Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Next Generation.

Just like Johnny Rotten, who so eloquently told Virgin Records to forget about the ‘bollocks’ (the album cover, title, sleeve notes etc) when asked about the design on his first official album. The government seems to have taken a similar approach to dealing with the younger generation, to be fair most of us can’t even vote yet, and with the media ramming language such as ‘yobs’ and ‘hoodlums’ down the forty-something’s throat it’s probably in the government’s best interests to push us adolescents to the back of it’s mind. The government is more interested in what the tabloids have got to say, I mean after all ‘it’s the Sun what won it’.

Take the illegalisation of the drug Mephedrone; sold as a ‘plant fertiliser’ the drug can induce feelings of euphoria and alertness, great. Side effects include; nosebleeds, paranoia, fits and death. Not so great. Although the drug became the fourth most popular drug in the UK at the beginning of 2009, it wasn’t until now in 2010 and the newspapers started publishing reports of teenagers running riot that the government even contemplated banning the substance. Now let me think, if there were enough people taking the drug in 2009 to make it the fourth most popular drug then there must have been enough people who experienced the negative effects of the drugs too. Oh, and there’s the whole ‘it’s killed teenagers and been banned in other countries’ thing too.

Politics affects everyone but somehow we seem to have been swept under the rug and forgotten about. Well until one day a naïve party leader will take a peek under the rug at these strange creatures and come up with an insanity such as ‘Web-Cameron’ to give an impression of a ‘cool’ ‘hip’ ‘young’ leader we all want as our Prime Minister (FYI David, trying to be cool makes you seriously uncool. Any seven year old will tell you that).

With the general election looming it’s important all those of you who can vote, vote! Don’t just sit there, get involved! Write letters to your local MP, find out who your local MP is! Make your voice heard.

SKA