Gnobe

You're old enough at 16 to get married, with parental consent.

You're old enough to join the armed forces at 17, with parental consent.

You're not considered old enough to do any of the above on your own until you're 18.

I don't think people under 18 should vote, I remember how unbelievably stupid I was at 18 and what a narrow minded view of the world I had, I'm only starting to consider myself an adult with a good understanding of how the world works at 25.

As for leveraging politicians, the proof is in the pudding, there's no politician championing issues for young voters, they're only catering to core voting demographics.

As someone who earns the average wage, I do not want £70 or whatever it is per week in benefits, I earn enough to look after myself.

Use it for something that will actually benefit people.

Edit:

The average wage is £26,500 a year guys, if you're struggling on that you're doing something wrong.

I'm also not proposing to scrap this, just not pay it to people who are earning a good wage or alternatively have that money slowly trickle down once you reach a certain wage level.

It's not a case of: "Oh look at the bad Tories, they would have made things worse!".

That's what children do, blame the other sibling.

It's a case of they were both wrong, you should be running a surplus in good times and a deficit in a recession, but Labour was busy hiding it's debts and spending heaps of money on the NHS.