AOG, you chose to quote that arch pale-male-stale representative Hitchens?
Oh joy !
here's a couple of counter quotes:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/daily-mail-reshuffle-massacre_uk_5a55c226e4b0d614e48accab
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/10/pity-white-middle-aged-men-may-cabinet-massacre
Hotchenss is the guy who says ("The Abolition of Britain") that the reaction to Diana's funeral shows that the UK has gone through a cultural revolution equivalent to that of China under Mao Zedong.
He simply has no understanding of the changes that took place in China at that time. The UK saw no purge of intellectuals, sent to farms; no mass starvation; no policy restricting families to a single child.
If you are going to pick your sources, at least pick someone with an ounce of credibility.
In response to your selected quotes, they are reductio ad absurdem: Take a generalised point from your debating partner and reduce it to the most ridiculous scenario. It's a cheap, well-worn and intellectually weak style of debating that loses on every point.
My point is that in politics as in business, if you fail to keep up with changing demographics, you risk losing your audience.
That's where the Conservatives are today.
You know the average age of the Party better than me, but I think the //Average// age of Party members is over 60.
Compare that with the Labour party and you can quickly see that the Conservative Party's support is dying. Literally.
If you care at all about Conservatism, you will welcome this move.
But maybe you prefer to see the Labour party in power for an extended period, thanks to their appeal to an electorate ignored and alienated by the Conservatives.