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USE YOUR VOTE TO KILL THE OLD

Yep, this is it. Tomorrow is your chance to vote the Baby Boomer Illuminati out of power, so you may as well listen to what Neil Boorman has to say on the matter. Here is his step-by-step guide to getting your future out of the hands of greedy middle-aged Masonic lizards. PLAN OF ACTION

STEP 1.
CHOOSE YOUR CANDIDATE
Log on to www.itsalltheirfault.com.
You'll find a full list of candidates standing in your local area, together with their age and the party they belong to. Choose a candidate under the age of 46. If there isn't a young candidate standing, choose someone aged 65 and over.

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STEP 2.
MAIL YOUR CANDIDATE
You'll find a ready-written letter on the website. Email it to the candidate that you're going to vote for. They need to know why you're giving them your vote, and this will do the job.

STEP 3.
VOTE
Whatever you do on Election Day, make sure you vote. And make sure you vote non-Boomer. Imagine, waking up the day after the election with a new generation in power. With enough young people in parliament, we could force the government to abolish tuition fees, or bring back student grants. We could force them to build affordable homes for us, get tough on city fat cats, or speed up action on the environment. We could even force Boomers to work longer for their pensions. Anything is possible if we are in charge.

There are 24 million people under the age of 46 eligible to vote in the UK. Only 27 million people voted in the last general election. We can make a difference if we all get out and vote.

REMOVE ALL DOUBT
Make no mistake, a vote against Boomers isn't ageist; it's a vote against a single generation. If you can't find a young candidate in your area, you should vote for a pensioner. Having lived through the Depression and/or the last war, pensioners, at the very least, understand the value of prudence and selflessness. Don't be fooled into thinking that young politicians lack the necessary experience. We couldn't possibly do a worse job than the Baby Boomers. As Chloe Smith, the youngest MP in Parliament says, "If you're good enough, you're old enough."

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People often say they don't vote because all the major parties seem the same, and they're right: they are. Ever since the Boomers took office in the Eighties the old distinctions of Left and Right have been blurred into policies that only benefited them.

Let's be realistic: not every person over the age of 45 is selfish or on the fiddle. But time and again, Baby Boomers have proved that, when they're left in charge, they are incapable of acting beyond their own self-interest. They don't even make amends when they're caught.

The big banks, which we were forced to bail out, have just paid themselves billions in bonuses again. And the MPs' expenses scandal? Most politicians think they've done nothing wrong. "We're expected to live on rations," says MP Alan Duncan, the man David Cameron chose to sort out Tory expense claims. "We're treated like shit," he says. This is the man who charged the public £4,000 for the upkeep of his lawn.

THE TIME IS NOW
It doesn't matter who you vote for, so the old saying goes, the government always wins. But the government we vote in will be less selfish and greedy if we give ourselves a voice. We have a responsibility to act; not only to ourselves, but to our own kids. Apathy is no longer an option. Ignoring the problem will only make it worse. We've been left with a £754 billion bill to pay back; the highest national debt for more than thirty years. Our parents won't be paying any of that money off themselves; they'll be retired before we make a down payment on the interest.

The choice is simple. We can sit back and watch the Baby Boomers pour our future down the drain. Or we can take control and make plans for ourselves.

Excerpted from It's All Their Fault click here for part one, part two, part three, part four and this interview