‘Celtic cubs’ need to change their attitude

I’M afraid Steven King (January 21) reaches the wrong conclusion when he faults the political parties for the fact that membership is getting older and fewer in number.

When he quotes smart young people on university campuses on their attitude to being a member of any political party, he really lets the cat out of the bag as to where the real problem lies.

These university-educated young people aspire to be the elite in this country at some time in the future. If the only thought they can come up with is that political party membership is “no longer cool”, and anyway they would risk “being laughed at by friends” should they become party members, then democracy is indeed in danger of dying on its feet.