[/caption]Who remembers when David Cameron first came on to the scene as the leader of the Conservatives? I, for one, most certainly do. Not many people are willing to let him forget about that now infamous suggestion that in order to cut crime we should all, "Hug-a-Thug". If you are being serious with yourself and look at it rationally you can see he had good intentions, maybe just not the best of implementations. If you're not being serious with yourself, well no-one takes you seriously anyway.
In my humble opinion, Mr Cameron has come a VERY long way since his early days and has shown himself to be a serious contender for the next General Elections, perhaps, the first Conservative Prime Minister since, (I'm too young to remember this, but I do), John Major, who in turn I remember for his puppet double on the TV program, 'Spitting Image', see, I remember too much despite my age at the time. But the point remains that David Cameron has changed his approach and, going from recent news reports, is now using teh rebuilding of family values as a strong point in his campaign. And how it is going down well with the UK. The only reason why I am writing about Mr Cameron is because two of my previous blogs have generally been foucussing on topics such as shag bands and sexualisation of young people, in not so many words.
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[/caption]This evening in the Daily Telegraph an article was published in which the Conservative leader vowed to halt the "excessive commercialisation and sexualisation" of children and I say, he's hit the nail on the head and buried it - SPOT ON, Mr Cameron.
I'm not a political young person, I do not vote and rarely watch BBC Parliament although I have been to the Houses of Parliament and spoken in the House of Lords, but there are times when I feel, as a young person, some comment on current issues, would not go amiss, what do we, as young people have to lose by doing so? Street credibility? Come on, once you reach 21 that means nothing to you you have bills to pay and you owe the government taxes. Get involved in issues that will soon affect you directly from now and better prepare yourself for tomorrow.
Back to the point in hand.
Mr Cameron, in my humble opinion, yes it is humble, has shown that he does understand where the problem lies, it is not just with young people, but also with those who bring our young people into existence, the parents. The problem in itself is, not only, the apparent death of family values, but also the lack of power parents have due to the hold commercial companies have mustered over their children.
Imagine this for reality, despite Mr Cameron potentially being the next most powerful man in Britain, he still has to fight ( not literally) with his 6 year-old daughter in order to try and moderate how much time she spends listening to explicit lyrics from Lily Allen. It is a power-play between companies and parents and the parents are being put to the sword as companies seduce their children with glamorous products, that can expose a child to arenas they cannot fully understand.
Mr Cameron said,"What we are saying is that you can't cut children off from the commercial world, of course you can't, but we should be able to help
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[/caption]parents more in terms of trying to make sure that our children get a childhood and that they are not subject to unnecessary and inappropriate commercialisation and sexualisation too young."
Childhood such an important thing, an adult without childhood becomes what? Michael Jackson is a prime example of this, a child locked in a mans body that had yet to be let out to explore the world, so what we got was a surreal performer but a yearning child inside.
Do we want to create a society of children who yearn for a better past?
Like, the Conservative leader said, we cannot cut children off from the commercial world, because now or 10 years time, it will always be apart of their environment.
That said, the problems are there for all to see, but instead of becoming a
society of complainers, perhaps we should begin to develop a community of solution-based thinking. David Cameron has shown through his own daughter that he too, a man of considerable power, is susceptible to the pitfalls that befall us.
There is an old adage, "it takes a village to raise a child", at the rate of current problems that young people are facing, this has never been truer.
I won't be voting Conservative, nor will I be voting Labour, but Mr Cameron has put a foot right with this statement.
It is time for us, the people of the UK, to start creating to villages, put FAMILY FIRST and tackle, together, the issues that face, not just young people but our society as a whole.
"NO MAN IS AN ISLAND"
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