Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "UK election 2017: Will young people swing it?" video.

  1. The hard left are simply reheating socialist bullshit to a gullible demographic. Like they always do.
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  2. Perhaps younger people are out of touch with the older generation?
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  3. It's really a trade off. Which do you think is more important? Free movement within the EU? Or the ability to hold those who govern you to account? I know which one I would opt for. Besides, there are many Brits who live and work outside the EU, and have always done so. So it seems pretty petty to give away control of your own destiny, simply because you personally want to live within Europe.
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  4. Record numbers of school leavers are going into higher education. Including more people from poorer backgrounds than ever before. So higher education is very much within their reach. In fact, students don't start paying back their university fees until they start earning over £21,000 a year. Pretty fair that those who benefit financially should be the ones to pay, don't you think? Or do you believe those who don't go into higher education should have to pay? So it would seem to me, that very much like the free school meals for everyone issue, people who are perfectly able to pay are attempting to use poorer people as an excuse to get free stuff. But free stuff has to be paid for by someone.
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  5. Nobody has to start paying back their university fees until they start earning around £21,000 a year. Which is fair. After all, someone has to pay. So it might as well be the person who benefits financially from their higher education.
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  6. Cheap of Channel 4 news to set the generations against one another in a them and us debate. I think a lot of young people who voted remain got very upset without quite knowing why. Anyhow, the present election will be between those who seem to lack conscientiousness and want everything without paying. And those who actually realise that governing a country of 60 million people requires the need to make necessary but unpopular decisions. If you're used to demanding stuff for free as a human right, it tends to breed a culture of dependence and irresponsibility. And young people don't have the responsibility that older people do. They don't have families or older parents to look after. So nothing comes at a cost. The whole 'free school meals for everyone' is a good example. A better example of political bribery would be hard to find. You now have middle class parents who are perfectly able to pay using the excuse 'what about the poor?' to get a freebee. Pure self interest hidden behind a veneer of sanctimonious concern, considering those who can't pay already get free school meals. Socially I'm a liberal. Economically I'm conservative. Because the system only works if only the people in need take out. And mathematics doesn't much care how hard you wring your hands over nurses using food banks. If the numbers don't add up, we're all screwed. And I sure as hell am not about to fuck up the country for a generation by voting for a failed old Trot who has never run anything in his entire worthless 'career'.
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  7. They do that too.
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