Over-65s Abandon the Tories with Just a Quarter Planning to Vote Conservative at the Next Election – Down from 60% in 2019
The Conservatives’ core vote is leaking away in the run-up to the election with just a quarter of pensioners planning to back the party, a new poll suggests. The Mail has the story.
Just 26% of over-65s say they plan to vote for the Tories at the next election, according to a super-poll of 5,000 people by Redfield & Wilton Strategies.
This is down from an estimated 60% who backed the party under Boris Johnson at the 2019 election.
Some 32% of pensioners now plan to vote Labour, giving Sir Keir a lead over Rishi Sunak in every age group of eligible voters.
But in a sign that is likely to cause more concern at CCHQ, there was a marked surge in support among pensioner for the Reform Party when [Sunak] sacked Suella Braverman as Home Secretary last year.
It suggests that a sizeable chunk of Right-leaning pensioners are drifting away from the Tories, with the small boats crisis and deportation flights to Rwanda the latest trigger. The party has not had the support of more than 50% of pensioners since the resignation of Owen Paterson over lobbying in 2021.
Maybe when the Conservatives promised at successive elections to slash immigration and control borders they should have actually done it rather than liberalise immigration rules and fail to stop the boats. Just a thought.
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They won’t vote for Starmer will they ? surely not !
No we won’t – don’t be an idiot!
Don’t they realise voting Labour is not an alternative vote? Its the same claptrap except it will likely be worse than at present!
God help Britain!
Fishy 🐟 is a WEF lackey. Kneel is a WEF lackey.
A vote for the Uniparty is a vote for your own gaolers.
Unfortunately, a very large proportion of older people (why call them pensioners when at age 65 you no longer qualify for a State Pension?) still get their “news” and information from the likes of the BBC.
I suspect the 36% of over 65’s intending to vote Labour are those who are relying solely on the State Pension which, after Sunak/BoE-generated inflation, means they will be struggling to pay their bills.
I’m (72) smelling rank ageism going on here. Many people of my age – naturally conservative – that I know will not vote for any of the four main parties (if one can call the 1 MP Green Party such).
“they” do realise that. Those over 65 are still capable of reason, however astonishing you may find that fact.
72 and not likely to vote again. Might vote Reform but not with the personality free Tice in charge.
I don’t understand why people feel like they have to choose between voting for the Tories or Labour. They’re both as bad as each other and I’d never vote for either of them. Best to withhold a vote than waste a vote, surely?
Anyway, as I’m not even in the UK I’m not following alternatives very closely but what do people make of Reform UK? Are they really controlled opposition? I saw this short vid by Britain First, so these guys also look pretty rubbish and untrustworthy too, I think;
”VIDEO: THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT PARTY ‘REFORM UK’
Reform is not a solution to the problems we face as a nation but ‘more of the same’ re-packaged.”
https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1755962201888747802
My gut feel is that Reform are better than the Tories – not a high bar. Whether they are good enough to vote for is another matter and not something I have looked into, yet. No party will perfectly represent all of my views and I would hope this is true for most people, so it’s always a compromise. I don’t like the phrase “controlled opposition” – the literal meaning is that they are being controlled by some other entity, and I doubt that’s the case. The phrase seems to get used to dismiss any “opposition” that someone thinks is not sufficiently “oppositional” enough for their taste – and that’s a completely different matter. I don’t know much about Britain First either, and they may not be an option where I live so it may be Reform or a spoiled ballot paper. I don’t think any political party or leader can possibly be a “solution” to anything. The “solution” is not to trust any of them, elect the least bad, change the system so they have as little power as is necessary for them to carry out basic functions of government, and no more, and resist every attempt they make… Read more »
“The other entity” being the Permanent Secretaries, Borough Solicitors etc. Professional establishments can be pretty resistant to undesirable reformation, from their perspective.
Oh yes indeed they will do their best to put a spanner in the works
I’m considering voting reform, but mainly as a protest vote. I want to see the conservatives crushed into bonemeal, never to return. Alok Sharma is my MP and he must lose.
But I find the SDP appear to talk my language. If they had a candidate in my area then I’d likely put my X next to them instead.
Its easy to proclaim you will do this that and the next thing when you are a minor party and unlikely to be elected. The test comes if and when you get more and more seats and we see you doing the things you promised in those constituencies.
A performing tortoise would be a better choice for Britain than the uniparty!
Lang leve reform!
Reform: welfare statists; we love ‘Our’ NHS to bits so chuck more money at it; intervene in the economy, nationalise things.
Tice was all for coercing people to have the death-jab, thinks Net Zero should be delayed but buys the climate change nonsense.
