Brexit - or Article 50: the Phoenix!

[Fade and Die]

In general I tend to find that those on the left of centre will support lowering the voting age to 16 and those on the right of centre will be against it. I would suspect that it's because younger people tend to support parties to the left and older voters tend to support parties to the right therefore increasing the potential vote share for the left. I wonder how much of this influence comes from teachers/lecturers, which seems to be a mainly left of centre profession leading to a bias in how politics is taught in schools and universities.

Yes it’s always been this way, kids get brainwashed by leftist teachers. Once they get a job, leave home and have to spend their own money to buy toilet roll they start to change their mind.😁

 

[BubbaP]

I may have missed it, but are there any actual hard facts to indicate a massive teenage remain vote and a massive pensioner leave vote in the 2016 anonymous referendum?
And not talking about some wishy washy tiny polls.
Maybe this swings it....


Just to be clear, I am quite prepared to believe it may be the case & there maybe are some indications, just not seen any actual facts.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Yes it’s always been this way, kids get brainwashed by leftist teachers. Once they get a job, leave home and have to spend their own money to buy toilet roll they start to change their mind.😁

If the teachers are adults who have to buy their own bog roll, by your logic, they will no longer be leftists!
So how can they be leftist teachers forcing kids to be lefties?

 

[Old Skier]

Really'?? Not isolation, it is engagement with the whole planet, without a drunk from Luxembourg telling us who we can and cant deal with. (AND Germany still need to sell us their cars...)

You know all this, but your trolling continues

He's far to old to come to a sensible conclusion.

 

[ColchesterFC]

If the teachers are adults who have to buy their own bog roll, by your logic, they will no longer be leftists!
So how can they be leftist teachers forcing kids to be lefties?

I would say in general that Public Sector workers, along with youngsters, tend to support parties to the left of centre. Possibly due to Labour getting in to power and splurging cash everywhere including large Public Sector pay rises and then the Conservatives getting back in to power and having to try to make savings which mean lower or no pay rises in the Public Sector.

 

[Fade and Die]

If the teachers are adults who have to buy their own bog roll, by your logic, they will no longer be leftists!
So how can they be leftist teachers forcing kids to be lefties?

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I would say in general that Public Sector workers, along with youngsters, tend to support parties to the left of centre. Possibly due to Labour getting in to power and splurging cash everywhere including large Public Sector pay rises and then the Conservatives getting back in to power and having to try to make savings which mean lower or no pay rises in the Public Sector.

Almost like the Tories giving tax breaks to the rich and giving the Armed Forces big pay rises in the past to buy their vote or selling off all the MOD Houses to a Japanese Company to pay for an income tax just before a GE. Never the tories fault.

 

[SocketRocket]

To be honest any modern society should make it as easy to vote as possible, which nowadays will involve utilising the internet. Anyone thinking otherwise to me seems a bit 20th century and out of date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia

I think Putin will agree with you.

 

[SocketRocket]

Almost like the Tories giving tax breaks to the rich and giving the Armed Forces big pay rises in the past to buy their vote or selling off all the MOD Houses to a Japanese Company to pay for an income tax just before a GE. Never the tories fault.

And how exactly does that detract from his opinion. Two wrongs dont make a right.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Almost like the Tories giving tax breaks to the rich and giving the Armed Forces big pay rises in the past to buy their vote or selling off all the MOD Houses to a Japanese Company to pay for an income tax just before a GE. Never the tories fault.

Nope not "almost like" at all. I would describe it as "exactly the same" just aimed at different groups. Both main parties target their spending or cuts in the areas that will benefit them most. For Labour this seems to be the Public Sector and for the Tories it seems to be business and the better off.

 

[Hobbit]

Nope not "almost like" at all. I would describe it as "exactly the same" just aimed at different groups. Both main parties target their spending or cuts in the areas that will benefit them most. For Labour this seems to be the Public Sector and for the Tories it seems to be business and the better off.

My previous employer did 95% of its business with the NHS. Loved an election year, especially if Labour were in power.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Nope not "almost like" at all. I would describe it as "exactly the same" just aimed at different groups. Both main parties target their spending or cuts in the areas that will benefit them most. For Labour this seems to be the Public Sector and for the Tories it seems to be business and the better off.

So you agree the tories have got it wrong. Cheers.

 

[SocketRocket]

Seems like a totally non-biased, non-paranoid publication 🙄

If he believes the allegations are false then no doubt he will take them to court. Lets see if he does!

 

[SocketRocket]

So you agree the tories have got it wrong. Cheers.

Yes, he agrees they are all as bad as each other. Surely you agree?

 

[ColchesterFC]

So you agree the tories have got it wrong. Cheers.

Yep, 100% agree. It's a sad fact that both our main parties "bribe" (not literally with brown envelopes or bank accounts set up in their dog's name, but through spending policies) certain sections of the electorate to vote for them.

Rich conservative voters don't complain as they are too busy counting all their extra money, and Labour voters don't complain as they are too busy counting their benefit payments and are all poorly educated and don't actually understand that they've been paid to vote Labour.

(Hopefully that was enough smilies to make sure the last paragraph is taken as a joke not a serious comment)

 

[Deleted member 1147]

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Do people tell you that often?

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Yep, 100% agree. It's a sad fact that both our main parties "bribe" (not literally with brown envelopes or bank accounts set up in their dog's name, but through spending policies) certain sections of the electorate to vote for them.

Rich conservative voters don't complain as they are too busy counting all their extra money, and Labour voters don't complain as they are too busy counting their benefit payments and are all poorly educated and don't actually understand that they've been paid to vote Labour.

(Hopefully that was enough smilies to make sure the last paragraph is taken as a joke not a serious comment)

Possibly needed one more wink, some on here are easily offended.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Possibly needed one more wink, some on here are easily offended.

I've gone back and edited it, and added two more, just to be on the safe side.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I've gone back and edited it, and added two more, just to be on the safe side.

I think 10 is the absolute minimum to be on the safe side.

You really are bored aren’t you.

 

[ColchesterFC]

I think 10 is the absolute minimum to be on the safe side.

Done! Wasn't sure if you meant 10 in total, 10 more than the original one, or even 10 more than the three that were on there after I'd edited it the first time. So much like wearing the thickest condoms that Durex make, I've gone "extra safe".