i confiscated a pin up of Nick Clegg today at work

[SuSylvester]

from some 14 year old girls.
ithought they were being snarky/ironic but they werent!
at the end when i returned Nick to his adoring owner I said " but he could be your dad fgs"
they said " oh but he is so cute we LOVE him"

there you are

Isn't that true with any general election though BeenBeta? There are always going to be a massive number of people who are eligible to vote for the first time. How exactly is voting for the candidate you most like any different to voting for Labour/Tories/Lib Dems because you have always voted Labour/Tories/Lib Dems and your parents have always voted Labour/Tories/Lib Dems?

Should we disenfranchise these people too?

It is true young people are always first time voters but a mass of them all suddenly voting for one party on the basis of 'looks' or 'celebrity appeal' rather than workable sensible policy at a time of great economic stress really worries me.

It reminds me a bit of why Italy voted in Silvio Berlusconi.

no i cannto accept the Paul potts thing
surely he was jsut the forerunner of the compario guy

Why on earth would anyone think Nick Clegg is the 'Paul Potts of Politics'???

He's not some kind of a fool, you know!

He's the voice of the youth innit. He's new, he's fresh, he's every teenagers new possibility. Not of the parents / old guard - he's annoying everyone.

It's a rebel thing. Actually this may also account for why I'm liking him.

And guess what, before the TV debates, every 18 y-old who voted didn't read the manifestos and pass a test on policy before they cast their vote.

yes
i think the alliteration was too good to miss.

in which case he would be the papal Pope of politics
or Percy park keeper of politics

etc

i wonder what he smells like...

Paul Potts or Nick Clegg?

oooh PP would smell of chips

NC would smell of clean with a hint of aftershave i think
and we arent talking LYnx

Lemons.

i think he smells of lemons.

We carry on like this - they'll be taking away our vote, mind.

( every teacher knows that when you use a permanent marker on your whiteboard in error, Lynx is the potion of choice to get it off)

ds1's bedroom smells of lynx.

oh yes lemons and that stuff that begins with c that they use on aspirational toiletries.

No not lemons. Something fresh but not overpowering, like a yankee candle.

citrus hints

something smooth and mellow but with citrus hints

centella
ds has a body scrub with it in
( he is in a bathing phase and has a kit of potions)

Young people presumably have always been swayed to vote by different criteria to old people like their parents others. Nothing new there. Don't think Nick Clegg has particularly set the trend there.

(He does look like Colin Firth though.....)

GB is a lynx man I'll bet.
DC is something a bit more wanky.

lol all teenage boys think Lynx will work.
its like us and musk in the 80s and ALyssa asheley musk and poison
lol

who remembers this?!

and an ey eees²

I don't remember that. But I do remember White Musk from the Body Shop.

OMG and Poison. Yes

Also Paris

v. sweet smelling

I don't remember that either! We all wore ysatis and anais anais in the 80's.

Actually loads of academic studies have shown that 13 year olds are as sophisticated as anyone else when it comes to voting - or something to that effect.

The blind leading the blind.......

Yet more good reasons that the voting age should not be lowered.

Fyi in the 80's i wore Giorgio............It fucking stank!