Labour is advancing in the polls beyond anything seen for years because at last it is attracting back its core working class vote. But it is also attracting huge numbers of young people, many of whom are well educated and successful movers and shakers, who live in the hear and now, see what is wrong with our country and have no time whatever for wild Tory finger pointing at attitudes and people from thirty years ago. I also have evidence that a surprising number are from the privileged few. In other words a coming together of classes and social cultures in a common mission for all.
Opinion polls all show the gap between the Tories and Labour narrowing, but some still show a healthy lead for May, while the latest shows the gap all but closed. There is a reason for this. Some polls are using a model weighted to reflect the demographic turnout in 2015, when very large numbers of young voters did not bother to vote. Where the gap has closed the model reflects the belief that a much higher percentage of young people in the age group 18-35 will vote, denying May the power to speak for Britain and setting our country on a new and better path. So if you too want to live in a country of hope, progress and fair shares and liberate us all from the sterile mantra of endless austerity, make sure you get out and cast your vote on Thursday.
I was born when Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister, so I cannot claim to be young. But it is your future I want to assure and so I will be voting with you. I have lived under fifteen prime ministers, but this current one is by far the worst.
Let’s do it.