Desperate Measures: Labour Lowers Voting Age to Cling to Power

UK government as of today, 17th July 2025, have announced it is lowering the voting age so that 16 and 17 year olds can vote in the next general election. This radical change is said to potentially add another 1.5 million potential voters to the voting pool. young voters, fresh out of a institutional education system run by this government that have told them everything they know of the world. young people not knowing the world themselves but only knowing it by what the government educators have told them, with no experience of having lived and struggled in this world and its systems to understand what changes are bad for them or not, what higher tax and higher spending would mean to them. These young people, who only know what the government have told them through institutional education, can now legally vote.

This move can be blatantly seen as a desperate government on the edge, knowing and seeing by polls which all show the current government will lose by a landslide and get barely any votes at all. A government that knows and sees that, realises it needs to get votes from somewhere, and where better than millions of young people that they have forced their world view on through the education system?

No one else who knows reality and has lived and struggled would vote for this government no more. So their desperate option to try and latch onto power and not let go of power is this drastic measure such as lowering the voting age to encompass those so young as to not have had enough life experience to form their own independant views. These new voters will vote based on things that sound good, kind caring, theyd fall for the governments stories and claims because they all sound like the right thing, the good thing. But theyd not understand that saying and doing, and how you do, are entirely different things. Theyd not be alienated yet like most labour voters are now with this current labour government. Theyd also not understand that alot of the good sounding things often have a high tax burden on them, a ever rising tax burden that they cant pay, wont want to pay and will complain about in the future when they are older. Even if theyd vote for a idea now because it sounds good, they are too young to understand and have struggled through sky high taxation from good sounding moral social policies, alot of which dont even benefit anyone but yet still cost the tax payer a fortune.

Furthurmore, the requirement of identity is being diluted. Now you will only need a UK bank card as proof of your eligibility to vote. despite the fact just about anyone in the entire world can get a UK bank card very easily without actually living here or being eligable to vote in our nation.

I do believe that all of these events and changes show that the current UK government is self aware and sees that it is unpopular, it sees that it has not only failed to gain opposition voters but it has mostly lost alot of its own voters too. These changes to me appear to be the final thrashing of a dying government that knows its heading off a cliff in the next election. A admission from labour that they know they wont have enough votes next election, so they have to fiddle the electoral system to introduce millions more voters that will more likely vote for them out of youthful ignorance and lack of living and struggling tax paying experience. 

There is also another change on political donations including checks on donations over £500 from unincorporated associations and closing loopholes used by shell companies. Yet i see nothing to close the loophole where just about anyone in the world can contribute to labour by donating to a union which then donates it to labour in huge amounts. it appears very one sided and reeks of double standards. closing every other parties funding while maximising the current governments own. There should be more regulatory oversight to prevent such moves by a government because if this continues wed very well get a one party state, where other parties are banned or not able to do anything at all.

I feel instead the Labour government should focus on fixing issues and concerns rather than fiddling the system. I for one have softened to labour and rank them above the conservatives easily now, I do note their taking of immigration more seriously and actually attempting to fix those issues rather than let them get out of hand like the tories did. I feel that is their best way to try and win votes for next election rather than having to change the system by lowering the voting age as they are doing now. Votes won by positive action and change are more secure votes than votes gained by lowering the voting age to encompass the youthful ignorance that will likely be alienated from you anyway given a few years time when they become more aware themselves.

Whats do you think? is the current UK government overstepping and trying too hard to hold onto power that its crushing the democracy out of our system? have your say in the comments below.

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