Does Ed Miliband think my generation is lazy, stupid – or both?

According to Ed Miliband, my generation is about to be disenfranchised by the coalition. He’s getting quite worked up about it. On Thursday, he accused David Cameron and Nick Clegg of…

“sitting by and watching hundreds and thousands of young people in our country lose their sacred democratic rights.”

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So what’s going on? By what treachery is my generation being disenfranchised? Well, in an attempt to reduce fraud the government is removing the option to register everyone in a household at once – all voters, young and old, must now add themselves individually to the electoral roll. One of the effects of this is that universities can no longer register students living on campus: undergraduate have to do it themselves, like everyone else. Labour argues that this somehow means they’re losing their “sacred” rights.