Separate Moan Thread About The Election

So citizens of 75 and over aren't worthy of any say in how the country they live in is governed? Sounds very dictatorial to me. Does that also mean that we bin any MP that is or will reach the retirement age of 67 during the course of an electoral term? Same for local councillors, mayors etc too, of course. One would also assume that as their right to vote had been removed, they would no longer be liable for any tax, even if they were loaded and had lots of property?

As for lowering the age of voting, surely if children are deemed fit to vote, they should also be deemed fit to drive, drink alcohol, have the full minimum wage, have full adult responsibility should they commit a crime, serve on the front line in a military sense and so on?

Of course, all of that would need to be voted on for it to become the process - and of course the over 75's wouldn't be precluded from that vote...

 

But surely that is their right, if that is the way they feel?

 

I'm not suggesting anything - as I recall, you were the one that was suggesting we shouldn't be allowing some people to vote because they vote for the "wrong" reasons?

 

That is entirely possible, of course. So when you said that people don't vote sensibly now, what was your solution for that? Were you not inferring that they shouldn't be allowed to vote?

 

I don't know where you've got that from - I was merely discussing the lowering of the voting age to 16 and indeed the suggestion that over 75's shouldn't be allowed to vote. I personally disagree with both notions, but that is the joy of a democracy, we are all able to have our opinion.

As for pills, if I have to take any more, there is a risk that I may shoot someone if I fart.

 

Vote at 16? There's a good argument for it somewhere but I recall being full of raging hormones and conflicting ideals, thinking I knew it all but really not. I might suggest it's not a fab prospect.
No issues over auto enrollment for voting, although I rather feel it's just a sound bite for the election