The Establishment and how they get away with it by Owen Jones - review

‘Jones captures the injustice of the Establishment perfectly in his book, which will awaken both anger and inspiration inside you’

Seen as sullen, hoody-wearing students, with addictions to social media (and Nandos), YAs have been diagnosed with a political apathy to shame our predecessors. A positive correlation between voter turnout and the age category shows shockingly few young people turn up to vote, with just 43% turnout of 18-24 year olds in 2015.

These statistics are misleading, the mindset of the political elite that young people are simply too stupid or too lazy to vote is a delusion of pure fantasy. We have grown up in a time, bombarded by the misdemeanours of politicians, from the expenses scandal to the Iraq War to the economic crash of 2008, where taxpayer money was used to bail out the bankers, so little wonder why YAs see little point in voting, when it has been a choice between the lesser of two evils.

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