To the young people of Britain: if you want change, you need to vote for it | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Shaniya Odulawa on how young people have been put off politics and from voting in the general election
Good on Shaniya Odulawa for expressing the views of many young people about politics (I never thought Iβd abstain from voting, but many young people will β and can you blame us?, 21 June). I share her feelings about Brexit. But what options do we have? Young people have the option to oust the present government β surely that alone is enough to vote, albeit grudgingly, for a Labour government? Itβs not all about the leader, itβs about what Labour will do on the ground if elected. There will be a new feeling of optimism and actual change, which is impossible to imagine, given how we have lived for the last 14 years.
I must vote. I am 68 years old. The Equality and Franchise Act 1928 gave women over 21 the right to vote for the first time. This meant 15 million women could vote. My mother was born two years after that act and it was drilled into me by her that women fought for us to have that right to vote, so I must exercise it.
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