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I a fellow Brit, I note that you still bring up the war! But yeah, this is true. Honestly, I don't think we get out of this hole until demographic churn (ugly
by conjectures 3y ago
I a fellow Brit, I note that you still bring up the war! But yeah, this is true.
Honestly, I don't think we get out of this hole until demographic churn (ugly phrase yeah) rebalances the electorate.
If we look at the 1992 election there's a 13% gap in conservative votes between the youngest and oldest brackets [1]. By 2019 that's a 36-46% gap [2].
[1] https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/how-britain-voted-1992 https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/how-britain-voted-1992
[2] https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/26925-how-britain-voted-2019-general-election https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/26925-how-britain-vot...
- polshaw 3y ago2019 was as much as there could be a single-issue election about brexit. It's an anomaly as such and shouldn't be used to make trends. That said, I don't think it was any different in 2017 and I don't discredit the trend. 2017 was also out of the ordinary as there was an actually left-wing alternative offered.
- bowsamic 3y agoI would agree but young people seem prone to it almost as much. It isn’t just voting conservatives, it goes deeper than that
- kawhah 3y ago[flagged]