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16-year-olds to be given vote in next UK general election
The Times (UK) ^ | July 17 2025 | Chris Smyth

Posted on 07/17/2025 5:44:14 AM PDT by Salman

Angela Rayner accused Labour’s political opponents of “running scared” of young people as she pledged that 16-year-olds would be able to vote at the next election.

The deputy prime minister argued that lowering the voting age will get “democracy back on track” and give frustrated young people “a stake in our country’s future”.

Ministers are promising more “democratic education in schools” to encourage young people to turn out.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; uk; unitedkingdom
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Democrats in the USA have occasionally proposed this, but not recently.

It being the UK, this would mean a higher proportion of Muslim voters. I'm sure the UK pols behind this are aware of it.

1 posted on 07/17/2025 5:44:14 AM PDT by Salman
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“Democrats in the USA have occasionally proposed this, but not recently”.

Anything they EVER ‘mention’ means it is on the agenda..................


2 posted on 07/17/2025 5:47:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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So I guess they’ll be able to buy a gun, some smokes and booze too, right? RIGHT? Why 16? Modern sweet sixteeners these days have on one thing on their minds. Getting their genitals swapped out and hanging out on Tik Tok all day long. A lot like to compete against girls in sports.


3 posted on 07/17/2025 5:56:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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To: Salman

Canada is moving to do this, too.

Not a coinkydink.


4 posted on 07/17/2025 5:59:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Sixteen year olds nowadays are trouble awaiting rescue. Lacking trades and poorly educated. Little self-control. Ready to bear children but not ready to raise them.


5 posted on 07/17/2025 6:09:52 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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I guess the grownups are too stupid to vote. They elect foreign idiots. Same thing is happening here in America. The Congress of Foreign Creeps.


6 posted on 07/17/2025 6:11:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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This happened in Germany and it helped put Hitler in power.

The youth are enthusiastic voters, but they don’t have a clue as to the consequences of what they vote for.


7 posted on 07/17/2025 6:12:12 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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LOL!!! Stupid CHILDREN voting, what a world...


8 posted on 07/17/2025 6:15:13 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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I think I remember a movie in the late 1960s where the basic plot was lowering the voting age to 16; it may also have had removing suffrage from anyone over 30, but I’m not sure about that one. Can’t find it in a quick AI search though


9 posted on 07/17/2025 6:15:18 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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If anything, the voting age should be moved to 21.


10 posted on 07/17/2025 6:21:04 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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Great. Now the grooming gangs get a vote.


11 posted on 07/17/2025 6:23:14 AM PDT by Tallguy
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“democratic education in schools”

The UK’s leftist unionized government-employee teachers will work like never before “educating” the kiddies on who to vote for. Britain’s race to the bottom is about to go to hyperspeed.

Dependent persons who own no property and pay no taxes should never be allowed to vote; violating this principle is a lot of what is wrong already.


12 posted on 07/17/2025 6:25:42 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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No such thing as a UK muslim; just muslims.


13 posted on 07/17/2025 6:31:26 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: chajin
I think I remember a movie in the late 1960s ...

Wild in the Streets (1968)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/

14 posted on 07/17/2025 6:33:34 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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They are desperate to keep native born British citizens under the thumb of the WEF planners and place them back under the EU for tight control.

They’ve had little push back from the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc., only the USA is waking up to their globalists evil agenda.


15 posted on 07/17/2025 6:34:56 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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That’s it; thank you!


16 posted on 07/17/2025 6:35:44 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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They shouldn’t be lowering the voting age... They should be raising it.

Most people under 18 (the current voting age) haven’t got a clue... And given the small percentage that do have a clue... Most young people under 18 would be casting votes based on brainwashing from their teachers or peers, rather than making an informative decision.


17 posted on 07/17/2025 6:37:56 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: mewzilla

I’ll bet Australia and New Zealand will follow in their footsteps.


18 posted on 07/17/2025 6:38:53 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: jerod

My thoughts exactly.


19 posted on 07/17/2025 6:39:16 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Salman

Gotta get out the young and stupid vote before they wise up and realize how much they’ve been lied to.


20 posted on 07/17/2025 6:39:41 AM PDT by CtBigPat (Epstein's client list did not kill itself.)
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