If parliament had allowed 16-18 to vote

I totally agree with you.

16/17 year olds are allowed to work, have sex and get married legally, but are not allowed to vote on subjects that will impact their future severely? It's a huge misconception that the majority of young people are imperceptive towards politics. In every single age group, there are people who use their votes due to influence of others. But, to be honest, the most of us are influenced by people regardless of age; politicians influence us, our parents, our loved ones etc. It's human nature. We grow or disintegrate by influence.

The majority of older people (60+) voted Out because of racially or religiously provoked reasons. Their own families and history have influenced them as well. Influence of patriotism and prejudiced beliefs are also prominent among older people. Thus, believing that older people are able to make more informed decisions is not correct.

Plus, if we did start allowing 16/17 year olds to vote, then maybe making politics compulsory in education would be bloody helpful too, right? Then they would be able to have information alongside things like parental influence.

They are also not of the age of majority

And political education is the worst idea ever, who sets the agenda and who ensures that it is followed correctly? There is ko fair way if doing it

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If we were taught anything about politics in school at that age we would know that. Right wing politicians run schools they would never allow fair politics classes but at the very least they should teach us something. In tutorial/form sessions maybe. They could tell us what the wings are. What they want. How unfair and corrupt politics is at the very least.

If you don't know that the age of majority is 18 there is something more deeply wrong

And again, you will never get a proper education of what left and right sing are, and it takes about 30s to find out for yourself

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30s huh? You learned that in your 30s? I learned it when I was 12. Left wing family with strong opinions but it's not hard when you have the Internet to get other people's opinions.

I am howling at people insulting the supposed ''political intelligence'' of 16-17 year olds (so supposedly someone who is 17 years 364 days old and someone who is exactly 18 years old must be very very different intelligence wise...)

Which idiots do that? I care about politics. I thought many others did too.

In my school most people talk about politics if something big occurs. Maybe teachers should try to teach us more about politics. Most 16 year old's don't even know what youth Parliament is because we were never told anything about it.

Not really, it should be compulsory in schools that Politics is talk to get people interested in it in the first place. A subject that allows people to have different views on certain topics, this would help get young people, such as 16-18 year olds get involved more into politics.



In every school, I am pretty sure that if something big occurs in politics it will be at the centre of discussion during the day. However, it should be the norm that politics is taught and that it is talked about everyday as these important things don't happen everyday.

I also agree, 16 year olds don't even know what youth Parliament is. Most also don't even know how politics works, this is fundamentally wrong and an issue that needs to be addressed in this country if we want a higher turnout of young people voting in elections and referendums. If this sort of attitude continues, there will be lower turnouts in the future.

If 16-18 years old were allowed to vote in the referendum, then it's very likely that remain would have actually won. There's a very clear trend that shows how the elderly are very anti EU while the younger people tend to be pro EU. It's very frustrating for me as a 17 year old to see decisions being made by people who will honestly die within the next 10 years while I am unable to have a say. The future belongs to us, the youth.

I don't think people in my school are interested in politics either as we never discussed this stuff anyway but I am actually really interested in politics. I don't know if talking about it more will help the same people will just get so bored.

Near the end of July, I'm travelling abroad to Spain with my school (from the UK).
We have already booked the tickets and hotels, everything has been paid for. I was wondering if Britain voting to leave will affect our trip. Like will we need Visas since there is no more free movement?

I think teachers talking about it more in lessons and how it will effect us as a generation will make people of our age to think that politics is important to our lives. Maybe it might be seen as boring to some, probably most, but if we highlight the importance of it then people will be talking about it more.

I actually don't think so. I probably think this because my school is full of idiots who seriously just don't care. They act like immature 5 year olds. I doubt very much the people I'm talking about could ever be interested in politics but that is from my own experience. Of course you'll have different views as you've been around a different set of people.

In about 30s and in your 30s are very different, something tells me nobody learnt it before they were 30 seconds old

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My school is the same but every school is different. Some schools try to get students involved by doing mock polls, I know some schools in the country did that on the day of the referendum. Schools should do things like that to get people more interested in it and have debate groups and extra-curriculum activities. Unfortunately, the government isn't very passionate about getting under 18s involved in Politics.

Probably not possible haha. Though in all honesty give it a day and you could get enough insight to make that kind of choice.