Labour's decision to reduce voting age branded a 'stupid move' by Carole Malone

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Sir Keir Starmer's plans to lower the voting age to 16 has been branded a "desperate attempt" by Labour to try and stay in power.Speaking to GB News, commentator Carole Malone took aim at the Prime Minister's latest move and claimed it will hand the vote to "immature and inexperienced kids".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Labour are giving the right to vote to 16 and 17-year-olds.

00:05This is part of some, you might say, shocking new electoral reforms.

00:09Yeah, this is all in a bid to modernise democracy, apparently,

00:12and restore trust in politics among young people.

00:15The government are going to look to extend voter ID to include bank cards

00:18and impose tougher rules to prevent foreign interference during elections.

00:23We're dropping the news. We want to discuss this, Carol.

00:26Yeah.

00:27Labour obviously think this will be good for them.

00:29The 16 and 17-year-olds are going to be able to vote. Will it?

00:34Do you know what? No, because a poll came out today

00:37and said that half of 16-year-olds don't want to vote.

00:39But anyway, that's by the by.

00:41And Labour are being really stupid here

00:42because I think that a lot of young people now are on to reform.

00:46If you look at Farage, after he was in the jungle and went on TikTok,

00:49he got millions of young followers.

00:51Anyway, that's by the by.

00:52But this is a desperate attempt by a government that knows it's stuffed.

00:57And to try and stay in power, it's going to give votes to immature, inexperienced kids

01:04who, frankly, you know, when you're 16, and I'm not being insulting, you know, you've got teenagers,

01:09I wouldn't necessarily trust them across the road, never mind put the next government in power.

01:13And I just think it's a really bad move.

01:15Kids aren't developed, politically developed at 16.

01:17You might get the odd one who is, who's like, you know, who was very invested in politics at that age, but very few.

01:25And Labour are doing this because, historically, young people have always voted for the Labour Party.

01:29Yeah, and those days are gone.

01:31I think you're right.

01:32You've hit the nail on the head in this fact that actually the younger people that I talk to,

01:36and I've got two teenagers in my life, they are all much more inclined to lean to the right.

01:41Which I think is even more important that Labour is doing this and doing it in the name of democracy, frankly.

01:48Think back to being 16.

01:50Not everybody goes to university.

01:51They join the jobs market.

01:52They go out there.

01:53They earn.

01:53They pay taxes.

01:54Why shouldn't you be able to vote as well and have a say in your future?

01:57So it's about forward-looking decisions.

01:59Things we vote on today.

02:00Won't it backfire on Labour at the next election?

02:03Well, that's up to Labour to counter.

02:03Because so many young people love reform.

02:05Well, maybe they do, and that's an electoral problem that Labour has.

02:09But this is a democratic decision we're seeing being made.

02:12And it's incredibly important that people can have a say in their future.

02:15Dare I bring it up, but look at Brexit.

02:17A lot of the people who voted for Brexit have died.

02:19They will never see what the impact of that is.

02:21A lot of the young people who may not have voted for it are suffering the consequences.

02:25They can't go and live and work elsewhere.

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