Wednesday, 11 February 2015

An idiot's guide to politics - Research


Deciding on the topic that I wanted this whole brief to focus around was an overwhelming feat to decide upon. I began by visiting news websites, reading news papers and seeing what was trending on reddit to gather some inspiration which strayed away from the normal of 'politics, healthy eating, animals' etc.

As mentioned topics such as political change mainly Facebook's 'Educate inspire change' and Anonymous immediately interested me but as mentioned before, and with meetings with my tutors, I was advised to get to grips with a more light hearted topic which I could enjoy researching and designing for.



A show that follows the presenter of 'The revolution will be televised' in which he interviews people on the street who would be part of the "Facebook Generation" to shine light on why these people are not voting and why this is happening.


  • 'Politics is about every part of your life, everything you love'
  • 'Off their tits on politics'
  • 'When young people have a chance to make a difference, they get out and vote'
  • 'Hostility and suspicion of west minister'
  • [politicians] seems to say one thing and do the other
  • 'Seeing the mainstream politicians as the same
  • 'Good luck in the hopeless race'
  • 'Rosette wearing politician making promises I can not keep'
  • 'Stopped listening'
  • 'Less than a quarter of under 25's intend to vote' 24%

  • 'Lie to get elected, break every promise to make to get into parliament'
  • 'Make a promise before election - break it after election'


  • 'Less than a quarter of under 25's intend to vote' 24%
  • Cutting pensions -fire department etc
  • Nick Clegg's personal pledge to students not to cut fees
  • 'huge disconnect between people and politics'
  • Peter Stringfellow - conservative party donor 
  • Labour £12M donations last year
  • 'Ed Milliband doesn't excite or engage the election'
  • 'It doesn't mater who you vote for - big money always wins'

  • Anonymous hackers
  • 'When we get real representation the of course I will vote'
  • Russel Brand poster boy for ' no vote'
  • 'Look elsewhere for something that might be of service to humanity'
  • 'Dont vote for the same reason you don't drink nail polish - theres no point'
  • Activism
  • Focus E15 mothers
  • 'Disillusions and disconnected and politics has no real place'
Risks in this generation not voting?
  • rising rents, rising house prices, zero hour contracts
  • Change.Org
  • Designing petitions to catch the eye- John commentary
  • 'Broken promises have alienated the publics trust more than anything else'
  • 'Most serious lie an MP can tell would be to Parliment'
  • Covert flights - Jack straw - kidnapping of a Libyan
  • 'not against the law for an MP to deliberately and knowingly lie to parliament'
  • 'Making lying in the House of Commons illegal'
  • 'UKIP has a problem with Liars in their midst'
  • 'Throw the liars to the Lions'
  • #Makelyinghistory  

  • 'Facebook generation needs to engage or they'll be the big losers'

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