Many Students Do Not Vote in UK General Elections

[arista]

This was just Debated
on SkyNewsHD Paper Review.


The Labour Party
want University/Colleges
to have a form ready when they first enter
that Higher Education.


Nothing Wrong with that.

Of Course Rules on Households have changed
so each other adult must register to vote.
No longer one vote per home.

Some Students may say they do not have time to vote?
Bollocks - they get long hours AM to late PM.


And some Students think like Russel Brand

Sign Of The Times

[Ammi]

..there is no point really in just giving a form when young people go to college/uni, Arista...and say, put down your cross...there are some young people who wouldn't know enough to make an informed choice and through no fault of their own...all that does is to try to encourage voting numbers but for any which way party...oh, I'll vote like me mam and dad/like me friends etc...?...so yes, there is everything wrong with that in a way and in all of the right ways imo...politics should be a National Curriculum subject in it's own right and taught (to each level of understanding...)..from Primary School age...we do cover it in our school but as time isn't specifically given to it, only in a relatively 'bite size' type way...


..if someone were to stop you in the street Arista and say...sign this petition/vote for this to happen/for it to stop happening/for change etc....would you sign it without feeling informed at what you're signing because I wouldn't...I don't think it's a 'time' thing, young people would find time if they had the information needed...

[Ammi]

..not every young person has a family environment or a friendship environment where these things are discussed and in a 'non bias', informative way to be able to feel as though they want to make a choice at such a young age...

[arista]

Its not a Vote
its just getting Sloppy Students
to Register to be able to vote
for the General Election Day
and Elections

[arista]

..not every young person has a family environment or a friendship environment where these things are discussed and in a 'non bias', informative way to be able to feel as though they want to make a choice at such a young age...



Well they Need to Pull their Socks Up.

[lostalex]

..not every young person has a family environment or a friendship environment where these things are discussed and in a 'non bias', informative way to be able to feel as though they want to make a choice at such a young age...

wahhh! :bawling:

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[Northern Monkey]

They will when they grow up.They have'nt faced the big bad world yet.

[Kizzy]

If they're clever enough to go to uni they're clever enough to put a cross in a box.

[bots]

Its a bit tricky to vote as a student, isn't it?

They have to register in different locations depending if its term time or not (if they are studying away from home)

[Kizzy]

They've just de registered huge swathes of the country, Labour is right it is a form of gerrymandering. They'll be hoping many won't bother re registering.

'An estimated 800,000 people have dropped off the electoral register since the government introduced changes to the system, with students in university towns at highest risk of being disenfranchised, the Guardian has learned.

Labour says it fears that the missing sections of the electorate are predominantly its supporters after the government moved from registration of electors by household to asking individuals to sign up, citing fears of fraud and error.

The estimated number of voters registered in December – the first figure under the new individual electoral registration system – is lower than in the previous year, with just months to go before May’s local, assembly and mayoral elections.'

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/31/electoral-register-loses-estimated-800000-people-since-changes-to-system#comment-67852443