In my never-ending quest to stay objective and call contemporary politics as I see it, combined with the modern culture of social-networking, a while back I became a fan of the ‘Conservatives’, ‘the Labour Party’ and the ‘Liberal Democrats’ fan pages, to get up to date news in my Facebook news feed from each of the parties. Granted the news is always biased, but I like to know what the parties think about issues that crop up, whether they think that policies that they announce are going well, and in the process you get nuggets of actual fact about what the parties are up to.
Today, the Conservatives’ fan page announced that you could submit questions to David Cameron’s new and hip ‘webcast’ on education, and rate other suggested questions. So as a student activist, whose primary concern and focus is our education, I thought that I should do my part. I proposed a question regarding what Cameron and the Conservatives intend to do about the HE cuts which are happening across the country – Leeds University recently announced a £35m cut – and how he will ensure every students right to Higher Education.
After submitting my question, I decided to rate the other questions – some of which were pretty much just a question asking why he is such an elitist bell-end – and inevitably came across a question that I thought was just irrelevant. You have three choices when rating a question, a tick – whereby a window tells you that are saying “Yes” to the question – a cross, where the window tells you that you are saying “No” – and finally a choice to skip the question. As I hovered the mouse over the skip button, the windowed switched to “meh…” (as shown in the image) and I realised that this tactic is typical Cameron: all style and no substance.
First of all, the Tories are utilising facebook, a modern and hip website, to induce interactivity in a new and hip ‘webcast’ which will discuss education, when facebook has a phenomenal student population online. Will my question even be considered? No. Will any of the questions even be considered? No. The Conservative party are just playing at being the cool and hip party, but really they will ask the questions that they have prepped for and answer in riddles that will not amount to any real policy.
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