- river song.:
- And in Scotland, we have free prescriptions and free university. Well, freeish.
It would be a very interesting issue if SNP decide to get the border-cutters up and we become independent.
This. I live just over the border, the most Northern point of England actually, but I'm Scottish and go to a Scottish school and my dad lives in Glasgow etc. I fully support this and I wish they'd just do it already.
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- Jewel Nicole:
- Why not talk about those adults though? If they don't know how anything about politics, why should they have the right to make an educated political decision candidates?
Children, that is under 18s, are protected in most countries nowadays by social benefits, etc etc. However, if you were to alienate a percentage of the adult community, there would be nothing to protect them from being taken advantage of by politicians. Party politics spends the majority of the time earning the support of voters, if the ill-informed or uninformed (which lets point out is mainly lower-income families) weren't offered the vote, politicians would have no motive to work for those people and they would thus be neglected.
What you're saying though, correct me if I'm wrong, is that ideally if you could fairly remove those who have no educated opinion on politics from the voting process you would. So why wouldn't you do so, when you safely can, for younger generations?
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On the subject however, I think the voting age should remain at 18 (or be moved to 18 dependant on where you live). I'm one of the few 16/17 year olds I know who take a genuine interest in politics, or even know the name of the most important of our politicians. I'm not saying that there aren't kids that old able to responsibly vote, but I don't think the majority would. They surveyed and found out a huge percentage of young people in England don't vote (which has implications and perhaps reasons for pro-younger vote). I think this would happen if the vote was dropped, or their parents would coerce them into voting for/raise them with the values/ideologies of a certain party, or (the most likely of the latter two) kids would vote for whoever
'The Sun' or
'The Daily Mail' present to be the best candidate.
And let's face it tabloids aren't aimed to be politically aware.