Written by Thomas Coughlan, 2 Oct 2019
OPINION: Amid the chaos of last Friday’s Climate Strike, which saw a pack of grown men including the eminently unqualified Mike Hosking and Jeremy Clarkson, rain criticism upon – wait for it – a 16-year-old Swedish activist, a note of sense was struck by Green MP Golriz Ghahraman.
Ghahraman announced she would be amending her member’s bill to include lowering the voting age to 16.
It’s a proposal worth listening to.
Voting is one of our most basic rights and, like all other rights, you have to have a very good reason to limit it.
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