The Hot Take

UK government as of today, 17th July 2025, have announced it is lowering the voting age so that 16 and 17 year olds can vote in the next general election. This radical change is said to potentially add another 1.5 million potential voters to the voting pool. young voters, fresh out of a institutional education system run by this government that have told them everything they know of the world. young people not knowing the world themselves but only knowing it by what the government educators have told them, with no experience of having lived and struggled in this world and its systems to understand what changes are bad for them or not, what higher tax and higher spending would mean to them. These young people, who only know what the government have told them through institutional education, can now legally vote. This move can be blatantly seen as a desperate government on the edge, knowing and seeing by polls which all show the current government will lose by a landslide and get barely ...

  The UK last month announced it has  comitted to 5% defence spending  by the year 2035 in the face of recent global threats and instability. A significant increase from previous 2% defence spending targets under previous nato guidelines. But is this worth it and is it really effective to measure your defence capability by how much of your GDP you spend? This is where I believe our nations defence issue highlights itself. This nation seems to measure anything by how much money is wasted on it. We could very well be spending a extra 2% of GDP on the military and yet still be struggling to mobilise 40,000 troops. A spending increase on the military is effectively a waste of money if you are not going to increase your manpower count. which currently sits in the 70k range, with most of that figure likely being civilian reserves with real jobs, not proffesional soldiers, and alot of that likely admin and technical staff.  With that in mind we see that our government is ov...