One thing that is really bugging me about this thread is the sort of benign dismissal of young people as if they don't know anything or their opinion isn't worth anything because they don't have enough life experience. It's pretty patronising to be honest. I hate to see anyone dismissed based on age, it's knowledge and understanding that is important.
Young people have been some of the worst hit in recent years. They are faced with a job market made up by low paying/low skill jobs and zero hour contracts. If they choose to go to uni they are hit with fees of £9,000 per year on top of living expenses. House prices have rocketed which prices a lot of them out of the market at forces them to rent, where they got totally ripped off. It's pretty bleak and I can see where they're angry.
When older people try to tell me they've "seen it all before" I'm always reminded of the lyrics of that old Baz Luhrman track....
"Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past
From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it's worth"
Agree with the above response apart from it taking my statement out of context . Yes , I do think the OAP vote is a valuable and needed vote in a democratic referendum , after all many OAP,s are active creating hundreds of thousands of jobs .
Exactly like you Maxross I would encourage any young voter to scrutinise politics and get out and vote .
I don,t know what part of the world you live but how do you find the political interest of the young ?.
At the last election I went to almost all the hustling meetings of Matt Warman , the turnout was usually between 8 to 15 people . I can,t recall many under 40s can,t never mind under 21s .
At his last Referendum meet held at the Sack Store the turn-out was 10 , I think its safe t say ALL were offer 60 . No hand vote was needed as it was clear all were outers , even what I would claim as the leading Tory activist in the east midlands over the last 40 years was an outer .
Time the young got stuck in .