Good spirit on this thread, rare for a politics one!
Curious - is there anyone who switched to Conservative in 2019 who would vote for them again?
I know it’s a bit of an echo chamber on here but it’s interesting to hear different people’s points of view.
Agree totally that politics should 100% be taught in schools. When I got to 18 I didn’t have the first idea what all the parties were all about, and leaflets and TV didn’t help. I taught myself about it because I found it interesting and I’m a bit of a nerd, but for sure the first time I voted I based it on thinking Tony Blair seemed more cheerful than Major, didn’t have a clue. I didn’t even know that the Tories and the Conservatives were the same party.
It shouldn’t be on people to have to do the research themselves, education and media are equally culpable for not informing people about what politics actually is and what the parties really are, rather than the day-to-day soap opera and open bias of every media outlet. Politics is simultaneously boring af and one of the most interesting things in the world, I totally get why the vast majority of people aren’t interested in it when all you see on the news is the braying pantomime of PMQs.
I also get why people switched to Tory in 2019. I’m part of the problem, I’d vote for a toaster if it was wearing a red rosette but can see why people wanted something different. Diane Abbott is a nightmare, Corbyn is a decent man but far from the best and brightest, people were so bored of the Brexit psychodrama and the Tories had a great slogan, and I can see why people ran out of patience after years of useless local Labour councillors and MPs.