Starmer WILL give children the vote...

16 year olds will still be operating with the mindset and worldview that they have been indoctrinated with at school, which is the optimum condition as far as socially progressive political factions are concerned. It will be a number of years before they accumulate enough life experience to realise that they have been sold a pup. Some of them, perhaps even a majority, may never reach such an understanding.

Red Rackham 



In the not too distant past, definitely. These days, often with both parents working, by the time they come home from work the kids are secluded in their rooms engrossed in whatever's on their computer screens .... they might emerge for a meal but that's about it. 16 year olds will vote the way their Teachers vote (well the girls will ) ..... and is there more than a handful of Teachers throughout the UK who don't have a visceral hatred of the Tories ?

A lot of 16 year olds work do you think working people should not vote?

I started my first paid work at the age of 13 years a paper round before school and another after school , should I have been given the right to vote back then? 

At the age of 15 years I worked a 40 hour week, should I have been right to vote back then ?

I had no idea who ran the country back then or if they were were doing a good job or not, nor did I care all I was concerned about was how much was in my pay-packet on a Friday.

At 16 I was old enough to work a shift pattern, same thing knew nothing about Politicians, I knew who the Shop Stewards supported Labour and who they hated and that was it.

At the age of 18 years as I worked in a closed shop I was forced to join a Union pay subscriptions to the Union part of which went to fund the Labour Party, I had no choice either pay or leave and find other work elsewhere, that is when I took some interest in who ran the country.  Then the Union made higher wages demands and strikes were organised when they could not be met, I had no choice but to strike or be black balled I left and found work elsewhere 

At the age of 21 that is when I was allowed to vote for the first time, I never have voted for Labour ever since and never will I have no desire to bring those bad old days back again  



  
  

We are all influenced by something or someone. Should everyone who has been 'influenced' not get a vote?

Sixteen year olds are not the same as they were before the intenet and social media.

If you are proposing that only tax payers should vote then tell us how this will work .