There is all this talk of red wall shifts and north/south split. There was always a rural/urban split.
Actually, the real split is young v old. That is the elephant in the room.
if you are young and working, you’re voting Remain and Labour (or LD, Green, SNP etc).
If you are old and retired, or coming up to retirement, you voted Tory and Brexit. Generally.
Think about this. It is hugely important. What it means is the people who are taking the decisions about the economic future of the country are not the ones who have to live with those consequences. They are insulated from the effects of Brexit. Brexit affects business. They are retired, they don’t have to deal with it
In effect, they reaped the benefits of socialist help on pensions, education, health, got wealthy and have pulled up the ladder behind them while dictating the working hours, tuition fees and remuneration of the people working hard to keep them in a manner they are accustomed to. They ignore their wishes, for Remain, for more socialist polices. They are the big boss, retired in their mansion, making their servants tug their forelock and do what they are told for a few scraps. They are waging war* on the working class. How can Labour wage war back on parents and grandparents? Not look after them? Make them pay more in tax? Take away pensions? Pay more for social care? Not visit the greedy gets as much because of the long hours every worker is having to put in? Well, to do the tax, pensions and social care stuff you need to be in government and the Conservatives are unlikely to do this kind of evening up against their base.
The greatest generation put their kids first. And created a generation of people who believed therefore that this world is for them because that’s what their parents sacrifices must mean. Spoilt, entitled, greedy brats, wrapped in a flag, who ushered in Thatcherism and are now firmly in charge.
The language I use might be deliberately provocative and does not apply on an individual basis, but on a collective basis, tell me I’m wrong?
*not literally of course.