Exclusive: Nearly 40 Per Cent Of Young People Do Not Plan To Vote In The Election
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclusive-nearly-40-per-cent-of-young-people-do-not-plan-to-vote-in-the-election_uk_667650f4e4b0d9bcf74e9bc9
Posted by 1DarkStarryNight
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And this is the risk of the Tories getting a higher number of seats than expected based on current polling.
I know everyone’s exhausted and done with politics. I know huge swathes of people who are 18-34 are working 40+ hours a week for a shit wage of which half of it goes on rent…
But you absolutely have to go out and vote.
Wonder which came first, young people not voting because parties don’t really offer them much, or parties not caring about the young because they don’t vote.
And yet you’ll still have to live with whatever the result is.
Go out and vote, get involved and change things
Please vote! If not others will make a choice for you which not likely be something you need or want!
I don’t understand this mentality. What is wrong with these people ? There isn’t a single party that I feel represents me , but I’ve still voted in every election since I was 18 , even if it does mean all I’m doing is cancelling out one Tory vote
When the main parties only cater to landlords, asset holders and pensioners then don’t be surprised they are not enthused.
Also a lot just don’t know much about or take interest in politics, you don’t really learn anything about in schools unless you choose to take politics and if their parents don’t vote either then I imagine they’re completely disengaged from the whole spectacle.
We don’t have one decent party so cannot blame them really. Every party has many areas where they are going to make the place considerably worse and maybe 1 or 2 that seem beneficial if they actually do what they say.
Make voting possible via TikTok or IG and 90% will vote 🙂
60% turnout among 18-25s would be very high indeed.
They’ll all be on here in a year moaning about how excluded they feel.
see this boggles me. The young adult can be some of the most vocal on political issues but refuse to vote. You can complain about the result but if you dont vote you are your own worst enemy. Your vote is your political capital use it.
It might be isolated to my personal experiences but the young people I interact with are obsessed with the idea of voting for change and deleting the Tories from existence. If I look outside of my direct contacts and to the internet I’ve seen a massive increase in interactions across the social media accounts targeted at the younger demographics and it’s not slowing down (TikTok alone has gone from 1-2k views on shorts to 300k views for recent videos)
I think there will be a lot of surprises in the next election that just shows how much fluff these polls and opinion pieces are. They are extremely out of touch.
Fucking idiots. You can’t complain about not being able to see a doctor or you can’t get on the housing market if you don’t vote for change. Plus, there’s a higher risk of someone getting into power that you seriously don’t agree with. Sometimes your vote might be the lesser of two evils but that might be a good thing.
Young people will feel the impact of this election most profoundly over their lifetime, be it positive or negative impact. I feel like within modern UK society we often discuss our rights, but not enough focus is given to our responsibilities. I believe voting to be my responsibility within a democratic society. I understand young people may feel disheartened or dismayed by the current state of British politics, but doing nothing will not rein in rouge landlords hiking up rent beyond belief and will not get you on the housing ladder any sooner, that’s for sure.
As a young person (21), becoming politically aware during the Brexit era has made me and I’m sure many others cynical towards politics because the government has been in shambles (5 prime ministers during my teens) and there hasn’t been a strong opposition but then again every generation has its challenges and we shouldn’t take the ability to vote for granted especially when there are real life dystopias like North Korea still existing in the world today and with the rise in authoritarianism in the US with the MAGA freaks and Putin’s grip on Russia it could happen to any country.
If you don’t vote and then, you complain about things- it’s on you.
You’d think people would have learned the importance of voting after the Brexit debacle.
I guess we will see several surprised Pikachu faces when the Tories do better than expected in the GE and hinder any semblance of progress. Who needs a better quality of life if you have memes? Am I right?
If 40% of pupils didn’t turn up to a school, it would be written up as dysfunctional in the extreme.
If a workplace had 40% of it’s labour force failing to turn up, it would written up as dysfunctional in the extreme.
So what does it say of British democracy when almost half of voters are failing to take part?
I just can’t understand this, I remember being so excited when I could first vote and I’ve voted every opportunity I have had since. Life is going to continue to be shitty unless we stop letting the older wankers dictate who is in charge.
Easy to see why, the choice between the people who sold off their future and the people who will do nothing to change it isn’t much of a choice
Voter turn out has been in the 60s for twenty years. Complete non issue.
Is it Australia that imposes fines for not voting? We should implement something similar even if your vote is for NA.
This particularly abnormal? I seem to remember a report around the time of the referendum of a similar phenomenon
Tbf I’ve no intention to vote, none of my friends except 1 are voting and non of my immediate family. Alot of people I’m working with arnt planning on it either.
I’d also be alot more interested in voting if I could just do it on an app or online. Take me like 2 minutes then if I did want to
Young people don’t vote. Conse Political Parties focus their efforts on those who do vote. Youngsters then moan that no one is interested in them and don’t vote. Thus, the cycle continues.
I thought the AVG voter turn out for all ages was only 60% anyway.
Headline blaming young people. When I believe 60% turn out for youth is massive. Fucking newspapers. No wonder they are dying. Good riddance.
Overall voter turnout at the last election was 67.3%, so why focus on young people turnout?
My takeaway has always been that if someone is thick enough not to vote then they’re thick enough to be convinced by a Tory so probably best they don’t.
60% turnout is nothing new really. But given the national response to the last politician that actually managed to inject some enthusiasm into young voters, it’s not surprising that so many have just given up.
If you don’t vote, you cannot complain for the next five years. Simple. Even if you spoil your vote, thats fine. Just turn up and put an ‘x’ on a piece of paper. Or a penis or whatever. JUST FUCKING VOTE
The reason parties don’t cater to young people is because they don’t vote! If they voted, parties would change their policies to be more favourable to young people, as they would make up a big part of the electorate. However, they don’t do this, so the young feel ignored, so they don’t vote again. It’s a horrible cycle that needs to change.
For the record, I’m a young person not yet old enough to vote. I will never understand people who don’t take time to vote and then complain about the state of the country. If you want to see a change, you must be proactive. Even if that means spoiling your ballet, they will see that and after the election, you can see how many people spoiled the ballet. All you have to do to vote is put a cross in a box.
These people are just as responsible for the shit politicians we have as those who vote for toxic morons. We get the politicians we deserve.
“They are all the same” is your fault.
Oh. My. God. Young people who haven’t been represented by political parties for ages and have zero hope for the future don’t want to vote. Oh. My. God.
If we flip it around, 60% of young voters will vote. That is much higher than 2019!