You’re his-Tory: Why aren’t young people turning Conservative?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There is a generational divide between who votes Conservative and who votes Labour – and it’s a problem for both parties. It used to be thought that as people got older, they naturally became more conservative – but that pattern has broken. Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London joins Marie Le Conte to delve into why. “Denigrating young people is an absolute constant throughout human history – we always think the current generation of young people are absolutely awful… all the way back to Socrates.” “There doesn’t seem to be a solution to intergenerational connection without a solution to housing because it’s so at the heart of life chances, wealth generational, feeling of independence.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Marie Le Conte. Producer: Jet Gerbertson. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	We've killed diamonds, we've killed long lunches, we've killed Mayonnaise, soon we'll
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1:12.0	My name is Marie Lacont and I'm a millennial. My generation has been
1:15.4	accused of destroying all the things that make life worth living. We're now being
1:19.3	accused of not voting Tory despite reaching the age where we should be doing so.
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1:27.0	What's happening to us?
1:29.0	Are we really a unique generation?
1:31.0	What are we doing to electoral politics? Here with me today in the bunker
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