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13th February 2008 Event - Damian Green MP
The politics team at Canterbury Christ Church University are launching a campaign called Making Politics Matter in a bid to get people across Kent interested and involved in politics.
To kick-start the campaign, politics students have invited Shadow Minister of Immigration for the Conservative Party, Damian Green MP, to give a talk at the University’s first public politics forum on Wednesday 13th February at 7.30pm.
The event, which is open to all local residents and the media, will take place at the University’s Old Sessions House lecture theatre, Longport, Canterbury. It is the first of a series of political forums that will see eminent politicians engage with the local community on a number of political issues to try and get people more interested in politics.
Politics student, Sarah Fitzgerald, said: “The aim of this campaign is to ignite political interest in local residents. Many people perceive politics as boring and we, as students, are concerned that not enough people are voting, locally or nationally. I don’t think anyone can deny that politics today involves absolutely everyone and it is our responsibility to know what is going on and try to make a contribution to it.”
The University’s Politics Programme Director, Dr David Bates, said: “A significant number of British people seem to have disengaged from the political process and the levels of trust people have in politicians has declined. If young people in particular do not get involved in politics then their voice won’t be heard. If there is a central aim to this campaign, it is to make people look again at politics and see that it reaches well beyond the activities of politicians and the institutional structures of national parliaments. Political debates are integral to present concerns over issues such as global terrorism, war and environmental change and therefore central to our daily lives.”
To kick-start the campaign, politics students have invited Shadow Minister of Immigration for the Conservative Party, Damian Green MP, to give a talk at the University’s first public politics forum on Wednesday 13th February at 7.30pm.
The event, which is open to all local residents and the media, will take place at the University’s Old Sessions House lecture theatre, Longport, Canterbury. It is the first of a series of political forums that will see eminent politicians engage with the local community on a number of political issues to try and get people more interested in politics.
Politics student, Sarah Fitzgerald, said: “The aim of this campaign is to ignite political interest in local residents. Many people perceive politics as boring and we, as students, are concerned that not enough people are voting, locally or nationally. I don’t think anyone can deny that politics today involves absolutely everyone and it is our responsibility to know what is going on and try to make a contribution to it.”
The University’s Politics Programme Director, Dr David Bates, said: “A significant number of British people seem to have disengaged from the political process and the levels of trust people have in politicians has declined. If young people in particular do not get involved in politics then their voice won’t be heard. If there is a central aim to this campaign, it is to make people look again at politics and see that it reaches well beyond the activities of politicians and the institutional structures of national parliaments. Political debates are integral to present concerns over issues such as global terrorism, war and environmental change and therefore central to our daily lives.”
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