Perhaps financially stressed people are both financially stressed and susceptible to right wing nonsense because they are under-educated, and they are under-educated because they are financially stressed.
I say this as someone from a lower class family who dropped out of highschool and at my most financially desperate, voted for the most batshit rightwing asshole my country had to offer at the time. I have since gone to college, gained a stable financial position and highly skilled career, and now wants free university for all (even though I paid for mine), UBI (even though I don’t need it), abolition of landlords (even though I don’t rent anymore), and a prime minister as left as left goes.
People are highly situational. There is a reason billionaires want to make the situation worse.
If I read this correctly, for Labour to win, they need to lift half of the population to “very comfortable” living conditions.
Of course, I can’t read this correctly
I think a second graph with the totals by party would be helpful.
A really good demonstration of how as people get financially desperate the extremes eat into the center. Honestly I didn’t expect the trend to appear this cleanly.
The green party is the only one serious about lowering bills.
It would be interesting to see a revised version of that, especially in the light of Gorton and Denton.
