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And I'm saying if they're forcing us to use photo ID to vote then they provide the ID regardless. We don't apply for it. We get given it, whether we intend to use it or not.

To be clear I'm not happy that we're now being forced to use ID to exercise our democratic rights. However since we are then the Government should provide a universal photo ID at their expense. When the photos need updating, they can pay for that too.

I am. A single ID, issued to everyone. Gets away from the problem of some forms of ID being accepted for some demographics and not for others. If we're going to be forced to show ID to vote then let's do it properly.

Wasn't voting fraud rife in NI before the introduction of the voting act thing? Which makes sense. Y'know, introducing a method to tackle an existing problem. The electoral commission here continually finds little evidence of wide scale voting fraud. I just had a quick read through their pages...

They barely glanced at mine. Not to mention that I was in conversation with my other half, with my head turned away, whilst the clerk was apparently checking that I was a good likeness to the passport photo. Farce.

I agree. I was mostly pointing out to Shooting Star that not every young person will have a license or a passport.

I had none of those things when I was 18. At 38 I still do not have a provisional or full drivers license. Some people won't have passports because they cannot afford holidays abroad and thus have no need to spunk £80 on a passport that will go unused in a drawer.

I don't know about apathy. I'm pretty furious at the last twenty years of government f**kery.

I've often wondered why politics isn't taught in school. Or at least it wasn't when I was in school twenty odd years ago. I don't mean teaching about the relative positives and negatives of each of the parties but of the importance of being clued up. Government, in one way or another, is such a...