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I had written a long reply but I don't think it was particularly constructive. I'd dispute it being inaccurate to talk about a generational divide when one clea
by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I had written a long reply but I don't think it was particularly constructive. I'd dispute it being inaccurate to talk about a generational divide when one clearly exists. We shouldn't avoid discussion of such a divide to save blushes.
Age of the Labour -> Tory switch trending upwards and partisan divide by age increasing https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/my-generation-baby-the-politics-of-age-in-brexit-britain/ https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/my-generation-b...
Age a key dividing line https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/how-britain-voted-2019-election https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/how-britain-voted-2019-election (including disclaimer from linked resource "it would be a mistake to treat all voters of a similar age, gender, class and so on as a homogenous group.")
Vote by age divide over time https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea3xOuRXgAAa8Wk?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea3xOuRXgAAa8Wk?format=jpg&name=...
I was responding particularly to the GPs implied claim that (the on average more highly educated) people educated after around 2000 were somehow the cause of the disaster that is current English politics.
Brexit vote, age strongly correlated with leave vote % https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI am not denying that people tend to shift towards the right with age or that older people were more likely to vote for Brexit. But that's neither why Labour is in the opposition nor why Leave won. I objected to that suggestion and the rather nasty 'generations war' tone.