Why are British youth so right wing?

The only surprisingly consistent right-wing view held by students at my school was their support for the death penalty. It freaked me out when I first realised it, I thought we'd moved on from that like we did from voteless women and slavery...

We had something similar at my school. The death penalty was somewhat popular, and a large number of people were in favour of criminalising suicide, too (unassisted, that is). Their argument was that criminalising it would reduce it... It was certainly one of the most stupid arguments I'd ever heard.

I think quite a few people had similar views about abortion too. That said, I did go to a church school, so it's probably more likely that people would be pro-life there (speaking from experience as I used to be one of those people).

Hey, I think we were both applying to Oxford PPE for this year, how'd it go?

Yeah I went to a private school, where I'm pretty sure students' views were disproportionately right-wing.

Oh yeah! Haha, I kind of gave up on applying to Oxford. My AS results were average (AAABC, but ABC in the subjects I continued), so I probably wouldn't have stood at chance at getting in. Add to that the pressure of the entrance exam and interviews... It was just too much. I'm now going to Sheffield to do Economics and Politics. How about you?

Yeah. It's hard to gauge whether all students at my school thought like this, because quite a few of the teachers (who did most of the assemblies) were left-wing. However the views I was talking about came to fruition on my school's aptly named RAVE day (Religious And Virtue Ethics, I think), when a few visitors came in and got us to discuss controversial religious and social issues. Sadly it ended up being disheartening rather than particularly interesting (and it focused a bit too much on Christianity, but that's to be expected).

I have seen this, but it happens to the 'over confident impressionable cocky types of people'.

Rejected pre-interview, now doing Econ & Pol at Exeter.

Funnily enough now that I think about it, a lot of our assemblies were done by left-wingers as well, both staff and students. I'm finding it difficult to remember any sort political assembly which could be categorised as anything other than liberal to some degree. I guess the mainstream is kinder to those outlets than others. But I could totally get behind a RAVE day.

Nothing like a good bit of generalisation there. I suppose that the most right-wing Conservatives were also suddenly left-wing at uni?

Well it's obvious that you can't label our generation as pure Thatcherites considering how liberal we are with social issues (on average).

I don't see why people are right wing. Don't we all want to live in a tolerant more equal society?

I don't see why people are right wing. Don't we all want to live in a tolerant more equal society?

Well I'm not too fond of the snp but they v advocate more cultural nationalism unlike the ethnic nationalism in england.