Some of the curmudgeonly comments on this thread are so funny! It is fantastic that so many young people are energised and that they don't even NOTICE the bile of the right wing press which influences many older people (or if they do mock up wonderful pisstake versions of Sun/Mail front pages...
What about all the pensioners who don't have an independent thought in their head and believe everything they read in the Daily Mail? There are generalisations on both sides. The balance has been redressed at last. Your argument about 18 year olds voting used to be applied to women. Before...