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James

James is 19 and has a passion for music and photography. He likes socialising as much as anyone else his age, but doesn't like dressing up to do it.

James thinks young people shouldn't be being bribed to work hard and says it's all down to liberals and their crazy ideas.

I hate liberals. There - I said it. They do my head in. Now I don't want anyone thinking I'm some flag-waving, staunch, Conservative-slash-neo-Nazi who believes that 'Enoch had the right idea', because I'm not. The reason I hate liberals is because they are the reason our country is a joke compared with its former greatness.

I recently read an article about how the nanny state is affecting education in primary schools. There was a small list of things that have been banned in at least one school across the country. The list included football, because 'it encourages competitiveness', and the raising of hands to answer questions, as 'it makes those children who don't know the answer to the question feel victimised'. What sort of future are young people likely to have if they can't deal with failing now?  Oh no, sorry, we can't say 'failing' anymore - it's now called 'having deferred success'.  And now in the ultimate example of a nanny state, babies are going to be assessed on their babbling and gurgling in a national curriculum for the under-5s. Seriously, things are getting out of hand!

I think that teaching us we will succeed no matter what is disgusting and should be stopped.  All it does is make us lazy and content with not being particularly good at anything. The last time I saw my cousin, who's about 9 or 10, he bragged about how he'd failed an English test as if it was some kind of badge of honour. He quickly lost his smile when I verbally shot him down and told him it was nothing to be proud of.

"What sort of future are young people likely to have if they can't deal with failing now? Oh no, sorry, we can't say 'failing' anymore - it's now called 'having deferred success'."

Even the TV's full of it.  Programmes such as Supernanny make me livid.  Teaching parents to talk to their children about their feelings... I'm sorry, you can't reason with a two year-old and explain to them why drawing on the wall is bad, because they don't understand, and more to the point, they don't care.  Smacking has been given a bad reputation in this country because liberals have classed it as being abusive.  Believe me, smacking and hitting are two completely different things.  I was smacked as a child, but it taught me to respect boundaries. 

Do you want to know how to ease race relations in this country?  It's easy; we need to get rid of liberalism and its ideas on multicultural society. There are many diverse cultural groups in this country, which is something I embrace fully, but I believe that multiculturalism doesn't support community, it actually highlights differences, e.g. by taking the word 'pig' out of a school play because it may offend Muslims. It shows people why other nationalities are different from our own, and causes resentment amongst everyone. There's not one religion that has it completely right, but at least they all have positive points you can take from them. 

Liberal attitudes in this country have somehow changed the way we think about achievement. I got 6 As in my GCSEs, something I worked bloody hard to get and I was very happy with my results. Now we hear about misbehaving kids who are given iPods and taken to Alton Towers as a reward for behaving well for a certain length of time. What about me? I never got expelled, always worked hard, and yet I get ignored while ignorant chavs reap the rewards for doing something they're supposed to do anyway. It makes me wonder why I bother trying.

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