and for this reason you should not vote for them. Rewarding a lesser failure than the previous administration should not be acceptable.

Conservatives

The Tories are severely outdated, irrelevant, ignorant, prejudice old men that should have no place in politics or this country. They are a dying breed of Brits from a dying time and they know it. They however do have one thing on their side. Wealth. And they are using it to try to persuade the country that a vote for them is a vote for change. The only change it would bring is the change back to the old ways of feeding the rich and repressing the poor.

Make no mistake. A vote for the Conservative party is a vote against years of progress. It is not a step back. It is a giant leap back. Do not think that it is your only option if you do not want to vote Labour. Both Tories & Labour will tell you that a vote for the Lib Dems is a wasted one. But that is because they both know that this time they actually have a chance.

Liberal Democrats

For the first time in years, the Lib Dems actually have a realistic shot at winning the election. But only if people lose the stigma of them being inexperienced and unable to handle themselves in government. A stigma maintained only by the opposing parties. A Facebook poll of 500,000 voters put Nick Clegg with 41% of the votes yesterday, way ahead of both Gordon Brown and David Cameron. This is the only real vote for change. A vote for other parties would simply mean business as usual. Nick Clegg fared far better than his counter parts in the live debates and actually has policies that seem to be in the best interests of everyone. If you are going to vote, vote Lib Dem.

As for myself. I am not voting. I am not voting for a system I don’t believe in. Our political system doesn’t work. Politicians ignorantly spend more time trying to justify their jobs than they do doing them. The theatre of parliament is grotesque, outdated and irrelevant. I will not vote to keep it.

Coldplay – Politik