I'm an 18 year old politics student at Glasgow University, and have two sides: the "normal" side of me who works, goes out with friends for drinks, watches the football, chats away on MSN - and on the other side I am a fierce political activist and blogger, openly hostile to my current government in the UK, and a member of the UK Libertarian Party - http://www.lpuk.org
What I'm Reading
Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh
A Piece of Cake, by Cupcake Brown
Hegemony or Survival?, by Noam Chomsky
Subjects I'd Like to Learn More About
Economics Political Philosophy Filmmaking and directing Music Production
An Interesting Fact
My great grandmother gave birth to her first daughter - my grandmother - on her birthday, August 12th. I missed that day by an hour: I was born at 1am on August 13th.
As far as MP's expenses go, it is very easy to fall into the toxic, negative viewpoint, that "they're all it" - they're all corrupt bastards with their snouts in the trough.But for all of us railing against the lack of integrity in our Parliament, it is important to maintain a level of honesty ourselves, and appreciate and acknowledge that there is a whole host of MPs who are doing the best they can, who refuse to mooch of the taxpayer and who refuse to compromise their integrity and the tru... Read Full Story
Via Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire, I found this rather entertaining:"The First Five-Year Plan will focus on stabilising Britain for the future, and is to include the following key points:The immediate removal of Sterling from all Exchange mechanisms;The immediate and complete nationalisation of all private enterprise, to reduce and eventually eliminate Government debt;The elimination of Read Full Story
I can't be bothered analysing what a disgusting, illiberal, socialist, fascist, racist, fucking Nazi society of plebs, paedophiles and slimy wankers that make up the team behind the BNP are - I may get into that another day, but there's a good chance that when I do it will be the most abusively foul-mouthed, crude post this blog has ever seen, because there aren't words to describe how much I utterly despise every single little thing about their ideology. But I'll leave my blog-battering of ... Read Full Story
