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To ask those who voted labour.. How old are you?

551 replies

HCantThinkOfAUsername · 10/06/2017 11:50

Not posting this to start a massive politics debate I'm just interested in the above question.

I voted labour, I put something about it on social media and a few older people have commented saying I obviously don't have "brains or life experience as them" & "young ones voting labour don't know what they are getting themselves in for".

I'm hoping I'll be proved wrong.
Not that it matters but I'm late 20s and those who made these comments range between 50-60.

Hope this doesn't come across as ageist, it's not my intention at all Blush

OP posts:
pinkmoomin · 11/06/2017 00:01

46

antimatter · 11/06/2017 00:01

18
19
25
26
27
40
43
53
54
57
57
82

cavatron · 11/06/2017 00:05

28

EnjoyYourShitCake · 11/06/2017 00:07

29 (almost 30)

Barefoot789 · 11/06/2017 00:07

36

AgathaP · 11/06/2017 00:08

49

PenSylvester · 11/06/2017 00:17
  1. DP also 25 and voted labour. DF 43 and voted Tory. Dgrandparents 73 and voted labour.

Don't think it can be put down to age.

howrudeforme · 11/06/2017 00:17

49 and voted labour largely due to the fact that brexit + Tory policies, in my view, will lead to young people having severely limited opportunities.

HCantThinkOfAUsername · 11/06/2017 00:36

I know I started this thread on a Saturday morning but from the responses there's been a wide range of ages.

OP posts:
ClumsyFool · 11/06/2017 00:41

31 and husband is 38, also know my mil and fil voted labour too they are 63 and 66

eleanorofaquitaine · 11/06/2017 00:58

50
50
73
32

Idontmeanto · 11/06/2017 01:05

I'm mid 40s, Dh and his siblings 50-60 and his parents over 80. All public sector employees or former public sector employees, all proud, labour voters.

bumblingbovine49 · 11/06/2017 01:19

52

BeALert · 11/06/2017 01:35

46

RoseTico · 11/06/2017 02:31

I'm 44. I've always voted Labour (except that one disastrous time for the Lib Dems...)

Broken11Girl · 11/06/2017 03:08

Mid-30s. Sigh ageism. I hate the oh you get more conservative as you get older stereotype. I have a proper Corbynista socialist friend in their late 40s. I have gone from that to more moderate, but not quite Blairite since uni. If I ever propose voting Tory, shoot me Grin

RhythmAndStealth · 11/06/2017 04:00

42

LotusBomb · 11/06/2017 04:42
  1. My mum is 54 and has voted labour all her life.
LittleKiwi · 11/06/2017 04:46

33

BitOutOfPractice · 11/06/2017 04:55

There's a quote that's often attributed to Churchill that expresses this opinion

"If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain."

I disagree. I've voted labour all my life.

cynicbuthappy · 11/06/2017 05:05

44 and 56 in this house. Both voted labour. Both always voted labour. Both getting more left wing the older we get!

MumBod · 11/06/2017 05:21

43
DP is 58
DS is 19

All voted Labour.

DailyMailFuckRightOff · 11/06/2017 05:40

34

Boopboopboop · 11/06/2017 05:49

My whole family voted labour
33, 36, 39, 59, 67
As did my inlaws
35, 50, 67

OhCarrieMathison · 11/06/2017 05:49

My parents (67 & 60) also voted labour and see Theresa May as the Thatcher years all over again.

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