[Tealeaf]

Buggar the voting age. Surely the first qualification should be that you can speak, write and read english; the second qualification should be that you are a British subject. There may well be an argument for a 17 year old to be enfranchaised, but I cannot see how we can give the vote to a citizen of Mozambique who may be resident in this country for a year or so - which is currently the case. the same goes for all our Commonwealth and EU friends.