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

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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

40. My dad is 72 and my mum is 68.

38

I voted labour and I'm 35, mum is a labour voter and she's 70.

36 my Mum who also voted Labour is 58

39, my 60 and 70 year old parents also voted labour

old!

im in the 50 -60 bracket so is dh
ds 25

I am 50. I voted Labour for the first time in my life, and I have plenty of life experience of all types of government. I am also a floating voter.

Fed up of the current Tory "austerity", hard Brexit and the robotic and headmistress style of TM. Just totally unable to vote for them this time.

36

Good thread OP, I was wondering this myself, after seeing all the comments yesterday about how it was all "students voting for no tuition fees, magic money tree, blah blah blah".

I am 32.
Partner 47.
Mum 56.
Brother 24.

We all voted Labour.

So clearly not all students (none of us are!)

22

I'm in my late 30s, dh is late 40s, mum is late 60s and dad is early 70s. We all voted Labour.

62, DP is 57 and Labour.

DMIL will be 79 in a few days, and she has always been Labour too. And she lives in a council house, so it's nothing to do with the dementia tax!

DP and I are 23 (so probably not helping your stats!)
SIL 26
Parents 59 and 56
Grandad 76
All labour voters for as long as we've been able to vote.

Can't vote in the UK but would've voted Labour

40

My parents did too, they're 60s.

28

DF (63) and DM (58) also voted Labour, as did XP (29).

Daughter 18 and father 59 too.

33, my dad who is 65 also did.

It has nothing to do with brains or life experience. This is a myth that some on the right like to promote.

I'm 44 and a Cambridge graduate. DH is 50. We both voted Labour.

So did my 47 yo DSis and BIL. Both Cambridge graduates.

And my 80yo father and 74yo mother were out campaigning for Corbyn. My parents are not lacking in brains or life experience. My dad was an economics professor. His 86yo brother was a physics professor. Also a Labour voter.

There are intelligent people of all ages on both sides of the debate. Yes, many people shift to the right as they get older, but this isn't because they suddenly get wiser. FWIW, studies show that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to be left wing.

Ultimately, it's about values, not life experience.

40. Dp is 41 and did so too. As did. My 69 year old parents.

29 with lots of life experience.

My mum, dad and stepdad who are all in thier late 50s also voted labour.

My younger brother voted conservatives.

Age has nothing to do with it. It was the younger demographic who hadn't voted in previous elections that did come out this time to vote, but we have no way of determining how they voted!

Dh and I are early 30's and voted Labour. My parents are in their 60s and 70s and voted Labour too.