Dear Mr Cameron,
I have one question that I would like to ask you.
I think; you fought to get Nick Clegg on your side by using some form of persuasion. So my question to you is;
Why did you BULLY him in to siding with you?
Persuasion is just an educated form of bullying is it not?
(Courtesy of Oxford Dictionary)
(Persuade - induce someone to do something through reasoning or argument)
(Bully - a person who uses strength or influence to intimidate those who are weaker)
Your response would be along the line of; “to form a coalition, to help the Conservative party sort out all the mess left behind by Labour”
Why was siding with your party the best thing for Britain though?
According to the Conservatives website;
“David Cameron's philosophy has always been making sure people are in control and that politicians are their servants, not their masters”
That is the EXACT philosophy I wish for Britain but, I am afraid to say, I think the way you are going about it is completely WRONG!!!
We have just come out of a long decade of Labour control. We have problems with the economy, unemployment, personal and national debt. We are at war in so many countries all over the world to try to help their people have more control over their own country, which is a good concept, I can agree with that. What I cannot agree with is the fact that we are constantly helping other countries while our country is set on self destruct!
Instead of UNDERSTANDING the working class and being a little bit more caring about ALL of the British population, you clamp down on benefits, cast aside people who have possibly had a hard time in life or have a disability and are probably frustrated that their bodies will not allow them to reach their full potential. I understand that there are MANY people out there who do know how to work the ‘system’ and illegitimately claim benefits. These types of people ruin a perfectly good concept of ‘system’. We will always have people like this, unless we help them NOW!
The way to ‘help’ them, is not to force them to find a job so they can support their own family. The only way, I think, is to help them work out what it is they want to do with their life first and then lead them in the right direction!
I know a LOT of people on benefits, in fact, I am one of them. In my situation, I have MS which is not the easiest thing to live with and my body would not cope with a lot of stress. Therefore, being told I have to work would result in me having a LOT more relapses and spending more time in hospital and needing more prescriptions on the NHS. I really cannot see my body letting me be a reliable employee or any kind of asset to the country in monetary terms.
Most of the people I know that live on benefits; also live on anti-depressants. They are frustrated that; they can’t find a job; the only jobs they are ‘qualified for’ are poorly paid; the job centre staff seem heartless (sometimes) and order people to get any job, whether it makes them happy or suicidal; their families have to suffer as a result of their failures in life, from school to employability; and so forth.
All we ever hear about on the news are new rules being made for benefits, more laws being passes, and more politicians shouting at each other to figure out what’s going to ‘fix’ Britain. The statistics that we are all shown on fancy graphs generally ALL relate to MONEY! Surely, our priorities should not be money but creating a good HAPPY place for British people to live. We are only a little island, can just about see a dot to represent us on a small globe, so why are we so sure that our way of living is the best in the world? Can we not learn from other countries and adopt some of their cultures to make Britain a better place? We are, after all, now a multi-cultural society but all being forced to live by old fashioned rules and laws.
South African children do not start school until they are 7 years old. Before this age they are taught the BASICS! Their parents teach them how to do things for themselves so they are able to be as independent as they can. An independent child still needs their parents to care for them but they generally grow up knowing what they want to do in life, whether it is academic or not. I know many South African people, my closest and oldest friend is South African, and moved to Britain after beginning school so never had the experience of nursery before school as her mum was a stay-at-home mum to help bring her and her sisters up but her dad worked hard enough to provide for the whole family. Since moving here, her mum still hasn’t worked but does not claim ANY benefits as the wages from her dad’s job is enough for them to get by, and they are happy!
My friend now has 2 children under 5; the oldest is at nursery and could start school this year, age wise. My friend, however, thinks he has not got the hang of being disciplined in a classroom situation. He is at home but nursery is a different story because they are too strict with what they do and at what time. He was never forced to have a strict routine at home as both his parents are very laid back and decide things like bed time and tea time by the kids mood rather than time of day. They are not neglected in any form as they are the happiest children I have ever known. Surely, that is the best thing for a child to be. It really doesn’t matter if they are going to go on to be king or a cleaner, as long as they have a happy life.
If every person is different, then every child must be different. Do you agree? I hope so as a child IS a person. Therefore, why are ALL children made to start school at 4 or 5? I know children learn best under the age of 7 (I studied Psychology at University before becoming ill). However, what gives Britain the right to force children to start school at 4 or 5? Surely the things that children learn under the age of 7 should be the way to live a happy life, rather than how to read and write. I know, in America, there are some children with very high IQs who graduate from University before they are even old enough for High school, they are a prime example of my point. If they were forced to go through the British school system, their potential would have been lost because it is not ‘doing it by the book’. What book?! The rules the government set in order to make everybody reach their academic potential, not necessarily their happiest LIFE potential!
I do not think that every child starting at 7 would work either but why do we not allow the parents to have the control over when their child starts? They know their own child better than any nursery teacher, politician or doctor. By doing this, I think, there would be classes of mixed age groups, mixed cultures, mixes genders. I also think this would make the children happier and feel less like a failure if they can’t do something because they are not as clever as class mates. Every child has the potential to be ‘perfect’. But whose version of ‘perfect’ is right? Yours? Mine? A homeless teenager’s? The Queen’s? Whose?
