Back in 1976 an excellent sci-fi called Logan’s Run was released.

It was set in 2274 and featured a hedonistic world full of beautiful shiny, happy young people.

When they turned 30 they were sent off to be “reincarnated” for another blissful life. The reality was that they were simply bumped off by the governing body for being “past it”.

The movie was based on a book of the same name, a chilling piece of fiction that could never actually come to pass.

Well fast forward to 2019 and that fiction is playing out in front of us.

A shock poll this week showed half of young adults reckon the over-70s should be barred from voting on the country’s future. The survey revealed 47% of the 16-34 age bracket think pensioners shouldn’t get a say on issues such as Brexit and Scottish independence as it’s the younger generation that has to live longest with the consequences.

The ungrateful, selfish, self-obsessed little wretches. Whatever happened to respecting your elders and betters?

This is a generation who, as youngsters themselves, survived Hitler’s bombs and built a safe Britain for their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Maybe too safe though because thanks to their comfortable hi-tech lifestyles, the millennial mob have emerged so self-important and narcissistic that they need a safe space and a human rights lawyer if anyone so much as says boo to them.

Witness the Oxford University students union voting to ban clapping and replace it with jazz hands to avoid “triggering anxiety”

It’s applause, you snowflake numpties, not the bloody blitz.

Depriving pensioners of their democratic right to vote is obscene. They have every right to their opinion and every right to express it. They’ve worked, paid their taxes and have a lifetime of experience to draw on. Plus, 70 isn’t old any more, is it? We’re an ageing population with many of us living into our nineties.

In theory, those “decrepit” 70-year-old pensioners the youngsters are pouring scorn on could have another 30 years of living a life – and are entitled to have a say on it. Or maybe we should just cut to the chase here Logan’s Run style?

Why stop at depriving pensioners of their democratic vote? Just think how much the NHS would save it if it didn’t have to worry about caring for the elderly? And, ooh, all the housing stock that would be freed up if anyone over the big 70 was made to simply vanish?

Not to mention that none of us would ever have to be confronted by that weird clothing so beloved of doddery old gits.

In Logan’s Run you were euthanized at 30 for being a waste of resources, so having the sheer gall to be 70 and thinking you still have something to offer is just taking the (probably incontinent) pee.

At the same time as this debate is going on, our MPs were briefly thinking about giving 16 to 17-year-olds the vote. Which means girls like Greta Thunberg will be calling the shots. Eat the rich? No, save the planet and eat the elderly.

The irony is that the heroes of the pensioner-dissing yoof are the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and Sir David Attenborough.

Attenborough is 93 and Corbyn celebrated his 70th birthday this year.

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