Well... I am British, Scottish to be precise, which means that we have just found out that our country will now be lead by David Cameron of the Conservative party. I am a little bit worried by this fact, and how people like me will cope under the new policies. However I am more worried about my generation as a whole, who think that joining a facebook group is a legitimate contribution to your country's political system. I know people who deliberately spoiled their ballot paper, or even worse, chose not to vote at all yet think they should have a voice to complain once there is a result they don't find favourable. This flippant attitude to the country's political climate is what angers me most, not David Cameron's upper-middle class favouring policies. In addition to this, I fully believe that if everybody who had a chance to vote, (seeing as there was only 65.1% turnout with 29,653,638 votes cast - http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/2010-general-election-results.html), had used their opportunity, then we may have seen a very different result.
However, even those who didn't vote will insist on complaining on what a boo-hoo bad lot they've got now the the torys are in power. It is this self important attitude that the world should move around certain individuals that really makes me disappointed, not our new conservative leader.
Which brings me to the question in the title.. will anything feel different now that conservative are in power?... I suppose we can only wait to find out. Although at present, it sort of feels like I'm little again, approaching an important birthday, and on the day, I wake up expecting to feel an extraordinary sense of change and grown-up-ness, and it's just not there.
I am now going to watch The Full Monty, which is showing on E4, which allegedly will enlighten me as to why a Tory government was really bloody awful in the 1980s.
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