50 signatures reached
To: M.Ps
Give Votes to Sixteen and Seventeen-year-olds
Vote in favour of the Private Member's Bill tabled by Peter Kyle, MP, which is listed for a second hearing in the House of Commons on FRIDAY, 11th MAY.
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (YOUNG PEOPLE'S ENFRANCHISEMENT) BILL 2017-19
To reduce the voting age to 16 in parliamentary and other elections
Why is this important?
THIS IS ABOUT DEMOCRACY.
Two weeks after the 2016 Brexit Referendum, I saw a sad message in a Ladies public toilet in Lyndhurst, Hants. Amongst the crude scrawls, in neat handwriting it read: 'Our future. No say'.
Sixteen and seventeen year-olds may join the Army, and they are eligible for taxation. Their lives will be far more influenced by the vote to leave the EU than the age-group who have now lived most of their life, many of whom voted to leave. Voters from sixteen have the right to vote in Scotland. Soon the same will be offered to young voters in Wales. A United Kingdom must have a united democracy.
