The 2010 election is exciting for everyone with the 3 main parties all fighting to become the government and run the country in a better way than the others so they think. To be honest i think it will be the highest turn out ever for an election because of all the problems that have been happening with crime, the economy and the wars people will want to vote for either change or to stay the same either way loads of people will vote.

The age group of 18-25 is properly the least informed and least caring of all people who are going to vote and that’s even if people between these ages vote. For me I believe this is the least caring and informed group among the country because either they don’t actually care at the moment or they haven’t been informed. Knowing everything about politics or the 3 different parties is very difficult as there is a lot to know and think about and unless you spend time looking it up for yourself or you study politics you don’t know. I know a small amount about politics but not enough to vote no one has informed me but only pushed their opinions on me which I don’t care about and tell me to vote for the party they support. The only other information I have got is when these politicians send you a leaflet through the post with their overpaid face on it and say vote for me I do good or I will do better than the other overpaid guy. It’s sort of like begging for your vote so they are still able to claim for their 2nd home and then have a nice garden and have their house coated in gold with their family member being paid a ridiculous amount to watch blue movies. In fact one of the things I know is that they have more holidays than everyone, get paid a lot, don’t have to go to parliament a lot and now we are controlled by Europe they don’t even make our laws anymore so why do we need them or vote for them.

The people who aren’t planning to vote these elections i really don’t blame them at all they are properly just fed up with the country and everything that has happened. They might just be one of the people who believe no matter who is in charge nothing will change at the moment because of the problems. Other reason could be that although Labour have made all these problems with their laws if another party comes in and cleans all that up with that they will make their own laws and changes will just bring along another set of problems that are different. People who don’t care no more are people who have lost faith in the country and don’t care because we aren’t going to be listened to and nothing will change because of them. This was what i think was like in America but then Barack Obama come along and has changed the views of people and made people believe and have faith once again. Problem here is we either have Gordon brown who really cannot do anything right, David Cameron a rich guy which is just saying we will do better than labour yay!! (not) or some guy who don’t actually know about!.


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Then there are the people are just too lazy to vote who can’t be bothered to go to the polling station and make their opinion not count once again. These people are just stupid as going to make your vote doesn’t take a lot of time and effort so it’s worth doing it just so you can say and think you voted in your countries election.
The main concerns i have which affect my vote will be the war in Afghanistan and the problems with the NHS. With the NHS i think it has gone completely downhill and more concerned about making the service as efficient as possible moneywise rather than the concern of people’s health and wellbeing. Despite record amounts of money being spent on the NHS and spending growing every year it still seems things are getting worse like the conditions in hospitals, standards of employees like doctors and nurses. There are too many targets on money in the hospitals rather than on the patients and how many are cured and recovered meaning number 1 in the hospital is money saving. We need to get away from targets in the NHS and concentrate on the welfare of people rather than trying to save money when the money coming in is actually increasing.

Another major issue affecting my vote will be the decisions made on the Afghanistan war and the defence budget for the war as well. There is no way we can leave their without finishing the job as it would cause more damage to our country by doing this but we need to make sure that each soldier is equipped to do the job they are doing. As well as making more helicopters available for the troops to use and getting rid of all these rules in the camps which bring down morale like refusing to pay for the post they get sent to get to Afghanistan (not sure if that is still true or not now). To win this war is vital for national security and we should be supporting our troops in the country so whoever is more committed to supporting our troops and making national security secure.

blog prompt 6 and 7

A couple of the things which make the world go round and lets people live and do the things they want to do this present day is resources, money and transport. In an ideal world we would have unlimited resources to use and money wouldn’t be a problem for countries or people and transport would be very cheap, easy, quick and sustainable. Unfortunately these are all the problems that the world and the countries and people are facing at the moment because of the way we live and have developed. There would be a debate of whether there is a transport problem or not either way we would still have to change the transport system and what we use to run it.


