Chair to the advisers of the Young Mayor of Lewisham

Find out more about working with elected members and young people in a local council. Go to www.LGjobs.com for vacancies. My name is Dami Benbow and my job title is a chair of the young advisor of the young mayor of Lewisham. As a chair its my job to regulate the meetings, make sure everythings going in order, make sure theres no arguing and also oversee the agenda, you know say whats going in which place and what happens during the meetings. Any young people here who want to get involved with politics, this, just to join your local youth counsel is a fantastic place to start, and not only what they do for your career, your CV, if you want to go to university, if you want to get employed just to put down you been in a youth counsel, shows responsibility. But if you want to be in politics its the best place to start, because people start to ask you how to do things. You finally get to learn, what life in politics is like. I do really, really badly want to be a politician, because I see its such a corrupt system and my main problem with politics is that young people are not represented. I mean I know its starting to change now, but its still such a hugely unfair system, and politicians are always liars I think. You know it cant keep going on like this, I mean I dont know, Im not in the system yet, but I keep on saying if I was in the system, Id do something better, and I do want to be in the system so much changing the system from within. If I could be anything at all, I think Id be, and feel free to cringe here, I think Id be the sectary general of the United Nations. Kofi Annan, after seeing him, and what he did, as to have the guts to tell the most powerful leaders of the free world, and tell them they cant do something because its illegal. I think someone like that and who Id like to be, thats what I like, Id like to be taxied just so I can do whats right, it may not be Annan but at least I can say whats right, and at least people would listen to me if not actually do anything.