Last night’s Any Questions? was a disgrace so far as lowering the voting age was concerned. Michael Ancram sat on the fence, and all the other panellists played to the gallery of some schools debating competition held at Eton, the participants in which provided most of the audience and all of the questioners. It is one thing for Any Questions? to come from a school, but there is absolutely no excuse for it to have an audience predominantly made up of children, never mind for children to ask all the questions.
Asked what she thought, the questioner recited an extract from an AS Politics textbook, or The Bumper Book of Schools Debating Cases, or something. The crowd went wild. But what the hell do they know?
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