Despite frenzied interest in reality-television voting, the UK is demonstrating increasing levels of political apathy, typified by falling turnouts in local and national elections. Turnout is worst among 18- to 24-year-olds and, by denying 16- and 17-year-olds a vote, we are in danger of recreating and exacerbating the sort of political alienation currently being experienced by young adults. It is not difficult to see how a child who engages with society from a young age is more likely to engage with society as an adult.
The Government is now beginning to address such disengagement with a number of proposals for re-energising us as a politically involved nation.
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