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Old 03-08-2025, 01:51   #91
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

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What ID will they have to use, they wont have a driving licence at 16 (or many at 17 either), and I suspect the majority wont have passports.
why would you think the majority of people wouldn't have passports at that age??
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

They can't marry, buy cigarettes, can't fight in the armed forces, buy a alcoholic drink. Or for that matter see a 18 rated film . What a strange plan
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

The voting age should be raised to 21, I mean below that age they no nothing about the real world.


We would end up with the green party in and all petrol & diesel vehicles banned, and air travel taxed out of existence.
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

Then when they get older they'll moan that they can't afford a car, or house, there's no jobs, they're fed up of buying cheap shit from China, TV is shit, Music is shit, internet is always broken, food it too expensive, and why are they only allowed 7 liters of water a day.

Nothing much changes
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

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why would you think the majority of people wouldn't have passports at that age??
Because they dont need one ?

As I implied, its just a guess, not based on any actual information.
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

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The voting age should be raised to 21, I mean below that age they no nothing about the real world.
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26 minimum, and if you’ve been in nothing but full time education, you should be banned until you start work.

I’d go so far as to say, if you have a degree but no job …banned.

If you have a humanities degree, banned for life.
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26 minimum, and if you’ve been in nothing but full time education, you should be banned until you start work.

I’d go so far as to say, if you have a degree but no job …banned.

If you have a humanities degree, banned for life.
You see, now that's the sort of stuff that would attract me to vote for a party
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They can't marry, buy cigarettes, can't fight in the armed forces, buy a alcoholic drink. Or for that matter see a 18 rated film . What a strange plan
Or look at porn sites without scanning a selfie because of the OSA


But Kier is happy to pass that whilst letting them vote (yes, I know it was passed under the previous parliament, but he has had plenty of chance to withdraw it if he wanted to).
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

Rumour has it that he didn't withdraw it because of the idea Labour could get more votes going their way from youngsters

The fool should know they'll all vote Green and *mess his plans up



*similar to Cameron and Brexit
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

Not sure why people are worried about 16-year-olds making bad electoral choices. It's not like we've exactly covered ourselves in any glory!
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Re: Voting Age Lowered To 16 In The UK

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Not sure why people are worried about 16-year-olds making bad electoral choices. It's not like we've exactly covered ourselves in any glory!
What a strange thing to say. It's precisely because 16 year olds are prone to making bad choices through ignorance and misguidance that they should not be given the vote. Plus it's illogical since there are so many barriers they face until they are 18.
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...and if you’ve been in nothing but full time education, you should be banned until you start work.

I’d go so far as to say, if you have a degree but no job …banned.
All above except age is far too easy to manipulate. Own your own business? Just put your offspring on the payroll.

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What a strange thing to say. It's precisely because 16 year olds are prone to making bad choices through ignorance and misguidance that they should not be given the vote. Plus it's illogical since there are so many barriers they face until they are 18.
In fairness, I understand the TickTock generation favour Reform so you have a point there.
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Not sure why people are worried about 16-year-olds making bad electoral choices. It's not like we've exactly covered ourselves in any glory!
Pierre’s post of the day award. It a new thing.

Although everything I said in my previous post stands.

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All above except age is far too easy to manipulate. Own your own business? Just put your offspring on the payroll.

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In fairness, I understand the TickTock generation favour Reform so you have a point there.
The nepo-baby is a spectrum though. Some do work their way up and make the business more successful, but…

Last name “Beckham”……BANNED.

Last name Smith (after Will) …….BANNED

Etc.
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Anyone that mentions the Beckham lot near me gets a slap upside the head
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