Now that Ed Milliband is leader of the Labour Party......?

Top up fees are awful! I am being taxed (basically) for trying to get an education that will allow me to get a better job, and therefore benefit the economy more than if I worked in a corner shop or call centre. The economy also means that a lot of my friends who have just left school or uni are unable to get a job, and are basically being shoved on job seekers, with no help to find a job, and no help to find further training.

Thanks to Labour wanting everyone, academically talented or not, to go to university, plenty of people who get good grades can't get in because there isn't enough space, whilst local collages close due to lack of funding, and kids who should be in college are doing university courses in things like IT management or media studies, when it would be much better if this money was spent on having more people in academic subjects that are not just glorified college courses, like physics, maths, history etc. I know the expansion of universities was started by the Tories, but Labour have taken it to extremes. A severe lack of affordable homes means that I am looking at having to pay over £100 a week just to rent one room in a house, instead of being able to put down a deposit on a flat or small house. I know bankers on £40k a year who are 30 years old and still live with their parents because they're still paying off their student debt, and after tax they can't afford to buy a house in or around London - so how are others who are less well off supposed to find housing?

I went to a school where there was one history book between four, no science text books for months, and a 'temporary' building that had been there for 80 years, yet the government gave them money for flat screen TVs...someone doesn't have their priorities right I feel. Luckily, I went to the local grammar school - things were even worse at the comprahensives, and at least we got decent grades at the end of it. My grandfather died recently, but before he died we were looking for a residential (not a care home) home for him to move into because he no longer wished to live on his own.

Unfortunately, Labour doesn't care about old people, so not only were there no spaces in local homes, but it would have been impossible for us to get any financial help - meaning this man who fought for his country in the navy, paid taxes all his life, and saved for his old age was unable to afford to live well and decently without having to sell his home, and rely on help from his family. He was also shunted from hospital department to hospital department, being denied treatment that could save his life (not even expensive treatment - just antibiotics for pnumonia) despite him being otherwise healthy and having a high chance of recovery with the right treatment, just because has old - we were told as much by a doctor. It is a disgrace that our old people are treated like this.

Oh, and they've ruined my boxing day by banning fox hunting.

The problem with asking this question on this forum is, the majority of people who saw the CONS for what they are, are not in the age-group that has any interest in this kind of communication medium. Mostly the young, who've had years and years of hearing Tory love stories from the Tory media - regardless of the decades of profound misery that the Tories caused - are present to answer your question. The truth is that, while the vast majority are much better of under this government, the Tory media tells everybody that the country is sinking.

Conservative governments rely upon the young and easily fooled to win elections - that's why they destroyed the education system the last time they were in power - so the new middle age don't have the intelligence to know when they are being lied to. Each of the complaints that you have presented are NOTHING compared to the suffering and hardship that Thatcher and Major caused this country. Everything that the "news" media has drilled into your mind as an issue, is exaggerated beyond all belief.

I could talk for years about the misery that Conservative governments cause.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.