L’età del voto nel Regno Unito da abbassare a 16 anni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c628ep4j5kno
di FrostedGhost21
L’età del voto nel Regno Unito da abbassare a 16 anni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c628ep4j5kno
di FrostedGhost21
41 commenti
This will surely work out fine….
I am in favour of this if only because it gives consistency (devolved elections in Scotland and Wales have the age at 16). It just makes sense to have a simpler system.
I don’t actually think the age should be 16, I think it should be 18 across the board. But it’s ludicrous to run this two-ages system we have at the moment and taking votes away from people is never going to be done.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ll hear all day. And where I walk, the competition is fierce.
Labour know 16 year olds will vote left so they’ll do they’re manufacturing more votes for themselves.
No offence to sixteen year olds but most of the ones I’ve interacted with I wouldn’t want them having a vote.
I think it’s a good decision, after all they are the future. It would have been great, if I could have voted 3 years ago
Old enough to join the army, so why not.
I would much rather 16 years olds with their whole life ahead of them vote instead of those 80+ who could kick the bucket next week.
Besides I’ve never understood the immaturity argument anyway, the brain is still developing well after 18 but we allow 18 year olds to vote and there are plenty of middle aged people who you wouldn’t trust with a car let alone the ability to vote.
Kids are also affected by the decisions of the people in government, it’s only normal to let them have the tiniest say on the matter.
Not to mention that this is demonstrably healthy for democracy and the building of political habits for people. The younger you start voting is correlated to how politically engaged you are. Folks who’s first vote is only in their late 20s, for example, are consistently shown to be more prone to misinformation and propaganda.
Do they realize that this will lead to a gigantic increase in far right voters?
Not in the UK so it’s probably not my place but for anyone worried that 16 year olds are going to vote stupidly – the solution would just be to educate them better, wouldn’t it? 16 year olds are biologically capable of being smart
What could go wrong?
If this change was made in turkey, the erdogan would get absolutely crushed in the elections lol
UK loves giving children adult responsibilities
If they don’t deal with social media disinformation, this is going to end very badly for the UK.
Irrelevant.
They are so few compared to the older ones, plus they are heavily influenced by their parents.
The argument ends when adults voted for Brexit. If anything adults are less informed than 16yr olds.
That’s a terrible idea… Kids are idiots (Yes, all of them). And 16 year olds are very much still kids.
Hell no. 16yo people are damn kids and you are going to let them effect on politics?
18 is almost too young these days.
That’s Northern Ireland gone, then
I imagine this is the first step in the UK coming back to the EU
Finally! I’d have loved to have a say last year
Why not. The majority of people are fairly dumb anyway so democracy doesnt work by default.
I seriously want these guys to all vote for Count Binface. Just bc why not
Fantastic. TikTok is now going to define our lives in more way than we think.
Maybe in the same spirit we need to add the upper age limit too.
I think Nigel Farage just came in his pants.
Teenagers allowed to vote won’t end well for the UK
Oh boy, uk is truly fucked now
I actually think that this is a good thing that they’ll be allowed vote.
When I was 16 I was a crazy edgelord like many of my peers at the time that thought abolishing the government completely was a good idea (a.k.a. anarchy). This seems like a horrible idea on all fronts
16yo can vote in Argentina since 2013.
I voted at age, it was implemented by the Kirchnerist government because they thought that that would give an advantage as young people tend to be more idealist.
In short what happened is that the new generation of teenagers started to vote to the right and helped to elect Javier Milei.
Not an expert in UK politics but it is not desirable to make policies for short period political gains as it can backfire.
Makes sense, after all, it’s their future
Lmao republicans in America would blow up the country if they did this
Voting is a responsibility which comes with being a fully fledged citizen of a society who can exert agency over it . That means the citizen must first be considered capable of exerting agency and autonomy as an individual . That’s what the age of majority is supposed to define . If 16 year olds are supposed to be treated as autonomous and responsible enough to exert agency over society (which is debatable) , then that means the age of majority should be lowered to 16 .
So finally we get a cap at 60?
Oh… oh no
Austria has a voting age of 16 and it works fine. It’s really a good thing with no downsides
This is going to backfire so hard, wow.
Bad decision, I dread what I would have voted at 16 years old
And here I thought Brexit was the dumbest idea ever…guess there’s always one more lol
This is gonna be interesting, I don’t doubt that there are 16 and 17 year olds that take politics and how it can affect themselves and others, a bit serious or at least as much as most adults. But I can’t help but have a bit of fear that the chance of far more extreme candidates being able to win based on memes or because they didn’t know who to vote for and choice those kind of candidates based on the thought of seeing more of them being funny
I wonder if 16-18 year olds would be more likely to vote than 18-20s. Being in school and living at home with parents vs being at college and being on your own.
Must feel quite empowering to vote at 16