Jeremy Corbyn’s New Party Would Split Teen Vote, Poll Reveals
A new poll shows that Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is set to split the teen vote, wiping out Labour’s lead just as 16 and 17 year-olds get the vote. The Sunday Timeshas more.
More than one in five 16 and 17 year-olds would vote for Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s movement at the next election, creating a three-way tie with Labour and Reform for the youth vote.
The hard-Left group, which has the working name of Your Party, would knock six percentage points off Labour’s share among the new voters, leaving Starmer’s party on 24%, Nigel Farage’s Reform on 23% and Corbyn’s new party on 21%. The Green Party would be the biggest loser, however, with its vote share more than halving from 14% to 6%.
The Government last month confirmed plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 in time for the next election – bringing Westminster in line with Holyrood and the Senedd.
It will be the biggest change to the franchise since the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1969 and makes 16 and 17 year-olds targets for political parties. An exclusive poll of more than 1,100 of them for the Sunday Times provided a rare insight into their politics. …
According to the poll by the think tank More in Common, there is a gender split with boys nearly twice as likely to support right-wing parties as girls.
Some 45% of 16–17 year-old boys would vote for either Reform or the Conservatives, compared with 24% of girls. Reform’s vote share is six points higher among boys than girls (25% compared with 19%), and the same gap is even wider for the Conservatives, whose vote share is four times higher (20% versus 5%).
In other poll findings:
• More than a third of 16 and 17 year-olds (36%) said they sympathised more with the Palestinian side in the Gaza war. Nine per cent sided with Israel • Almost half (48%) said that they would vote Remain if the 2016 Brexit referendum were held again while 13% said they would vote Leave
Don’t you think that also leads to fragmented voting, and therefore either a ‘ruling party’ with support in the high 20%’s, or some kind of coalitions which invariably end up of a miss-mash of poor ideas and policies just to keep the group together., (i.e. Belgium or Germany, or Italy, etc)?
Yes, I agree with you that it has all those problems.
It goes without saying that there is no perfect system of political representation and so it’s a matter of picking your poison.
The big issue I see with the duopolistic system is that it creates an impression of consent and support that is not real.
With a more fragmented political landscape political priorities are more accurately represented.
When a party dominates with a minority, it is very obvious to everyone what is going on. It doesnt stop it, but it’s clear to see and that matters.
Heretic
7 months ago
Notice the photo: excellent that it includes a lovely Ethnic European redhaired girl, and two handsome Ethnic European boys: one Blond and one Mousy-haired. Normally in these photos of “British school children”, there is always one Ethnic African placed next to an Ethnic European of the opposite sex.
In this photo, however, there is one smug Ethnic Indian girl with dyed brown hair placed between the two Ethnic European boys, and one Ethnic African girl with natural hair next to the redhaired girl.
The photo is only missing an Ethnic Oriental and a Trans to be completely politically correct.
More and more, this is the ethnic make-up of the country at that age, and when they get to university that mix becomes even more diverse with the overseas students. This is what they see, and what they believe in, and are told to believe in. They dont see anything wrong with what is going on, in fact they have positive experiences of it.
Despite the general assumption that the young will vote for the left wing of politics (they have no lifetime earnings to protect, after all) it is cheering to see that over a third would vote Reform or Conservative. Labour and the left, although a greater percentage overall in this poll, must be doing a crap job to lose so many of their ‘natural’ supporters.
Claphamanian
7 months ago
The Hogwarts generation take the fight to the Ministry of Migrants.
“A new poll shows that Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is set to split the teen vote, wiping out Labour’s lead just as 16 and 17 year-olds get the vote.”
Except the 16 and 17 year olds who were polled aren’t the 16 and 17 year olds who will/might vote in four years time, they are currently 12 and 13 year olds, they will be in their 20s by then and eligible to vote under existing rules.
So why weren’t 12 and 13 year olds polled? Oh well because, er, they are just children and know jackschitt about politics whereas 16 and 17 year olds are… er… well also children who know jackschitt.
Funny old World.
Gezza England
7 months ago
I wonder if they asked any muslim children as that would be a waste of time since they will be required to hand their postal votes to the head of the family to fill in as directed by the local mosque/terrorist centre.
