Always being one of those people who wants to take a stand and never gets round to it, I've taken the bull by the horns and I'm going to stand for election for the youth parliament. This is a strange turn-around for me really, I'm one of the CND/Greenpeace/FoE people who'd stand on top of a nuclear power station to get rid of it! Or likewise, stand outside the houses of parliament yelling insults. And yet, here I am, a month to write my speech, 2 months until the elsction. If I get voted in I'll be able to have a say on youth issues nationally and within the area, and hopefully, my pet subject, the environment! Despite being voted "most likely to bcome a politician" at the prom I was going to boycott, I've always wanted to go into conservation, not politics! I think i'm doing the right thing, I think it would be best to not go on too much about hippie-esque predentials in my speech!

Good luck:)

Yes good luck, and definitely go into politics. The world needs people who don't want to be politicians and it definitely needs people with a clear progressive vision. People can sound off about all sorts of issues, make little differences here and there through their efforts, but only by pursuing political goals into a position of office will you have the power to make greater change....

good luck, with your endeavours. keep us posted how it turns out. :)

good luck and WOoP for you! :) hope it goes well... I remember the guy on the youth parlament thing round here... Pretty famous in our school he was...

yeah good luck mate dont go too hippie sort of tell em what they want to hear whilst keeping your beleifs
i know you'll be good for the job
peace

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/newsmilies/biggrinjester.gif thanks for all the support everyone! The speech is going to be the hardest bit! I think if I talk about how I can find out what young people wnat to tackle, then I can hopefully earn some votes!