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.
It's about defaming the critics.
The Media ultimately became a modern-day stock. For people to throw rotten veg, at you.