The youth for today: how the 2017 election changed the political landscape -excellent read

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/09/corbyn-may-young-voters-labour-surge
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Jeremy Corbyn has defied the pundits and the pollsters to restore the Labour party as a serious electoral force and deliver a devastating blow to Theresa May’s political authority. But how?

This remarkable election saw a surge in both Conservative and Labour votes as the first-past-the-post system amplified the return of the two-party system after an absence of nearly 20 years.
Young people have spoken. And they said Jeremy Corbyn

More than anything else it was a night in which Britain’s younger generation flexed their political muscles to real effect for the first time.

Despite their calamitous campaign, the Conservatives increased their share of the vote to 42% – up five points since 2015 – which in any other election in the past three decades would have been enough to build a commanding majority.

But Labour outperformed even that achievement as a unique alliance of enthused younger voters and previous non-voters combined with older austerity-hit, anti-establishment Ukippers to deliver a 10-point rise in Labour’s vote compared with two years ago, to 40%. This is just below the 41% secured by Tony Blair in his 2001 landslide victory.

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1. Note teh biggest loser

UKIP - Don the Con's racist friends