To think there needs to be a points strategy for voting.

The fact you don't understand that this would also discriminate against older people who were 18 at a point when there was significantly less ability to access university should give you 0 points on your own scale

Next you'll be assigning voting points to our cranial sizes.

You honestly believe that the vote should be removed from people who vote differently to you because you must be correct? And yet you’re decrying right wing politics? You’re literally suggesting a fascist dictatorship….

Ah yes because we all know it the university educated who keep the country running, don't we? I thought we collectively found out how important essential workers were during covid? Imagine being so narrow minded that you would now believe those people are too stupid to vote? Wow OP.

I can see why some people want to vote for reform. I come from a northern council estate and I can sympathise with some of the frustrations. Now I'm university educated and living in a little village in the south. It's a little middle class bubble. A completely different world. Issues like immigration don't effect me in the same way. I don't think I am anymore entitled to vote than someone who has completely different life experiences than me.

Most people have always voted with their wallets. It’s nothing new.

@AlcoholicAntibiotic

My view is that there should be constituencies for each of Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial, LSE, King's College, Durham, Manchester, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Dundee universities.

That would ensure that graduates of these elite institutions- who by definition have better critical thinking and higher intelligence than average, have a greater say in the future of the nation.

That would benefit all.

Who? I think labour.

and the idea is absurd

so those who are already disadvantaged in society also get their votes taken away? How about by council tax bracket? The higher your bracket the more votes you have.

also I hate reform

Well, I think the vote to leave the EU told us everything about the critical thinking ability - or lack of - of a small majority of people.

Sadly, many don't seemed to have learned and are quite happy to turn the country over to racist thugs and bullies.

What if you have a degree but have a criminal conviction?

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www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5474577-aibu-to-think-if-youre-a-net-negative-in-tax-you-shouldnt-be-able-to-vote

I think it was but they've name changed. The way they're replying is exactly the same as well

Are you the same poster who also thought we should only let higher tax earners the vote...or multiple votes or something equally as ludicrous. I can't quite remember what it was now but your responses sound exactly the same as that posters.

Bat shit crazy either way. What about those intelligent enough to get a degree but couldn't afford to go to university? Where do they stand in this stupid "barometer" or yours

So you dont believe in a democracy 🤔
And you' think this makes you more intelligent, OK...

I don't think think this would work in practice (someone who didn't go to uni but works in finance has more votes than someone with a degree in David Beckham). Again i dont think this would work in practice but ideally there should be some kind of test you have to pass to get a vote. Eg around what the main manifestos are, how our voting system works, whether you're voting for a person or a party etc. There definitely should have been some sort of system for the brexit vote, the amount of people I know that voted basing their decision on complete untruths (like we are the biggest contributors) was very frustrating

What I would like to see is a programme of political education, so it was taught as a core skill alongside literacy and numeracy.
I'd like to see people understand the values that underpinned the parties along the political spectrum, and what sort of policies and laws these values tended to translate to. Basics such as high state intervention/collective good/wealth equality versus individualism/personal responsibility/social mobility, and the pros and cons of each belief system.
Then I'd like to see politicians held to far greater accountability when campaigning, so misrepresentations and unachievable promises were unlawful, and there was a requirement to use clear and accessible language to outline manifestos. Which once outlined, should be binding.
At present there is greater onus on retailers to accurately describe their product than on those hoping to govern us to describe theirs, so its not surprising people vote from a place of misunderstanding.

What? You're saying that because I haven't got a degree, that I shouldn't hold the same voting rights as my friends who do? Friends I share a political stance with, hold the same values, have intelligent, rational conversations with? Plenty of racist twats hold degrees. You do realise that? You are being ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. And massively offensive!!

You mean that you don't like the way some people might vote so you effectively disenfranchise them? Seems a bit like a fascist is running this system.

I own my home outright do I get more points? 🤣

This thread is so obviously a poor attempt at a wind up and I’m amazed at how many of you have taken the bait

I think age should be weighted towards the youths, they have to live with the long term impact & there is less of them!