The Myth Of The 2017 'youthquake' Election

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42747342

So it didn't happen after all !

Perhaps Labour did so well last June because they weren't the Tories !
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[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

Yes...what ARE you on about Mikey? Did Labour lose the last election despite or because of the young people?

[mikey4444]

TTT...read the BBC link.

[ToraToraTora]

I read it, I quoted the conclusion.

[vulcan42]

" This means we can end up with too many voters in surveys, which become insufficiently representative of the general population as a result."
From the link mikey insists we read and believe.

[-Talbot-]

Maybe all the remainers vote Labour because Labour would keep us in the EU?

I mean I think Labour's stance was remain pre election.
Although I think their stance was also we're leaving.

TBH I was and I'm still not sure what its stance was or is.

[Togo]

Does anyone really believe anything reported by the Beep Beep See?(apart from the usual acolytes that is) At least the odious Clive Lewis is boastful enough to admit the truth.

//The Shadow Treasury Minister has admitted being biased when he was working for the BBC as a journalist.
Labour MP Clive Lewis said he was able to put across his political stance in his journalism.
He said: 'I was able to use bias in my reports by giving less time to one than the other.
'I reported on both but the angle and words and the language I used — I know the pictures I used — I was able to project my own particular political positions on things in a very subtle way,'//

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5322097/Clive-Lewis-admits-broadcasting-biased-news-reports.html

[Spicerack]

aBBC survey bigs up Labour shock.
Shame for the youngsters who were looking forward to the 'oldies' dying off.

[ToraToraTora]

Ok so lets assume the "youthquake" didn't happen or that it was merely a tremor. That means that more of middle England trusted Labour. Trust that will soon dissipate as they move ever more leftwards. Either way mikey, JC ain't getting into no 10.

[Gromit]

The analysis concludes

// It is also worth pointing out that in 2017 Labour's popularity increased among all ages, except for those over 70. //

Naomi,
The article explains that youth was one of the demographic sectors that Labour identified and sought their vote. It also says that after the shock result most pundits concluded it must have worked.
Corbyn did not lie, the pundits got it wrong.

[Gromit]

// a BBC survey bigs up Labour shock. //

Should have gone to SpecSavers Spicerack. It was a BES survey not a BBC one.

http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/meet-the-bes-team/#.Wm8L6uanyhA

[Spicerack]

He always lies...about everything.

[Spicerack]

'This analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.'

I'll bump into you in the queue.