Children voting at 16 years !!

[excuseme]

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What a load of nonsense children aloud to vote at 16 !! It's shameful !
They have NO life experience and NO idea about life to know what they are voting for, they may be able to make babies, work and pay taxes but they are little more than growing babies themselves.
Bring back the age of getting the "Key of the door" at 21 years with voters a sensible age and more experience of life itself!

 

[JudyN]

I think 16-year-olds on the whole are a lot more well informed than we were at that age, whereas voters at the other end of the spectrum have built up a lifetime of biases. Have a read of this article into the impact of 16- and 17-year-olds getting the vote in other countries - it may surprise you: What happens when 16-year-olds get the vote? Other countries are already seeing the benefits | Christine Huebner

 

[JoanneF]

Mr F and I spoke about this earlier. Rather than an age test, we thought a sort of social awareness test might be better.

We need something to weed out 'I'm voting for this party because my father, grandfather, great grandfather, mates do'. In some places, if you put the right colour of rosette on a bag of flour people will vote for it.

 

[Mad Murphy]

I'm 60 and there are an awful lot of women at my age who still vote in whichever way their husband decides. Don't underestimate 16 year olds after all look at the present government, look at brexit ,the over 18's didn't make very good or well informed choices about that now did they? Take a look at Nigel Farage and the amount of popularity he has gained I don't think that his voters necessarily have a well-developed frontal cortex and yet none of them are 16..

Let's not write off 16 and 17 year olds they might be idealistic they might vote emotionally but I think that they have a fairly good grip of what's going on around them and after all it's their future their voting for.