That’s hopelessly optimistic. A lot of the far right shift in Europe is coming from the young, it’s where they’re pushing and organising - see all the men’s rights nonsense, popularity of Andrew Tate / Joe Rogan etc. This stuff is being relentlessly promoted on social media. Polling for Reform is something like 1 in 5 among the young already.At the moment I think Labour is gonna have an easy ride for 10 years as far as elections are concerned. I am also starting to think will there ever be a Conservative government again maybe a Conservative Party in a coalition with another party but on its own again? Demographics are against it as well as most of their vote come from old people who are slowly dying off, young people overwhelmingly vote labour, a very gentle push to Labour each year as the years go on.
That’s hopelessly optimistic. A lot of the far right shift in Europe is coming from the young, it’s where they’re pushing and organising - see all the men’s rights nonsense, popularity of Andrew Tate / Joe Rogan etc. This stuff is being relentlessly promoted on social media. Polling for Reform is something like 1 in 5 among the young already.
The big parties are offering the next generation nothing on the stuff that matters to them like housing, free education, secure jobs etc. They’ve been milked dry by successive governments for three decades. I can understand why some of them will want to burn it all down by voting for someone they’ve been told not to vote for by the very people responsible for their precariousness.
Agree with this.Also I suspect that his geezer-ish act - which I concede is a successful brand image he has created - has more appeal to middle aged and elderly voters but the character he is playing is probably actually quite alien to Gen Z and younger Millenials. So Reform are unlikely to be a successful avatar for the far right.
source: Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curiousThe UK’s largest recent study of drinking behaviours showed in 2019, 16-to-25-year-olds were the most likely to be teetotal, with 26% not drinking, compared to the least likely generation (55-to-74-year-olds), 15% of whom didn’t drink.
What's the point of being someone you "could have a pint with" to people who increasingly don't drink.
This is true and often under-estimated. Newcastle and Hull are actually significantly more cosmopolitan and diverse than e.g. ShanghaiEven some of the less diverse cities and towns in England are far more diverse than in other countries).
wrong'unI think Sherry is a very niche drink unlike beer for example.
Having flashbacks to hangovers at uni after drinking VKsVK turns out to be some sort of alcopop, and presumably sponsored this exercise, as it’s the only brand featured (okay, besides Pimms) and a pretty obscure one at that.
Pretty sure there was some polling a few days ago that had them around 20% for a young age group, but it might possibly have been just amongst young men. Happily corrected if I’m wrong on this.You are also incorrect about youth support for Reform:
UK election polls by age 2024 | Statista
In 2024, the political party that 18 to 24 year-old's in Great Britain would be most likely to vote for in the next general election was the Labour Party, at 47 percent, while among those over 65, the Conservative Party was the most popular with 40 percent intending to vote for them.www.statista.com
Amongst the 18-24 age group, Reform are on 5% and Tories on 4%, so the combined right wing vote is 9%.
The 25-49 age group have 12% support for Reform and 10% for Tories. So that's 22% joint right wing support.
This is in contrast to 50-64 age group where Reform and Tories are in joint place at 22%, with 44% joint share, and the over 65s where Tory support is 33% and 25% for Reform, so 58% share for the right in total.
There's been some articles doing the rounds about youth support for Reform and it is true that younger voters are more likely to be Reform than Tory, but that reflects the collapse of the Tory brand more than anything else.
Although back in the day Jerez, the sherry capital of Spain, was an anarchist stronghold.Frankly nobody should be surprised about Sherry drinkers.
Tis true but that fascist twat Primo de Rivera was from there, so not all good.Although back in the day Jerez, the sherry capital of Spain, was an anarchist stronghold.
Electoral Calculus this morning. I think the Tories will lose but at this level? Surely not.
Prediction:
Con 61, Lab 470, Lib Dem 71, SNP 15, Reform 7, Labour majority of 290
Same here. They seem to have been at the end of the scale I'd like to believe this time round. I'm sceptical for that reason alone tbh. But still. That would be the Tories done and dusted for decades.I find it hard to believe, but they did make the best seat predications at the last GE, beating the MRP polls by both FocalData and YouGov.
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