I have waited until now, as I wanted to know others views, and I think that all the posts have at least one good point for and against. I don’t think that a 16 year old should be anywhere near a polling booth. I have four daughters between the ages of 16 and 26, and over the last few days I have asked them all about voting. The 26 year old is more worried about her house price falling before she has a chance to move, and asked me, which was the best ones to vote for? The 23 year old has told me that because she has a young baby, she will vote for the one that offers the best family taxes. The 19 year old, is more interested in knowing how much I am going to give her to drive 70 miles to see her boy friend, and told me to ask her sisters. Then the 16 year old told me that as she hasn’t got a job and she wouldn’t vote for anyone unless they paid her. She then told me to stop asking daft questions, and get out of her space and let her get back to more important things, and she immediately started talking to her friends on face book. This is the sex that is more mature than boys at the same age, voting age at 16? God give me strength that it never happens.

Regards ian 2411