Alfie McKenzie.

[bindeweede]

This is something special from a 14-year old boy.


So on Thursday morning I dressed as much like a Tory as I could manage: a trench coat, reading glasses, sharp shoes. I gave it my slightly eccentric aristocrat's walk and my best self-righteous Conservative accent, walked into St Hilda's polling station, went straight to the table and was directed to the slip which I was to cross. I paused, considered voting for Cat Smith of Labour, and then firmly placed a big cross in Lib Dem Danny Gallagher's box.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/09/alfie-mckenzie-14-year-old-voter

[brianp]

This is something special from a 14-year old boy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/09/alfie-mckenzie-14-year-old-voter

Of course the police won't prosecute him - but the parents might well end up in court. Whichever twit registered him to vote has committed a serious offence and could face a hefty fine for registering a person who will not attain the age of 18 in the coming year.

In the past there have been stories of babies and even pets appearing on the voters' lists, and the papers tend to portray this as some sort of failure of the authorities. Of course, the truth is different - the fault lies fairly and squarely with the cretin who filled in the electoral registration form.

[bindeweede]

Brian, this mystifies me a bit.


A few months ago my sister gave all the names in our household to an official who called at our door in Poulton, Lancashire. She thought the woman with the clipboard was asking about the census. In fact she was collecting names for the electoral register of Wyre and Preston North.

I'd have thought most people know that the Census takes place on "01" years - 1981, 1991, 2001. Perhaps the sister didn't know - no age given. But where I live, both the Census and the Electoral Register forms are sent by post, and returned by post, though if no changes are necessary for the Electoral Register, it can be done online. Perhaps things are a bit different in Lancashire.

Anyway, however he managed to vote, it was what he wrote that I found interesting. I'd also like to know what kind of school he goes to, considering the bad press state schools seem to receive in certain parts of the popular press.

[Drop Bear]

This is something special from a 14-year old boy.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/09/alfie-mckenzie-14-year-old-voter


IF he's kosher, that's a very bright kid. If he wasn't he'd be a Libertarian.>:D

Hopefully he'll grow out of his adolescent naivete about socialism and democracy. He seems far too smart and far too sane to even consider going in to politics.

[Croydon Bob]

I'd have thought most people know that the Census takes place on "01" years - 1981, 1991, 2001. Perhaps the sister didn't know - no age given. But where I live, both the Census and the Electoral Register forms are sent by post, and returned by post, though if no changes are necessary for the Electoral Register, it can be done online. Perhaps things are a bit different in Lancashire.

I think the explanation could be that the Council send someone to visit if you don't return the form. So first the moron parent fails to return form, then idiot sister gives false info to lazy underpaid person at door.