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Red Son
14th November 2014, 13:52
Ugh seeing these 'young people' in their formal wear smiling at William Hague makes my skin crawl. Our future law-makers, my fellow British subjects, hoo-fucking-ray.
I'm sure there are some behind such schemes as this that have only the best of intentions re engaging the disaffected youth, but I don't see how it could ever really work. They think that putting a hashtag in front of a boring and cynical event to garner more votes come 2015 and beyond is what's needed to make people less politically apathetic. Probably find there are more young people being politically active than they think, just not the the Westminster circus of parties, Parties and polls.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30041158

The Idler
28th November 2014, 19:21
Yep, largely spot on but UKYP is not that significant. A wiki quote says 'Although the idea has been widely praised both inside and outside of government, a 2004 Department for Education and Skills report found that not a single person taking part in their consultation had even heard of UKYP.'

They did debate capitalism in 2009 though.