Thursday, 12 February 2026

I'm With The Kids

The ITV Peston Show runs a Youth Tracker which polls 18-25 year olds and the latest poll has some interesting results with 86% saying they would rejoin the EU.
The 2016 means that all of those polled would not have been old enough to vote at the time but they are ones who face the future outside of the European Union, and they can obviously see what a car crash it has been thanks to the 52% who either listen to the warnings or just didn't care and will continue to be until someone has the nuts to hold another referendum.
This generation never asked for Brexit, yet it affects them the most so there is hope that at some point, and hopefully not i the far flung future, we can reverse the calamity of Brexit although there are some deluded souls who are still pretending that the future will be brighter outside of the EU who obviously haven't been paying attention.   
The Poll also found that they think Jeremy Corbyn would be a better Labour leader than Keir Starmer and i would heartily agree if that ship hadn't already sailed and Corbyn was now in a separate left wing Party.
More good news is that almost 60% say they would never vote Conservative and the big winner with that age group is Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party.
I think the Kids are alright, we just need them to progress into politics and we can put the downright awful years of the Conservatives and Keir Starmer behind us.