Tories have lost the vote of the young generation.

[beehive_bob]

There is nowhere near enough new homes being built to meet this country’s housing needs. All the main political parties at least agree on that. New towns/garden villages which are coming back into vogue offer part of the solution - and that means properly planned communities with a range of facilities, not peripheral soulless housing estates. Where to put these is a conundrum for the Conservatives - leafy, suburban areas near the Green Belt tend to be inhabited by the Conservative voter who doesn’t want one single, new house near him, never mind several thousand. Simple economics, more supply will dampen house price growth and make homes more affordable but whilst there’s political support for building more, it can be political suicide to be seen to be doing so in your supporters’ back yard.

 

[bluethrunthru]

What needs saying is that we have too many new housing developments in the South West already.

do those waiting on housing lists or wanting to buy s new house in the area agree with you?

 

[bugsyblue]

Did they ever have the vote of the young?

 

[Magicpole]

So what you're saying is that you'd rather hand that bill to a future generation rather than deal with it ourselves?

It's not about handing a bill over. It's about investing in the economy that heads to growth and reducing debt.

The Tories current deficit and debt level is greater than every Labour debt increase combined.

I think you are under the misapprehension that the Tories don't get us in debt. Maybe suggest you research this?

To continue to avoid infrastructure investment,,support for education and business helps prevent us make more money and less in need of loans. To stagger on without investment will be like every company that failed to invest and adapt.

Bust and gone.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Did they ever have the vote of the young?

not since the young William Hague was around........ Labour got the young vote OUT which was the difference. For a long time the Tories focused their attention on elderly voters because they went out and voted Conservative to protect their standard of living. However the elderly have a habit of dying off and they clearly got the message that Corbyn didn't pose an electoral threat...............

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It's not about handing a bill over. It's about investing in the economy that heads to growth and reducing debt.

The Tories current deficit and debt level is greater than every Labour debt increase combined.

I think you are under the misapprehension that the Tories don't get us in debt. Maybe suggest you research this?

To continue to avoid infrastructure investment,,support for education and business helps prevent us make more money and less in need of loans. To stagger on without investment will be like every company that failed to invest and adapt.

Bust and gone.

That all seems like a good argument for actual government borrowing to invest in education, not this system we have of pseudo-personal borrowing, which actually turns out in the long term to be mainly government borrowing. It seems to me that it's all a smoke screen to allow the government to pay for something later, but not put it through the books as government debt, because technically it belongs to the individual.

 

[vonkeynotvenky]

When the younger part of the electorate get older they will protect their assets by voting conservative just as they always have done in the past.

 

[manctheknife]

When the younger part of the electorate get older they will protect their assets by voting conservative just as they always have done in the past.

Practicality replaces ideology...or 'trumps' it if you like....

 

[bluethrunthru]

When the younger part of the electorate get older they will protect their assets by voting conservative just as they always have done in the past.

but they won't have assets thats the point and that should be their worry. Home ownership is down and fewer people will have that to conserve - student debt - poorer pension provision and a car on a lease - thats the point mate people of our generation may have done that because they own their home they have a nice car a decent defined benefits pension scheme and could think thats better preserved by a Conservative government not a labour one. What happens when the Tory offer is to help people keep in their possession things they don't have !!??

 

[vonkeynotvenky]

but they won't have assets thats the point and that should be their worry. Home ownership is down and fewer people will have that to conserve - student debt - poorer pension provision and a car on a lease - thats the point mate people of our generation may have done that because they own their home they have a nice car a decent defined benefits pension scheme and could think thats better preserved by a Conservative government not a labour one. What happens when the Tory offer is to help people keep in their possession things they don't have !!??

Assets aren't going to disappear someone is going to own them after the older generation dies off. Labour are losing the working class vote that's the important part of the voting demographic, there's a need for a new party specifically designed for working class voters.