I can only hope Dizzee's right. If ONLY we started caring about our own politics as much as we care about America's.
Can we honestly only get the youth interested in political issues by showbizzing it up? Slathering it in a saccharine coating of celebrity sap? Make it more X Factor elimination than General Election, with £1.50 text voting and howling studio audiences, just to make it palatable? Maybe. Maybe Heat magazine has changed the rules of politics for the young. But, then again, Tony Blair tried that in the Brit Pop era, and just look what happened to him...
