Tories Panicking Again

[gulliver1]

Senior Tories tell Sunak  to use his election manifesto  to cure  their party's alarming unpopularity among younger voters,amid increasing concern that the Cons could be sunk without urgent action to win over the under 40s at the GE...Bit late for that. The youngsters are seeing the results of sins of their fathers ...who voted Tory.

[naomi24]

Meanwhile.... 

 

//Sir Keir Starmer faced a backlash from his own party last night after Labour's controversial plans to let 16-year-olds vote in General Elections was set in stone.

One former Minister branded the idea 'gerrymandering, pure and simple', while an MP said that it 'smacked of self-interest' as people that young were more likely to vote Labour than Tory.//

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12526947/Starmer-faces-backlash-party-night-Labours-controversial-plans-let-16-year-olds-vote-General-Elections.html

 

What it is to be a popular leader full of good ideas, eh?  ;o)

 

 

[gulliver1]

With so many youngsters now supporting Labour to be  next Govt. I think the Tories have realised the game's up.Just a matter of time now.

[gulliver1]

62% of 25 to 40 year olds believe the Tory Party deserve to lose the next GE...Hope they are correct..

[dave50]

If sunak gets rid of the net zero lunacy and we are allowed to carry on buying diesel and petrol cars after 2030 then he's on a winner, just wish he had the guts.

[Old_Geezer]

Even the young must be able to see that Labour's policy on illegal immigrants to the UK pretending to be asylum seekers would be even more utterly disastrous than the present Tory failure to cope with the issue. It takes a fool to vote for their own destruction, so a Labour win can't be as cut & dried as some claim.  And given that most older & wiser minds are not going to be happy with children being allowed to vote, making the selection of politicians a popularity lottery, instead of genuinely thinking about the issues, surely many of them will either grimace & vote Tory, or reluctantly abstain/spoil vote/vote for no-hopers anyway.

[gulliver1]

These younger voters are unlike their parents and grandparents and are not shifting to the right as they age .Is it because they have been denied a stake in society that their cohorts  were were able to achieve at the same age. Because of the Tory Govts taking eveything for themselves over the last 13 years.

[LadyCG]

Do you believe your own carp?

[Old_Geezer]

They aren't that different from their parents, apart from the fact that their parents had better parents who taught them that you can't just get something, you have to go without until you've accumulated whatever you need to obtain it.

Denied a stake in society ? Like the masses that now consider a university place a right; a rite of passage for all, and they can live the life of Riley and not pay anything back, save for those who take it seriously and actually benefit their life from it ? Or denied like the grade inflation that occurs year after year allowing them to think of their generation as a load of supermen & superwomen entitled to anything desired ? Trying to get more handouts from fewer and fewer contributers ain't going to help with that.

[gulliver1]

There once was a slogan that said when voters reach the age of 40 they turn into Conservatives ,But thats not true anymore the younger voters can see through this shower of Tory Takers.

[douglas9401]

I think that still applies, Gulliver. I was quite the socialist reformer at one time while working like the proverbial to get somewhere.

Now I've arrived I can see the flaws in my own and others thinking and have reset my levels.

Not to the point of supporting the chinless inbred party of course but finding a more reasonable way, at least trying to.

[gulliver1]

Douglas 14.24 Probably the likes of you and I have worked our way up the social ladder ,but most tory Mps were born into the silver spoon club and intend to stay in it at the expense of others.