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You think the
minimum wage should be increased? Politicians decide. You think more should be
done against ISIS? Politicians decide. You want banks to be open on a Sunday?
Heck, politicians even decide that too.
Anybody who
knows me knows I am a tiny bit of a politics geek, which I think is totally
fine and if anything is pretty useful for me , considering I want to explore a
career in journalism.
Being the
geek I am, when the time came round to choose my options for what I wanted to
study at A-Level, Government and Politics was pretty high on my agenda. I went
to a few open days, where I was repeatedly shown a video called 'If you don't do politics...' showing how politics pops up everywhere in everyday life and is
completely unavoidable.
It was then
that I realised that it really everywhere I looked. I was looking at things in
a whole different light - every time I found myself moaning about what time the
shops shut on a Sunday, or how much of my measly wage packet was being taken
away by the tax man, I realised it was all politics.
Many
students fall into the trap of thinking that politics doesn't affect them and
it's just about old people getting their free bus passes, but they really could
not be more wrong...
Politics
dictates how much your tuition costs. Politics dictates how much you're going
to pay for a loaf of bread. Politics will decide what jobs are available for
you after you finally finish the dreaded dissertation. Politics decides whether
we live in peace or war.
There is
only one way to change the things that people moan about on a daily basis, and
that is to realise the importance of politics and to get involved in it.
Whether you
get involved in politics just by voting, or taking it a step further and
joining a political party, maybe even standing to become an MP someday.
Politics
gives you the power to change things, you'd be pretty stupid if you didn't
grasp it with both hands.
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