I think the only people that can be ‘perfect’ are ones who are not prejudice at all! Which neither you, nor any other of the political parties in Britain, can claim to be!
Conservatives; discriminate against the population of Britain who are the product of generations being dragged up through our supposed ‘democratic’ system but not one that had the chance to reach their potential in an academic sense as they were not ready to learn when they started school so rebelled against teachers and authority from a young age, so don’t want to vote or even understand how to.
Labour; discriminate against the fortunate population in Britain to have a decent monetary worth in this country, and generally, voters for the Conservatives. They try to encourage the working class they are just as important as the rest of the population. I agree they are, if not of more importance. Working class people NEED to work! If they are lucky enough to have had an easy start to life and have the qualifications to get their ‘dream’ job, they are more important to the society than those with the job they were made to stick with.
Liberal Democrats; discriminate against every single person that voted FOR them in the last election by signing with yourselves instead of Labour. I know you were the popular option because people were all against Labour but, in reality, the policies you both have are too different to lead to a happier place to live.
Here are some worrying statistics...
There are an estimated 50,000,000 adults in Britain, yet less than 30,000,000 people voted. What about the rest of the population? They either didn’t want to vote or didn’t understand the importance of voting. Neither of which is the individuals fault!
After all the ‘scandal’ happening within parliament over the last few years, mainly the expenses fiasco, people who do understand the importance of voting couldn’t care less anymore because they say “politicians are all the same”. They are right. Every politician believes they know the answer to Britain’s problems. But they don’t! They might be well educated and from a long line of success, much like yourself. Generally, I think, money rules what decisions are made by the government, we are always hearing about budgets and government cuts. Why is money so important?! It is the ‘root of all evil’ or so the saying says, not a weapon to use against others.
As for people who do not understand the importance of voting, they tend to be those without a good education. Nothing they could control when growing up, as they were forced to do certain things at a certain age, instead of when they were mentally ready to start learning the academic side of life. By academic, I don’t mean learning mathematics, science, history, and any other subject we are told we HAVE to study. I simply mean the side of life that means they need to know the way certain things work in order to make their lives happy. Being able to read, write and do basic maths is important to function in today’s world. The internet is used more than anything else, so people need to know how to find out what they need to know. Put simply, a person without the skill to read, write and do basic maths will always feel like a failure because they will always feel cut off from society and the rest of the world.
I think we can all safely say that the current ‘system’ in Britain is not working! The more you do as Prime Minister, stuck in your ways as a conservative leader, without any room for sympathy, will break the country more and we will end up killing each other!!
I think that the 3 main parties in Britain should put their ego aside and ALL join forces, EQUALLY! There should be no prime minister. Just three main advisors that democratically come up with new laws, rules and ‘traditions’ that will help ‘fix’ Britain without having to completely destroy it first!
Throughout this letter I have referred to our country as Britain. It is actually Great Britain but I deliberately left out the ‘Great’ at each reference as I do not THINK this country is Great, but I do like my life in the UK. Why can we not concentrate on being a United Kingdom, instead of everyone forced to be ‘Great’ British, and anyone that fails anywhere along the line either physically or mentally, will feel like complete failures and the only way out, as they cannot afford to leave the country, is death.
By putting “suicide rates uk 2010” into Google, there is a long list of articles in newspapers, reporting an increase in suicide within Britain. Adult statistics seem to always surround money; whether that is losing a job, getting in so much debt that they feel they have no other option, or living on benefits and feeling stupid just because they cannot get a ‘good’ job because of their education. There is the other side of suicide, children and teenagers. All the cases of suicide I know of; be it personally or through news programmes, are linked to some form of bullying. This does not happen to be a coincidence. Young people feel they have no control over their own life when they are being bullied, I know, I was bullied from 5 until 16 at school and then again when I got a ‘proper’ job because I wasn’t good at getting sales.
The only control we, as individuals, have over our life is whether we live or die. I have been suicidal many times throughout my younger life. However, I always talked myself out of it as I knew it would upset my mum as we were very close. I could imagine what it would do to her so I just kept quiet, for her sake.
Instead of complaining to everybody I care for and being locked up in a mental hospital, or labelled as Schizophrenic, I decided to share my thought with the only man in this country that COULD actually do something about it.
I can’t; I am a 26 year old MS, depression and anxiety sufferer who has tried my entire life to do the ‘right’ thing and my body gave up before I had the chance to get to where I was meant to be, my purpose in life! Instead of giving up at many low points throughout my life, I kept going and I am now glad that I did as I am truly happy and the only thing that has made me happy is finally being honest with MYSELF in my head instead of just going along with things like we are expected to. My head and heart are finally on the same page and I intend to use my new way of thinking as a positive thing instead of a negative. This is what led to me writing this letter.
I would very much appreciate an HONEST reply from yourself with the option to reply with my opinion on the way you reply to me.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, we have got the right to freedom of speech, I just wanted my opinion to be told to the man at the top, rather than driving my nearest and dearest mad with my constant talking about things I know can be changed.
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