Small Parties should be banned from the elections

By now, everyone should know that on May 6th 2010 there is to be a Local and General Election to decide which political party should supposedly "run" our country or local area... if you don't know, then where the frick have you been hiding? In a wardrobe with a dream of one day visiting the big grizzly lion in Narnia?

Anyway whilst putting some rubbish in the outside bin this morning I noticed the usual pile of flyers and leaflets that congregate at our front door for weeks on end until it gets unbearable and they have to be cleared. I picked them up to have a ganders and to see if there was anything of substantial interest to anyone with half a brain cell.

Amongst the heap of shit on the floor, there was 4 leaflets for food, two of which were from co-op to make sure we got the message, some one offering cheap sofas, another for Sky TV and TalkTalk and another leaflet with someone who looks like he should be from that "WONGA" advert. (Check out the spoofs to see what I mean)

Amongst all the usual crap that no one ever really reads, I found two political party leaflets one for the Green Party and one for the Socialist Party. A few things about this got on my tits:

1. Where are the major parties' (Labour, Tories & Lib Dems) Leaflets? They are meant to be the strong parties who strive to get peoples votes, yet there is no evidence that our households votes count. Admittedly we might not vote, but its not the point we should still be bombarded with their crap to recycle with... its kind of our right.

2. Also if your a small party, what is the point of just posting a poxy little leaflet through someone's door and then walk off. That's not going to get anyone in to Westminster or to chair the local area because most people will just think "Bleurgh... BIN!!" They should knock on the door and try to explain to people what it is they do and all that jazz. Although, I really don't think this rule would count with parties such as the BNP, unless they like getting smacked in the face with the closest blunt object to hand, most probably a fist!

One thing that both of these parties seem to have in common though is the ability to produce flyers that are so bad it makes this film look like it will be the best experience of your life. Both these two parties will never get into power just for the simple fact they are the dunces of the politics world and everyone else laughs at them HAHAHA!

The Digital Economy Bill

The Digital Economy Bill is what the Government have proposed to help big corporate companies with the fight against copyright infringement and illegal downloading amongst other things.

The thing is though the government has rushed it through the House Of Commons in a "wash up" with complete disregard to the concerns that have been raised by the public and have even ignored some major concerns that ISP (Internet Service Providers) such as Virgin Media have raised, which is just absurd.

For the third reading of the bill, MP's were in the House Of Commons for just 2hours and within these two hours, just one clause was discussed for an hour whilst they just read through the rest of them without as much as a peep out of anyone there.

In the bill were such things like ISP's being able to block certain sites that could be infringing the new laws such as YouTube and even Google, but thankfully this clause has now been dropped.

These new laws will affect ever thing, from how much input Ofcom has and how channel 4 should run its network and even radio and video games will have to follow some of the bizarre things. The government are just wanting to control what we see and hear in what is now "BIG BROTHER" attitude.

Even the tough laws about illegal downloads are pretty dam ridiculous because people who are downloading music illegally are the people that are most likely to buy it, believe it or not so when they bring in the new laws, the music industry will be hit a little more than people think.

All in all, the public have been ignored by their local MP's and people are not happy about how much of a say the government will now have in what they do online and will have to constantly be on guard about using copyright without even realising it.

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