La nuova ricerca mette in dubbio l’appello di Reform ai giovani e mostra che il lavoro affronta una sfida che si tiene per il sostegno dei giovani
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La nuova ricerca mette in dubbio l’appello di Reform ai giovani e mostra che il lavoro affronta una sfida che si tiene per il sostegno dei giovani
di 457655676
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I saw a video where Nigel Farage said “Big Chungas”. We all loved that.
But seriously.
Yeah, isn’t this obvious?
While Reform may get lots of traction on social media with memes and funny videos,
when it actually comes time for voters to decide, their support will just collapse.
Reform aren’t all that popular with younger people – although, at the last election, they did try and go down the social media/Tik Tok route. To no avail, seemingly.
We are somewhat different to mainland Europe, where right-wing parties seem to do better amongst the youth. I’ve theorised that this may be because countries like Germany, for example, have experienced bigger effects of immigration and asylum seekers than us.
For instance, Germany took in 1m Syrians back in 2015 alone. They’ve also experienced significant events like the 2015-16 New Year’s Eve sexual assault attacks in Cologne, along with various other terror attacks and sexual violent crimes committed by migrants and asylum seekers since then (not to say the UK hasn’t had any of that, but on the surface it appears worse in Europe than it does here in that regard).
I do feel like we’re a couple of terror attacks away from things popping off and perhaps Reform and parties like them, turning a few more of the younger heads in the UK.
The election is 4 years away. ANYTHING can happen in a DAY to swing the vote. People though Boris was toast then he did that Love Actually skit and everyone went “awwww Boris” and voted them back lol.
Interestingly I’ve seen a lot about Corbyn trying to start up a new left wing party that is actually left wing……. I’d be interested to see how that fairs.
I cant speak for Gen Z but for millenials I cant see many ever forgiving him for brexit. He’s an odious lying worm of a man and just as much of a poshboy as any Tory. There’s no circumstance that could happen that would make me or anyone I consider a friend vote for him
Perhaps if any political party offered something more than a state run retirement home for pensioners – we’d have a reason to vote for them.
Yeah, it shouldn’t the a surprise that young people don’t like Reform or Labour — the majority want left wing policy.
What’s that? All those articles in the press talking about how Reform was sweeping the youth vote because they polled 4th not 5th in the 18-30 categories were misleading? That they were cherry-picking data, and using anecdotes about a handful of individuals to push a political position for their own benefit?
Next we’ll be finding out that all those articles about how young people are flocking to Christianity aren’t actually supported by the data either…
Seems these comments are all from people who think all young people are university students and/or middle-class. Young people in the working class world (the world I’m a part of) make up about half of young people and are very pro-Reform Party. Only about 30% or something of young people go to university. Of the young people I meet in the working world, basically all of them are pro-reform (and this goes for the older people too recently. Of everyone I work with, I know of only one person who is still Labour)
Well young people seem to be the most informed and if you bother reading their manifesto you realise it’s complete bullshit.
You’ll also realise with a little research that farage sits under trumps desk a lot. And giving America is currently nose diving into a full on dictatorship I don’t think a buddy of trump is who we should want in office.
Young people don’t vote anyway, so it really doesn’t matter why they’ll say they’ll vote for!
People want someone to vote FOR, not just someone to vote AGAINST. People have no hope. Look at how populist and socialist politicians galvanise their supporters just by giving them something to hope for. Look at how Mamdani in New York City swept the primary election by actually proposing a better life for people. Reform are just a mix of the passed over old waste basket for racists from the old Tory party and a holding ground for anyone who isn’t satisfied with the current government. They promise nothing. They stand for nothing. Labour aren’t giving people something to vote FOR or at the very least they certainly aren’t capitalising on the policies they are passing. The new rent reforms are fantastic! They’re actually tangible and will help millions of Britons, but I’ve barely heard a peep about them. As horrible as it sounds, they need “social media” candidates. People barely even know who their MP is. If just one politician actually engaged with their constituents online they’d lock the district down solidly.
ultimtely we’re going to need a new party with top talent. it will be interesting to see who stands for reform in the next election, can they attract the elite talent they will need to make significant change, or will it be more of the same? Over the past few decades politics has been the preserve of career politicans/lower grade talent not actually interested in using the power at their disposal. LFG demonstrates top tier younger minds are becoming interested in politics again, which augers well for the future. They all seem to forget, you can just do things….
Yeah but that doesn’t really matter. Young people don’t vote, only the grey vote matters.
Labour’s biggest challenge is how they can energise and get their voters to come out at the next election. They have largely failed at implementing or even starting the kind of transformative national renewal they campaigned on, and instead have chosen to waste political energy chasing after Reform voters which would never return to their fold no matter how many u-turns they do.
As Biden/Kamala’s failure has shown – you need to be able to energise your base, and can’t rely on people being afraid of something worse.
Pensioners are Reform’s demographic . They want the 1950s back .
That was proved by [Sir John Curtice](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/25/class-age-education-dividing-lines-uk-politics-electoral-reform)’s demographic report last week
Most of us don’t want to go back to homosexuality being criminalised and women dying from back street abortions, however much Farage’s US [religious](https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/nigel-farage-teams-up-with-extreme-anti-abortion-group-and-calls-for-debate-on-restricting-abortion-rights-in-uk/) backers want us to
But Nige said the youth support him
“There was no youth-surge at the General Election, with barely 6% of under-30s voting Reform, compared with 42% who voted Labour, with the Greens and Liberal Democrats each securing 15%.”
Young people don’t vote enough to matter. That’s the issue and it always has been.
I’m not even sure we even need ‘new research’ here. Just a cursory look at poll breakdowns will demonstrated that a plurality of young people support Labour, and often it’s head-to-head between Reform and Greens for second place (with a number of polls putting Greens well ahead of Reform).
Yet that hasn’t stopped a swath of right-wing and centrists papers pumping out articles about how Reform are winning over young voters, largely based on two or three interviews from young right-wing newspapers journalists with their ‘wear blazers with elbow protectors to lectures’ style mates.
The issue has always been young voters not voting and being surprised that old voters do.
It feels very much like they see inaction as the answer to the trolley problem.