Starmer lowering the voting age to 16 'just to gain their votes'
WHAT on earth was going through the minds of Starmer and his cronies when they decided to lower the voting age to 16?
I know they are stupid, but now I realise they are totally stupid.
These are still children. They identify as cats and whatever other creature they feel like.
How are they going to vote - with a paw print?
There must also be some treats on offer because he ain't doing it for the good of the country.
He's doing it to gain their votes.
These children think they've been everywhere, seen everything and done everything.
Or should that be 'everyfink ay innit'.
A lot of them being nothing more than knife wielding, irresponsible and feral.
Thugs who refuse to answer to anyone.
I wonder just what the treats will be.
God help us....WHAT sense or logic lies behind Labour's intent to lower the voting age to 16?
There is none, other than a cynical ploy to seduce immature teenagers to vote for them.
This by a government that lacks the brains to govern but think they know best how people should conduct their lives.... I WAS brought up with the Second World War still fresh in people's memories and told it was my duty to vote as so many people had died in the fight to be masters of our own destiny.
I have always voted as my right and privilege to do so and personally think that people who "can't be bothered" have no rights to criticise.
We vote standing on the shoulders of heroes who fought for our freedom.
What advice will an 18 year old get from his parents? "Vote for the party who will give you the most, for the least amount of effort".
Ask not what England can do for me, but what can I do for England.
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