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UK to lower voting age to 16 in landmark electoral reform www.bbc.com/news/live/c93kkg37n3kt

262 sats \ 11 comments \ @Coinsreporter 17 Jul Politics_And_Law

It is the biggest change to the British electorate since 1969 when the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18
As part of a raft of proposals, Labour says it is only fair to allow young people to vote given they can work, pay taxes and join the Army
But, the Conservatives argue the plans are "hopelessly confused" and has given Parliament no time to scrutinise until September due to the imminent recess

Democracy is this:

Imagine 10,000 people in a town. I propose a bill to charge everyone $5 per year...The money will be given to my 5 friends. Will the bill pass?

Yes. It will pass every time. Why would anyone vote for it? Simple because my 5 friends are incentived to go muster support for this bill....they will go advocate for it, create plausible sounding arguments why its needed, maybe some of them will pay some of their friends to vote yes, etc...

Meanwhile its not worth the general publics time to advocate against it. The $5 tax doesn't rise to the level of being "actionable" - its basically something just to ignore.

Hence why these bills always pass....and after a couple of decades of these the frog is slowly boiled.

The goal of lowering voting age to 16 is to increase the pool of voters that are easily swayed by my 5 buddies arguments. They know 16 y/o will respond to simplistic moralistic good-bad tropes....thus we can keep our scheme going.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 17 Jul

There's a name for that.

"Concentrated benefits, dispersed costs"

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 17 Jul

Come on!! I was going to give my opinion on this... But your answer is great...!! Thanks for sharing 👌

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul

More evidence UK is done as a civil society

Pay taxes? more like collect welfare

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul

A candidate will lilterally campaign for "no homework" and "everyone gets an A"

31 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 17 Jul

That's ridiculous. Teenagers are generally immature morons.

On the bright side hardly any of them will actually vote.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 17 Jul

Britain's Labour Party thinks the youth will turnout in big numbers for them.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 17 Jul

Counting on young people to vote is rarely a winning strategy. Maybe their mom’s can drive them. Haha

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 17 Jul

The Labour Party has a higher proportion of female MPs (46%) than any of the major parties in the Commons......Other parties have a much lower proportion of female MPs. Just under a quarter of Conservative MPs are women. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/gender-balance-politics

Now you know why I said that. Mommies support Labour in Britain because they give them more chances. Once I was listening a talk show where someone said that Labour party should now be called Women's Party.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 17 Jul

I'm sure they can incentivized with all kinds of stuff. Free pizza? Yes please...

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17 Jul