Telegraph- Labour ‘trying to rig system’ after handing 16-year-olds the vote
The change, which was promised in Labour’s manifesto last summer and will be in place in time for the next general election, will bring the voting age down in line with Scottish and Welsh elections.
There’s been mention of bringing in selective service in the UK, will the 16 year olds be included?
I mean, they’re adults now right?
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/what-was-national-service
It’s only a 1 year difference from last time round… with today’s youth they may not even notice!
Yeah….it is amusing how the age limit shifts depending on the issue, isn’t it? One minute they aren’t old enough to really be blamed for their actions and the next they are old enough to vote.
Why not 5? “Free candy every day “
This is just further evidence that your vote is now meaningless.
It’d be hilarious if sixteen year olds started to lean heavily conservative.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/young-people-increasingly-embrace-conservatism
2 part joke from someone in England on this topic, Jimmy Carr …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wKElt1Bw1JY
about 15 seconds… I actually laughed, and I have no idea who this person is.
Well … Nancy Pelosi tried that in the USA. And FAILed. That should tell you all you need to know about giving 16yo’s the vote. Nancy Pelosi.
As a parenthetical … The very FIRST vote I cast as an 18yo … was for Jimmy Carter. By the end of his FAILed term … I was paying 16.5% on my FIRST mortgage. Yeah … I learned of my stupidity … good and HARD! If I had been able to vote as a 16yo … I probably would have voted for Communist George MacGovern in 1972. Yeah, we’re all STUPID when we’re young.
Yeah, the left know that the majority of the young and impressionable will vote left.
Then it’ll be votes for non citizens because they’ll vote left.
And the coup de grace – no votes for those over the age of 65 because they won’t vote left……….
“The Prime Minister said 16 and 17-year-olds were old enough to pay taxes and they should therefore get a say in the running of the country.”
But DO they pay taxes? Here in Canada, students don’t pay taxes.
These kids have had, for their whole lives, everything provided for them. Unless they’ve had a summer job which didn’t go toward supporting themselves.
My opinion is that the voting age should be raised back up to 21. By that age a lot of them will likely havem encountered the real world.