Well I was a bit confused over this politics lark and was made worse by this from Wiki;
Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil
governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including
corporate,
academic, and
religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power"
[1] and refers to the regulation of a political unit,
[2] and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply
policy.
[3]