Gesetzentwurf zur Senkung des Wahlalters auf 16 Jahre soll im Parlament eingebracht werden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2jjvx466o
Von Tartan_Samurai
Gesetzentwurf zur Senkung des Wahlalters auf 16 Jahre soll im Parlament eingebracht werden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2jjvx466o
Von Tartan_Samurai
20 Kommentare
I think we all know why some political parties are pushing for this, and it’s nothing to do with them believing 16 year olds are mature enough to vote.
We don’t trust 16 year olds enough to watch some movies, or drive a car, but trust them enough to vote??
So they can brainwash the kids and scaremonger them in to voting for them
Well they’re old enough to earn and pay tax so this makes sense. Seems the rest of the UK is catching up with Scotland.
I don’t think this is a good idea, I definitely wasn’t making sensible choices at that age.
But more to the point, if we’re saying 16 year olds should vote, shouldn’t we just say that 16 year olds are adults?
If you’re old enough to pay tax you’re old enough to have a say in where that tax is spent
Maybe it’ll start to balance out some of the terrible voting intentions of the older generations. I assume this is the reason behind why some parties will push for it more of course.
Good.
I wish I had a say in Brexit when I was 16, yet I didn’t and the consequences of Brexit have heavily limited my options in moving away from this country.
I ain’t the only one either.
The same government that is moving to ban them from buying zero alcohol drinks on pubs, and doesn’t want any under 16s going on YouTube, thinks they are mature enough to vote. Nothing to do with the belief they’ll vote in the „right“ way of course.
Well might as well include driving license, alcohol and tobacco in bill .
This is going to make schools a political stomping ground.
We’re dumping more and more of our problems on future generations, so, yes, let them vote.
The government considers that 16 is too young to leave education, go into a pub and buy a beer, too young to drive a car, too young to gamble, too young to have a tattoo and now too young to watch porn. All because they’re not mature enough.
But they are dropping the voting age because they think they will vote for them.
Labour seem to think that at 15 years and 364 days old you aren’t mature enough to be viewing Social Media but 1 day later you are old enough to vote.
Lots of people asking the question why we don’t allow 16 year olds to do x but we would allow them to vote.
If you think allowing someone of tax-paying age to vote is some how equivalent to allowing them to drink, get tattoos, watch certain movies etc. Then maybe you are the one who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Those rules exist to protect the individuals, not the fabric of society. Absolutely no relevance to whether they should have a say in what their current and/or future taxes should pay for.
Hopefully, whatever the political motivations behind this, this might encourage more young brits to start caring about politics from an earlier age.
The laws on age related things should all be looked into. The fact they’re looking at letting people vote at 16, they can have a kid 16, drive at 17 but no you can’t have a pint or play the lottery until you’re 18 is just weird. While they’re at it they should scrap age repeated minimum wage gaps also.
Good. Can we look at bringing in a maximum voting age (let’s say 80 for argument’s sake) too please?
Older people have proven time and time again that they vote like fucking idiots, and I say that as an older person.
16 year olds can’t do any worse.
The same government that is making life more miserable and difficult for the youth is also giving them a vote. At least the Tories understood self preservation.
just to show some numbers but 13,000 (https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-21/hl9727) 16-17 pay tax in the country, there are 1.5-1.55 million 16-17 year olds in the UK (https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/jn5p/lms)
which is **0.8%** of the population
No taxation without representation is misunderstood.
It was slogan of the American Revolution, asserting that the British Parliament had no right to tax American colonists because the colonists had no elected representatives in that Parliament, making taxes unconstitutional and violations of their rights as Englishmen.