Voting age lowered to 16 in favour - ANS Politically active sooner
Younger generation are better informed
Being able to vote on issues that affect them Demographic ignored (67% turnout 2017)
Voting age lowered to 16 not in favour - ANS Uneducated/lack maturity
No evidence to show it would incre...
Politics paper 2 essay plans
Devolution solving more problems than it has caused - ✔✔1. Greatly increased independence for
Wales and Scotland. (in 2016, Scotland Act saw that legislative decisions were transferred directly to
Scotland, can now decide speed limits and abortion laws). However many think there is now an
imbalance due to England not being devolved. But this can be solved by further devolution, it is not a
problem but a next step to take.
2. Reduced Scotland's urgency for independence. Good for rest of UK. (major parties promised Scotland
more power if they voted remain, result was 55% remain). Argument that EU result made Scotland want
independence more (62% of Scotland voted remain) but there have been no calls for it.
3. Briefly solved Irish conflict with devolution. Agreement between two party leaders of DUP and Sinn
Fein to reopen Irish Assembly in 2007. However direct rule was reverted back to Westminster after a
disagreement between the two. However this was not caused by devolution it was caused by ancient
conflict, forcing the two sides to cooperate was originally successful.
Further devolution for England yes or no - ✔✔No
Not much regional identity anyway. Even the identified parts rejected their own Assembly by 78%.
Could reduce power of Westminster due to decentralisation. Could cause a democratic overload and
undermine parliament. Never had higher than 60% in local assembly turnout and Wales national
assembly had 45% turnout in 2016.
Cornwall already have devolved powers because they saw fit to do so, not necessary for whole country.
EVEL already protects England from outside contribution, no further call for it. - However we do have
lowest funding per capita compared to other countries in the UK and devolution could fix that.
Argument for codification of UK constitution - ✔✔Yes codified.
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