Worth Fighting For?

[Smiffy]

I think the last mass protest in the UK that actually achieved anything was the Poll Tax riots back in the late eighties, even then they just watered it down slightly and changed the name to the community charge or something like that, nothing really changed.

How many of us have been on a protest recently ? not many I would guess. I expect the most any of us do is sign the odd e-petition now and then.

In one way we are just as guilty as the Jeremy Kyle generation. We may have different reasons for not sticking our heads above the parapet, they cant be arsed and we dont want to draw attention to ourselves, but in the end the result is the same, new laws come in restricting our freedom but no one does anything about it

It may be selfish and the wrong way of looking at things but these days I just look after me and mine and keep my head down, I tried all the protesting and complaining years ago when I was young and enthusiastic and it achieved absolutely sod all. It maybe a selfish attitude but experience has taught me that my opinions and views are irrelevant to the people in charge of the country and i'm deluding myself if i think otherwise

The worrying thing to me is that even the young people who in the past would protest about anything and everything only seem to want to protest about tuition fees these days. If even idealistic students can't be bothered to protest anymore then we really are struggling, a whole nation that can't be arsed to protest must be a governments dream.