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The lunchtime listener's panel was one of the highlights of the campaign. I think it should be a regular feature in some way, but not all the time.

IMHO the government did the right thing by not setting a minister up to be shredded by Campbell and the sooner Labour dump him the better.

Sadly Question Time last night did it's best to turn my young new voter off 'politics' for life.

It is great to see that young people are taking interest in politics.
Hope this is not one off and they continue as we did to participate in the elections and give their vote.

I'm a young 'soon-to-be' voter (18 next year). I find politics rather interesting. I didn't watch all the debates, just the 3rd one. I thought it rather good, however, I prefer looking at the manifestos of each party and then deciding on which to support.

I think that a lot of the older generations think that most 16-20 year olds are incapable of deciding which party to support, hence why many disagree with a voting age of 16. I find this rather insulting. Many adults are no wiser than some teenagers when it comes to politics.

Teenagers suffer a bad reputation, a lot of people think that all teenagers want to stab you and are illiterate idiots. Most of us aren't, we study and try our best to succeed. We also try to take interest in current events.

Not all of us want to stab you and steal your wallet.

Since the election, although not being able to vote yet, my interest in politics has skyrocketed from being practically non-existent to being responsible for violent fights over newspapers with 'Cameron and Clegg' headlines! I am not alone; most of my peers have strong political views and, I feel, would be informed enough to vote if the voting age was lowered to sixteen. However, I suspect that it is not only teenagers and young people who have lost their apathy for politics, but the population in general - the reason being, to be quite honest, that this is the most interesting government in years.

I think the debates were a great thing and I hope that the younger voters will continue to be enthused. But I must agree that everyone, all ages, have lost their apathy given the excitement and interest of this coalition government.

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Very good things were done by this world famous channels during British election times.
I have watched it, and found that, many youngsters,students,adults were participated,raised some questions on country!s economy,tax debates,and local issues with Liberal party leader and from other important leaders.
Generally speaking, Liberal party!s views are appealing and more practical than others.
One month will be passed.Let us see their government formations, policies implementations for UK citizens and in general.,

They may have watched - but did they vote?

It's important to remember that although this election was massively hyped and receieved a lot of media coverage, turnout was only up by a measly 4%.

One of the reasons for continued low turnout amongst youth is the lack of a leftist option. As the saying goes, 'You get more right wing as you get older' - many youth are pretty left wing and unlike in mainland Europe, we don't have a truly leftist option in the UK any more. Two parties of the centre versus one of the centre-right. The Greens or Respect may be an option, and garner youth votes, but they don't field candidates in all constituencies (they didn't in mine).

I didn't vote in this election because of the lack of choice in my constituency and as there was no 'None of the Above' option (positive abstention)there's little point in me participating. I'm sure many younger people feel the same. Pleased to see I still count as part of the 'younger audience' though (I'm 31).

I am a Canadian citizen reside in Toronto, the poorest disable victim of Ministry of Attorney general of Ontario Canada without any income security from either canadian goverment living with the help of poor sons,and this G8 news is a big corruption of this canadian Gverment to which before this Cons as they are legal thieves for lobbying their comrades stake holders of banks and others big Companies as they are exclouded as appt. for zero taxsation as they are Democratically elected members of this Governments, should not made such undemocratically zoo circuses for 30 second question period so as they did prepared for themselves for escape of punitive, as they are not Honorable, so the Honorability must be earn with self-respect, not as same as two other Canadian Prime Ministers were privies, they did illegally acted as they are legal thieves, previously scandals after scandals to which they sold out the Air Port, High ways, hospitals, after purchases of AIR Buses, who SOLD out the Air Canada, who bought that, how much was it after 20 years is privies.
2. Why such a Canadian purgation of parliament for a year sustains?
3. Why these Canadian legal thieves have been protected by such western pistols of immunity and impunity never paid back their embezzlements yet with cost $16 million legal fees and disbursements; Finally our CBC, post Canada, and the rest Canadian citizens will be for sale?

Rod, I think there were plenty of articles and blogposts about in the UK before the election... judging by outcome and stats afterwards though, most peoples' guesses from poll turnouts through to youth engagement through social networking sites like facebook erred on the side of well... being wrong!

Certainly the younger UK audience wasn't as engaged as the US youth during their 08 election - Barack Obama used technology well to capture the minds and attention of young people better than any of the UK parties.. not even Nick Clegg came close.

Michelle

young people are expected to attend these kind of debates.But , they don't usually interested in these subjects. Seeing to be interested in is very delighted. it is necesarry for policy in the World. Because the younger see everthing transparency so they can be straighforward.