Someone suggested that there might be electioneering at work here. I would certainly hope there is not! Certainly not from me.
Hamish 123 - agree with you, the fact is I do not know who I want in charge anymore. Again I have to ask who is better than what we already have (which is bad enough)? Is anyone really daft enough to think that some Blair clone is going to wave a magic wand and make everything better, because somehow things cannot possibly get any worse?
I tell you what I worry about. I worry that the NHS and the armed forces will be cut to ribbons in order to give a select few a tax cut of a mere couple of percent, which the Daily Mail will laud as some sort of divine intervention. I worry about me losing my job, income, career and all the things I enjoy due to the defence industry getting ruined all because some Etonian sod hammered the defence budget to stop National Insurance rising by a huge, gigantic, unaffordable economy-destroying (sic, according to some) 1%. I worry about my main hobby (which I hope to turn into a career, in time) being obliterated for the sake of some Green scam and make-believe security. I could go on and on but I can't really be bothered and I will merely make myself look like some bitter and twisted young man with a chip on his shoulder, which unlike some I'm not.
We all have problems, and there are are solutions, but sometimes the solutions take time to take effect. The problem is too many people are far too reactionary and would with out thinking cut their nose off in order to spite their face, which is what I believe is going on here.
There are still enough of us around who remember (and suffered) the damage done last time around. Double-figure interest rates etc. Some damage is indeed still being done by problems that were either papered over, carried on with or just plain ignored.
Being from a humble, ordinary background, with a very modest income, I am very, very greatful and thankful that I have a gift as special as flying. That said I will not give that up easily. Hence why on May 6th I shall not be marking my cross next to the candidate with the silly blue tree symbol next to their name. In fact I don't have a clue who will get the vote at the moment, but I will be voting. And it won't be for a party that wants to put the knife into aviation.
Smithy
Last edited by Captain Smithy; 8th April 2010 at 13:07.