I can’t see the difference between Reform and Conservatives and Labour except they are not called Conservatives or Labour.
My vote is: None of the above.
The President of Reform UK a certain Nigel Farage – considered that the jabbing of the nation would be be best executed by bringing in a certain character called Anthony Blair ! Reform UK is a dodgy setup with absolutely no transparency or democracy within the party. Members have no say whatsoever of the policies or leadership.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjf5I3ey6CEAxXERkEAHU-fAogQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theneweuropean.co.uk%2Fbrexit-news-westminster-news-nigel-farage-covid-lockdown-video-twitter-6882932%2F&usg=AOvVaw2AYh9n_SNr7RY-XWrivxQ5&opi=89978449
Isabel Oakeshott be his controller😉
Labour are easing down their Net Zero policies knowing there are plenty of people thick enough to fall for it.
And falling for all the chaos that Lockdowns caused, and claiming….”It was Liz Truss that did it”.
I would hardly call that a “marked surge”… Let’s face it. We’re looking at at least a decade of Labour in charge. It will be bad. All we can hope for is that it will be bad enough that most people will wake up from their infinite adoration of the establishment.
True, it will be very bad. The Tories need to go – the next election let’s hope these Rona-Green-Open Borders Fascists are completely erased.
Then it will be Labturd’s turn. The rest of the ‘centre right’ need to form an umbrella party to win. If there was a viable alternative today that party would be leading.
I have serious doubts about Reform. Tice is the forever war guy, had nothing to say about the Rona fascism (likely jagged up 5 x) and buries his immigration policy/massive invasion on page 14 of his pretend manifesto. I do respect his massive efforts during Brexit – which the uniparty has scuttled.
I think the mindset of the average person is such that a true centre right party that would deliver exactly what this country needs is outside the Overton window. And this the source of our problems, here and in the rest of Europe. The kinds of measures we need are considered extremist. The European mindset has drifted so far from the true political centre that the centre itself is fringe.
Welsh Farmer Rebellion Begins;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8E68KttKY&t=316s
I wish them all the best but I’m not sure it can really be described as a rebellion yet.
And a quick update from over here in the Netherlands. I knew Wilders was having some problems with the other parties but seriously, if this Timmermans gets in it’s game over because he’s pro all the agendas that are threatening to destroy our societies here in the West. This cannot be allowed to happen, not with how popular the PVV is; ”ELECTION UPDATE: The coalition formation process to form a right-wing government has failed due to a new centrist party (NSC) pulling out over some nonsense excuse about “budgetary concerns”. Unless a minority coalition gets formed, it seems the VVD (Mark Rutte’s party) will now try to form a coalition with the Green Left and EXCLUDE Geert Wilders’ PVV – even though Wilders won the most votes and is continuing to grow in the polls (1 in 3 Dutch people would now vote for him). If they succeed to form this hellish neoliberal left-wing coalition it’s most likely that Frans Timmermans, the EU “climate pope” will become our new Prime Minister – sending us doing the path of national suicide even further. Timmermans is the former Vice President of the European Commission, he’s the man responsible for the EU’s insane… Read more »
Defeating the UN and WEF lackeys is not so easy is it? They have the bought and paid for media firmly under their control. They set the tone and the narrative. They present us with their version of reality and it gets regurgitated on our 6 o’oclock News every night. It is not easy for people busy with work and family life to start to go against the group think. There is comfort in being part of the herd. People do not like to stand out as being the “eccentric”. ——–But unless they do their freedom and prosperity will and is being lost.
More Dutch people should have voted for Wilders then. Could they really not see what would happen if they didn’t?
It’s far harder in the UK with FPTP. But the Dutch PR system means that every vote really does count.
I remember being in Holland one time and I popped into a shop and bought a Mars Bar. ————Or so I thought. —-It looked like one, and the wrapper was the same. But when I tasted it, it was not the same flavour at all. ———So ofcourse I never bought another one. ———This is what Tory voters are doing. The wrapper says “Tory” but these are not Tories, just like the Dutch Mars bar was not a Mars Bar.
The ”Conservative’ Party’s fear of electoral oblivion is outweighed by its love of globalism.
It knows Starmer will continue the Reset and people like Sunak will beam back up the WEF mother ship.
I struggle to understand why any 65+ person would want to vote for the silly little marionette the Not-a-Conservative-Party has had foisted on it.
He resembles Scott Tracey from Thunderbirds ….. and Scott Tracey is better.
At least you can see Scott Tracey’s strings!
Reminds me more of Sammy Davis Junior or Norman Wisdom