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I don't get why letting a few thousand extra people participate in politics gets people so worked up. I think it's good to get people involved in politics while
by panarchy 1y ago
I don't get why letting a few thousand extra people participate in politics gets people so worked up. I think it's good to get people involved in politics while they're still learning about it. You can tell them the importance of democratic participation and also let them actually engage in it instead of it falling to the back of their mind and being forgotten years later when they can actually vote.
Also I was more politically aware at 16 than most adult I know now.
- leereeves 1y agoA few thousand? I would think 16 & 17 year olds in the UK would be a couple million people.
- panarchy 1y agohttps://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/the-age-divide-in-uk-politics/attachments/the-age-divide-in-uk-politics.pdf https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/the-age-divide-in-uk-pol... This being the first thing I found says the closest age bracket 18-34 turnout was 53.6% https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/UK_Population_Pyramid.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/UK_Popul... 16-17 for each gender looks to be a little under 400K for each So (4)(400,000)(0.536) = 857,600 So thousands. Either way it's not like they're all going to vote one way and it's not like they can seize the government with their own special interest party that only caters to 16-17 year old even if they all managed to vote one way. So really as far as results it will mostly be a wash, but has the benefit of potentially creating some more engaged and politically active citizens which is a win for democracy.