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I've moved from one social situation to another in the past two years. I've gone from living in one place to another, and things are different in the real world that lies beyond Accrington.

Lancaster has a large amount of support for the Green Party for a start, a party which isn't really that influential in Accrington. You become of more issues at University than ever before. I went to Labour because I thought that as a student from a working class background they would appreciate my input, as the 'class ceiling' in a big issue at the moment and even more so in this economic downturn. Instead I was called twice in a 7 month period and this was to put up a poster. They didn't know anything about me or what I believed in, they base their following on faceless statistics.

YOU are faceless statistics. If you want to remain that way then vote for labour. It doesn't care about your individual needs, it cares about its vote count and its revenue. That's the problem with socialism really, looking at the average opinion of the masses and not at the variables, letting those most in need slip under the radar.

How many of you have actually been in my position? This is today, not your day. The youth of today don't go out and work in the local shops and consider that hard work, that's the easy option these days. I know students who hold down full time jobs alongside their studies, I'm just fortunate enough to have a flexible job where I get to do a lot of meaningful work with young people, many of which are from this town and those close by.

I do what I do with my full commitment and I'm not getting that from Labour in return, who are meant to be representing me. If it is so bad that I have lost faith in them well then fine. But at least I care enough to say so, which is better than just blindly accepting it.