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Interesting political gender differences

TheCatWoman

It's been noticed for a while now that men in general and young men in particular are more right wing and likely to vote Reform, what's been missed is that the total opposite has been going on with women. Women seem to be voting Green in quite high numbers, and seem to be more aware of the climate crisis and more socially aware.

Another interesting polarity in an already polarised world.

I find it interesting that this shift is being under reported

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  • I voted Reform in the last UK general election. I did this because I believe the two main parties are different faces of the same coin - I don't believe either of them can change the course of our country's future in a meaningful, positive way. Therefore, I had to pick a party that was neither of these.

    Reform was the best choice out of the other parties in my opinion, with the main reason being that they simply had the most momentum and the highest chance of success - with the success simply being that people would realise that having a third party actually win an election was a possibility. When I talked to anyone prior to the election, many were swayed to vote for one of the main two parties because "voting for anyone else is just throwing away your vote" - this is still a commonly-held opinion, but Reform did very well in terms of numbers, and I think they've changed a few minds on just what is possible in UK politics, which is a win for everyone in my opinion.

    I also think that the biggest problem the UK is facing is demographic change - I believe that the current level of immigration is unsustainable and will lead to all sorts of problems.

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  • I voted Reform in the last UK general election. I did this because I believe the two main parties are different faces of the same coin - I don't believe either of them can change the course of our country's future in a meaningful, positive way. Therefore, I had to pick a party that was neither of these.

    Reform was the best choice out of the other parties in my opinion, with the main reason being that they simply had the most momentum and the highest chance of success - with the success simply being that people would realise that having a third party actually win an election was a possibility. When I talked to anyone prior to the election, many were swayed to vote for one of the main two parties because "voting for anyone else is just throwing away your vote" - this is still a commonly-held opinion, but Reform did very well in terms of numbers, and I think they've changed a few minds on just what is possible in UK politics, which is a win for everyone in my opinion.

    I also think that the biggest problem the UK is facing is demographic change - I believe that the current level of immigration is unsustainable and will lead to all sorts of problems.

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  • in reply to orangutan

    I don’t like Reform because I think they encourage division. I understand people’s concerns about immigration - there are positives and negatives to immigration - but I think it can so easily tip into encouraging some quite nasty sides to human nature when a political party starts using immigration as a political football and to stir up tensions in communities. For example: Reform might infer that you can’t get a dentist or doctors appointment “because of immigration” - when in actual fact the main reason for the nhs dentistry problems is more related to changes to nhs contracts with dentists than it is to do with immigration . So I don’t trust Reform as far as I could throw them - because not only do I think they cause division, I also think they have no real desire or intention to make this a fairer country, or to look after the vulnerable in society.