Who would have guessed! The one group they’ve consistently protected above all else (apart from their own interests.)
The age group that bothers to vote. Saved you a click.
To much effort for the younger more abled body.
Ironically the very age group they where happy to let die out during covid. They say education is worse now, but man. That sure is one dumb and ignorant generation!
Why is that? Is it because (and pure guess here) the over 65s are more likely to buy and read shitty tabloid papers that support the Tories?
Well they really are fucked because the biddies never bring their ID to the voting booth.
I think Labour could wipe the floor if they just prioritised getting younger voters to turn up. Keep the pledges in place, but at the forefront, just push how important it is to turn up and put your vote in.
That’s why they want an election before 2025.
Their voters are literally dying out.
I keep seeing the news talking about Corbyn’s historic loss, yet his share of the vote was higher (even in his worst election (32.2%) than all but 4 labour election results since 1983.
Those 4 elections were the Blair years, and the election beforehand. (1992, 1997, 2001, 2005).
Triple-locked voting guarantee
Can’t let the generation who bought houses for 78p not have their inflation-busting pension
Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll get back to my low paid job and dreams of property ownership
People only voted Tories because they thought the immigration shit would get sorted. They’ve done fuck all to combat it, so back to Labour the voters will go
The average conservative voter would be 67 years old now, if you extrapolated the data from 2019. That’s crazy.
But what’s even more crazy, is the death rate at that age, about a quarter of those voters will have died prematurely by the next election cycle, it’s not like everyone just gets to 80.2 years old and just immediately drops dead, it’s an exponential curve.
That means that the conservatives need to find something like an extra 1.5 million votes just to replace those deceased voters and maintain their current abysmal position by 2028… That’s impossible to do unless you’re in power and you’ve got an absolutely bottomless pit of cash to throw at younger voters.
Judging by the replies in this thread, I’d say operation cruelty is working nicely and the people are almost ready to endorse the government to take the last bit of scrap off the table, the state pension.
Next on the agenda, the disabled.
95% of over 75s vote. Less than half of under 30s. Guess why Tories target older voters!
Let me guess, it’s the bigoted, half demented coffin dodgers that should really not be allowed to vote anymore anyway?
I wonder if that has somthing to do with triple lock pensions? Hmmmm
I just want Labour to come in and then twiddle there thumbs for 4 years as they stand for even less then the Tories. I want whoever is going to put on the best circus.
Which is odd when it’s the same group wanting the good ol’ days of industry and nationalisation, despite them originally voting a party in to get rid of it
This is what I don’t understand, as the elderly have a greater vested interest in an operational NHS than any other group, as they are the greatest users.
But their voting pattern guarantees the erosion of the quality of the NHS
They are doing this to coincide with the US election and take advantage of the white noise around that time to weather Labours campaign. Pathetic.
What a shock. All the other groups have to earn a living and are just sick of paying more for less every single year with no end in sight. Paying into a state pension Ponzi scheme that eats up this countries budget and one we all fully well know won’t exist for the generations it has impoverished.
We are a sick dying gerontocracy with delusions of grandeur. I’m in my forties and I can already see how much worse it is for the younger guys compared to when I started. I wouldn’t stick around here if I was starting out again. We should be ashamed at what we have done to the younger generations in this country.
What a silly headline. Any party is only going to be winning among certain age groups, the question is how many of them and which?
The same group that got us brexit.
It’s brutal but just as you can’t vote before 18 there should be a cut off voting age to. If you aren’t around in tbe future why are you choosing what our future looks like
Both the Tories and Labour refuse to risk upsetting the boomers for fear of losing votes
that’s the reason they wont build houses – if prices were to drop then boomers who have-1-2 homes would be less wealthy. its also the reason for that inheritance tax bribe they are pushing out.
It sounds harsh but younger generations will only have their political needs met once the boomers start to die off. I’m also willing to bet that neither party will have the foresight to see it coming – they wont change until some new party with policies supporting younger generations gets them thrown out because their support literally died.
Well, that’s always the case, but more so now. The Tories are unpopular among nearly all the groups in this country.
The age group that most relies on the NHS? Interesting choice.
Ageism showing its wrinkly face again, one of the last bastions of the hard of thinking.
Pensioners vote. Like machines. They don’t have anywhere better to be.
They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, only fear! And they absolutely will not stop, ever.
Ok maybe I went a tiny bit overboard, but young people’s opinions mean fuck all if they don’t turn up when it counts.
This isn’t news. It has always been the case that the Conservative vote increases as people get older. When people are young they want to change the world, stick it to the man and they want someone to give them a stake in the world. They vote Labour. Then they get their stake in the world, a job, house, car, pension, investments, married, kids etc and they don’t want to anyone to take it away from them, so they vote Conservative. Not new, not rocket science.
There are people (probably your grandparents or parents) who are 100% hard-line voters not because they understand anything about politics, but simply because they’ve always voted for one party and will never under any circumstances be persuaded to vote otherwise. Like my 2nd cousin who is 70/71 is a Tory voter but nothing you can do will ever persuade her to vote labour, it’s just part of her tradition. There will always be a portion of guaranteed voters because of this, and it’s up to the non-voters and swing-voters to bring about any form of change to the system. It feels more like a rule than an exception for the older generation to vote conservative and with an aging population it’s only going to remain that way until the scales are tipped.
