Some useful polling data on YouGov which pretty much stands as a voter xenophobia barometer. It is let down somewhat IMO by not including the racist far-right parties (Brexit Party, UKIP etc) which obtained a few percent of the vote last election (about 660k votes between them in 2019 IIRC, & 3.8m in 2015 link) so there are a shed-load off the map somewhere or now lurking in the main parties. The Greens, & PC were also not counted for some reason.
I think the Tories’ steady polling around the mid-40s means that they’ve successfully absorbed the Faragist far right. UKIP/Brexit Party will however be reactivated when the Conservative Party needs to be pulled even further to the right and the spiteful pensioner vote needs to be radicalised still further.Some useful polling data on YouGov which pretty much stands as a voter xenophobia barometer. It is let down somewhat IMO by not including the racist far-right parties (Brexit Party, UKIP etc) which obtained a few percent of the vote last election (about 660k votes between them in 2019 IIRC, & 3.8m in 2015 link) so there are a shed-load off the map somewhere or now lurking in the main parties. The Greens, & PC were also not counted for some reason.
I realise, as ever, it is a small sample-group, but even so I’d want the far-right and for that matter Greens/PC etc to be counted as their own individual things. My interest as much as anything in all of this is in trying to figure out just how many of the far-right flag-wavers and Yaxley Lennon thug marchers are now actually in the Tory mainstream? How successfully has the party recruited them? I am certain they have learned some tricks from Trump and the ‘Tea Party’, but how much exactly?
yes, police auction, you can get fleecies and thermal underwear in the same lotDo these used dinghies come up for auction at some point? I need a new outboard.
I'm a pensioner. In exactly what way am I spiteful?the spiteful pensioner vote
A couple of good myth-busting threads:
https://twitter.com/UNHCRUK/status/1293519091798544384
https://twitter.com/Usherwood/status/1293476869103398912
All very clear, sensible and humane.
The real question is why does so little of this information reach the public, and why does most of our media prefer to platform racists like Farage, or vox-pop people who've swallowed his poison.
Patel jumping on the bandwagon and riffing on Cummings’ Vote Leave jingle- “take back control of our borders”. She’s a piece of work.Cleverly (a joke in there somewhere) sticks his oar in:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...acks-ben-jerrys-virtue-signalling-on-refugees
I'm a pensioner. In exactly what way am I spiteful?
Seanm states: and the spiteful pensioner vote needs to be radicalised.
Crikey Seanm going by your Avatar you’re not exactly in the first flush of youth yourself.
I recommend Ariel Colour.I think I’ll pass on those
Noting that you've taken it back, and not wishing to prolong the argument, but I read your term 'the spiteful pensioner vote' as being very much a subset of 'the pensioner vote', ie you were not implying all, or even most, pensioners are spiteful, simply that the government sought to attract the support of those who are. It's not ageist to acknowledge that there are enough of these to be worth attracting, is it?I don’t think all pensioners are spiteful of course, and I resent my own awful generation more than I do the boomers, but you’re right, it’s ageist. Apologies, I take it back.
Thank you.I don’t think all pensioners are spiteful of course, and I resent my own awful generation more than I do the boomers, but you’re right, it’s ageist. Apologies, I take it back.