Youth involved in Politics
Discussion
After watching Question Time last night I did notice that the audience had a significant proportion of the audience were younger than usual.
Does it show that in Northern Ireland the youth are actually getting involved in politics?
I know many people my own age have absolutely no interest in politics and it is shocking that the future generations have absolutely no interest in how their country is run.
Does this show that those in Northern Ireland are interested in their own futures after several years of murdering each other (of which murderer was allowed to sit on the panel)? Or does it just show the youth are a little more educated in northern Ireland?
Maybe a bit of civil unrest will help to get a lot of people involved in how their country is run.
Does it show that in Northern Ireland the youth are actually getting involved in politics?
I know many people my own age have absolutely no interest in politics and it is shocking that the future generations have absolutely no interest in how their country is run.
Does this show that those in Northern Ireland are interested in their own futures after several years of murdering each other (of which murderer was allowed to sit on the panel)? Or does it just show the youth are a little more educated in northern Ireland?
Maybe a bit of civil unrest will help to get a lot of people involved in how their country is run.
Most people my age (30) have no interest in politics either, luckily there are an awful lot of kids that do have an interest. The problem is getting them to be interested in national politics first means that you have to get them interested at a local level in decisions that affect them now, even down to school council level where they decide things that seem trivial to most adults.
The big issue is that kids dislike being lied to or ignored, this is something that politics with a big P does on an almost daily basis to all of us, if a party changed the way they did things and offered referendums on big decisions that actually affect peoples lives more young people would take notice. As it is apathy is the order of the day, and will be as long as the civil service managers are the real decision makers.
The big issue is that kids dislike being lied to or ignored, this is something that politics with a big P does on an almost daily basis to all of us, if a party changed the way they did things and offered referendums on big decisions that actually affect peoples lives more young people would take notice. As it is apathy is the order of the day, and will be as long as the civil service managers are the real decision makers.
elster said:
Does this show that those in Northern Ireland are interested in their own futures after several years of murdering each other (of which murderer was allowed to sit on the panel)? Or does it just show the youth are a little more educated in northern Ireland?
Or naive enough to think it makes any difference.
OK Boys and Girls you have been taught indoctrinated from an early age as to what matters (you don't!).
Answer all together now...
Green is a) a colour? or b) an environmental issue?
'B! AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE'
Well done class!
Indoctrination complete for next stage...
Answer all together now...
Green is a) a colour? or b) an environmental issue?
'B! AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE'
Well done class!
Indoctrination complete for next stage...
Edited by dandarez on Friday 12th February 22:40
Back on topic. I turned 18 in November and am excited to vote in my first election, but thats because I study Politics at A level and am going to Newcastle University to Study it in September!
I run my sixth form house council (it's a fairly pointless thing but yeah)
I met Blair a few years back when he came to my school, I think thats where my interest in politics came from. Now my main interest are civil liberties within politics, that sort of thing is very interesting to me.
I run my sixth form house council (it's a fairly pointless thing but yeah)
I met Blair a few years back when he came to my school, I think thats where my interest in politics came from. Now my main interest are civil liberties within politics, that sort of thing is very interesting to me.
The trouble with young people getting interested in politics is that they tend to fall into two camps - idiotic greenies and anti capitalists or young conservatives - and it's not entirely clear who is worse.
At least the bone nose brigade think they're cool, and sometimes get to smash windows at a G8 summit or similar, as young people should. They're anti capitalist as far as daddy's allowance enables them to be.
Then there's the half mast trousered, real ale drinking oik that is the young Tory. These people hate being young and want nothing more than to be middle aged. I was always fairly right wing as well, so I met a few people of this ilk. I actually nearly came to blows with one once just because he was so irritating.
Why should yoof be more uinvolved with politics? Politics is mainly a boring and pointless business, and if you don't even have the reference point of things being better in the past to rave about then you're bound to end up thinking something that is very seriously wrong.
Young people have drink, drugs, cars, loud music and girls and that should be enough for them.
Remember that video of William Hague? That probably ruined him. Had it been a video of an 18 year old Hague stumbling around drunk with a stripper on his arm he would probably be prime minister now. People would have thought, look, there's a normal person like me. As it was, people thought, there's a man who is not only a politician now, but he was even a politician when he was a teenager. He has no frame of reference for being a normal person.
I actually quite like Hague, and think he would be a much better PM than CMD, but someone in his PR team should have been shot over that. Contrast with CMDs much better PR team who managed to get stories about recreational drug use to drown out any embarassing young tory stuff, and you have a future PM in the waiting.
At least the bone nose brigade think they're cool, and sometimes get to smash windows at a G8 summit or similar, as young people should. They're anti capitalist as far as daddy's allowance enables them to be.
Then there's the half mast trousered, real ale drinking oik that is the young Tory. These people hate being young and want nothing more than to be middle aged. I was always fairly right wing as well, so I met a few people of this ilk. I actually nearly came to blows with one once just because he was so irritating.
Why should yoof be more uinvolved with politics? Politics is mainly a boring and pointless business, and if you don't even have the reference point of things being better in the past to rave about then you're bound to end up thinking something that is very seriously wrong.
Young people have drink, drugs, cars, loud music and girls and that should be enough for them.
Remember that video of William Hague? That probably ruined him. Had it been a video of an 18 year old Hague stumbling around drunk with a stripper on his arm he would probably be prime minister now. People would have thought, look, there's a normal person like me. As it was, people thought, there's a man who is not only a politician now, but he was even a politician when he was a teenager. He has no frame of reference for being a normal person.
I actually quite like Hague, and think he would be a much better PM than CMD, but someone in his PR team should have been shot over that. Contrast with CMDs much better PR team who managed to get stories about recreational drug use to drown out any embarassing young tory stuff, and you have a future PM in the waiting.
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