I agree we are due a debate about the age of consent.

But I am not sure how lowering it will resolve any issues such as teen pregnancies, bad sexual health practices and the sexualisation of young people?

Lowering the age of consent is akin to the last administration lowering the bar in education. Instead of raising the standard of those who are failing and the at bottom end of the learning scale, they appeased them by dumping down the curriculum for all students.

Or instead of supporting and promoting aspiration and those who do well and succeed in business lefty do gooders would rather describe them and their success as greed and call them predators. Then proceed to clip their wings and stomp on their success with over regulation and increased taxation.

Lowering the age of consent because 14 and 15 year old are sexually active is sending the wrong message and it’s a very dangerous route to go down. Not only it will not reduce unwanted teen pregnancies or the transmission of sexual disease, it will actually encourage teens younger than 14 and 15 to become sexually active, teens as young as 12 and 13!

I am delighted this uber dump idea got shoot in the air. The Prime Minster and most party leaders have dismissed even debating it, thank goodness for common sense.

However, if we are going to have a debate about the age of consent let us begin with the idea of raising it to 18.

I am sure when it was passed at 16, people lived shorter than we do today, and 16 was an appropriate age, at the time, to get married and start a family. Today 16 year olds are children pushed to become adults instead of being allowed to grow naturally at their own pace. Encouraged to enjoy their childhood, learn and get an education to prepare them for the future.

Debating the age of consent is definitely a conversation we need to have but about raising it not the other way round.