Last Thursday I attended a charity gig run by students from my school. It was a great event: young bands from the local area showcased their talent and the audience was largely made up of fellow pupils – many of whom had recently reached, or were close to reaching voting age. It came as no surprise that amongst the crowd was my Liberal Democrat MP – Greg Mulholland.
It wasn’t his attendance that bothered me. MPs should show their faces at important local events. What did concern me, however, was how by simply being present, Mulholland seemed to be securing votes for 2015. This wasn’t hard-sell campaigning; just mingling and chatting with the young folk of north-west Leeds. Yet, on several occasions throughout the night, I heard proud boasts of how my peers were “definitely going to vote for Greg”. Anyone would think they still had EMA and low tuition fees.
