[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Voter apathy in the young is not at all because they are lazy or out of touch and it doesn't say anything about young people. It says it all about Westminster politics. Young people don't bother to go out and vote because they don't feel like their vote means anything or that it will change anything. Labour tories labour tories flip flop flip flop nothing ever really changes. They're not wrong.

Give them a voice, make them feel like their vote actually matters - that what they are voting for has any sort of real impact - and it stop being a problem.

To illustrate: young voters turned up in droves to vote in the independence referendum and we're hugely engaged by the campaign on both sides. It felt important, it felt meaningful, the result had the potential to change politics in the country forever.

UK General election politics are a complete "meh". The question being asked is "which stuffy Eton prick would you like to run the country into the mud and not give a **** about you?". I completely understand people choosing to stay in bed and watch re-runs of Friends.

If that sentence was changed to start: which snot-nosed comprehensive school prick would you like... then I'm guessing people would be outraged.

Everyone who votes was young once. I've voted since I was eligible because it is a privilege not afforded to everyone in the world and yet it's taken with such apathy in this country.