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Pay me not to watch england vs wales, is not actually a bad deal!
What guarantee is there that the recipient of these funds even adheres to their pledge to reduce their energy usage?
This is certainly a take. Nadhim apparently forgetting who's been in government for the last twelve years as we go into the worst winter of industrial action since the actual winter of discontent.
LABOUR'S NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
You mean you are now saying not all pensioners are racists?I've been saying this for a while, but we've got the evidence to back it up now, people have stopped becoming right wing as they get older.
Demographics will do for the Tories the same as it will do for Brexit, all it's going to take is time.
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The argument is a simple one. It is that as people get older they are no longer moving to the right but are, instead, moving leftward. The millennial generation (born 1981 - 1996) are the first to display this trend.
Why? The reasons seem obvious:
I might also add, better education may play a part, because it always does on this issue.
- Reduced access to housing
- No jobs for life
- No pension security
- Student debt
- Climate change
- Growing up with austerity
There are consequences:
- The older vote will no longer be as right-wing
- Recruiting able people will be harder for the right
- The left can think about the long term
Is he actually alive though? Or is he a cadaver operated by electric pulses to simulate human movement and speech?You'd have to define what being conservative means, and its opposite, to know whether this is going to be a good thing.
Looking around and remembering the 80s when society as a whole was more conservative [incl labour voting families] I'd say a further move away from this spells a worse future, more breakdown.
There is no future multicultural utopia with open borders, EU membership, and full blossoming money trees which the govt can shake and make everyone happy.
Look at the US they've got a democrat president, head of a very 'progressive' party, notice anything better yet?
The polls, graphs, surveys, and all the other research that's gone into this makes it very clear that Millenials are ageing differently to the generations before them, they are not becoming more socially conservative as they get older, and they are not tending towards the right wing. (Obviously it's too early to tell in many regards about 'Generation Z', but the indications at this stage are they're going to be a whole extra step towards left/liberal tendencies from Millenials.)
And it's not hard to see why, the old social contract has been stripped away from them, whilst current pensioners (often right wing and Brexity!) keep their triple-locked pension (which is part of the old post-war social contract), Millenials get student debt, insecure employment with few rights, often can't even dream of ever owning their home and instead face a lifetime of getting reamed by private landlords, whilst growing up in a country plagued with austerity. And when they get to pensionable age they almost certainly won't have a decent occupational pension and will have to make do on whatever is left of the state pension by then.
All the stuff the current socially conservative (and also often Conservative as in politically) older cohort took for granted throughout their working lives, are being denied the younger generations, is it any wonder they look at the current political system, and particularly the Tories after twelve years of their rule, and decide this shit just isn't working for them?
Moreover, all this clutching of pearls about women with penises and whatnot, believe me, it just isn't even a thing for younger folks, they care far more about the planet burning up in their lifetime and wondering how on earth they'll ever be able to own even the most modest of homes whilst gaining employment that's moderately secure and affords them a half-decent lifestyle.
The Boomer generation, who actually benefited most from the structure and surety of the old post-war social contract (which both Tory and Labour governments broadly signed up to), the contract which easily allowed them to buy houses on average incomes, build up a reasonable amount of wealth (which of course they then want to protect), have now pulled up the ladder behind them and vote for Tory governments that deny the younger generations all the stuff they personally benefited from.
The research on this is pretty clear, and the old assumptions about what happens to folks in terms of their politics and social views as they age are failing. (This is of course, an entirely good thing.)
The 'social contract' regarding housing is quite simply down to the fact demand has far outstripped supply due to one thing and one thing only - the massive poulation increase that successive governments of all colours have allowed to happen using various excuses to try and justify them abrogating responsibility. Some fools will say 'well build more' but we simply don't have room and there is a quite understandable reluctance to concrete over green land plus new housing for purchase will simply mirror the unaffordable levels of now. Accommodation is the biggest expense of any family over a lifetime and when this rockets, everything else shrinks accordingly.The polls, graphs, surveys, and all the other research that's gone into this makes it very clear that Millenials are ageing differently to the generations before them, they are not becoming more socially conservative as they get older, and they are not tending towards the right wing. (Obviously it's too early to tell in many regards about 'Generation Z', but the indications at this stage are they're going to be a whole extra step towards left/liberal tendencies from Millenials.)
And it's not hard to see why, the old social contract has been stripped away from them, whilst current pensioners (often right wing and Brexity!) keep their triple-locked pension (which is part of the old post-war social contract), Millenials get student debt, insecure employment with few rights, often can't even dream of ever owning their home and instead face a lifetime of getting reamed by private landlords, whilst growing up in a country plagued with austerity. And when they get to pensionable age they almost certainly won't have a decent occupational pension and will have to make do on whatever is left of the state pension by then.
All the stuff the current socially conservative (and also often Conservative as in politically) older cohort took for granted throughout their working lives, are being denied the younger generations, is it any wonder they look at the current political system, and particularly the Tories after twelve years of their rule, and decide this shit just isn't working for them?
Moreover, all this clutching of pearls about women with penises and whatnot, believe me, it just isn't even a thing for younger folks, they care far more about the planet burning up in their lifetime and wondering how on earth they'll ever be able to own even the most modest of homes whilst gaining employment that's moderately secure and affords them a half-decent lifestyle.
The Boomer generation, who actually benefited most from the structure and surety of the old post-war social contract (which both Tory and Labour governments broadly signed up to), the contract which easily allowed them to buy houses on average incomes, build up a reasonable amount of wealth (which of course they then want to protect), have now pulled up the ladder behind them and vote for Tory governments that deny the younger generations all the stuff they personally benefited from.
The research on this is pretty clear, and the old assumptions about what happens to folks in terms of their politics and social views as they age are failing. (This is of course, an entirely good thing.)
The 'social contract' regarding housing is quite simply down to the fact demand has far outstripped supply due to one thing and one thing only - the massive poulation increase that successive governments of all colours have allowed to happen using various excuses to try and justify them abrogating responsibility. Some fools will say 'well build more' but we simply don't have room and there is a quite understandable reluctance to concrete over green land plus new housing for purchase will simply mirror the unaffordable levels of now. Accommodation is the biggest expense of any family over a lifetime and when this rockets, everything else shrinks accordingly.
If Labour are to succeed for the younger generations [on all those things you've listed, secure employment, half decent lifestyle etc...] where the recent tory govts have failed, then it will need more than a few things in the economy tweaked, surely?