Andy_W
Well-known member
Yup, he suckered people with the leave carrot, having been a remainer for a long time until the tide started to change. He somehow conned a load of folk that the worst deal (no deal) ever, was going to benefit the UK somehow, crazy.Johnson convinced a lot of people he was their favourite uncle and would look after them with Brexit sunlit uplands and levelling up. He had a solid base of 17 million leave voters to gather in. On top of that the Tories have been collecting the pensioners vote on the back of triple lock and anti immigration policy. That’s why they won by appealing to enough peopke.
The pensioner vote was (and is) massive, and a lot of pensioners have gained a massive amount of wealth from property values massively increasing. They will be eyeing up holding onto as much of that wealth as possible. This older vote will likely be less important as the decades move on, and the current crop of 30 and 40-year-olds end up pensioners with next to nothing to their name.
That change is going to be decades though, but the change of this is largely baked in already. It's a positive for the left in a way, but it's only positive as old people will also be skint and will vote for help, so it's a bit like a poisoned chalice.
The young will continuously shift further left too I think, and those in middle age, but it will take time. We might be at a turning point where if Labour can get in for two terms, it effectively kills the Tories off due to time, and the Tory pensioner nest egg wearing off.