To think that young people came out in record numbers for one simple reason that most people are missing?

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I believe that young people came out in record numbers because they wanted to vote for someone they could trust.

TM like many politicians before her see no problem in going back on her word. She is not alone in this and politicians have been guilty of this from both the right and left side of politics.

Despite your reservations or views on JC it is clear he has not gone back on his word since being elected as the leader of the opposition. He has stood by his word and fought a campaign based on policies he believed in and refused to use dirty smear tactics.

Perhaps people generally are sick of being lied to and electing politicians that seem to showmen/careerists first and representatives of the people second.

My children voted Tory as they aspire to be successful.

I'd have voted Labour because I aspire to be successful...but I also aspire to all having access to fantastic public services and education to enable them to aspire to be successful too.

They see so many of their old schoolmates who are twenty something and useless on welfare- they feel the Tories will keep the pressure on the tosser element which blights so much of the society in their age group.
And yet there is little evidence of the 'tosser element' being on welfare.

Oh, and mine are successful, still voted Labour.

If these people they know are "twenty something on welfare" then aside from insinuating it's their fault and they're "useless"it's more than likely the vast majority if not all of their adult life has been under a Tory government anyway.

The nasty assumptions and stereotyping on here are vile and disgusting.

No if you are working be proud be a snob and shout out loud you are a Tory.

I am a 'young' voter, trying to better myself. So is my DP. I work in health, he works in teaching. We most definitely are not Tories.

"My children voted Tory as they aspire to be successful. They see so many of their old schoolmates who are twenty something and useless on welfare- they feel the Tories will keep the pressure on the tosser element which blights so much of the society in their age group."

I am sure this is a million miles form your own views and they could not in any way have adopted this view for their parents.

They voted as were promised lots of things for nothing. Bank holidays, university, pay rises, free jobs for all. Paid for by faceless corporations and taxing those who pay most tax. The sooner they teach proper economics in school the better.

Zeffering are you always this unpleasant or is it just for our benefit?

Yabbadabbo2 Have you tried talking to them. Young people aren't all at university. They do have a social conscience. They're not all out to get something for nothing.
As for faceless corporations; let's face it, many aren't paying tax here anyway so the sooner they do, the better. Then we can use it to help our young people.

StillDrivingMeBonkers - how very arrogant your post is. My DS has just finished his degree at an RG University and is very ambitious thank you. He and his friends think that Corbyn is the first politician in their lifetime who hasn't lied and spun. And they had decided long before the manifesto was published. It seems to me that May's party had your attitude and that cost them.

Three nephews all in early twenties, first time voting in a general election for two of them. They didn't all vote the same way but none voted Corbyn.

Well for the poster above who works in healthcare or teaching being left wing comes with the job

If having some compassion for fellow human beings precludes being right wing, then so be it.

No if you are working be proud be a snob and shout out loud you are a Tory.

Where did all the weirdos spring from?

Be a proud snob because you have a job? What now?

They see so many of their old schoolmates who are twenty something and useless on welfare- they feel the Tories will keep the pressure on the tosser element which blights so much of the society in their age group.

And yet there is little evidence of the 'tosser element' being on welfare.

No, indeed. The tossers are all on this thread making bizarre posts about aspiration and snobbery being Conservative virtues. Poor confused little lambs.

It's widely known most in healthcare or teaching are left wing.

Teachers peddle it across the classroom and don't think parents pick up on it. They were doing it in the seventies when I was at school.

The sooner my Grandchildren go to private the better. Won't be be none of that none sense there.

I want children to learn politics from an unbiased viewpoint like mine where they know what's best for there future and not in the face what they get on a giro

zeffering can we call someone for you or fetch you some meds?

Be a proud snob because you have a job?

Hey, it rhymes. Maybe Theresa May can use it as her next slogan.

My DS voted Labour because ... he believes strongly that we should look after our more vulnerable members of society

Since when did well paid middle class professionals need to be 'looked after'? I wish JC had offered me £30k to vote for him, I might have even considered it.

Hey, it rhymes. Maybe Theresa May can use it as her next slogan.

Worth a go. She's in dire slogan poverty.

I imagine a lot of young people voted labour because they too aspire to be successful and would like the opportunity to go to uni. What am earth are they thinking

Yep Strong and stable is old hat now

I imagine a lot of young people voted labour because they too aspire to be successful and would like the opportunity to go to uni.

A free university education enables the well off to go and restricts the less advantaged from going (just ask Scotland)

So I guess the working class can take pride in paying for the middle class to get educated for better jobs, whilst their own aspirations are ignored.