Con-Lib Nuttiness Redux

[ffutures]

Idle thought - if curfews on under-16s are imposed in the next year or so, there will be a lot of VERY annoyed new voters come the next election.

Comments

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Won't they have a couple of years to get over it, before they get to vote?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

If there's a curfew at 16 the police will have to stop anyone who looks that age - that will include a LOT of voters.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Practically, they will stop young-looking folks who are causing (or look like they might cause) trouble.

More to the point, who pays the fine? If it's the parents, what powers will they have to force the youngsters to stay home? One of our local wingnuts on council floated the idea of a curfew with fines for parents (big fines, like thousands of dollars) and my first reaction was to wonder how many teenagers would use staying out late as a threat to blackmail their parents…

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I would hazard a guess however that those under 16 year olds who would be affected by the curfews, are probably not people likely to vote anyway?

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

They might get motivated. But I doubt there will be any mass curfews. It seems like things being said to make the Daily Mail happy, plus the significant number of Tory MPs who look to it for intellectual stimulation.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

No argument there - but Cameron does seem to regard that group as the only people worth talking to, which doesn't say much for his style of government.