So, now its the 'wealthy boomers' who are going to help out the #Tories, thinks Phillip Inman.
Well, I'm one 'comfortable' retired #boomer, who has never voted for those #Toryscum & never will....
The reading off of the advantages flowing to baby boomers (still) & their likely voting patterns feels like rather lazy materialism.
Lets stop blaming the boomers & say what's really the problem: the mendacious, corrosive right wing media's grip on political debate(s)!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/30/life-is-good-for-baby-boomers-but-jeremy-hunt-plans-to-make-it-even-better
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
It’s hugely lazy 👍
There are two more “Tofu eating, Guardian reading” boomers in Cardiff who have never voted Tory and who never will vote Tory.
Two boomers who were horrified when Blair introduced university tuition fees as he’s from our generation who benefited from free tertiary education!
A generation who are blamed for brexshit when we campaigned and voted for Remain!
It’s so lazy and it makes me furious as it’s a distraction from the real causes of the state of the UK 🤬
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
There is a much more interesting conversation to be had about the “educated” versus the “uneducated” than there is about pitting generations against each other.
Take brexshit…if you must 🤦
Every town or city in the UK with large university communities voted Remain and the number of highly educated people is a much better predictor of voter intentions than age, yet the “red tops” prosper by setting generations against each other.
The generational argument is a distraction!
@TCMuffin@toot.wales Maybe if the ‘educated’ took better care of the ‘uneducated’ there would be less of a divide. 😜
@KimSJ@mastodon.social @TCMuffin@toot.wales Sure. But how?
I grew up in a single parent family on a Welsh council estate. I've never voted to make people in similar situations worse off. But many of those same people do, not least with Brexit or the "red wall" voting for the Tories. This self-destructive nihilism seems especially strong in the UK, where FPTP justifies a sense that it doesn't matter who you vote for as the Mail-anointed candidate usually wins and nobody's listening to you anyway.
What's your solution?
@hengymrohebwlad@mstdn.social A dream solution for 2024:
1. Make ‘deliberately or recklessly misleading the public’ a serious crime. If voters are not told the truth, their votes mean nothing, and democracy dies.
2. Use German/NZ-style PR voting system (additional member system).
3. Introduce UBI
4. Fully tax unearned income.
5. Add new higher tax band
6. Divide England into regions of size comparable with Scotland and Wales, each with a devolved parliament. Leave Westminster as the Federal Government.
HNY 👍
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
