Outlawing teen wedding bliss
STRAIGHT TALKING AND TAKES NO PRISONERS
I CANNOT believe that Sajid Javid, inset, is trying to get a bill through Parliament to make it illegal to get married at the age of 16. In a free society this is just stupid.
I was married in my teens – a little older than 16, but that was more by luck than judgment
– and we stayed married for nearly 50 years. Nobody knows what life has in store; nobody knows whether the first person you meet is going to be the last and in a country where we are talking about reducing the age at which you can vote, we are going to continue to tell people how they should behave.
It beggars belief that a former minister is this stupid – and he’s also giving bald men a very bad name. If 16 is the age of consent, surely therefore it must be the age you are allowed to marry someone you fall in love with.
Or are we saying that nobody falls in love until they’re older than 16? It sounds very patronising to me in this new woke world.
Go away, Sir, and rethink.
I SEE there’s been another attempt at destroying the sovereignty of our nation. North Tyneside Council ordered the takedown of union flag bunting Tory councillors had hung in the council building’s Conservative group room saying it was “overly political”.
When are these nutcases going to get over themselves? We are Britain, the United Kingdom, although sometimes I wonder when listening to Mrs Jimmy Krankie. The majority of people in this country are proud to be British, aren’t we? I’m proud of our flag, our heritage and our Royal Family.
You may not like this country because of some of our history – and let’s face it, some of that history is appalling – but we all have history. It’s part of what makes us who we are.
Britain is the most relaxed nation in the world, with the least amount of corruption. Can’t all these people who wander round demonstrating, pulling down statues and removing pictures of Her Majesty just go somewhere else?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the demonstrators all look like they come out of the mid-Sixties. To them I say: if you don’t like this country, find one you do like.