MORE nonsense from Whitehall. Will our country soon be ruled by schoolchildren?
When two thirds of children left school at 14 years they had two years in the adult world at work.
Now every child has to be at school until 16. It would have made more sense to put the voting age up to 25 instead of reducing it to 18.
But the thought of children of 16 voting!
When women got the vote they had to wait until 30. Was that because the men believed no woman under 60 would admit to being over 30?
No child of 16 has enough experience of life to be trusted with the vote.
(Miss) B M PACKER
Croft Road
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