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

I remember the 70s very well. And the 80s. And what I remember is North Sea oil. I remember talk of what a massive difference this would make to this country if it were properly invested. The Tory party were in power by this time. They like to talk about magic money trees - well in the 80s, they literally had one in their own back yard and they pissed it away on tax cuts.

Mid forties

Sounds typical of the ignorant and patronising comments I've heard about young people voting. I'm 46, my Mum is 72, my Aunt is 68 my DD is 19 and my DD's bf is 20 - we all voted Labour.

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59. My parents at 85 and 90 and my children at 22 and 24 also voted Labour

The 70 were great. In the 70s I lived in a fantastic council house in a village in the countryside, on a street of similar council houses. Out of about 30 - 40 houses only 3 are now still available to rent from the council because of Thatcher's vicious Right to Buy scheme. The people who bought these houses either sold them on for huge profit or rent them out for around twice the rent the housing association now charge for them. My friend's Dad bought his mother's council house "for her" when she was at death's door and sold it on for a huge profit. The people who benefitted from the culling of affordable rented properties resulting in the social cleansing of the working class from many now affluent areas are the same people who are now deriding young people for voting in their best interests. Shame on you, wealthy oldies.

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51 and a Carer plus a volunteer for vulnerable group of people. Seen the Tories crap carp on these people from a great height. That's why I voted Labour

People seem to vote Labour because their parents / grandparents have voted Labour all their lives, it's like a tradition in the family. That's what alot of my family and friends do.

37. Daughter is 19, parents 67 and 65, all Labour.

We all voted labour
Me 26
DH 29
DM 52
Step dad 57
Dbro 28
Dbro gf 23
MIL 52
FIL 63

Early 50s. DH is mid 50s. Parents are in their 80s. All labour supporters. And I certainly feel I'm old and wise enough to know what we'd be letting ourselves in for. We'd be poorer than we are now, and I don't care, if it means the higher taxes would be spent fairly on education and NHS.

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People seem to vote Labour because their parents / grandparents have voted Labour all their lives, it's like a tradition in the family. That's what alot of my family and friends do or is it about being raised with shared values and ideologies?
Altho when my DDad voted Labour I was LibDem and now he votes Tory and my DMom UKIP but Tory this year so clearly i don't get my "bleeding heart liberalism" from them...

I'm 38. Dh is 47, both voted Labour. Parents are 69, sisters are 47 and 43 - all Labour. I do think that families all voting the same way (whichever party) is to do with shared values and beliefs. My dad has always taken a massive interest in politics and encouraged debate. It's been pretty infectious

I voted labour, I'm 35

With regard to the 'people vote labour because their families do', my dad voted SNP and my mum lib dem.

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40, DH 44

Friends that I know of: 41, 46, 32, 46, 35, 30, 40, 18, 34. The 18yr olds friends mostly voted Labour too. So a mixed group, and a mixed group of life experience, mostly educated to degree level.

DM voted Conservative, as did MIL/PIL. So not necessarily a family thing.

I'm 50 and voted labour (don't usually) mainly to try to protect our precious NHS. My kids who are early 20s also voted labour.

Yeah, my dad, mom and brother are all generally Conservative voters, I've always voted Liberal Democrats, Green or more recently Labour.

Labour voters in my family:
Me and DH : aged 55-59
Sister: 52
Db and SIL: 56 / 57
Mum and Dad: (actually voted Lib Dem as they are in a Lib Dem safe seat with only Tory as opposition, but otherwise would vote Labour): 86

Friends: heaps of them, at least 30 that I know of, aged 40-58
Neighbours - nearly all our road: aged 30s - 80s.

I am sure many new voters voted Labour, and maybe LibDem too. That is NOT the same as saying older people don't also vote Labour. And it is really patronising top suggest that voting Labour is something you do when you don't know any better.

My friend (dead wealthy, immensely intelligent and well informed, works in international property and finance) has been a lifelong Tory voter, voted either Labour or LibDem in Kensington this time. He told me before the election that everyone he knew in his wide circle of similar people in Notting Hill were changing their vote from Tory, because of Brexit.

Kensington was because of middle-aged people like this, not 18 year olds.

DH voted Labour this time for the first time since Blair / Iraq.