Right Wing Students

It's not just students, it's everybody else too. In polling, Conservatives are quite consistently ahead of Labour by about 10% in the 18-24 group.

The people currently in education don't remember thatcher though. Although it is still surprising. I mean on the news lately, they've been praising her, but surely the adults who can remmeber her and were affected by her policies, saying how they hate her would sway the young people more ?There's a thread about this somewhere, asking if the tuition fee rise and bedroom tax is enough to persuade people who've never voted, to vote labour. But people were pointing out that most students will be better of under the new system. Unless you earn millions, you won't pay it all off, so actually many people will only be paying a bit more than what the old fees were anyway because they get wiped after so many years anyway.

I suspect you'd get higher than that amongst students though. From what I remember of the 2010 election talking to people the Tory numbers seemed roughly the same as Labour at home, who once won my constituency with 80% of the vote. Is there student specific polling done?

I've found also that students tend to have high aspirations to go into high-earning jobs and that sort of demographic typically favours the Conservative mindset. But maybe that changes once they've left uni and realize how bad the job market actually is.

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I don't know why so many people have that perception, probably because most of them have never visited the North.

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The people currently in education don't remember thatcher though. Although it is still surprising. I mean on the news lately, they've been praising her, but surely the adults who can remmeber her and were affected by her policies, saying how they hate her would sway the young people more ?

Anyone else find it odd how many Tory supporting students you meet these days?

It's based on the fact that there are very few Conservative constituencies up North.

Very few?

I've chosen the 2010 election because that's the closest one there has been in recent history.

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It appears more blue because the Tory constituencies are larger.

You said 'very few', that's not very few, it's a big minority.

Well fine, I'm sorry for making a joke that perpetuated the idea of the North being Labour and the South Tory.

The people currently in education don't remember thatcher though. Although it is still surprising. I mean on the news lately, they've been praising her, but surely the adults who can remmeber her and were affected by her policies, saying how they hate her would sway the young people more ?

Anyone else find it odd how many Tory supporting students you meet these days?

I think over the issue of tuition fee rises there is a gross misunderstanding of how it's actually going to effect people, lots of people I've met have been ignorant to the fact that if you cannot pay off the loan you don't have to as the amount you pay is based off your income. Also it expires in 30 years . No-one cannot afford to go to university.

Yet another slating of possibly the greatest politician of modern times.