Category:Research Dossier

An introduction to the issue

We as a generation have been shortchanged because not as many young people vote compared to the over 30s, young people are not having our needs met. Rather than thinking of the GENERAL public, politicians have catered to the needs of the over 30s. In a way it makes sense young people have practically alienated themselves from politics by not voting as politicians blocked young people out leaving them out of touch with the way that the government has decided to run Britain. But taking into account that we will be running this country in the very near future. As the oldies reap the benefit of the vote we feel the brunt of the recession and the increase in tuition fees. Enduring 3 or 4 years of self-financed higher education to come out with no real hope of a good and stable job in our chosen fields. Although the elections have passed and won’t happening for at most another 4 years, we decided to and aimed to get more young people to realise the consequences of not voting. This we think is a change from the norm rather than raising the issue at the time of elections we decided to inform young people who will be 18 to 25 in 2015 elections keeping in mind the in which we present our evidence, facts and figures which need to be broken down to make it more understandable for young people who don’t identify with political jargon. We hope by doing this we will be planting a seed which will grow to be an educated vote for the 2015 elections. We want to exploit recent events that affect the lives of young people today to allow them to comprehend what the outcome is, who it will affect and how it will affect them. We will also be simplifying and explaining each political party and what they stand for in addition to the promises they made in the 2010 elections. We will also explain how the coalition works and how it doesn’t work.

The reasons as to why people should support us are clear. To make young people aware of politics and how it works, a well-informed young person makes for an educated vote thus having the voice that will be heard instead of overlooked purely because of young people not voting.