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Goddamn Kids

Goddamn Kids

The deadline for consultation on the Electoral Commission's paper regarding the legal voting age in the United Kingdom expires tomorrow. I duly wrote to the commission in time and also drafted and sent an e-mail to the times in recognition of the appalling state of the Post Office. I'll show you the letter to the times:

Sir

It has come to my attention that the deadline for consultation on the Electoral Commission's "How Old is Old Enough?" paper concerning a proposed lowering of the legal voting age expires today.

At the age of 16 I attended a Business Studies GCSE class, in the course of the lesson the discussion turned to world affairs (a precious rarity). The teacher, wanting to get a feel for the class's grasp of politics asked the students what the name of the Foreign Secretary was. This took place at the peak of the Kosovo Crisis, when Robin Cook's image had been plastered about every newspaper in the country. You could imagine my abject horror when one girl answered "Slobodan Milosevic".

Whilst giving 16 year olds the vote might result in them taking a greater interest in politics it seems to me that it would not necessarily be true to say that this greater interest would manifest itself in a keener knowledge of the issues required for the responsibility of voting to be assumed.

Yours Faithfully

John Louis Swaine
LLB Law Student
London Metropolitan University

I had a kickass Dim Sum lunch with my mother and then we walked through the british museum. It was fantastic. You can see why the central court was nominated for the Stirling prize. Afterwards we popped into Starbucks and I caught wind of a rumor from one of the baristas (those coffee monkeys, not the gown wearing outstanding legal practitioners) that the Gingerbread Latté would be arriving... Tomorrow.

Hoooooooly crap!!! THE GBL ADDICTION RESUMES!!

Venti GBL for the people!! There's no finer cure for depression than GBL... I think.

For the record, its like Drinking Christmas. But then I'm certain I've said that before on this blog... Damn archives.

Later

John

Posted by John Swaine at October 30, 2003 10:16 PM