Piggy The absurd thing is that people really like Labour policies. When they are asked to rate policies, without knowing whose they are, they like Labour policies.
It's an extraordinary situation.
As for why the English (always worth repeating this is primarily an English problem) are like this, I don't know.
One of the posts that has really resonated with me over the last week is the one from the poster in France, talking about her child's class size being reduced to 15.
That couldn't happen in the UK. Even Labour wouldn't dare give schools the funding and ability to do that.
We are very conservative (small 'c') and I genuinely don't know why.
Perhaps it really is the media? Young people just don't interact with media in the same way and their political views are massively different from those 2 generations above them.
It makes me wonder about what is going to happen over the next few years. It's quite something if an older generation gets to determine a future radically (& I do mean radically) at variance with the wishes and desires of young adults.
Housing and climate are huge, huge issues.
Both are important in their own right but also connected to a radically altered capitalist system.
I genuinely don't think many older people grasp the extent to which capitalism has changed - and will change - because, for them, it feels the same.
But it feels massively different for younger people. They don't have to read articles on the LSE blog to know this. It is their immediate, lived experience.
And that is, in part, what Brexit and this GE is about.
So goodness knows how all this is going to turn out in the next few years.
Despite all the 'Get Brexit Dine' none of these issues are going away.
