Why I got in to politics

I have always been interested in history, since the age of 7. This came after playing games like age of empire, that focus around the, stoneage to the Roman empire, the dark age and the middle ages and the colonial age. (This was not the most historically accurate set of games J)  

When the time came to taking my G.C.S.Es at school. I never had the option to take history as a G.C.S.E.

After that I started studying world war 2. After that I started looking at the cold war and the different ideologies like, socialism, capitalism and communism, the politics at the time. While doing that I watch things like BBC news and listen to debates on LBC radio. After I finished college, I started studying popular protest like the chartist movement, at the open university. While studying at the OU, the European referendum started.

A couple of nights after the start of the European referendum started, I went to a debate hosted by momentum. While listening to the debate, it came to me on how little people with learning difficulties are represented in politics, (I have always felt people with learning difficulties are brushed aside once finishing school and thought of as being second class citizens.)  Maybe it’s because people with learning difficulties haven’t been educated about voting and don’t know anything about politics, so they don’t vote. In my opinion this benefits the government, by not having many people with learning difficulties. Being represented in politics, means the government can keep cutting social security like mental health and PPI.

After this I started looking at a group called LearningDisability England and hope to make contact with them soon.

So I set up this blog hoping to give a non-bias view on politics and encourage people to vote.