Quels beaux mots!
How very true.
In my opinion, BLiar did that for one reason only: to try to make his running of the country look good to the people and leaders of other countries.
“Look at us! Our educational standards are so good that half of all our school leavers go to university.”
Very easy to say and very easy to do, if you lower admission standards, teaching standards and far lower outcomes regarding qualifications.
And now the majority of undergraduates take their £9000 per year loans (which they will never pay back), toss it off getting drunk and having a whale of a time. Much easier, and much more fun than having to work!
Blair and Brown broke this country.
Universities are where intelligent kids go to get brainwashed into marxism.
After they receive their first couple of pay packets they soon turn to conservatism. As Winston said …
“Any man who is not a socialist at age 20 has no heart. Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head”
Yes. The loony lefties concentrate on the naive young for obvious reasons: they don’t have the nous to know when they’re being lied to.
Little wonder, then, that they have been trying to lower the voting age for some time now.
Exactly this ^^^, they prey on the most easily influenced.
Plus the house was only £5k.
Because nobody wants to live there.
Absolute nonesense Annie as usual.
It’s true. They don’t even have enough plumbers and electricians!
And yet it were mainly the elder who voted leave in the 2016 referendum. If ever there was an argument for lowering voting age, it was presented in 2016.
When I actually bought my first house in 1968 I paid CONSIDERABLY more than five grand.
Well it could be argued that it was us Boomers and Gammons that had the experience to know that membership of what the EU had become was incredibly toxic for the UK and how right we were.
In any case even 28 is too young to be permitted to vote in any election and I would like to see some form of formal qualification that demonstrated that those who were allowed to have a say at least understood the consequences of what they were voting for.
Based just on what I’ve seen on this forum it’s very clear that some of the most verbose Left Wing supporters haven’t got a bloody clue.
If I remember correctly, the proportion of people allowed the right to vote was very small and has been increasing over time. The most recent admission doubling that number. Now you are in favour of limiting that number again.
A license to vote, for which one has to qualify by a written exam?
I do agree that age brings with it experience.
I am certainly better able to make important decisions, such as voting for the most appropriate political party, at my present age than I was at age 18 or even 21.
I believe there is a great deal of sense in suggesting raising the voting age, but what is the ideal number?
I would definitely support raising the voting age to 21 as I believe it once was.
It is said that children ‘grow up younger’ these days, but if you look at the average university undergraduate and the behaviour of many of them these days, that would certainly support an older voting age.
I think it would be advantageous to allow voting for a government to take place only after someone has at least been working for a living for some years.
I can imagine how some people might respond to such a suggestion, though!
Limiting the number to those who understand the implications of voting the way that they do? Too bloody right.
Qualify with a written exam?
Qualify by participating in a short period of study followed by demonstrating that they have understood what they’ve had explained before being let loose at the ballot box?
DEFINITELY.
I’m sure you did. Perhaps you also had a Rolls?
But the point was that in the 80s young people could still buy whole houses somewhere in the UK for as little as £5k. Now it’s a shoebox flat in the middle of nowhere for £120k min. A lot of people were seduced by the housing boom and really suffered when the recession hit in 1990/91.
Our assertions can only be confirmed beyond any doubt by the fact that the Loony Party tried to lower the voting age even younger - 15 years of age, I think.
Naturally, once effectively brainwashed by lefty school teachers (and followed up at university), such naive young minds would add enormously to their support!
Really? I thought the Tories were great when I was 15. My parents voted Tory and my dad liked to hang their posters in the windows.
Perhaps you went to the ‘right’ sort of school, Annie!