This was a really good idea with the head of history and politics at PGS inviting all the local schools to participate in a democracy day ending with a question time debate with local parliamentary candidates. We were all invited to address the audience for exactly 4 minutes, I had timed my talk to make sure that it was less than 4 minutes but it seems the egg timer was not working properly and I was cut off early! The questions were wide and varied ranging from should the voting age be lowered to 16 to should we lock up paedophiles for longer. Sadly, many schools had to leave during the debate to catch their buses back to school so there were not many people left at the end to vote. I hope this event inspires people to get involved during the election and later in life although the questions asked were not going to show the real divisions between the parties.