IF this is true, AIBU to be gobsmacked?

[themental]

Popped up on my Facebook so for all I know, it could be fake news. BUT if it's not....

I feel shocked and kinda mildly sad about it.

And I know that's probably being unreasonable. Every vote is equal, and all ages have a say.

But... fuck me.

That the attitudes in the country are SO skewed depending on which side of fifty you fall on is worrying. The fact cons would have returned 0 seats in the youngest age bracket makes me wonder what incentive they have to lift a finger for them.

Are you serious? The young people are not realistic, they are naive and idealistic. We’d be in real trouble if they were left to run the country.

It's not fake. It's from exit polling, where they will ask your age.

Of course we don't need to write our DOB on the ballot form. It's from the exit polls

Never ceases to amaze me, the bullshit that people write on an anonymous forum.
Absolute bollocks.

Hmmm I'm not sure about that. Particularly amongst the younger generations I don't think it's such a two horse race. Where are the Greens, Lib Dems etc.? What am I missing?

The comment that young people at less likely to conform to pressure and that older people vote Tory as a status symbol is fucking hilarious.

My son reported that you simply couldn’t say you were going to vote anything but Labour in the school election or you got a ton of abuse from other students.

I just read something very similar in the Guardian

And to be fair if the exit polls can create such accurate data at 10pm age data could also be extrapolated very quickly as well. It doesn’t mean that every vote was analysed

unlike the rest of you who managed to have much easier lives back when you were our age

You really have no clue. Easy lives? I'm laughing. In some ways though I think we had better lives, which is an entirely different thing. Internet and social media, on the whole, has had a negative effect on society IMO. I am glad I was young then rather than now, but not because it was easier. It wasn't.

I'm in Liverpool. Once again it was a landslide for Labour.

My generation (I'm 51) won't vote Conservative, we grew up in Thatcher's Liverpool and there's the matter of Hillsborough. My Sister is in the 65+ age bracket and trend was showing support for other parties, but not Conservative.

So I don't think those, maps are totally real.

I’m in my 50s and don’t know anyone who voted Conservative, apart from my dad. My work colleagues are virtually all Labour voters, no matter their age. I have friends in their 50s who work in the City who voted Labour, even if it would make them personally worse off.

I feel Ive had an easier life than my parents. I’m 48 That May change as I age and need more social care

My kids (teens) will have a harder life in some ways than me but not in others.

The real baby boomers did NOT have it easy years ago dispute what youngsters want to think. Tho some may reap the benefits now.

Different ages different stages. Blaming others is pathetic.

It’s rubbish, they have no way of knowing anyone’s age.

It amazes me how quick people are to believe anything they read on social media.

64 and voted Labour. They don't know your age we hen you vote.

I think I was more influenced by my parents when I was a teenager/early 20s and voted Tory. Since then I have voted for all political parties, this time for Lib dems as a tactical vote in my area.
Interesting as regards to whether it was "easier " in days gone by. I think there are parts which were and parts which weren't. House prices were lower as a ratio to salary (but interests rates now are very low) but other things were hugely expensive. Fir example my parents paid a similar price for a washing machine in the 1970s as my sister has paid recently (Dsis bought a fairly basic one) A tv in the 1980s was probably more expensive than it is now. My dad could have gone to grammar school but his parents wanted him to leave at 15 to start an apprenticeship and start earning money, university was not an option (regardless of whether it was free) I think further education has become more accessible for subsequent generations.
However I think it's unfair (and untrue) when people say millenials expect things without working for them, and I think each generation has differentopportunities and barriers.

Leaving aside the validity, which we don't know:
I don't think it's that simple.
A lot of younger people went Tory this time- anecdotally there were several where I work, including two who never bother to vote but felt strongly this time around.
Labour need to seriously evaluate why.

Total rubbish. They don't know how I voted

In case anyone missed my earlier post....

The graphic is NOTHING TO DO with the election we just had. It's more than a year old and based on a YouGov poll from summer '18.

twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1037273833462542336

henrythecat "Coffin dodgers?"
How fucking insulting.

Excuse me , I am over 50 and did not vote them in thanks.

In the 70's my Mum and Dad brought their first house. He worked as a civil servant, she looked after the household and 3 children. They struggled massively, I'm sure we would have been considered to be in poverty these days, but they just got on with it. Meals were simple and no waste. Tea time was bread and butter and being told off by Dad if we took too much jam or cheese. They weren't running a car and of course never went out socially. I think that those who look back and say it was easier then have no clue.

@butterisbest 😘😘😘

Ah well they'll all be dead soon then the next generation can have what they want

Move on to the eighties. In 1983 when I got married we'd saved since starting work. At least 5 years of both of us saving 1/3 of our wages to scrape a deposit(1/3 save, 1/3 for "keep" and 1/3 for ourselves, train fares etc). We both lived at home with parents and they wouldn't have dreamed of letting the two of us move in with them.
Unlike my relatives who are in their 20's now, we didn't expect to have everything. I think the only new thing we owned was our mattress - which was made up on the floor for about 2 years because we couldn't afford a bed. Second hand telly, household items given or collected by me over the years, and we used garden furniture in the sitting room and dining area. Again, it wasn't something to moan about or feel hard done by, it was just part of the process of setting up a home.

Hmm, well much of my social circle is aged 45-75 and of those people I can count on the fingers of one hand the number who would vote conservative.
In fact, among the older end of the age spectrum, is where I find the most open-minded, liberal (not necessarily in the political sense) thinkers.

Ageist bigot @henrysmycat