Teenagers 'not mature enough' to vote

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Teenagers in Birmingham say they do not feel ‘mature enough’ to vote – after the government announced plans to lower the voting age in the UK from 18 to 16 ahead of the next General Election.  Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Sixteen years is an age of immaturity, especially when you look at the data side of things.

00:05I can see how many incidents 16-year-olds are involved in,

00:10and I just don't think that that's the age where their opinion should be taken into serious accountability.

00:18Again, with maturity, we haven't got the right life experiences.

00:22Most 16-year-olds, they don't live alone or independently, and we don't pay taxes like our parents,

00:28so we wouldn't know who to vote for.

00:30And also, because we're 16, we're not fully developed yet, that we are easily influenced,

00:39so we wouldn't know who to vote for, who's the right person to vote for.

00:42I don't think 16-year-olds are mature, because the frontal lobe develops around 25, 24,

00:47and even with their whole age of consent, I don't think it should be 16.

00:50I think it should be 18 or older, because 16-year-olds aren't mentally stable to have that decision and stuff.

01:00So yeah, that's why I think they shouldn't.

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