Product, Range and Distribution - Refined Research

When i started this project, there was no general election, this is really lucky i guess because it gives me a specific area to focus on and will allow me to hone in my research.

Only 72% of people voted in the general election, which means 12,949,258 people didnt vote. This is an incredible amount of people and more than enough to swing the majority either way.

Whether people vote is effected by stupid things such as the weather, laziness or simply not knowing whats going on.

Left wing, right wing and centrist meanings and news papers aligned with each one. Centrist newspapers are probably the best source of information when it comes to politics as they arent aligned either way, they tend to be concerned with policies from either party which will inflict large social change.

It's amazing how much wrong information is perpetuated by the media, it is important if not vital to call politicians on their shit and do your own research. There are great independent websites that are dedicated to delivering non partisan, factual information wherever possible such as FullFact.com.

Immigration is perhaps the subject that is most misconstrued in the media. It seems that the general public have no idea how people enter the country, how their benefits are distributed and how many immigrants we actually have.

Usign fullfact.com and a report conducted by london school of economics it was shown that only 5% of the uk population are immigrants.

in the 12 months before September 2016268,000 citizens came from the EU and 103,000 emigrated meaning net migration is 165,000 (which is tiny)

The report also showed that of those immigrants who are of working age, 80% of them are employed, compared to 75% of uk natives

They are also better educated, 62% of eu immigrants had a degree, compared to 24% of the comparable percentage of uk natives. EU immigrants earn more in taxes than they receive in benefits and this only served to benefit the uk as it relieves the FISCAL burden on uk nationals and their taxes go to funding the public sector. They are also less likely to live in social housing, and less likely to receive state benefits.

The amount of child benefits immigrants receive is often over estimated by up to 200%.

So many claims were made about EU influence of uk law and legislation but upon researching that it turns out that no one really knows how much influence the EU has into uk law and legislation, its too difficult to figure out as law and legislation is so complicated.

All of this allowed my to narrow down my research again and finally settle on the topic of my practical work;

People are checking the truth, and people aren't voting.

I want to make something that encourages people to vote and people to fact check.