Put your money where your mouth is...
Posted by PaulHurst on Thursday, 01 March 2007 21:17:15
Something finally snapped inside today. How can we be better off as a nation when taxes are sky high and public sector workers (such as Nurses) languish over a 1.9% pay rise which is BELOW the rate of inflation?
I don't work in the public sector and I wouldn't consider myself to be a political 'boffin' but enough is enough I say, and instead of just agreeing more and more with the conservative philosophy, today I joined the party.
Now let me say, when I woke up this morning, I didn't feel political. I am no economist with a pin-stripe suit, I live in Wigan and never even went to University but isn't it time that more everyday people got involved with politics? Isn't it time for people to do something positive for their country and community? And isn't it just about time that the failing Labour party bowed out with Tony Blair who may be a nice bloke, but an awful liar?
I don't quite know what to do with my membership. It cost me the same amount of money as a night out around town (less actually if you include the kebab!), I presume I may be able to head off to the seaside this summer for the conference and who knows? I may even appear in the background on BBC Parliament but I think I'm looking for much more.
As a practising Christian (practising being the ideal adjective), I feel duty bound to put something back in to my community and the lives of the less fortunate so although my membership fees may be going into a bank account with more noughts than most, I will be making recompense, or penance by looking to put my faith into action through this new avenue of politics. A road that wasn't open to me when I woke up this morning.
In closing, I will be honest and say that I don't quite know what to expect, but I left the box blank by 'disallow your local Conservative association to contact you' so who knows what may happen?
I may be just an ordinary bloke who's connecting with the Conservative culture, but in for a penny, in for a pound I say.
Paul Hurst
www.paulhurst.blogspot.com
Post edited by PaulHurst on Thursday, 01 March 2007 21:32:39
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