Unfortunately, I can’t find the actual study, so I can’t critique it, I would be surprised if it was causative like the title implies. Though even that wouldn’t really be all that interesting, I think the most interesting thing is the throwaway line that degree educated people are no less likely to hold right wing views but are less likely to vote tory. That is quite telling imo.
We need to stop making these institution’s charities. It just enables the wealthy to gain a better education and claim it back as a donation
Obviously, that’s basically the whole point of them.
Is this surprising to anyone though? The vast majority of people who are private schooled are better off in life, and voting for the conservatives has long been linked to being wealthy or coming from a wealthy family.
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As someone who went to private school, I’d be interested in hearing statistics for people who went to private school and hated it.
I had a privileged private education, and attended one of the UK’s top public schools. I’m 47 now and promise never to vote Tory for as long as I live. Thieving self-serving scum the lot of them.
I acknowledge that I’m probably in the minority though, and most of my former schoolmates own multiple homes, earn 6 figure salaries and have hedge funds.
I think the headline writer needs a crash course on causation vs correlation 🙂
Next they’ll be telling us going to a state school in a poor area makes us twice as likely to vote Labour.
In other breaking news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and the pope is a catholic.
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“I was quite surprised to see there were not that many diehard Conservative voters even in people in their 40s,” he said. “We’re only seeing a fifth of these private school attendees voting solidly Conservative over the four elections. It’s not a landslide.”
Silver lining: the future might be a bit brighter.
Yeah, no shit.
Perhaps a study on why poor people started voting Tory in the last 6 years?
It’s no secret that the rich have far more developed class consciousness than the poor.
So what about all the tory voters that don’t go to private schools. You mean to tell me that if you’re either smart enough or dumb enough, you’ll vote tory?
Well, people vote for their personal interest, and political parties have long been linked to particular social classes.
If you think labour is some kind of cure for shit politicians then you didn’t live through Blair.
“Makes you?”
I don’t think you can make that claim
I wouldn’t vote Tory if you paid me. But to be fair, most of my former classmates are probably Tories. I’m pretty sure most of my teachers weren’t Tories by the way, and nor was there anything particularly Tory about the curriculum – it’s all to do with your family background.
“Being privileged and lacking experience of the effects of poverty makes you likely to vote for people widening the class divide and creating poverty.”
Surprising how well educated people who understand economics vote this way while minimum mage workers who read the sun vote for Labour.
Very odd.
A friend of mine who grew up poor got a paid scholarship to a private school. She married rich and now votes Tory. “Fuck you, got mine” in action.
Rich people prefer keeping their money over sharing it? Well colour me surprised!
Private schooled person here, I vote Labour and three of my mates from school are socialists, anecdotal I know but its not a homogenous thing and the result could very well be skewed by certain larger institutions such as Eton
Going to a private school give you twice the amount of chance of being a twat is all I get from this
As someone who went to private school, it is so demoralising how closed minded my school friends are to anything other than voting Tory. Recently, I asked whether they would ever in the future consider voting for Labour and they howled with laughter. Weird world.
I went to a private school and as for voting Tory, they can go fuck themselves
If the 60 children in my year group in a private school, mine were the only labour voting family.
That was 2007, 16 years on and pretty much the entire year group are at a minimum left leaning (other than the daughter of the conservative leader in wales but that was a given) so I wonder how this will translate later down the line?
I went to private school, and what your parents are paying for is to avoid the brainwash that is taught in state schools. That is what it is all about.
Nothing to do with entitlement, selfishness or complete disconnect then…🤦♂️
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“Having a private school education means a person is twice as likely…”
Not necessarily “…makes you…”
Turkeys less likely to vote for Christmas, study finds
Who the fuck is commissioning these studies?
I used to think correlation implied causation, then I took a statistics class and now I don’t.
Maybe the class helped.
Credit https://xkcd.com/552/
Elitist institutions breed elitist views.
In other news, bears shit in the woods.
Unfortunately, I can’t find the actual study, so I can’t critique it, I would be surprised if it was causative like the title implies. Though even that wouldn’t really be all that interesting, I think the most interesting thing is the throwaway line that degree educated people are no less likely to hold right wing views but are less likely to vote tory. That is quite telling imo.
We need to stop making these institution’s charities. It just enables the wealthy to gain a better education and claim it back as a donation
Obviously, that’s basically the whole point of them.
Is this surprising to anyone though? The vast majority of people who are private schooled are better off in life, and voting for the conservatives has long been linked to being wealthy or coming from a wealthy family.
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As someone who went to private school, I’d be interested in hearing statistics for people who went to private school and hated it.
I had a privileged private education, and attended one of the UK’s top public schools. I’m 47 now and promise never to vote Tory for as long as I live. Thieving self-serving scum the lot of them.
I acknowledge that I’m probably in the minority though, and most of my former schoolmates own multiple homes, earn 6 figure salaries and have hedge funds.
I think the headline writer needs a crash course on causation vs correlation 🙂
Next they’ll be telling us going to a state school in a poor area makes us twice as likely to vote Labour.
In other breaking news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and the pope is a catholic.
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“I was quite surprised to see there were not that many diehard Conservative voters even in people in their 40s,” he said. “We’re only seeing a fifth of these private school attendees voting solidly Conservative over the four elections. It’s not a landslide.”
Silver lining: the future might be a bit brighter.
Yeah, no shit.
Perhaps a study on why poor people started voting Tory in the last 6 years?
It’s no secret that the rich have far more developed class consciousness than the poor.
So what about all the tory voters that don’t go to private schools. You mean to tell me that if you’re either smart enough or dumb enough, you’ll vote tory?
Well, people vote for their personal interest, and political parties have long been linked to particular social classes.
If you think labour is some kind of cure for shit politicians then you didn’t live through Blair.
“Makes you?”
I don’t think you can make that claim
I wouldn’t vote Tory if you paid me. But to be fair, most of my former classmates are probably Tories. I’m pretty sure most of my teachers weren’t Tories by the way, and nor was there anything particularly Tory about the curriculum – it’s all to do with your family background.
“Being privileged and lacking experience of the effects of poverty makes you likely to vote for people widening the class divide and creating poverty.”
Surprising how well educated people who understand economics vote this way while minimum mage workers who read the sun vote for Labour.
Very odd.
A friend of mine who grew up poor got a paid scholarship to a private school. She married rich and now votes Tory. “Fuck you, got mine” in action.
Rich people prefer keeping their money over sharing it? Well colour me surprised!
Private schooled person here, I vote Labour and three of my mates from school are socialists, anecdotal I know but its not a homogenous thing and the result could very well be skewed by certain larger institutions such as Eton
Going to a private school give you twice the amount of chance of being a twat is all I get from this
As someone who went to private school, it is so demoralising how closed minded my school friends are to anything other than voting Tory. Recently, I asked whether they would ever in the future consider voting for Labour and they howled with laughter. Weird world.
I went to a private school and as for voting Tory, they can go fuck themselves
If the 60 children in my year group in a private school, mine were the only labour voting family.
That was 2007, 16 years on and pretty much the entire year group are at a minimum left leaning (other than the daughter of the conservative leader in wales but that was a given) so I wonder how this will translate later down the line?
I went to private school, and what your parents are paying for is to avoid the brainwash that is taught in state schools. That is what it is all about.
Nothing to do with entitlement, selfishness or complete disconnect then…🤦♂️