My students voted overwhelmingly for Reform

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When we had the Brexit vote they also voted for Brexit- large academy 9-18- Southern England

If anything I would say the school promoted Labour

So that is our poll prediction, although certainly not what I hope for.

Perhaps you need to read up on:

1. the origin of the words slave and Slav
2. the Roman slave trade
3. the trans Saharan slave trade and the mass castration of African men
4. the Ottoman slave trade (hence why a certain % of Middle Eastern people today still have Slavic DNA)
5. the African slave trade and how it aided the trans Atlantic slave trade
6. the slave raids by Native Americans
7. all the slave trade still going on today

Yup.

I’m not lying. Although some people have lied quite comprehensively about the past on several threads recently, haven’t they Hummingbird?

Denmark was the first country to issue a decree in 1782 to abolish its transatlantic slave trade from the start of 1803 but it did not abolish slavery in the Danish West Indies until 1848.

The British Slave Trade Act was passed in 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire and the abolition of slavery itself throughout the British Empire was completed by 1838 (so before the Danes).

The manifesto probably does chime with them. The problem with it it's fantasy politics as they know they won't be in government to implement them.

And Corbyn was kicked out the party and undermined at every turn. Labour is pretty centrist as an organisation. The party machine viscerally hate the left. It was the members who voted Rayner as deputy, the cabinet are otherwise pretty much all moderate/centrists.

To be fair Corbyn's manifesto also veered towards fantasy but for left wing causes. Reform is fantasy but for right wing causes.

For voting for a UK legal party?

Leftist democracy in actions.

I'm this is completely rubbish. Slavery was not invented during the Colonial Period.

All reform have done is split the Tory vote. I really wouldn't worry, I think it's pretty obvious Labour will win this election. I just hope they can really sort things out, and will be very disappointed if they don't get to grips with education, health and social welfare...particularly for disabled people who have to jump through unbelievable hoops, just so they can survive.

Do you really expect anyone to believe that trolling? Only bitter and stupid men over 40 are voting Reform, and even then not many of them 😂

Because I know teens and I’m very sure that they haven’t read it but they have seen the funny Farage TikToks like the one where he is deep faked as Neo from the Matrix fighting Agent Smith Starmer, or the Minecraft ones where they are blowing up each others builds.

What business does school have promoting anything ?

Are you not there to teach?

Reform attracts all the young people- particularly teenage boys who are too young to actually vote but want to appear cool! Sensationalist views appeal to them- take Andrew Tate as an example. We really are raising a generation full of misogynists!

@CinnamonCuirass You are dangerous and need to referred , not the people who are voting for a legitimate party.

My secondary school 11 - 16; although the year 11s have now left, have also just done a mock election during tutor time: Interesting!

Reform 31%
Lab 22%
Con 19%
Lib dems 18%
Greens 7%
IDK 3%

Honestly school need to stop shoving their chosen political party at students it's wrong and deserves a backlash.

My private all girls school in 1997 voted overwhelming for the Tories 😆

Kids just wanna be edgelords... 😑

Seriously, have you seen what is going on in Wales?

@cupcaske123

"That's sad. So nothing in their manifesto that appeals, just the best of a bad bunch"

The quote I heard was that "choosing who to vote at this election is like choosing which toilet to use on the last day of Glastonbury "

No surprise there

Lots of people are politically illiterate and vote for who they would like to have a pint down the pub with. I am assuming OP your students did not know one Reform candidate described autistic people as vegetables. I think if they did, they would have a different viewpoint.

A Reform candidate has suspended her campaign and defected to the Tories, saying the "vast majority" of others standing for Nigel Farage's party are "racist, misogynistic, and bigoted".
Georgie David, who was the candidate for West Ham and Beckton, is the second person to jump ship amid allegations of racism within the ranks of Reform UK.

And then there's this:
Reform UK candidate described autistic people as ‘vegetables’
Darren Ingrouille, the party’s prospective MP for Chelmsford, made the jibe on social media..

I just asked a private student after reading this thread as hadn’t heard of mock elections and was intrigued

Top Lib Dem, Labour then Greens, Cons and Reform last

It’d be interesting to know generally how this falls

My comment was referring to the fact that teens were taking their voting preferences from TikTok.