Why 16 and 17 year old young adults deserve to vote on Independence!

For all those who don't know, the certain 16 year old constituent who contacted the MSP about lowering the voting age for next years Independence referendum just happens to be this blogger! Yes, I am Euan Purchase! I have to say, when i contacted Aileen Campbell I did not expect as much media and press coverage as has happened, but, now that the story is now making national headlines, I feel I should spell out the reasons for why I think 16 & 17 year olds deserve the vote and why, by speaking out against it, Labour and the rest of the unionist rabble have exposed their true undemocratic side!

Firstly, in a future Independent Scotland, it will be the 16 and 17 year olds who will be living the longest in it and deserve to decide what kind of Scotland they wish to live in, whether that be independent or not. It will be the 16 & 17 year olds who, in the future, could be running the government of an independent Scotland, so shouldn't they deserve to say what kind of government they wish to be running! But all those things aside, the most important argument, I feel, is that we can be trusted to pay taxes, to get married, and even to join the army, then surely it is right that we should be trusted to make a choice about who we elect to make these decisions on how much tax we have to pay and which wars we get sent in to fight!

It is said that the majority of 16 and 17 year olds support Independence. This may or may not be true, but either way, does this not prove that we are able to make that choice if we are able to hold a view on such an important issue? Yes, it does! To say that we are not old or mature enough to make these decisions is just nonsense! It is undermining to the intelligence of all 16 and 17 year olds and should stop now!

Of course, the folk who make these outrageous accusations happen to come from the ranks of none other than the Labour party! I guess I was not surprised to hear them speak out against lowering the voting age, after all, their probably shaking in the boots like hell and just the very thought of giving us the vote! I wonder how many Labour MSP's would lose their majorities if we had the ability to vote them out? Or I wonder by how much the chances of a yes vote in the referendum would increase?

But what this has all exposed is how blatantly undemocratic the views of the Labour monkeys are! They are happy to take our money and send us to fight in wars nobody wanted, yet when its comes to us expressing our views through the power of the ballot paper, their answer is an absolute and resolute NO, NO, NO!!! How can they possibly claim to be the champion of the ordinary person and yet deny us the very freedom which so many fought and died to achieve? The Labour party, years ago, used to campaign for every man and women to have the vote, why won't it continue what its forefathers campaigned so hard for and continue the democratic process by allowing 16 and 17 years old to vote, like everyone else over the age of 18!

We do have views about Scottish independence and our countries place in the world and we deserve the right to express those views through the ballot!