‘He Who Has Never Hoped Can Never Despair.’
A friend and I, following an amazing idea on his part, have a project of sorts on our hands.
We want to, in a manner which will not plainly be ignored (such as the tragic UK Youth Parliament), show the political and social awareness of the 18-29 year old age bracket: with the benefit of looking back upon past election results and presumptions made as to the loyalties of the electorate by the time of the next General Election (assuming the beginning of an economic recession pushing disenfranchised Tories to the likes of UKIP and the BNP), we’ve come to the conclusion that this age group would be substantial enough a force to completely alter the outcome of the Sutton Coldfield constituency election; even with the 26% Conservative majority at 2005’s election.
We aim to show passion in the youth for the future and the realisation of the use of democracy to achieve noble and realistic goals, rather than the centrist monoculture’s continuation of inaction for the youth for at least another 4 years: save the smear campaigns of our rapidly decaying moral fibre in the face of our non-conventional family ‘units’. Our method would be through the formation of a voting bloc of those in this age group: a list of signatories whose votes shall be delivered to he who deems himself most inclined to serve the interests of our group: a potential 11,000 votes, from our math, should we be able to get all of those of our target group involved.
It’s our hope that this will snowball and cause similar movements elsewhere: revolution through the ballot boxes; manipulation through a right given to us.
It’s a noble idea, no?
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September 4th, 2008 at: 6:56 pm
Hi. i found you on the Birmingham bloggers facebook group, thanks for joining. I’ve subscribed to your blog.
Interesting idea. It almost smacks of creating a niche political party. I wonder which issues would provide the common ground you would be seeking? My guess is you 11,000 will be as argumentative and divided about political issues as the remainder of the electorate.
This might interest you:
http://governance.justice.gov.uk/about/youth-citizenship-commission/