UK’s New Voting Age: What London Teens Think About It?

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With the UK’s new voting age law shaking up politics, teenagers from London open up like never before. How do they feel about getting the vote? Do parents still guide their choices—or does TikTok, Instagram, and X set the agenda? Hear raw, honest opinions on what’s shaping Gen Z’s political voice in Britain today.&nbsp;

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01:00I feel like it's pretty irresponsible because I don't think people so young should be able

01:05to make decisions that can change a whole nation's way of living and so many different

01:11things.

01:12And yeah, I just don't really agree with it myself personally.

01:15I think children do follow their parents a lot because they have a lot of influence on

01:20their children, obviously.

01:21And possibly my parents don't vote really, but if they were, I think I would listen to

01:27them to a degree, but I would also do my own research and look for myself.

01:31Yeah, social media has given me an impression that he's like, he's made some decisions that

01:36aren't very great, I'd say, from what I've heard, but I don't know the grand scheme of

01:42it, so yeah.

01:44I think it's quite good because it gives the younger generation their point of view.

01:49And like, if you just turn 18 and the vote's just gone and you don't have like, you have

01:53to wait quite a while, you could be in your 20s to vote, so I think it's pretty good that

01:57they've done that.

01:59If I was, I think if I was going to, my parents do vote, but I think if I was going to vote,

02:02I would like take, like do my own research, I think, and then like form my own opinion

02:08on what like my views are for what my vote will be.

02:12Yeah, I don't think, I don't think they agree with many of his points, I don't really agree

02:16with too many of his points, but I just think that, like, there's not too much in the way

02:22of good opposition, like, so that's why people are voting for him or are agreeing with him,

02:28so that's what I think.

02:28But I think it's good because it's our future to have a say in, but I think we need a bit

02:34more information and a bit more protection from fake news and stuff to like actually get

02:39unbiased.

02:40I think, I think social media is good and bad in the sense of a lot of what you see

02:46online at like certain news outlets is quite biased.

02:49I feel like you can see a lot of different things on social media, but again, it's like

02:53a lot of it is also biased, so it's deciphering what is and what isn't.

02:58I mean, my parents vote and I know how they vote and I don't necessarily think I'd vote

03:03the same way and I think a lot of people would vote different ways because also we've grown

03:06up in a different time and lots of the older generation vote more like as if it's like

03:12a part, like that party is them no matter what the party is saying.

03:16I feel like now it's more what they're currently doing that people are going to vote off of.

03:21I mean, I think it's quite scary how many, how my age is a lot of people who are following

03:29him and I don't know.

03:32Yeah, it's not, he's not my favourite person.

03:34I think it's good because they're the future and if they have a say in their future instead

03:40of older people trying to dictate what they're going to do, then it's a lot better and beneficial

03:45for them.

03:47It depends, probably make my own decisions, but I can't see how my dad would have a different

03:53view from me to be honest, but probably decide on my own, but see all of it, like consider

04:01a little.

04:02I mean, I wouldn't follow my parents, they wouldn't like force me to follow them, so I'll probably

04:06just do what I want.

04:07Yeah, they sort of talked about him, like joked about him and stuff like that because I've

04:10seen him on TikTok and stuff like that, but I don't think they're like big fans of him.

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