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Are 16 and 17 year olds even of voting age in the UK? You can't possibly advocate letting non UK citizens decide for UK matters.

• jashmatthews 8y ago
  > You can't possibly advocate letting non UK citizens decide for UK matters. The UK has a long history of letting non UK commonwealth citizens vote in things like... The Brexit referendum!
• gambiting 8y ago
  >> You can't possibly advocate letting non UK citizens decide for UK matters. I don't see why not. I have lived in UK for 8 years, and pay my taxes here. I'm a productive member of the society, I consider Theresa May as much my prime minister as any British person would. The result of the referendum affects me hugely, and yet I couldn't vote because my passport does not say "Great Britain" on it. And like the other commenter has said - there was plenty of non-British citizens who were allowed to vote.
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• nicky0 8y ago
  In fact non UK citizens do vote. Any citizeon of Ireland or of a Commonwealth nation, resident in the UK, is entitled to vote in every UK general election.
• dane-pgp 8y ago
  16 and 17 year olds do not vote in UK general elections, but I think that a referendum about the UK leaving the EU is more comparable to the referendum about Scotland leaving the UK. The effects of such a change can last for generations and be hard to reverse, and potentially affect younger people for longer than older people. For those reasons, I think it is better to err on the side of greater franchise than less.