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 it’s my job to regulate the meetings, make sure everything’s going to order, make sure there’s no arguing and also oversee the agenda, you know, say what’s going in which place and what happens during the meetings.

Any young people here who want to get involved with politics, just to join your local youth council 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’ve been in a youth council, shows responsibility. But if you want to be in politics it’s 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 it’s such a corrupt system and my main problem with politics is that young people are not represented. I mean I know it’s starting to change now, but it’s still such a hugely unfair system, and politicians are always liars I think. You know it can’t keep going on like this, I mean I don’t know, I’m not in the system yet, but I keep on saying if I was in the system, I’d 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 I’d be, and feel free to cringe here, I think I’d 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 can’t do something because it’s illegal. I think someone like that is who I’d like to be, that’s what I like, just so I can do what’s right, it may not be Annan but at least I can say what’s right, and at least people would listen to me, if not actually do anything.