To: Government
A Junior EU Referendum as a democratic exercise (16-18 year olds)
To facilitate a national referendum within schools, to engage young people in the processes of democracy. It would be an objecy exercise, running alongside the 'adult' process
Why is this important?
Although Article 50 has been given the go-ahead to be triggered, it is debatable that young people (16-18), have a right to participate in deciding their future, perhaps than the millions of people who were empowered to vote on a matter that will not concern them as they will have passed away by the time the process of leaving the EU will have been completed. It is afterall, their future that has beeng decided for them.