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My views on the transport system is that it works and it carries people in a decent time and gets them there safely with transport in the country taking you to most destinations you can think of in the UK. There is only a transport problem in the country at the moment if you think there is a problem but if you don’t think there is a problem then to you there isn’t one. I think there is only one problem with transport and that is what fuel we are using to run the transport system as that is the only part which isn’t sustainable. If i was going to be a bit picky i would also say that sometimes transport isn’t very reliable such as virgin trains never run on time and are usually cancelled. Transport by cars is exactly the same as other transport that it needs to run on fuel which is sustainable to the world so we are able to keep running automobiles because without petrol cars would be obsolete. It would also affect everything to do with goods i.e. getting the raw material transporting it and then making it into a product and transporting it that whole process would not work and break down. So you have to look at the way we rely on travel to provide us with everything and wonder how much longer we can keep this up and how much oil is left to fund our need.
the benefits of motorized transport allow us to live like we do today, do the things we want to do today like go on holiday buy goods that weren’t always available go places we could never go before. But with all these benefits of motorized transport there are also going to be costs we would need to make such as using resources which we know aren’t renewable at a ridiculous rate. So what are the costs of motorized transport here are some I thought of
• Major use and reliance on fossil fuels
• Use of resources to make motorized vehicles
• Congestion
• Accidents that are caused
• Reliance
• Carbon dioxide emissions (don’t believe it but thought I’d put it in)
All these are problems just transport brings on its own without acknowledging the people who drive these motorized vehicles and all the things they do which affect other thing as well.
This calls out the need for a sustainable fuel which we will be able to use over and over again without it ever depleting one bit and wouldn’t give off emissions but then again i might as well wish for £1m pounds to be in my bed when I wake up. Some people believe that we have faced all problems by developing and using technology to solve problems but that was when the world didn’t matter so we did what we want. With this problem we are trying to find a sustainable fuel which doesn’t affect anything and can use over and over again. This is the only problem which needs to be addressed in motorized vehicles right now all other problems can wait and will have to wait other it will be too late. To address the other problems we need to have fuel if we address say congestion and everybody can drive freely without too much congestion what happens when we have no fuel to drive freely without any congestion. There have been some advances with cars with Toyota having a car which runs using a hydrogen fuel cell which is emission free and hydrogen can be reproduced easily although not sure about the price. Then there is also electric cars which are being made available in England and not those silly G-whizz cars but proper cars but with an electric engine.



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What motorized transport has allowed us to do is everything we wanted to be able to do and now we have done it we have properly thought we could have done it better. We rely such much on motorized transport that if we were to lose it no one would survive, no one would know what to do or even how to do it. The only and one way I think we can still have our motorised transport is with a sustainable fuel it will let us carry on living the way we are but without the use of fossil fuels and loads of pollution. Tackling this one problem will allow us to address the other issues without the worry of fuel or pollution.

blog prompt 5 christmas time!!

Christmas is a time to relax, enjoy yourself, see family and for many people in the UK and other parts of the world to have a well deserved day off work. It is a big event in the Christian calendar and is well celebrated so with these celebration also means unsustainable use of basically everything. There isn’t another day which is as big as Christmas where presents are received and given, more food is consumed and bought than usual and when people are generally happy and not moaning about things for once. For it or any other festival which religions celebrate to be called unsustainable is correct and is understood but most people properly just don’t care at this time. There isn’t going to be another time of year you can do this it’s a one off each year so people should have the right to be unsustainable eat too much, use to much packaging and waste stuff. The only people who would moan about these events using too much packaging and excess food and other bits would be the eco-hippies/warriors who don’t take a day’s break from annoying ordinary people. My opinion is that everybody knows, no one cares, I don’t care it’s once a year for each religion they should let people just get on with it each year and not say nothing. But as soon as it’s over people can’t carry on living that unsustainable which I think people should realise. We live in the 21st century where celebration of religious festivals is only celebrated by the real religious people but it’s usually just a time of year to get presents eat too much and get drunk possibly. Most kids these days might not even know about the history of Christmas and why people celebrate it they might not even know who Jesus even is in extreme cases.

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Christmas at this very moment in time isn’t sustainable and hasn’t been for decades ever since it was turned from a religious celebration into a commercial event for companies to make money. Santa Claus originally wore green clothing until Coca Cola stepped in and changed it into red for Cola and made the famous commercial I think everyone knows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogetBqMgau0 (January 2010)

Any person who thinks about their Christmas celebration will think back and whether they were sustainable will be the last thing that pops into most people’s heads that is because it isn’t a worry on these days. I have never thought about whether Christmas was sustainable or not until I have been given this blog to write about it. It has never crossed my mind that thought about it because I was bought up in the commercial Christmas and not when it actually meant something I suppose. A sustainable Christmas would be an even more expensive Christmas than usual which nobody wants as it a lot of money anyways but that brings the question if you’re not religious why would you celebrate it? But it’s because of the point I’ve made that Christmas is not religious no more nor is it sustainable and it isn’t going to change in the near future as the world and companies revolve around money and Christmas is a major money spinner!

There are two ways in which Christmas would work in a changed world and that is either only the truly religious people celebrate it or you make an attempt to make it sustainable and make people change how they celebrate it. If only truly religious people celebrated it then it would cut down on a lot of people celebrating it meaning a lot less would be wasted and sold etc but this would mean damaging to the economy and to businesses. This would also mean that it would also still be unfair to just let religious people get extra days off work and people who aren’t get less days off so you would have to make it fair and equal in that way as well. The 2nd way would be to try and convince or make people be more sustainable would properly be a lot harder than the first way. To make people be sustainable this time of year is a bit like to fly using a fridge and a fridge magnet it’s never going to happen unless there is a miracle. Going back to the point made earlier that this is the only time of year where people relax be a bit more unsustainable than usual and get away from work life and get to see family friends. It is generally just a nice good day for people and there’s not many like that in England and many other places in the world. So I do think the “do-gooders” should just leave it alone and relax a bit it’s not like this is happening 24/7, 365 days a year it’s just once for each religion and I think they should respect the fact it is religious even if most people who celebrate it aren’t actually religious.