What does Politics mean to you?

A word that should actually spark people’s imaginations, and get them involved in deciding their future and what impacts them has actually become the opposite of that. We as a society now see the world of politics as something completely alien; there is us the hard working people of Britain, and them; the politicians in their glass towers with huge egos to match their huge salaries.

Who am I?

Apart from being the author of this blog, which in itself is quite important, I am studying for a degree in Politics and International Relations at university. Please though, I don’t want you to think that my degree has any bearing on my importance with politics. I am just like you; a normal citizen engaged in society, your vote has the same weight as mine. The only difference is that I might understand some aspects of this murky world filled with jargon a little easier.

So then, what actually is this blog about? Why is it useful to me?

Whenever I’ve spoken to bloggers they always point out an event that inspired them enough to then go and set up a blog expressing their views. Unfortunately for you readers, I don’t really have that fairytale ‘blogging dream’ in the classic sense. Recent events like the election in 2015, and the Labour leadership contest really opened my eyes to concerns that ordinary people around me had.

Everybody kept complaining that “all politicians are the same” and “we never actually understand what they’re talking about”.

If this sounds like you, then this blog could really be the next best thing to understanding (apart from paying £27k for a politics degree obviously, which I can promise you is great value for money). I will be explaining key concepts, ideas and current events that happen throughout the life of this blog in the hope that ordinary people can realise the value of being involved. Politics should not be something that is enforced on you, but rather a process that everybody gets involved with, after all- isn’t that the whole point of democracy?