RTSC
7 months ago
But, but ….. the Online Safety Bill is to protect these CHILDREN ….. because they’re CHILDREN.
So how can CHILDREN be treated like adults when it comes to voting, when they can’t be treated like adults for anything else?
V Detta
7 months ago
I really think they missed a trick and should call the new Party “What’s Left” ……
Have they worked out what their new party is going to be called yet?!
TitterYeNot
7 months ago
How can Labour push though a constitutional change like this without a national debate? Similar to the trans nonsense trouncing women’s rights, 16 year olds voting when they haven’t even left school, can’t sign contracts, nor drink in a pub is pure gerrymandering.
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Lots of political parties and political messiness is a good thing. It reflects society more accurately than the political duopoly we’ve always had.
Don’t you think that also leads to fragmented voting, and therefore either a ‘ruling party’ with support in the high 20%’s, or some kind of coalitions which invariably end up of a miss-mash of poor ideas and policies just to keep the group together., (i.e. Belgium or Germany, or Italy, etc)?
Yes, I agree with you that it has all those problems.
It goes without saying that there is no perfect system of political representation and so it’s a matter of picking your poison.
The big issue I see with the duopolistic system is that it creates an impression of consent and support that is not real.
With a more fragmented political landscape political priorities are more accurately represented.
When a party dominates with a minority, it is very obvious to everyone what is going on. It doesnt stop it, but it’s clear to see and that matters.
Notice the photo: excellent that it includes a lovely Ethnic European redhaired girl, and two handsome Ethnic European boys: one Blond and one Mousy-haired. Normally in these photos of “British school children”, there is always one Ethnic African placed next to an Ethnic European of the opposite sex.
In this photo, however, there is one smug Ethnic Indian girl with dyed brown hair placed between the two Ethnic European boys, and one Ethnic African girl with natural hair next to the redhaired girl.
The photo is only missing an Ethnic Oriental and a Trans to be completely politically correct.
More and more, this is the ethnic make-up of the country at that age, and when they get to university that mix becomes even more diverse with the overseas students. This is what they see, and what they believe in, and are told to believe in. They dont see anything wrong with what is going on, in fact they have positive experiences of it.
They have been thoroughly brainwashed by Satanic Globalist Propaganda.
And it is not the “ethnic make-up of the country” that any Indigenous Brit ever voted for, as they were never asked…
You are right of course, but that isn’t going to help. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
It’s never too late.
Despite the general assumption that the young will vote for the left wing of politics (they have no lifetime earnings to protect, after all) it is cheering to see that over a third would vote Reform or Conservative. Labour and the left, although a greater percentage overall in this poll, must be doing a crap job to lose so many of their ‘natural’ supporters.
The Hogwarts generation take the fight to the Ministry of Migrants.
Expellimus!
They have planned things in the past and votes for mid teens might just be an expedient U-turn. Let’s see how their promises on taxation work out.
“A new poll shows that Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is set to split the teen vote, wiping out Labour’s lead just as 16 and 17 year-olds get the vote.”
Except the 16 and 17 year olds who were polled aren’t the 16 and 17 year olds who will/might vote in four years time, they are currently 12 and 13 year olds, they will be in their 20s by then and eligible to vote under existing rules.
So why weren’t 12 and 13 year olds polled? Oh well because, er, they are just children and know jackschitt about politics whereas 16 and 17 year olds are… er… well also children who know jackschitt.
Funny old World.
I wonder if they asked any muslim children as that would be a waste of time since they will be required to hand their postal votes to the head of the family to fill in as directed by the local mosque/terrorist centre.
But, but ….. the Online Safety Bill is to protect these CHILDREN ….. because they’re CHILDREN.
So how can CHILDREN be treated like adults when it comes to voting, when they can’t be treated like adults for anything else?
I really think they missed a trick and should call the new Party “What’s Left” ……
Have they worked out what their new party is going to be called yet?!
How can Labour push though a constitutional change like this without a national debate? Similar to the trans nonsense trouncing women’s rights, 16 year olds voting when they haven’t even left school, can’t sign contracts, nor drink in a pub is pure gerrymandering.