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Who would have guessed! The one group they’ve consistently protected above all else (apart from their own interests.)
The age group that bothers to vote. Saved you a click.
To much effort for the younger more abled body.
Ironically the very age group they where happy to let die out during covid. They say education is worse now, but man. That sure is one dumb and ignorant generation!
Why is that? Is it because (and pure guess here) the over 65s are more likely to buy and read shitty tabloid papers that support the Tories?
Well they really are fucked because the biddies never bring their ID to the voting booth.
I think Labour could wipe the floor if they just prioritised getting younger voters to turn up. Keep the pledges in place, but at the forefront, just push how important it is to turn up and put your vote in.
That’s why they want an election before 2025.
Their voters are literally dying out.
I keep seeing the news talking about Corbyn’s historic loss, yet his share of the vote was higher (even in his worst election (32.2%) than all but 4 labour election results since 1983.
Those 4 elections were the Blair years, and the election beforehand. (1992, 1997, 2001, 2005).
Triple-locked voting guarantee
Can’t let the generation who bought houses for 78p not have their inflation-busting pension
Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll get back to my low paid job and dreams of property ownership
People only voted Tories because they thought the immigration shit would get sorted. They’ve done fuck all to combat it, so back to Labour the voters will go
The average conservative voter would be 67 years old now, if you extrapolated the data from 2019. That’s crazy.
But what’s even more crazy, is the death rate at that age, about a quarter of those voters will have died prematurely by the next election cycle, it’s not like everyone just gets to 80.2 years old and just immediately drops dead, it’s an exponential curve.
That means that the conservatives need to find something like an extra 1.5 million votes just to replace those deceased voters and maintain their current abysmal position by 2028… That’s impossible to do unless you’re in power and you’ve got an absolutely bottomless pit of cash to throw at younger voters.
Judging by the replies in this thread, I’d say operation cruelty is working nicely and the people are almost ready to endorse the government to take the last bit of scrap off the table, the state pension.
Next on the agenda, the disabled.
95% of over 75s vote. Less than half of under 30s. Guess why Tories target older voters!
Let me guess, it’s the bigoted, half demented coffin dodgers that should really not be allowed to vote anymore anyway?
I wonder if that has somthing to do with triple lock pensions? Hmmmm
I just want Labour to come in and then twiddle there thumbs for 4 years as they stand for even less then the Tories. I want whoever is going to put on the best circus.
Which is odd when it’s the same group wanting the good ol’ days of industry and nationalisation, despite them originally voting a party in to get rid of it
This is what I don’t understand, as the elderly have a greater vested interest in an operational NHS than any other group, as they are the greatest users.
But their voting pattern guarantees the erosion of the quality of the NHS
They are doing this to coincide with the US election and take advantage of the white noise around that time to weather Labours campaign. Pathetic.
What a shock. All the other groups have to earn a living and are just sick of paying more for less every single year with no end in sight. Paying into a state pension Ponzi scheme that eats up this countries budget and one we all fully well know won’t exist for the generations it has impoverished.
We are a sick dying gerontocracy with delusions of grandeur. I’m in my forties and I can already see how much worse it is for the younger guys compared to when I started. I wouldn’t stick around here if I was starting out again. We should be ashamed at what we have done to the younger generations in this country.
What a silly headline. Any party is only going to be winning among certain age groups, the question is how many of them and which?
The same group that got us brexit.
It’s brutal but just as you can’t vote before 18 there should be a cut off voting age to. If you aren’t around in tbe future why are you choosing what our future looks like
Both the Tories and Labour refuse to risk upsetting the boomers for fear of losing votes
that’s the reason they wont build houses – if prices were to drop then boomers who have-1-2 homes would be less wealthy. its also the reason for that inheritance tax bribe they are pushing out.
It sounds harsh but younger generations will only have their political needs met once the boomers start to die off. I’m also willing to bet that neither party will have the foresight to see it coming – they wont change until some new party with policies supporting younger generations gets them thrown out because their support literally died.
Well, that’s always the case, but more so now. The Tories are unpopular among nearly all the groups in this country.
The age group that most relies on the NHS? Interesting choice.
Ageism showing its wrinkly face again, one of the last bastions of the hard of thinking.
Pensioners vote. Like machines. They don’t have anywhere better to be.
They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, only fear! And they absolutely will not stop, ever.
Ok maybe I went a tiny bit overboard, but young people’s opinions mean fuck all if they don’t turn up when it counts.
This isn’t news. It has always been the case that the Conservative vote increases as people get older. When people are young they want to change the world, stick it to the man and they want someone to give them a stake in the world. They vote Labour. Then they get their stake in the world, a job, house, car, pension, investments, married, kids etc and they don’t want to anyone to take it away from them, so they vote Conservative. Not new, not rocket science.
There are people (probably your grandparents or parents) who are 100% hard-line voters not because they understand anything about politics, but simply because they’ve always voted for one party and will never under any circumstances be persuaded to vote otherwise. Like my 2nd cousin who is 70/71 is a Tory voter but nothing you can do will ever persuade her to vote labour, it’s just part of her tradition. There will always be a portion of guaranteed voters because of this, and it’s up to the non-voters and swing-voters to bring about any form of change to the system. It feels more like a rule than an exception for the older generation to vote conservative and with an aging population it’s only going to remain that way until the scales are tipped.