SciFiBoy said:
trashleg said:
SciFiBoy said:
trashleg said:
i think party politics is getting old. i know that sounds crazy but it doesnt seem to be doing much good. we need a sort of all for one and one for all --> aimed at making life good for everyone with minimal involvement kinda attitude.
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depends what you mean by minimal involvment, lol
as for is politics getting old, i think its more that we have an 19th century political system in a 21st century world, it needs modernistaion on almost every front and level.
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well before WW2 the government was nowhere near as intimately involved in people's lives as it is now. at the time its what was needed, and people appreciated it.. but then they got used to it and it just sort of stuck, i guess.
it does need a complete overhaul. whats scary is that we're the generation who have to do it! scary cos i still feel so young lol 
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hmm, before WW2, i dont know about that
im 20, i hope very much to be part of the generation that overhauls politics, lol, dont know how easy it will be, but thats why im applying to do a politics course in september, my ultimate aim is to get a degree in it. 
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It was pre-WW2 that the Liberal party were very popular. WW2 changed people's perceptions, however. It pulled people together, and it built up greater sense of community, and people started voting more left-wing, and so Labour become a whole load more powerful.
The problem was, that although Labour are an economically left-wing party, they're also more authoritarian than the other mainstream parties out there, and so the Government started to play more of a role in people's lives, as trashleg put it (though I'm not 100% agreeing with this, myself).
