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lowering the voting age. So I think it's important for younger people to have
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their say in parliament because I believe it's 14 you can start legally working and when you work you have a
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taxable income if they're taking your money and you didn't get to choose how
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they're spending it. I don't see that as fair. So >> no taxation without representation.
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>> No. >> I looked up the law and there's actually no restrictions on children working at
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any age. If that's true and children can work at any age, is it possible that we
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should put the voting age down to zero? >> A lot of people say it's about maturity,
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but in reality, there are a lot of people aged 21, 20 that are less mature than some 16 year olds. And definitely
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the people that I've met in my life, there are a lot of 16, 17 year olds that
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are way more politically mature than you'd expect. >> Yeah, I'd go further. I've I've met one
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or two people who actually elected to parliament who are less mature than than some 15 and 16 year olds. So, I I agree
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with you that there's there's got to be a line. >> I'd like it to be lowered to 16. One of
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the main reasons is because I turned 17 on the year of an election. >> Oh, self by one year.
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>> But, um I think they've just in the UK changed it down to 16 and our parliament
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is based off of the Westminster system. So, if they're changing it, why shouldn't we change it as
