‘I can’t see a bright future’: under-30s on politics and voting in UK elections | Local elections

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/03/from-excited-to-disillusioned-under-30s-on-politics-and-voting-in-uk-elections

by peakedtooearly

14 comments

  1. Maybe under 30s should go out and vote then and become more politically involved?

  2. I actually got congratulated by someone at the polling office yday for being a young person who voted.

    75% of people don’t vote. Saying “I won’t vote because I can’t make a difference” is gonna lead to another decade of Tory rule.

    Ffs vote!!!!

  3. There’s just no one to vote for at least that speaks for young people.

  4. With a choice between far right and center right it’s pretty sad for anyone regardless of their age.

  5. I find it funny how many young people have a go at boomers and their easy life, so the young vote for the opposite of what boomers did….

    So…You want life to be difficult?

    Logically if boomers “had it easy” then surely returning to those policies will mean us young will also “have it easy”.

  6. Why does voting for the people who collect your bins have to be party political? It makes no sense and it really doesn’t matter.

  7. Early 30’s here. I don’t believe there has **ever** been an election or referendum that I have voted in – where the party/item I chose won.

    It’s pretty easy to get disheartned about the whole thing.

  9. No more Tories. Like no more Mutants, but justified.

  10. How about we also include those born in the early 90s, our entire lives have been destroyed the past 14 years multiple times over just as those slightly younger than us, we are in the same age groups.

    Many of us feel exactly the same about our futures, lost to one economic/social disaster after another.

  11. I think the vote should be legally enforced by a fine, BUT, in huge letters, it must also have an option to say “I do not consider any of the parties to represent my best interests”.

  12. The amount of people complaining that under 30s don’t go out and vote for any of the parties that don’t represent them is hilarious.

  13. I’m 36 and have no party to vote for , Tories hate me for being working class and labour hate me for being British and working class .
    The whole system needs a good reset .

  14. All my friends are the same, a sense of hopelessness all around.

    And now the weather too! I just don’t see it getting better lol every week I checked the forecast and it’s just rain, wind and grey lol

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