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.