I think it’s all about the tuition fees actually. I don’t even think it was minor. I was just too young to vote in 2010 but that was my generation first experience at politics and they were deceived.
Now I jogged my memory. Schemes like EMA ending under the coalition did hurt too.
That shit can and did scar young minds for life. They grew up with those scars.
What’s always mad about topic (probably not much anymore) is they also were criticised for abandoning the Lib Dems. They will always have my respect for that. This whole thing with politicians letting you down and you vote them again is weird as fuck.
No I got that, it was just when I saw what the source was, I had never really considered that the Sun would have a TikTok feed before, and then I realised what that must look like.
It literally isn’t a U-turn, fuck are the BBC on about?
The payments were universal, the Labour policy was to make it means tested. A u-turn would be for them to change their mind and no longer make it means tested. What they have indicated is that they will tinker with the thresholds. So it will still be means tested. It’s the same policy, but modified.
Brings me on to what I was just about to add, they havent actually announced what changes will be made, they’ve announced an intention to “look at it”.
As it stands, the BBC saying " But make no mistake, this is a U-turn.", is hyperbolic, premature and inaccurate.
Having a BBC board populated by Tory backers means they won’t call out Tories if they U-turn, but they’ll drag any other party through the mud. Why they keep chumming up to Farage though, that’s a bit baffling.
