Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMb_5BwsPc

In this video, we’ll take a look at how the UK's political polls have changed recently, and try to explain why young Brits are apparently so left-wing.

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Cuz 40 years of tory rule, then we get labour again and its just blue tories

Also we have extra uni students.. Uni students meet other wierdos and meeting strange people makes you more worldly and open minded. That and the mind expanding properties of pot.

I think people in uni are more left wing, because education and understanding the world almost necessarily makes you more left wing.

But pot also helps, true ;)

Because after massive shifts of the public discussion to the right, everything further to the left than "insane neocapitalistic ultra-capitalism" (also in power most of the time for decades) is now "Left".

Or you could also rephrase the question: "Why are people not old enough to have been drowned in right-wing brain-rot for decades still sane?"

(PS: Also not a UK thing, but much more universal. Brits have the additional problem of a de facto two party system, where the former left party has moved with the general right-shift for decades and is barely center now.)

So the question is wrong already: Young Brits are not that "left" actually. The vast majority in politics is a spectrum of center right to far right, with everything else an allegedly radical left minority (funnily -or rather sadly- the opposite is true for actual right-wing extremists who are quickly incorporated and normalised by moving towards them).

That's my point: more people, more perspective, more empathy.

Why are older Brits not moving way the fuck to the left of whatever the fuck the Labour party is doing?

then we get labour again and its just blue tories

I think you mixed up Labour with USA's DNC. Tories are already blue, Labour is red.

Yeah, but also knowlege and curiosity to not just accept simple answers about how the world works.

My point was that left wing beliefs are founded in truth while right wing beliefs are founded in ignorance.

Sunk-Cost fallacy maybe? Fragile egos that would go insane if they gave any credence to the though "has my vote and public opinions over the last few decades churned the world into the dark and terrible place that it has become?"

I always heard stuff like this about my generation, thought it was only a matter of time until we got our day and overwhelmingly pushed reforms. Never really worked out. Hopefully this time it will stick.

Marx and Engels visited us for a summer holiday and returned radicalised.

Ugh, I forget. I've not been on idiot island in quite some time so I've not had to see their faces in a while.

But are they major voting block?