Liverpool’s opinion on lowering the voting age

There are proposals to allow 16-year-olds to vote in the next general election. Should this be allowed or should the voting age stay as it is?

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00:00I mean, somebody made it 18 years ago. 16, it does seem rather young and I'd have to question

00:08why do you want to make it 16? If you want to make it 16, you might as well make it 14.

00:13My answer to that is at 16, if you are allowed by law to go and have intercourse and get pregnant

00:20and become a mother, a parent, you absolutely should be allowed to vote. That's it.

00:25Stay at 18. In fact, when it was 21, at least you got sense.

00:32You know, people don't know everything. I thought I knew everything at 17, 18.

00:42Are you a child or are you an adult? Because if you go into the custody process, you're still a child with an appropriate adult.

00:52It can't be a bigger responsibility than being a parent and they're not saying you can't vote. What?