![]() These days, this is because I do not want to be in any way responsible for the embarrassing farce called the British Government. I regret to say this didn’t stop me from voting.īut in the years since I have usually decided that it was better for everyone, including me, if I stayed away from the ballot box. I was one of the very first to vote at 18, in the 1970 General Election, and I thought then – as I think now – that I was far too young and inexperienced to have a say in how the country was governed. ![]() Highly-democratic Taiwan, by contrast, does not let you vote till you are 20. You can vote at 16 in Scotland, too, and look where that has got them. ![]() ![]() Why do people think that, the more of us who have the vote, the more democratic and free a country will be? In Cuba, you can vote at 16, but only for the grisly Castro regime. ![]()
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