What is a good age?
When do you judge people to be mature enough to be telling you what to do?
- Err 17?
- Err 19?
- 21?
- 30?
- 45?
This girl wants to be the Labour Member of Parliament for East Worthing and Shoreham, her name is Emily Benn (yes, she is related) and was only 17 when she was adopted as the candidate.
Devil’s Kitchen has the full run down, and a good argument as to why she is far too young!
Personally, I disagree, you are never too young to go out and take a good thrashing at the hands of the electors. Just imagine the lessons you could learn. One could argue that if elected your freshness and youth could be a great advantage, in as much as you haven’t had time to be corrupted.
On the other hand, people will just accuse you of being fresh out of school and wet behind the ears.
There is quite a record of relatively young politicians in South Shields, I was elected a councillor at the age of 23, as was Labour’s Martin Lightfoot, I dare say that the current leader of South Tyneside Council was around the same age when he was first elected, and Independent councillor Ahmed Khan has already witnessed his daughter’s first attempts to gain public approval at the age of 18.
Of course, if you take the view that people are elected to serve rather than to tell others what to do……
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