16 and 17-year-olds are going to get the vote, and it’s annoying all the right people – 19 top responses
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Not sure why Reform are up in arms about 16 and 17 year olds voting. They put this 18 year old in charge of a £2bn council, which is pretty irresponsible if they thought he couldn’t even be trusted to vote a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/61PEPOqJ3i
— Parody Keir Starmer (@Parody_PM) July 17, 2025
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Hasn’t Munchkin Monroe heard of Google? Lowering the voting age to 16 was included in the Labour Party's 2024 election manifesto. pic.twitter.com/w7cDT8FCEU
— Miffy (@miffythegamer) July 17, 2025
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Wait until she finds out that 15yo's were able to vote in Leadership elections for the Conservative Party and have been voting in Scotland and Wales in devolved elections for years pic.twitter.com/ItsFEbGT80
— dave lawrence (@dave43law) July 17, 2025
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As a high school teacher, I can honestly say I'd rather trust democracy to 16 year olds than spiteful, elderly Daily Mail readers every day of the week.
— Thom David (@TheThomDavid) July 17, 2025
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During recent Conservative leadership contests, the Tories allowed members as young as 15 to vote to elect the next Prime Minister.
But now they think 16- and 17-year olds are too young to choose their local MP?
— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) July 17, 2025
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Nigel Farage. What first attracted you to not wanting to lower the voting age because you know most young people aren’t racist? pic.twitter.com/iWTMjXzCbd
— Mark Cockerton (@CockertonMark) July 17, 2025
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You don’t really think 16 year olds are to immature to vote. You’re just worried they won’t vote for the same nasty right wing politicians that you do
— Secret Drug Addict (@ScrtDrugAddict) July 17, 2025
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Some 16 year olds will lack the maturity, knowledge & intelligence to vote. Some won’t. Same as the rest of the population. https://t.co/OKS5kU3A02
— Clive Wismayer (@CliveWismayer) July 17, 2025
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I can see why right-wingers are so shocked by the 16/17 year old vote policy.
It was in the Labour manifesto and now they're putting it into law which is not how Tories used to do things
— Trumpton (@Trump_ton) July 17, 2025
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Prediction: People who support parties that 16 and 17 year olds are less likely to vote for will hate this.
People who support parties that 16 and 17 year olds are more likely to vote for will like this.
What I want to know is, when will cats get a vote? https://t.co/5UXsr5quRl— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 17, 2025
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Weird how all the people saying that 16/17 year olds shouldn’t vote are the same ones currently giving a platform to a 12 year old girl.
— Sarah (@kokeshimum) July 17, 2025
If this happens, we want to be the ones to tell Nigel Farage.
As soon as 16 year olds get the vote we need a referendum on rejoining EU but a hard rejoin in schengen and taking the Euro too , full social charter
— terry christian (@terrychristian) July 17, 2025
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