Young parents vote centre-left anyway, the main parties are battling it out over the racist pensioner vote. You'd almost expect Reform to pick it up, given the link between high childcare costs, low birth rate, and high projections for future migration. But I'm not sure their voters join the dots. - ThreadSky

slothlydad.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Young parents vote centre-left anyway, the main parties are battling it out over the racist pensioner vote.

You'd almost expect Reform to pick it up, given the link between high childcare costs, low birth rate, and high projections for future migration.

But I'm not sure their voters join the dots.

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iguandonjim.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah it's very frustrating that the racist pensioner vote is so important. But there's an element of how you spin it - it could easily be spun as "racist pensioners, you don't have to be auxiliary child care for your millennial childrens' offspring!

slothlydad.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yep, or indeed, support young people to have more kids, and your carers might better understand your traditions and cultural needs.

christianshepherd.bsky.social•5 days ago

Unfurtunately, in a democracy outnumbering their descendants has been (and continues to be) massively lucrative for those pensioners. Which is why talking about 5 decades worth of sub-replacement birthrates only NOW is pure hypocrisy unless the painful consequences are made retroactive.

slothlydad.bsky.social•5 days ago

"High house prices, low birth rates, low immigration. Choose any two."

Reform voters: fffff...

iguandonjim.bsky.social•5 days ago

A triangle of "choose which areas you wish to prioritise" can sum up so much of the problems in politics at the moment. See also HS2:
- Cost
- Bats
- Quality Infrastructure

Unfortunately we have prioritised Quality (rightly) and Bats (subjective)

slothlydad.bsky.social•5 days ago

I wonder how much the relative costs of "protecting bats" vs "placating Buckinghamshire NIMBYs and other assorted interests with extended tunneling" stack up.

iguandonjim.bsky.social•5 days ago

I appreciate I was being flippant with the bats, but it is a related point - the venn diagram of people who said it was too visually/audially intrusive* and those who say it's too expensive is a circle

*and/or damaging to flora/fauna

slothlydad.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's because many of these are bad faith actors who didn't want it to happen at all.

If you support HS2 for environmentally related reasons, it's reasonable to have a sane amount of wildlife mitigation. I don't know enough about the infamous bat tunnel to say if that, specifically, was rational.

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