Would you vote for a teenager to be your MP...?




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Re: Would you vote for a teenager (#1)

As the practically geriatric local candidate who was defeated on the night... of course I would!  Would have liked to have had a crack at it myself, but I'm sure Claire will do very well.

Re: Would you vote for a teenager (#2)

Whenever votes at 16 or standing for Parliament at 16 is raised I think back to young William Hague at the Brighton Conference, and that brings me immediately back to reality. Could we really put up with precocious youngsters of that ilk. I think not.

Re: Would you vote for a teenager (#3)

As long as they're 18 or over, then that's fine with me!

Re: Would you vote for a teenager (#4)

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

In an election I'd vote for whoever the Labour candidate was, regardless of age, colour, gender, sexuality or political location within our broad church. I'm a tribal loyalist!

Re: Would you vote for a teenager (#5)

Even Wm Pitt the Younger had to wait till he was 21, and so had Bernadette Devlin and Charlie Kennedy. OK, I'd give my vote to an 18 yr old but only grudgingly, and I'd tell them why: get yourself a university education first and a decent job before you consider entering Parliament, maybe when you're around 33. 

Re: Would you vote for a teenager to be your MP. (#6)

Probably not. I know it is very age-ist to say so, but I simply don't believe that anyone that age can possibly have sufficient life experience and knowledge to represent thousands of fellow citizens adequately.

I would also be suspicious of how someone so young managed to get themselves selected. What are their political connections, who has helped them get into that position, why do they want the job so bad?

Can't stand people who look upon representative politics as a career.

Cynical I know

Re: Would you vote for a teenager t (#7)

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