Labour Voters?

[youngmafbog]

Are these the 'intelligent' young we should be listening to? According to many left wingers that is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4957526/York-University-students-investigated-ambulance-calls.html

[Togo]

//All parts of the question put, rank quite highly on the Cobblers-o-Meter.//
To say nothing of some of the answer levels on the Shullbit Scale. :))

[gulliver1]

Ymb have you ever attended a point to point meeting and watched those stupid, idiotic, more money than sense
Hooray Henry's ? WALOW.

[Spicerack]

More NTDWTL.
https://youtu.be/YBZwicfZu8Q

[Tilly2]

That is funny, Spicerack.

[sp1814]

Togo

Nope.

Just thoroughly...nope.

[ichkeria]

I had a look at this and found myself suddenly at:

"'Nakey nakey nakey': Made In Chelsea's Frankie Gaff bares her ample cleavage and toned stomach as she poses in just her UNDERWEAR for snap"
Is this the sort of thing "intelligent" youth , innocent ABers should be exposed to by the Daily Porn :-)

[naomi24]

Whoever they vote for their behaviour in this instance strengthens the argument for raising the voting age. In their case about 45 would be appropriate.

[Khandro]

I don't know about raising the voting age, but it is a good reason to reduce the number of students, I suggest by 50% and closing down many of the gash universities which are nothing more than jumped-up ex-Polytechnics, (which themselves were ex-technical colleges).
By halving the student body and faculty staff the Country could really consider removing student fees with the money saved.

[Kromovaracun]

For once, Khandro, I agree with you. Since Blair, universities have been mistakenly used as a short-term engine for social mobility when that really isn't what they are there for.

[jno]

you think there are enough jobs around to occupy all those students, Kromovaracun? Or do they just all become self-employed drivers for Deliveroo?

[Kromovaracun]

Most people who go through higher education will not go on into a job where they actually use the skills obtained during their degree. Unfortunately the jobs market is currently structured so that getting a degree is effectively the only way to get into skilled work, regardless of whether you actually need your degree to do it or not. It does not need to be like that.

[jno]

I wasn't thinking of specific jobs so much as the possibility that a large chunk of the population would be working an extra three years at the start of their working lives (not to mention any extension at the other end as pensionable age is raised), at a time when work is being increasingly robotised. I wonder if there's going to be enough for all these people to do in all these extra years, or if they'll just end up on the dole. I'm not sure that expelling Johnny Foreigner so that British youngsters can become winkle-pickers will meet the case.

[Spicerack]

British winkle-pickers might be considered less expendable.
T'would certainly be less of a waste of time than 5 hours a week tutored study towards a gender studies degree.

[Kromovaracun]

Jno, the problem you describe isn't going to be countered by more people going to higher education (and nor was the increase in admissions intended for that purpose). Automation is already posing serious threats to major graduate job destinations like law and finance - even creative work to some extent. If you want to solve that ticking time bomb, then the only way forward is to move away from an economy that assumes everyone can or will be employed. The solution is not to shovel hundreds of thousands through higher education - a system that is seriously struggling to cope with them - and pretend it secures then meaningful employment. It doesn't.

[Khandro]

jno; Is this what you advocate, thousands of young people, with worthless degrees and enormously in debt;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/04/14/too-many-universities-teach-pointless-degrees-that-offer-nothing/

[Old_Geezer]

The question mark merely stops it being an accusation and turns it into an implication. The criticism is justified.