UK to lower voting age to 16

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I don’t think there should be a voting age at all. Also think that prisoners should be entitled to vote.

  Basically, I think everyone who is a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen living in the UK should be able to vote.

  I wouldn’t be too opposed to other nationalities with Indefinite Leave to Remain voting either. Especially for council elections.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *Sounds of Nigel Farage scrambling to make a Tik Tok account*

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He’s actually already the most popular politician on TikTok.

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    • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, considering how good right wing influencers are at, well, influencing young people, this may not be good news.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To me this is tinkering with the edges of a broken system. How about some proper voting reform?

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• G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m in favour of this, however it’s only a fraction of what needs to be done to overhaul our voting system. We need to get rid of FPTP and reform the lords.

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• thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This feels like a big shift for it actually to happen, but I think it’s the right decision overall.

  The idea that 16 legally a person can (with some caveats) live independently in their own home and raise a family, and pay all the relevant tax along the way, but not have their say in elections has always seemed incongruous to me. It’s the young who feel the political outcomes the longest after all.

  How many young people will actually turn out is another question politically though.

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• shath@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the next generation has been deemed reactionary enough to vote

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So that’s Farage a lock for PM then.

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• 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So those who voted on the right were mostly 16-18?
  Got it.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you can die for your country, you should be able to vote

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  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always found it silly that one could legally have sex with their MP, but not vote for them

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weirdly, you can only die for your country with parental consent if you’re under 18.

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Long time coming

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