• david@feddit.ukOP
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    5 months ago

    The truth is that Rishi Sunak is very happy to sacrifice the young to bad outcomes because he doesn’t think they’ll vote for him anyway so he can punch down without fear of electoral impact.

    • Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      This applies to most parties tbh.

      Young people don’t vote in big enough numbers for parties to care about them. So they just appease pensioners because they’re the ones who are going to get them into power or keep them in power.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        You’re not wrong. If young people turned out every election then things might change.

        Source- former stupid nonvoting till 22 kid. And i was even ahead of my cohorts.

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        “Vote for us, so we can ensure that all the young people are too pissed off to look after you in your old age.”