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UK to lower voting age to 16
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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If you can die for your country, you should be able to vote Edit: afterthought and more importantly, we're happy to tax them too.
Weirdly, you can only die for your country with parental consent if you're under 18.
No, you can’t. Under-18s are banned from theatres of combat, as the UK has ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A few 17yo were accidentally deployed to Iraq, but sent home within 3 weeks.