Whelp, it was good while it lasted.

No Conservative/Tory type will ever win there again as we well know the vast majority of 16 year olds are highly brainwashed now and will vote for whoever they are instructed to which of course will be the liberal Labour Party:

https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1945779745188110772

Wow they are doing their best to give that country away. Succeeding I might add.

I remember one son, was younger back in 2016. He was slightly enamored with the idea of the ‘first woman president’. I reminded him that policies matter, regardless of the candidate’s sex, race, age, whatever.

He’s 21 now and voted absentee for Trump in WI, in the military now.

We allow California to corrupt elections, ranked choice elections, import illegals and count them in the census. Soon Minneapolis will have a Somali Mayor and NY a Communist foreign born mayor.

London is lost, the Germans couldn't bomb it out of existence, the local government will accomplish this for them.

And ‘they’ will consider everything normal.

They should have upped it to 25. At least.

The UK is jest fooked.

What could possibly go wrong?

This will be spun as being progressive and egalitarian...the reality as we know is, decision making and politics at that age is by emotion-only. Zero experience for perspective needed, just spastic outbursts and immediate gratification-results only. The one thing I do know in the UK, is a kid can join the Army and work full-time by age-16 so, there is some precedent however as we see in the below post....its a mess.

https://x.com/NeilDotObrien/st.../1945807292135317788

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Originally posted by sjtill:
The UK is jest fooked.

Beat me to it.

The United Kingdom is entirely fucked.

And this tactic of keeping power to the commies is a pure wet dream for Democrats in this country.

The Romans and Vikings couldn’t do you in, so you committed suicide. But you voted this crap in, election after election. Bye bye.

wife and I were planning on going to Scotland and maybe Ireland, next year,,

may have to reconsider

It's time for regime change in the UK.

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Originally posted by lyman:
wife and I were planning on going to Scotland and maybe Ireland, next year,,

may have to reconsider

In Scotland, the voting age has been 16 for over a decade, since 2014. So why would this suddenly make you reconsider now? (It was only 18 for national UK-wide elections, since the UK as a whole hadn't adopted that, until now.)

And Ireland isn't part of the UK. Their voting age has been - and will remain - 18.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
They should have upped it to 25. At least.

This.

The brain isn't fully developed until your mid-20s. And the last part to develop is the one that lets you consider the long-term consequences of your choices, and appreciate delayed gratification. (This is why young folks are literally physically unable to fully do those.)

Seems like that'd be something important for voting...

remember ..a couple of years ago .Democrats have brought this up about letting 16 year olds vote in US elections ..it may come here also..They're is only one reason democrats want 16 year olds to be able to vote here

Another implication. The birth rate for ancestral Brits, like much of the Western world is below replacement. I believe 8 major cities in England, including London, now have Muslim mayors. Given the birth rate of the millions of Middle Easterners, the 16 year old voting age will likely make the UK (for all intents and purposes) a Muslim country.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by lyman:
wife and I were planning on going to Scotland and maybe Ireland, next year,,

may have to reconsider

In Scotland, the voting age has been 16 for over a decade, since 2014. So why would this suddenly make you reconsider now?

Well for the drama-posturing of course!

I agree that moving the age down rather than up just doesn't make any sense there or anywhere.

Precursor to the marriage age.

With Starmer's incessant war, war, war cry, the Brits I follow are all asking if this also automatically reduces the minimum age for conscription into His Majesty's Armed Forces to 16.

You can volunteer at 16, but this is now about being voluntold.

My British pal said this:

"This Government is in a mess, to put it mildly, and it's ratings have plummeted.

This idea is their desperate attempt to get more votes at the next general election.

I agree it's a bad idea. It could backfire on them however as some of the youngsters are now surprisingly right wing."