Should 16-17 year olds been able to vote in the EU referendum?
 

Discuss...

No.

Yes, and other than actually calling it in the first place (which should never have happened), David Cameron will rightly regret not granting them the vote.

A lot of 16/17 year olds are intelligent enough and know more than a lot of older people who have voted, considering this vote is to do with our generations future then yes, they do deserve to vote

No

Considering it'll affect them 50 years into the future, most certainly. Anyone who thinks all 16 year olds are stupid and uninformed need only look at the people who've just voted. If they can vote in Scottish elections they can vote in this.

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Yes, myself and many of my friends are all very annoyed that we weren't allowed to vote because we're 17 yet we still have to pay adult price for transport tickets, concerts etc. How can you say we are not mature enough to decide on a vote yet we are mature enough to drive, work etc.?

Doubt it would have had much affect. Didn't 18-24 have the lowest turnout?

Crazy isn't it? You can get married, have children but you can't vote :conf:

Yeah it only had 36% turnout. So this would probably only chuck in about 200,000 more voters under such turnouts. For all of the haranguing of the "pension vote" there could be a lot more done to engage young people.

The voting age should be lowered permenantly IMO

No

No

Good to see all these reasons why for the no side.

No.

The whole "this referendum should never have happened" attitude is emblematic of the EU's approach to democracy.

No, not unless the voting age is 16/17.

Considering you can get married and join the army at 16, you should be able to vote too

16-17 year olds can get married and join army in the UK?

That´s too young imo.

Only 36% of 18-24 year olds voted.

They only have themselves to blame for all this.

They are far too busy on facebook posting their selfies half naked on their beds to even consider getting out of their beds let alone going to vote.

But if the politicians want to reach out to the youngsters then simply turn McDonalds into polling stations and offer them a free happy meal.

Yes.

Absolutely.

YES.