Last night I managed to catch a programme on David CaMoron. J tried to watch it with an open mind, but I'm now more certain than ever that the guy is a numpty. Some of his ideas simply hold up to scrutiny: as one professor of politics they interviewed put it, if you actually unpack some of his ideas, you find them barren of substance. For example, unlike Thatcher, CaMoron says he believes in society, but that society isn't the same as the state. He wants things to be community oriented, but wants government to take a back seat. In other words, he wants things like charities to take over the responsibilities of the state.

Is this 2010 or 1860? This is the type of stuff the Tory party were saying in the nineteenth century. Back they then believed the deserving poor should be cared for by charity, and the rest were just lazy. By the turn of the twentieth century, the liberal party had figured out that this system did not work. What is needed is a centralised wealfare state - a top down approach - not a charity based system. My partner and I get benefits - we do not want to rely on charity like some good little cripples. People give to charity to make themselves feel better, to salve their consciousess. They do it by choice, which means it would be an unreliable, under funded system of support. But Tories like this system because they can pay less tax and keep more money; the rest of us can either starve or work harder, or go begging to charities Tories sometimes give to to salve their consciouses. It is an utterly selfish mode of thinking, despite what CaMoron would have us believe. CaMoron's views are patronising, condescending and selfish; in short downright stupid. I'm sorry, but I really do hate that bastard.

Today has a rather anticlimactic feel to it after the excitement of yesterday. I woke up this morning very happy - things went so smoothly and it was great to see everyone. It felt as though it was a landmark event - the first time ever my parents came to visit me and my girlfriend, in the same sense that they might visit Luke and Yan or mark and Kat. In other words, it felt like a landmark in independence. The same applies for Charlie and holly - they were visiting me as they would any of our other friends.

Now, though, its back to the old routine: Lyn's making music, Dan's making a snack, and I just got back from school. In a way it feels like any other normal household. This means that I'm now a family guy; the man of the house. It's just normal, but at the same time I'm proud to have achieves this state.

Just a quick note to say what a truly great day today has been. This morning, my parents visited: our meeting want well, and we all got on like a house on fire. I think mum and dad really like Lyn, and she likes them very much. Shortly after, Charlie and holly came by - coincidence would have it that they visited on the same day, but my parent had left by thee time my friends got here. Marta had made a fantastic roast, so between both parties nothing went to waste.

It was great to catch up with them all.. mum and dad seem well, as do Charlie and holly. Lyn and I have had a great time. I'd been worried that something would go wrong, but it all went very well indeed. I've written before on how much I love my parents, and how dearly I think of my friends, so right now I'm pretty much the happiest guy on earth.

I know I said yesterday I was going to leave politics alone for a bit, but I was just watching CaMoron speaking in Wales, and it made me angry. I honestly think that, despite his eloquence, the guy is actually a bit stupid. He talks of spending more for less, but doesn't say how;; he says there are too many people on benefits, but doesn't understand that there are reasons for that other than sloth. CaMoron says he wants to cut beurocracy, criticising the number of checks and balances - how else do we establish whether what we are doing is right? Dad's a quality control manager; I picked up enough from him to know that these systems are necessary. In other words, I think CaMoron is criticising things because he simply doesn't understand them. The guy is thick. How can we possibly elect this moron?

Thinking back on what I wrote yesterday, last night it struck me that I could be being a bit idealistic and arrogant in my politics. I was going on about people contributing to civilisation, and so on. That is to say, I was writing from a particular background, in a particular paradigm - writing as one brought up with a set of middle class values. Thus ii write about 'bigger pictures', civilisation', and so on. I sometimes forget that other people don't have those values; people to whom big ideas like the future of mankind doesn't matter as much as earning enough money to put food on the table. I can see their point. The thing is, last night I asked myself: who am I to impose my ideas of a socialist utopia on such people? if it were to be implemented, wouldn't it mean forcing a certain set of values on others, something which contradicts my belief in liberalism and democracy? Thus the very ideals which give birth to socialism - equality, freedom, liberalism - also mean it can never work. So much for that idea.

Anyway, I think that's enough of that. In other news, on Sunday both my parents and Charlie and holly are coming to visit, but not at the same time. Should be fun.