Thread 49 Sunak: He Left them on the beaches

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I’m (embarrassingly) a boomer. Please don’t hold it against me.

I am gen x and certainly more left wing as I age

Re: boomers : My pils are daily mail reading religious types who have only ever voted tory, despite really disliking the local mp

My mum has always voted Labour... says she probably won't vote this time.

I agree with this. I am not scared of a Labour government. It will be far too moderate but I don't expect some of the evil shit that the Tories are proposing such as Rwanda, the hounding of people with mental health issues and "moderate" disability, taking us out of the ECHR.

I am right at the end of the Boomers. If I'd been born a few months later I would be Gen X.

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Sunak accepted the advice

You'll get to enjoy it.

For a while, anyway.

And - I'll say it again - this isn't a single issue for me.

Labour are totally uninspiring. They will only get in because the tories have done so much damageand are pretty much unelectable. Hardly a ringing endorsement and one which does not fill me with much hope.

But...you do you.

Technically I just make it as a tail end Boomer but have never wavered from being a leftie. DH is the same.

Labour should be radical in their proposals for fixing our country. Instead we are getting "don't worry, we won't raise taxes to pay for better public services, NHS and teachers will be no better off, and safeguarding children and women's rights just isn't a priority"

The problem is, the voters of England, arguably the South of England, will decide this GE as they always do. Any thing too radical scares them. See what happened with Corbyn. Starmer gets that,

I wonder if after July 4th Starmer may begin to be more vocal about Brexit?

Same here!

I want to be uninspired! I want a small tut at the small, local scale changes Labour will make. I want a small pay rise and an Ed Sec who doesn’t despise teachers. I want boring road repairs, a playground down the road even though my DS is 20 years too old to go on the swings.
I want any expenses scandals to be so boring and mundane I wonder why they bothered before I fall asleep with boredom.
Uninspiring is fine. Can’t build an ornate bell tower without laying the foundations for the church first. So let’s do that.

I also want a local candidate who isn’t in it just for backhanders and backslaps from his rich, landowning mates. Which, fortunately, Labour have delivered on this time round.

I’m right in the middle of the boomer generation. I’ve leaned left all my life and am getting more so as I get older. The Starmer government won’t be as radical as I’d
like but really the man’s achieved a miracle. He’s turned the Labour Party from one that suffered its worst defeat for decades to one that might get a landslide in four years. That’s mind blowing. I also think he’s working on a policy of under promise and over deliver because he’s already clear he’s aiming for more than one term.

I'm as Gen X as the come. Smack bang middle.

I know its shallow but ❤
Nigel looks old fashioned and past it. Hopefully the electorate see it the same way.
(Plus Jovan is a dog lover which is always a good sign)

I havejust checked and yes I am a Gen X

DH and I are officially the last couple of years of the Boomer generation, but are left wing and voted Remain. I was a CND member at university and DH was active in unions all his working life. We joined Labour some years ago and are active in our local branch, we still go on marches eg TUC and Rejoin when we can.

I'm gen X too

Gen X as well. I wouldn’t say I’m moderate - definitely left wing feminist. Most my friends are too but I guess we gravitate towards people with similar ideals as ourselves (which is why I was 😮 when the referendum result was Leave). The teachers at my school who are under 30 do not care about politics and can’t be bothered to vote - shocking to me!

I've said similar to my ds.

He was clear that it's mad to think a politician will change their stripes once elected (see: Trump)

My labour candidate hasn't responded to my questions so I've no idea
They also don't live in the constituency

I'm a boomer too

I've always been left wing (used to be a strong Labour voter ) - influenced by my parents who were always very political aware (my dad a doctor, my mum a teacher - so the NHS and state education were key for them - and me).

I remember despairing to them in 1992, after the election that Major unexpectedly won, that middle England would never stop being so self-centred and that we were doomed to an eternity of Conservatives (I was living in England at the time) . They told me to have faith and that things would change.

I moved back to Scotland in 1994, to be with now dh. And then 1997 happened

My parents took longer than me to convert to the idea of Scottish independence. For them the Iraq War was the last straw.

@Saucery you’ve put what I feel perfectly.

Anyone got a turnout prediction?

I wonder if Gen X’s are more left wing because of growing up under Thatcher, had our late teens and early 20s under Blair but have had most of our working life under austerity?

I’m a boomer by a few months, always been left leaning becoming more so as I get older.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/voter-general-election-low-turnout-b2559156.html