LETTER : Fury at five minutes of voting
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I am sick and tired of middle-aged, middle-class journalists passing judgement on my entire generation (Polly Toynbee; "Mrs Thatcher's airhead revenge", 28 April).
Young people are not all "airheads" and "know-nothings", and the decision not to vote is not a "fashion statement". As far as I can see (and as Ms Toynbee's article actually confirms), young people have got it right: real impact is made by demonstrating - not by putting a little mark on a little bit of paper once every five years.
The young people who'd risk anything for their beliefs are more "political" than the middle-aged man or woman who spends five minutes every five years trotting down to a polling station.
KEZIA HALLIDAY
London SE22
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