Re: I do not vote.

Good evening everyone,

I write as if I was talking. Take all your preconceived notions of grammar and place them in a box. Kick that box somewhere.

People tell me that they do not vote and I can understand.
I am usually tempted to throw in the towel too.
Simply because I tend to be proactive not reactive and I like to see shit get done.
I see voting as a token gesture where the party with the most money tends to snatch up the most seats.
Partly because I live in a Tory stronghold...and they have the money.

If I was not voting/ If we did not have the vote I would rather be marching on London, tearing down Number 10. 
Having all the neo-liberal privatisation ideologues thrown out of the buildings, out of their fancy homes and left like a single parent unable to cover the bedroom tax or a disabled person that failed an ATOS examination. I would toss those bums onto the pavement and leave them to fend for themselves.
But then I remember that is not how we do things anymore. 

Our ancestors had to fight for the right to vote in the first place.Women had to fight for the right to education, to vote, & for equal rights (Some are still fighting as the pay is still unbalanced). I cannot willingly just throw away my vote because I feel bitter towards some rich white prick for being a rich white prick.

MP's in our Parliament get an average of £66,000 a year (rough estimate taken this link) 

First question:

1. Are you making that kind of money right now?
Answer: Probably not. Why should they? What are you getting out of it?

2. Did you know our MPs gave themselves a pay rise? (Yet another link. Yes it's the Daily Mail but they know how to use BOLD effectively.)

3. Do you think you would still be able to keep your job if you did half the crap our Government is doing?
- Outsourcing most of their work for someone else to do. - Criticising the the welfare program whilst making 900k a year from it. 

People if you are not going to vote for the Loony Party or the Greens or the local independant candidate then wave goodbye to the NHS, to everything. The Tories & UKIP want to sell it all off.

If you do not vote these cretins out of office you are saying that you are completely fine with your income remaining stagnant (and technically falling as prices keep rising), for your taxes to continue as they are despite getting less and less for what you are putting in. You are fine with the retirement age rising,

I have escape plans and I know I will be safe and I will be able to make a decent income.
However I find it borderline intolerable that my own people do not demand more from life, more from their local MP and more from their country.

The multi-nationals and every damn head of every massive retail store know how to demand more from their workers but do the workers demand an equal share, a fair living wage, an actual future!  The bulk of British citizenry cannot be bothered to vote...I will still fight for those too idle to raise their own arses from their chairs but if a single non-voter utters "why is no one doing anything?" I will flip shit faster than a DJ on an opening night. 

This was a grouchy blog from The Common Sense Eccentric,

Second blog:

In regards to UKIP... Well it shows that when you need something done just blame it on Brussels and the neighbourhood will come running. Explain that our situation is caused by rich white homegrown people and they stumble, stagger and go "Well this is all a bit beyond me really". Politics is not beyond you.
The last real bunch of class warriors (that I am aware of) were miners, not doctors or lawyers but big burly men with serious lung conditions and few prospects. Are you a big burly miner? Did you just return home from slaving away in a pit for hours? No. Excellent. Fight the good fight. Join a local group, find a cause and put pressure on your local MP to do their god damn job. You are already pay him or her, you might as well get your monies worth.

Rich white guys have been running this country for centuries and now we have elected more of them to the E.U.  Success? Blow me ¬_¬

I have the flu and I have attempted to proof read this but hopefully it makes sense.

I changed the font...this one looks pretty. Christ my head is not functioning right.

Vote tomorrow!!!

Do not forget to vote tomorrow.To those that think that voting never changed anything...UKIP won it's first seat in the European Parliament. Now our media won't shut up about them!I am not going to tell you who to vote for.Just make sure to cast yours.

I do not want to hear or read any voter apathy. It is like refusing to go on a diet as your toes disappear or refusing to leave the burning building because "it was gonna fall down anyway". The MEPs get  a paid yearly salary out  of this...your vote means a lot to those people...and you might love some of them or hate some of them. So pitch in and let our Government know how you feel.

There have been words that the Lib Dems are going to get slaughtered, that Labour might make some meak gains and that other parties are going to make some great gains as we are all tired of the Big Three. Unfortunately I know from personal experience that a lot of people simply do not vote.

Voting is the least engaging political activity that you can do...

I am not asking you to march or riot or write a letter to your MP about an issue. I am not asking you to join a party, donate or leaflet or canvass or even call someone.

Just turn up, cross in a box, put your ballot into box...then go back and watch Pokémon netflix or Game of Thrones...or anything. Heck I'm just gonna vote and eat a bag of doughnuts... I have no delusions of grandeur here. 

Voting is the laziest but most pivotal political action a nation can take. It was votes that gave way to UKIP's rise and I can not bear our intelligent nation being represented by such morbidly malcontented misanthropic halfwits.

Get out there people!

Then maybe get me some doughnuts ;)

And we can enjoy this nice weather knowing that on the 22/05/14 we did the least we could do and crossed a box.

Thank you for reading.

Have a great week.

This was The Common Sense Eccentric/Diary of  Graduate.

Chapter 14: Time & such.

Hello everyone,

Anyone out there under the age of 30 is probably being pestered by someone somewhere about doing something.

Right now I know a few folks roundabout my age being nudged about what it is they want to be doing.

The greatest problem for our generation however is that we all have a pretty solid hunch of where we want to be but getting the money/grades/experience to get there is a different story entirely.

It can be frustrating to know where you want to go or have a solid idea but then see a whole row of hurdles before you. It bugs the heck out of me knowing that if I knew what I know now a few years before going to university I would have chosen a different discipline. Time travel is impossible and so we cannot let the past hold us back. Time has never waited and I doubt it will start now. Instead of hoping for things to work out we must always strive to put things in place that make our dreams come to fruition. For instance: One of my plans requires a CRB check being done so I am currently completing that document and acquiring other documents. It is  a process that can take a few months.  Another instance would be how my mother acquired some A-levels whilst raising a family single handedly and now my mother studies at Ruskin College in Oxford. :D

In short: The first step that you must take in order for your ambitions to come true is a first step. Find a moment even if it means staying awake slightly later than usual and get to work on making your big idea come true.

Our generation is fortunate with so much information and technology available it is so easy to learn more about the opportunities available to us. At the same time we have the same problem of becoming sidetracked by distractions as we are surrounded by images and activities that seek our attention. I have recently completed Fable on the Xbox 360 and I am certain that I could have used the hours of time I spent on that game doing something more constructive. Gaming is not the only distraction, we can become distracted by music, movies, reading, writing, walking, wondering and wandering. As long as we continue to allow our time to be taken by up everything except that which will directly help us reach our goals we are still refraining from taking that first step.

My friend from the train said: We learn a lot whilst travelling but to become greater we must combine our experience from the past with our present and use it become better. 
He agreed about how making plans is one way to ensure that happens :)

This blog has not been proof-read by a single soul.

I do not trust my own eyes.

This was The Common Sense Eccentric's mad ramble.

Thank you reading and have a great week/weekend.