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It was also pretty clear in the Scottish referendum that allowing 16/17 year olds to vote was in large part because younger people were more sympathetic to independence on the whole

Almost every country in the world has 18 as their legal voting age, it is the same in our country and has been for decades, it is strange to me that is suddenly now considered highly controversial to have 18 as the minimum age for this referendum. There has to be a cut off at some point and it makes sense to have the same rules around voting in this referendum as there is in the general election.