Ms Dynamite has told BBC 2’s Newsnight that politics in the UK means "middle-class, rich white men that don't give a damn”. In an interview on young people’s attitudes toward politics she claimed more young people would take an interest if politicians listened to young people more and stuck their necks out to improve their lives.
"I don't feel that there's anyone in the cabinet at all that I can relate to or that relates to me - there's no-one," she said. "They don't really listen to young people - they don't actually listen to how we're affected every day, and even if they do, they don't really stick their necks out to do anything about it."
Talking about her decision to not vote in the first General Election after she was 18 she continued: "I did feel like 'What's the point? What difference is my vote going to make? No-one listens to us, no-one cares what we have got to say.'"
The interview might ring home with politicians who have held Ms Dynamite up as something of a role model for young people after she wrote lyrics that denounced the violence of the UK garage scene, and delivered messages against drugs, bad relationships and unsafe sex.