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‘Educated voters’ leftward shift’
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 Teddy Eagle  28 May 21 1.20am |
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Originally posted by DanH
Interesting study looking at voting patterns based on income and attainment levels in 21 major democracies since the 1950s. Whereas previously both the wealthy and the better educated voted for right leaning parties there has been an ever increasing divergence for the more educated voters to vote for left leaning parties since the 60s. The study shows now that it’s common for right wing parties to attract the wealthy still, but now the poorly educated, which may help explain the rise in right wing populism. So I guess the big question for the right leaning voters on here is: which one are you - rich or thick? Rich but rich and happy. It beats the crap out of poor and miserable.
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cryrst  The garden of England 28 May 21 5.00am |
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I will repeat, I don't read any "right winger"
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dannyboy1978  28 May 21 6.39am |
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What are you Dan H ,poor or intelligent?
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 28 May 21 7.50am |
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Who should I vote for then? Being poor and thick
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cardiff eagle  28 May 21 7.54am |
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Interesting stats. One thought I had was that younger people typically vote more left wing and in last two decades there’s been a huge increase in number of young people going to university and getting degrees so by default you’re going to see “more educated” people voting left compared to 1970 when degrees were less common.
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| DanH SW2 28 May 21 8.03am |
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Originally posted by dannyboy1978
What are you Dan H ,poor or intelligent? Both
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| Teddy Eagle 28 May 21 8.14am |
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Originally posted by DanH
Both If an economics graduate is skint what hope is there for the rest of us?
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| kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 28 May 21 8.19am |
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Originally posted by DanH
Interesting study looking at voting patterns based on income and attainment levels in 21 major democracies since the 1950s. Whereas previously both the wealthy and the better educated voted for right leaning parties there has been an ever increasing divergence for the more educated voters to vote for left leaning parties since the 60s. The study shows now that it’s common for right wing parties to attract the wealthy still, but now the poorly educated, which may help explain the rise in right wing populism. So I guess the big question for the right leaning voters on here is: which one are you - rich or thick? theres a saying ''if you dont vote labour when you're young, you have no heart, but if you still vote labour when youre old, you have no brain''
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| Badger11 Beckenham 28 May 21 8.21am |
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I can't say I am surprised lots more going to university, lots of well meaning naive middle class desperate not to offend anyone. They are not bad people and perhaps as they get older some may realise that not everybody in the world is as "nice" as they are and that some people are all about taking the piss. There was an interesting article about California the other day the most liberal state in the USA. Lots of people emigrating as they feel the place is going to hell in a handcart. However when all is said and done my baseline for politics in this country we do not vote for extremists left or right.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 28 May 21 8.34am |
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Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle
Who should I vote for then? Being poor and thick Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They’ll change your life. In reality it was more Marg Thatcher. Buy your council house and in time sell it for multiple times more than it’s worth and move into a nice place and area. Try and ignore that decades after gentrification the once council owned place is now in a nice area and worth relatively even more, but surrounded by people who don’t really want you there. Edited by Rudi Hedman (28 May 2021 9.02am)
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| DanH SW2 28 May 21 8.44am |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
If an economics graduate is skint what hope is there for the rest of us? Haha, I do alright for myself certainly but nowhere near ‘wealthy’ (would be interesting to know what were the definitions on this study) In all seriousness, there’s a whole bigger conversation to be had around income levels and ability to purchase property that ties in with this. You have a lot of people that are university graduates and in decent careers with well paying jobs when compared to median/mode incomes in this country but still struggle to get on the housing ladder due to cost of rent/living being so high, especially in London. Over the period of this study the gap between average earnings and average house price has only continued to grow and grow.
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| martin2412 Living The Dream 28 May 21 8.53am |
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Originally posted by Badger11
I can't say I am surprised lots more going to university, lots of well meaning naive middle class desperate not to offend anyone. They are not bad people and perhaps as they get older some may realise that not everybody in the world is as "nice" as they are and that some people are all about taking the piss. There was an interesting article about California the other day the most liberal state in the USA. Lots of people emigrating as they feel the place is going to hell in a handcart. However when all is said and done my baseline for politics in this country we do not vote for extremists left or right. The reason that there's a lot more people going to university now is down to Blair's 'education education education' policy/con. He made it so easy for kids to go on to uni and took away the reward of getting there on merit. And he did this for one reason only, and that was so that they didn't go onto the jobless figures when they came out of school, which made him look like he had tackled unemployment. The result though was that degrees were ten-a-penny, and became worthless. Media studies anyone ? I don't blame the kids for taking the opportunity of going on to further education though. I would probably have done the same if it was available to everyone when I left school. I mean, who wouldn't want three years away from their parents at that age, and be out on the lash with your mates all the time ? The other legacy of all these kids going to uni though is tuition fees. The government can't afford to fund them all.
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