Wednesday 11 January 2012

Not So Sweet Sixteen

Lowering the voting age brought the Selsdon Tories, or so the teenage voters thought, to office in 1970. The National Party in South Africa had lowered the voting age in order to win the republic referendum.

And now the SNP wishes to do the same in order to pass what is essentially an expression of adolescent rebellion, unworthy of what is in fact a very grown-up country indeed.

As an extremely right-wing party, it knows that it would benefit from a teenage political culture as surely as did the Selsdon Tories and the Boer revanchistes, each of whom it resembles in various ways.

2 comments:

  1. TBH on the argument on who can vote in general is a distraction and for another time and so should not get caught up in the referendum debate. Best for the SNP to drop it.

    Of course HM government consented for the Isle of Man to lower its voting age to 16. And exercised quite recently in the Manx general election in September. Saw that Mr Gawne, the minister who said the UK always stabbed the Manx in the back at a Manx nationalist rally got promoted after the election.

    Not that you are concerned about that of course. Best to preserve the Isle of Man's status for the benefit of a certain pension fund you may be benefiting from-----

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