Published on 12, July, 2020
labour are toying with the idea of allowing 16 or 17 year old the vote. I think about time too, in the devolved assemblies you get the vote at 16. I don't think you can ask young people to be better citizens and do more for society without giving them a say on government.
Well, it's been something Labour have wanted to do for a while - and fair enough. They're right, if you're old enough to work, you're old enough to vote.
That's an approach underpinned by the premise that by 16, a person may be considered a young adult.
Which is hardly revolutionary.
Pegg said:if you're old enough to work, you're old enough to vote.
I remember learning how to bricklay and assist an electrician at the age of eight... I also repaired my first radio set around that time...
At the time there was a man in the papers (which I had been avidly reading for some years) by the name of Enoch Powell who was CLEARLY getting the sort of treatment from his peers that I was already used to.
I learned that day that politics was really another way of saying BULLYING, and decided I wanted no part of it.
Smart Kid, I was.
I still wouldn't have put me behind the wheel of a car, in charge of a loaded firearm, or in a voting booth at that time.
16 year olds dont work anymore, they are forced into extra education until they are 19 or something... so by that logic the voting age should be risen to 19 or whatever they can leave forced education from