Hello and welcome to the Politics is Rubbish Podcast.
My name's Daniel Yates and I'm a Councillor in Brighton and Hove I represent Moulsecoomb and Bevendean Ward which is pretty much up near the University off the Lewes Road everything to the east of the Lewes road, all the way from the Vogue gyratory up to Falmer Stadium.
The idea of this podcast over the next few sessions is really to try to explain a little bit about local government, what does local government do why does your city council matters. And to talk about some of the issues that are going to be affecting people.
Mostly people say to me that politics is rubbish and that they are not interested in local politics.
Many people aren't even interested in national politics but it's always amazed me quite how often people then come to me moaning about things that are directly affected by politics.
Whether it's moaning about the traffic on the roads whether it's moaning about the number of students or the lack of students, the quality of accommodation they live in, the number of houses that they're complaining about being built or the lack of housing being built.