Fame Academy or the general election?
 Depressing fact of the day: more 18 to 24 year-olds claim to have voted in reality TV shows than intend to vote in a May general election. Well, at least according to a YouGov poll published by The Daily Telegraph today. But don't despair - this isn't the same tired cliché of 'youth apathy'. In the same poll a large majority of young people said that, though party politics leaves them cold, they are interested in how leaders handle issues such as war and poverty. Approximately two-thirds expressed concern about the prospect of wars like the one in Iraq, and about the environment and global warming. And, to confirm that young people are concerned about the world at large, none other than yours truly (Oxfam!) was joint-top of a list of 'heroes', with our own hero Nelson Mandela coming in second.
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So, what do you think? Are you going to vote in the next election? Do you care more about Kim Metcalfe than Gordon Brown? How should our politicians engage with us? Leave your comments below...
posted at 2:20 PM
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What this tells me is that politicians should adopt the reality show format during their campaigns, in an effort to target this demographic. Stuffy debates are fine for the "older" people ;)
We should get our politicians to compete on TV by singing, starving them on an island, eating insects, and otherwise humiliating them before this massive audience of young adults. What better segue to interest them in the deeper issues? Hey, throw in a debate between piggy-back races!
By dMervyn,
March 07, 2005 2:50 PM
Genius Mervyn! I can just imagine Prescott belting out 'Easy Lover' or 'Sex Bomb' before an adoring public. Or Michael Howard doing a bush-tucker trial with Ant & Dec. He he.
By ,
March 07, 2005 3:14 PM
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