Generation Y vote

It seems that generation Y bother/Y give a damn/Y not, has yet another name.

Y vote.

Politicians are not only not reaching 18-35 year olds but this generation just aren't interested anyway.

How have we managed to raise an entire generation where so many are almost completely oblivious to the fact that who is in Parliament affects not only their financial bottom line but also how they live and can raise their families?

How have we managed to convince them that their vote will change nothing and is therefore unimportant?

Is this another symptom of CWK (cotton wool kids) or even worse, PPPS (piss poor parenting syndrome)?

No doubt Labour is worried, they tend to appeal to younger voters.

This sort of ignorance doesn't stop there either. The household teenager (year 9) recently came home with the news that in a multi choice test, half of her class decided that the Minister of Finance was Helen Clark.

When told that the last Prime Minister to be Minister of Finance as well was Muldoon the general reply was:
"Huh?"

One thing is for sure. We can't let this level of political detachment continue.