by Ray of Sunshine » Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:07 am
Fletch wrote:Ray of Sunshine wrote:Why do young people vote Labour when Labour's immigration policies made it almost impossible for them to get on the housing ladder?
Back in the 80s/ early 90s when the Conservatives were in power the majority of young people could expect to buy their own homes.
People often do this, I don't know whether deliberately for political gain or through ignorance but, JC's Labour is nothing like the Neo-Liberal New Labour which was all but the same as the Neo-Liberal Tory party. They just happened to be in power when the widespread use of computers came to the fore and made borrowing (creating) money so much easier. It was a tech boom but underlying was the same privatisation, private provision, off shoring, reducing labour costs, increasing house prices and low tax for the few policies.
Thatcher wasn't a traditional Tory either, certainly not economically, but it didn't happen on her watch, she kept immigration down and understood how important it was for young people to be able to buy their own homes and become properly invested in society.
I've been watching House of Cards from the 1990s and reflecting on how much better things were then for young people, for all people, before that wrecker Blair got in, you call him a neoliberal but I think he's probably a neo-Marxist the amount of damage he did to society.
[quote="Fletch"][quote="Ray of Sunshine"]Why do young people vote Labour when Labour's immigration policies made it almost impossible for them to get on the housing ladder?
Back in the 80s/ early 90s when the Conservatives were in power the majority of young people could expect to buy their own homes.[/quote]
People often do this, I don't know whether deliberately for political gain or through ignorance but, JC's Labour is nothing like the Neo-Liberal New Labour which was all but the same as the Neo-Liberal Tory party. They just happened to be in power when the widespread use of computers came to the fore and made borrowing (creating) money so much easier. It was a tech boom but underlying was the same privatisation, private provision, off shoring, reducing labour costs, increasing house prices and low tax for the few policies.[/quote]
Thatcher wasn't a traditional Tory either, certainly not economically, but it didn't happen on her watch, she kept immigration down and understood how important it was for young people to be able to buy their own homes and become properly invested in society.
I've been watching House of Cards from the 1990s and reflecting on how much better things were then for young people, for all people, before that wrecker Blair got in, you call him a neoliberal but I think he's probably a neo-Marxist the amount of damage he did to society.