>General Election’s tomorrow. Who would you vote for?
>I’ve uploaded the main party’s policy aims and ideas, and have now completed uploading summaries of the speeches. So who will you be voting for, and why?
Category Archives: Politics & Society
>Catastrophe looms, and the solution has to be bigger than Live Aid.
>Do you remember the crisis in East Africa that prompted Live Aid? Live Aid brought tremendous benefits. But it was only ever going to be a temporary solution. Now we are faced with a problem even worse than before.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says famine is going to be worse than ever! And where does the famine strike? Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the Central Africal Republic.
What do you think should be done? Is this the world’s problem? Africa’s problem? Or just East Africa’s problem?
>Can the Marxist vision of Communism ever be realised?
>Is there ever going to be a time and place where Communism can truly succeed in the basic form outlined by Marx and Engels? There have been many ‘experiments’ along the communist model (Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam). However, these have tended to rebrand Communism in their own formula to suit their specific needs. My girlfriend has told me that according to George Orwell’s book Animal Farm (which I have so far embarrassingly failed to read), human nature dictates that our greed and desire for increased wealth and prosperity ensures that pure communism is just a dream. However, is this just the opinion of Orwell or can Communism never be truly realised?
>Immigration
>You seem to be either in favour or opposed. Which are you?
>Benefits
>It’s obvious that some people abuse the benefits system, and even worse, some people find that they would be better off not working and instead living off of benefits. What do you think about this? How can we solve this problem?
>Driving on the wrong side?
>Should we start driving on the right side of the road in the UK?
>Women Drivers
>Ashley wanted me to raise this point. Personally I have no idea what he’s on about…
>Animal Testing
>Matt: The testing of drugs on animals is important for drug development. But some animals like lab rats and mice are different from humans and may therefore respond to drugs differently. The response of a rat to a newly developed drug might be good but on a human it might do nothing. Should more human tests be done?
>Jobs
>New job losses for a new day. What would you do to create more jobs if you were Gordon Brown?
>The Homeless
>The UK has one of the most powerful economies in the world. Yet our homeless number in their thousands! Councils are now trying to force ‘rough sleepers’ (one very small section of homless people who sleep on the street rather than in hostels, squatting or other temporary accomodation) into homeless shelters. Some councils do this by hosing down places where these rough sleepers stay, preventing them from sleeping there.
Understandably this has provoked outrage. But what do you think? Do we need to treat our homeless better? Or did they bring it upon themselves?
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