I Suspect the Tories are panicking

[davidgillon]

 After no national Tory ads through the whole campaign (and only one local one, but for somewhere 130 miles away), I've had three different ones on Facebook today.

The first one I didn't pay much attention to, it's the second that sticks in mind with its claim Kier is going to  'rig' the electoral system, by allowing 16yos to vote.

So if extending the franchise is a bad thing, should we not also roll back 18yos being able to vote (1969)? Women being able to vote (1918)? People not meeting the property qualification* (1918, 1969 in NI**)? Catholics (1829)?

* ie home owners, none of these working class riff-raff, our kind of people

** Preserved in NI as a method of keeping Catholics from voting, as fewer Catholic home-owners.

The third also played the OMG, 16yos voting card, but added in "and possibly EU voters".

Never mind that historically EU citizens have been able to vote and in some cases still can.

Just waiting for them to start in on the seas turning to blood, great beasts slouching towards lucrative contracts on the lecture circuit, and so on.

Comments

[oursin]

'Repeal the 1834 Reform Act and bring back pocket boroughs!!!'

[hilarita]

How dare people participate in the democratic process?

[davidgillon]

It's ironic considering the first Tory ad's message was roughly "Think of your grandchildren!"*

So they want you to vote for your grandkids' future, but not let them vote for it themselves if they're teens.

* Which really shows the one demographic they think they've got a cat in hell's chance of holding, as opposed to none at all.