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'm 49.
My mum-who at 85 has only ever voted Tory- voted Labour at the General Election.

49. First voted Labour in 1987 and always have. The more I see of life and the more comfortable and secure my life is, the more I am inclined towards the left. The idea that only scroungers and doleites would vote Labour is ridiculous. I am deeply disappointed in Alan Sugar's comments since the election.

Im 44 and DH is 67 We both voted Labour.

I'm 39 always voted labour.
Ds1 is 18 and voted labour (also a politics student)
My parents are 63 and my grandmother is 85, all voted labour.
I read lord sugars comments and was .

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I agree with the above postser. I think it is about historic shared values in the North not to mention the memory of the Thatcher years.

Tory govt would suit my pay packet better but I don't think like that.

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36. My parents also did 66/64

46, my brother would've too, he's 49

I am 23 and voted labour

Latest nugget of Wisdom from my younger sister today, "you wasted a vote with labour, I studied politics whilst you've no knowledge, it's shameful"
So guess that means in the only labour vote in my family.
Glad I started this thread now as they've made me feel shit sensitive soul

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But I think you will find that certain constituencies with quite a high number of highly educated / student types turned Labour - Canterbury (Kent), Newcastle under Lyme (Keele), Leamington (Warwick), Hallam (Sheffield) etc, so it's not just age, it's education too. I think most also voted Remain so are for a soft Brexit.

Shocked you were so patronised OP!

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Always voted Labour (Dad was staunch trade unionist, as am I). Husband is 57 and until the past few elections has always voted Tory(made for some interesting debates!) but now firmly Labour

37. DH is 47 and also did. Dd is nearly 18 and would have done if she could have.

I'm late 20s and voted labour - I'm a lib dem supporter but in our area were 4th behind ukip yesterday and I much prefer labour policies to tories ones (these were the only parties with a change of winning in my constituency) x

22, sister 25, Mum 54 x

30. I always vote labour

40. The "labour voters are young and stupid" line reaaaaaallllyyyy pisses me off!!!

52 - I have not voted for 20 odd years as I refuse to dishonour the people who died to get me my vote by voting for some one I dispise - but finally Labour are offering an alternative. They are not perfect by a long way but the only option for generations.

Virtually all of my friends aged 45-60 voted for the first time for years as well.

It was not just young people - it was disallusioned middle aged left wingers as well.

Late 40's.

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61 labour voter

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Dp is 40
Dbro 41
SIL 38 (I think!)

All Labour voters.

I grew up in a Tory-voting, DM-reading household in true-blue Surrey. I adore my parents but in many ways they are absolutely typical boomers who are utterly isolated from the reality of life for many, many people in this country. I have had a very comfortable and lucky life but, having worked in education and the NHS for years, there is no way on Earth that I could ever vote Tory.

I loathe this trope about people getting more right-wing as they 'grow up'. The older I get and the more I learn about the world, the more left-wing I become. I'm on the verge of becoming an activist now!

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