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From the Face September 2002 issue Young Conservatism Britain's kids are growing up younger, and they're getting more conservative. The reasons lie with the education system. Older generations of teenagers were able to piss about, as long as they could get it together once every couple of years to take their GCSEs or A-levels. It's different now -continuous assessment means that kids are forced to choose early whether they want to toe the line, or face the consequences of dropping out completely. The other big pressure comes from student loans. Spending your three years at university smoking draw and watching Neighbours is a little less enjoyable if you're aware that there'll be a 15 grand bill to pay at the end. Net result? A new generation of serious, conservative and money-focused youth. During the touchy-feely Nineties, the most popular college course was media studies. Everyone wanted to get onto TV or into print to express themselves. These days, the hot course is business studies. Forget being creative - now it's all about getting paid • |
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True, true. It's getting similair to the situation in Japan- one slip up and you're out of education (and hence the chance of financial freedom) for good. As a result, more young people (having worked hard themselves) adopt more conservative values. The conservative party picked up on this, but despite efforts to get the youth into their politics they have failed. I've been talking to a lot of my friends about this and the general consensus is that there should be a new party (not a "new conservatives" like new labour) with conservative values. It would get the vote of: a) young professionals- hence the majority of the youth vote (youths in working class jobs tend not to vote...). b) Some of the middle aged c) the majority of the elderly. |
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Well I'm almost 15 and mature i.e. don't partake in random acts of violence, don't hang around in huge granny-worrying posses, don't do dumbass things for attention (often)...does this make a young fogey? |
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I don't think that makes you a young fogey- I don't think people should be killjoys by any means, but not participating in anti-social behaviour is nothing to be ashamed of. Anyone up for forming an IDM goverment party? |
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Meh, just "boring" then. IDM government sounds good, but surely there will be anarchy! |
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+Anyone up for forming an IDM goverment party? yeah Ceri..but I am from Gen X...and my politics dont exactly fall under conservative values by a longshot:) |
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neighbours & draw? *has fucked up flashback* |
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