Britain is Changing with Freedom at Risk

[CJ_London]

British Forces Cyprus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cotswold]

Two civilians for every member of the armed forces. On top of the civil servants sat at home back in the UK!
Are they all really necessary?

 

[Isaac]

That is labour’s pledge - whether they will carry it out is not yet known. They have also pledged to reduce voting age to 16.

All this will benefit labour of course

And there isn't any Constitution-like document that prohibits voting by non-citizens??

 

[Isaac]

Recall Churchill's admonition. This is from DuckAssist.

Which is why Democrats in the US also want to reduce the voting age. Unfortunately, conservatives always fall for those supposedly compassionate assertions. Based on Churchill and life's teachings, the voting age should be raised to at least 25.

The voting age should be raised and ID should be required. Voting is a very serious, serious thing that directs the trajectory of the entire nation and all of our and our children's futures. It should be treated as a serious act that it is. Not difficult, but semi-formal at least in the sense of requiring identification and being of a mature age

 

[Steve R.]

The downward cycle continues to escalate.

Top UK Universities to Expand Open-Book Exams to Help Grades of Minorities

Leading UK universities are preparing to lower test standards in a bid to help improve the grades of ethnic minorities and poorer students.

www.breitbart.com

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Open-book exams don't help if the students haven't read the book well enough to know where to find specific answers.

 

[Pat Hartman]

The voting age in the US was lowered from 21 which is more rational to 18 due to the Viet Nam war. The idea being, if you had to carry a gun and die for your country during the draft, you ought to have a say in whether or not the country actually went to war. I can't say I disagree with the point but the voting age change was a whiplash reaction to the draft.

 

[Steve R.]

The voting age in the US was lowered from 21 which is more rational to 18 due to the Viet Nam war. The idea being, if you had to carry a gun and die for your country during the draft, you ought to have a say in whether or not the country actually went to war. I can't say I disagree with the point but the voting age change was a whiplash reaction to the draft.

Good intentions can sometimes lead to unanticipated disastrous consequences. Reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 sounded very virtuous and had much popular appeal at the time. Today, the unanticipated disastrous consequences is that the radical left obtained a significant number of "new" voters which allowed them to obtain political clout. One direct consequence was the recent "election" of the corrupt radical left Biden administration. One can say, that that election fulfilled Churchill's prescient admonition: "If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain."

2024 Post-Election Survey: Gender and Age Analysis of 2024 Election Results

Exit poll analyzing how gender and age groups voted in the 2024 election, including top issues and comparisons to the 2020 election.

navigatorresearch.org

Americans under the age of 30 voted for Harris by 4 points (50 percent Harris – 46 percent Trump), though young men and women diverged dramatically, with men under 30 voting for Trump by 16 points (41 percent Harris – 57 percent Trump), and women under 30 voting for Harris by 24 points (59 percent Harris – 35 percent Trump).

According the the AI Grok:

In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Kamala Harris received 48.3% of the total votes cast, but specific percentages by age group, particularly for those over 30, are not directly detailed in the available data. However, we can infer from the information provided:

• Harris won among young voters (18-29) by 52% to 46%, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University.
• For voters aged 30-44, Harris's support was less pronounced, with 52% support for Biden in 2020, suggesting a similar or slightly lower margin for Harris in 2024, considering the overall trend of her performance compared to Biden in 2020.
• For those over 44, the trend typically leans more conservative, with Trump winning the majority of voters aged 65 and over in 2020 (62%). Given Trump's slight increase in votes in 2024 compared to 2020, it's likely that Harris did not fare as well among this demographic.

Given this information, we can estimate that Harris's support among voters over 30 was likely under 50%, considering her performance among younger voters was higher than among older demographics. However, exact figures specifically for those over 30 are not explicitly stated in the sources. Thus, a precise percentage cannot be given without further detailed data.

Conservatives from the realpolitik point of view, in-order to win, must set aside high sounding virtuous appeals that favor the left and revise election laws to favor conservative values. This means raising the voting age, as one example.