Should The Voting Age Be Raised?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35421507
I think it should, to 21.

[Old_Geezer]

18 is a good compromise.

[ichkeria]

I think it should be raised to over 75, with a free TV licence and a signed picture of Dave and George :-)

[SlackAlice]

No, 18 is fine

[New Judge]

The school leaving age (or at least the age where a person need no longer be in education) has recently been raised from 16 to 18. This demonstrates to me that the State is no longer confident of providing an adequate education until that age. The voting age should be raised accordingly to at least 20.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps the children have become more resistant to left wing propaganda judge so they need more time to turn out young trots than before.

[New Judge]

You could well be right, 3Ts.

I always thought it was a msitake to give 18 year olds the vote. At that age they still know everything and it's very unfair to have elections swayed by those so knowledgeable :-)

[jim360]

Presumably the criteria for voting shouldn't be age-based but party-based. Only those who would vote Tory are smart enough to be allowed to vote in the first place. Everyone else is a moron.

[New Judge]

Now there's and idea :-)

[whiskeryron]

By the same thinking would it not be a good plan for all future Tory MPs to serve a term of say 5 years doing a proper job & finding out how the majority of people have to live to make ends meet ?

[jno]

should be the same as the age at which you can join the army. If you're old enough to be cannon fodder you're old enough to vote.

[ToraToraTora]

just Tories, ron? All the others presumably have had proper jobs have they?

[mikey4444]

No....why ?

[mushroom25]

//By the same thinking would it not be a good plan for all future Tory MPs to serve a term of say 5 years doing a proper job & finding out how the majority of people have to live to make ends meet ? //

the following might surprise you:-
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01528/SN01528.pdf

even if we assume "miscellaneous" encompasses all the spoon-in-mouth hooray henrys that you allege populate the commons, it's still very much a minority.

[New Judge]

"...would it not be a good plan for all future Tory MPs to serve a term of say 5 years doing a proper job & finding out how the majority of people have to live to make ends meet ?"

You must mean the sort of "proper" jobs that this lot have held, Ron:

Jeremy Corbyn (brief career as a junior reporter on a local rag, then full time trade union representative before entering politics)

John McDonnell (Researcher for the NUM and the TUC before election to the GLC)

Angela Eagle (Briefly worked for the CBI before working for the COHSE health union and then on to politics)

Lillian Smith (Various work for the trade union UNISON before politics)

Heidi Alexander (Researcher for Joan Ruddock MP and then Campaigns Manager for Clothes Aid)

Dianne Abbott (Two Years as an administration trainee at the Home Office then on to the National Council for Civil Liberties before politics)

Hilary Benn (Worked as a research officer for two Trade Unions before politics)

Andy Burnham (Researcher for Tessa Jowell, parliamentary officer for the NHS Confederation before politics)

Just a few of the members of the current Shadow Cabinet taken at random. I’m sure I could find a lot more if I tried. Is it “pots and kettles” that spring to mind or is “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” more appropriate?

[retrocop]

Ask anyone of those trot activists to put forward a good argument why we should leave the EU and what financial losses we would,if any,suffer in the world trade market and they wouldn't know where to begin. Ask Mr Farage the same question and he could answer in length from personal work experience. The other lot know how to bring a country to it's knees and bankrupt it through strikes and that is it.!!

[mikey4444]

Retrocop...Mr Farage can't even get himself elected to the House of Commons, let alone win a General Election, and Lord know, he's tried often enough !

[retrocop]

Works a treat.Just mention Mr Farage and up pops Mikey with hackles raised.
How predictable.Bet Farage could give Jezza a good thrashing in a debate against that mumbling buffoon Jezza.
If it wasn't for Tory voters investing £3 Jezza wouldn't be making a laughing stock of a so called opposition!!

[mikey4444]

But Corbyn has been a MP since 1983, and Farage can't even get elected !

[retrocop]

We will see what the future brings won't we .Jezza is not winning votes by scrabbling in mud in Calais with his new friends.The way Europe is bubbling at the moment Mr Farage might have won more friends in the country he is concerned about. His own. :-)

[Baldric]

JC didn't look out of place in the Jungle, did he?