From: atropos@mac.com
On Feb 12, 2026 at 12:37:52 PM PST, "Rhino"
wrote:
> On 2026-02-12 2:20 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2026 at 10:27:30 AM PST, "Rhino"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Jacob Rees-Mogg shares his thoughts on a Labour initiative to lower the
>>> voting age in the UK to 16. As usual, he makes a number of very good
>>> points that challenge the wisdom of lowering the voting age to 16 from
>>> 18 but also sees some potential benefits.
>>
>> Sixteen is the conservative approach. I've seen some UK politicians who are
>> advocating for 14.
>>
>>
> The thing is that this move is clearly and obviously because Labour
> thinks they'll get the votes of the newly enfranchised voters. As
> Rees-Mogg points out, this is was what the polls showed a couple of
> years ago when Labour put that idea in its manifesto but *current* polls
> show that people in that age group would split their votes between
> Reform, Labour's arch-rival on the right, and the Greens, Labour's
> arch-rival on the left. If enacted into law, this measure is more likely
> to hurt them than help them! Virtually *everyone* now despises Labour
> and they will lose very VERY badly in the local elections and in the
> next national elections when they finally get held - unless, of course,
> Reform screws up REALLY badly in the meantime.
>
> The pundits have already counted 13 instances where Labour tried to
> enact a policy in line with their manifesto and then had to back away
> from it; they're calling these events U-turns. I predict this will be
> yet another U-turn.
Changing the voter base in order to cheat in elections is a typically
3rd-world move. Let's apply the maxim: "Import the 3rd world and you get the
3rd-world" and see if that applies to the UK.
Oh, wow! Look at that. It lines up perfectly. The UK has been importing the
3rd-world for a decade or so and now they have a government using 3rd-world
election-rigging tactics to stay in power.
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