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Labour are giving the right to vote to 16 and 17-year-olds
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This is part of some, you might say, shocking new electoral reforms
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Yeah, this is all in a bid to modernise democracy, apparently, and restore trust in politics among young people
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The government are going to look to extend voter ID to include bank cards
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and impose tougher rules to prevent foreign interference during elections. We're dropping the news. We want to discuss this, Carol
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Yep. Labour obviously think this will be good for them. The 16 and 17 year olds are going to be able to vote. Will it
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Do you know what? No, because a poll came out today and said that half of 16 year olds don't want to vote
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But anyway, that's by the by. And Labour are being really stupid here because I think that a lot of young people now are on to reform
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If you look at Farage, after he was in the jungle, he went on TikTok. He got millions of young followers
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Anyway, that's by the by. But this is a desperate attempt by a government that knows it's stuffed
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and to try and stay in power, it's going to give votes to immature
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inexperienced kids who, frankly, when you're 16, and I'm not being insulting
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you know, you've got teenagers, I wouldn necessarily trust them across the road never mind put the next government in power And I just think it a really bad move Kids aren developed politically developed at 16 You might get the odd one who is who like you know
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who was very invested in politics at that age, but very few
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And Labour are doing this because, historically, young people have always voted for the Labour Party
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Yeah, and those days are gone. I think you're right. You hit the nail on the head in this fact that actually
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the younger people that I talk to, and I've got two teenagers in my life
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they are all much more inclined to lean to the right. Which I think is even more important that Labour is doing this
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and doing it in the name of democracy, frankly. Think back to being 16
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Not everybody goes to university. They join the jobs market, they go out there, they earn, they pay taxes
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Why shouldn't you be able to vote as well and have a say in your future? So it's about forward-looking decisions
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But won't it backfire on Labour at the next election? Well, that's up to Labour to counter
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Because so many young people love reform. Well, maybe they do. And that's an electoral problem that Labour has
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But this is a democratic decision we're seeing being made. And it's incredibly important that people can have a say in their future
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Dare I bring it up, but look at Brexit. A lot of the people who voted for Brexit have died
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They will never see what the impact of that is. A lot of the young people who may not have voted for it are suffering the consequences
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They can't go and live and work elsewhere
