2/8/14
Understand / Define
From all my research so far I have found that in general the youth are the most unlikely people to vote, followed by the working class and recent immigrants, and I think there are two main reasons for it; they aren't represented properly and the system doesn't work for them.
The average age of a member of parliament is 51, there is no way someone born in the 60's is suitable to represent, let alone understand our generation.
The young people of today have grown up in a new, tech-orientated world where the current government system just doesn't work for them, it may have worked great in the past but times change.
The current system uses a huge range of jargon and frankly there is a lot young people need to learn before they know what is going on on a basic level. Young people are concerned about the big issues but lose all interest when it turns into a political party talk as they don't understand and the system just doesn't fit in with their world. This is only going to get worse as future generations become eligible and the current system becomes older and more irrelevant.