Now firstly, HUGE apologies for not posting in over a month. I have been really busy with exams (I'm in the first year of A-levels) and I haven't found much time for being a political activist or for updating my blog in the last few weeks. I'm hoping that with this post I can return to my regular posting.
Now, over the last few weeks I've thought of loads of things I could talk about, but there are too many to really talk about in one post. Suffice it to say I utterly condemn Edward Woollard's harsh sentence and I have signed petitions in protest, I will be going on a London march next month and I think Prince William and Kate are being extremely selfish to make a load of students, such as myself, take a day off from their studies just so that they can get married. They could have done it in the summer.
Now, I'm just going to give a little anecdote that happened to me tonight. Basically, I was the administrator of a Facebook group for the theatre workshop that I am part of to discuss what is going on, and also to socialise. Anyway, tonight I got really annoyed with a few of the members who were basically spamming the Wall and making a nuisance of themselves, so I removed them from the group - not as a permanent thing, just so that everyone including myself could cool off. Anyway, someone else re-added them and everyone was calling for me to be stripped of my admin post, so I emailed the group creator and I asked her to look over the conversation to see if I should leave my post as administrator. She made another group member administrator instead, and I stepped down.
The thing is that I have no regrets at all about what happened tonight. I was obviously quite a dominant leader, because that is my leadership style. I stand by what I did in removing those people, because I felt that they were vandalising the group. But at the end of the day, I do listen to other people, which is why I agreed to step down when the group called for it. If they didn't want me in charge any more, who am I to contest that?
The point of this anecdote is that the way I see it, I did not do anything wrong. All leaders have to make controversial decisions, but the trick is to know when to trust one's own judgement and when to listen to everyone else. I didn't want to be a dictator and continue to run things when the group had made it clear they didn't want me to anymore. This is where David Cameron goes wrong: he always thinks of his own values beyond everyone else's. This is why, much as I enjoy thinking of things I would do, I would never, in real life, want to be Prime Minister. That would go against everything I stand for.
Now, I don't feel like mentioning any more people I admire in this post, but I do have a few in mind for future posts, so please stick around.
Once again, I apologise for leaving it so long to update this :)
