London Banter - View Single Post - Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)

[email protected] · April 9th 15, 09:36 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 10:00:13 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 18:12:24
on Wed, 8 Apr 2015, remarked:
Very few students were registered to vote before the reduction of the voting
age. This was partly because you had to be 21 at the time you qualified to
register to vote (i.e. in October before each May's elections). The voting
age was reduced in 1970 and provision was made to include everyone on the
register from their 18th birthday.

And what with students in those days probably being from a 4yr O-level
stream, not having gap years, and almost always on a 3yr degree course,
not very many undergrads would have been over-21 anyway.

I suspect the majority of students still don't have gap yahs. They tend to
be restricted to those whose parents have deep pockets and can fund them
buggering about in the far east smoking weed for a year.

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Spud