I was thinking about the implications of letting 16 year olds vote but ultimately arrived at why not just let every human vote? Parents of very small children would submit on their behalf and according to their best interests.

err coz their minds are immature & not able to comprehend how their actions infleunce things in the world. Are you serious?
Catholics would have a much greater say in elections.

Parents of very small children would submit on their behalf and according to their best interests.

Of course they would…just like our parents did last June.

Imagine the ‘gerrymandering’ potential of measures to encourage breeding among your core support.

Because the over-procreating underclass of benefit scroungers would get a bigger say in our elected parliament and we’d end up with UKIP in charge?

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err coz their minds are immature & not able to comprehend how their actions infleunce things in the world

There’s a Brexit joke in there somewhere… 😆

I’d rather have 16 year olds voting than pensioners.

Actually, on present form, I’d rather have toddlers voting than pensioners.

….or gerbils

Landslide electoral victory for the Staying Up Late , Watching Cartoon Network and Getting Ripped to the Tits on Haribo Party?

I think it’s a great idea to let children vote, I’ve speculated what a campaign might look like if it really addressed the problems effecting the young people of today

Labour Manifesto:

1 fidget spinner per child
No meme left behind
Enforced “like 4 like” on Instagram policy, £2bn budget
Screenshotting Snapchats is now a criminal offence
Send nudes
Tax relief for VAPERS
Fine Art, Textiles and Florist degrees to be paid for by, well, who cares, someone, just not you.
Emojii lessons at school replacing maths (maths is boring omg)

Because they’re evil and they’d enslave us all and make us spend the budget on nexo knights and surprise eggs. Mine would anyway.

Because they don’t have the necessary knowledge, reasoning capability or maturity for their vote to be meaningful.
Oh, wait…

They would clearly make a better job of it. They don’t typically have the prejudice, selfishness etc,. of adults.

They would vote on what they see as the fairest policies rather than protecting their own interest (largely because they don’t have any interests yet)
There would be no baseless anti-immigration crap for example.

Would need a lower limit of maybe 7 years old but I am all for it.

I’d trust my 5 year old over most 16 year olds I’ve met.

Generosity and kindness are on different levels, maybe it’s because so is a young girl. Let the women’s party rule, with actual women, not that robot May.

Unfortunately my 3 year old would either vote ukip or BNP. The little ****bag

Because the over-procreating underclass of benefit scroungers would get a bigger say in our elected parliament and we’d end up with UKIP in charge?

Yes much better that we let the over-remunerated upper class spend money to buy political influence so we end up with the Tories in charge

I wouldn’t let half of STWers vote, let alone their offspring.

Does anyone that does vote actually know the full extent of what they’re voting for… what about a vote per pet as well?