Do we Really Need More Young Voters? How About More Votes for the Old? Plus, William Hague is Not at This Address.

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

 

Why do people think that, the more of us who have the vote, the more democratic and free a country will be?  In Cuba, you can vote at 16, but only for the grisly Castro regime. You can vote at 16 in Scotland, too, and look where that has got them. Highly-democratic Taiwan, by contrast, does not let you vote till you are 20. I favour 40.  

 

I was one of the very first to vote at 18, in the 1970 general election, and I thought then ��� as I thi...