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Lower the voting age to 16!
4 Responses | 14577 Plays | 25% Agree | 75% DisagreeÂ
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March 19 2008
Jonathan Pyke is a representative of the 'Vote at 16 Coalition' who hope to lower the voting age to 16. Here he talks from Unlock Democracy’s ‘People and Politics Day Europe 2008’ about wanting to get young people involved in politics.
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added March 19 2008
STUPID idea. Young people will just be brainwashed into voting for the wrong person
added March 19 2008
added March 26 2008
I'm afraid 16 yr olds are fcking stupid and politically clueless, most of them are so apolitical that they wont bother voting and the ones who will bother voting will just vote for one of the biggest mainstream parties, so all you will be doing is increasing the membership of Labour or Tories, get them young get them for life....as the previous person said...brainwash them young get them for life. The youth parliament is good example of brainwashed teens who are just using it as a stepping stone to being a career politican, these are spineless people who just do as theyre told to get inot parliament, socialise their minds to believe that only parliament and the mainstream parties are important and there you have making of young socialised politicans...Mini Tony Blairs.
added October 06 2008
Why does neither this fool or Stephen Williams put forward any reason for lowering the voting age? Throwing words like "vibrant" at it doesn't wash. How about this for an idea - Instead of wasting their time and my taxes campaigning for lowering the voting age they start campaiging for people with an IQ below a certain threshold to have their right to vote taken away? Perhaps then we would not be represented by the likes of Mr Williams in the first place!