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The Independent View: Letter to Nick Clegg from Radical Future

By Ben Little | Tue 27th April 2010 - 3:15 pm

Dear Nick,

This election had the promise of being the most significant for a generation. My generation. It should be an opportunity for a radical change in direction in the same way that the elections of 1945 and 1979 were for our grandparents and parents respectively. This seems to be lost on Labour and the Conservatives, who simply want to preserve the status quo.

You’re making an appeal to the youth vote. If you’re listening, we’ve got plenty to say.

Those of us in the eighteen-to-thirty age bracket have been collectively failed by the electoral system. We

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