I thought this was interesting, seeing the views of a young adult who supports Reform. The article is about him having a date with a Green-voting young woman.
What are your thoughts about the growth of Reform, especially among young adults?
Having said that though, it looks like Reform’s voting base still skews older. If you look at YouGov’s most recent data here (as of the time of me writing this) you can see the following:
- 15% of 18-24 year-olds support Reform
- 20% of 25-49 year-olds support Reform
- 26% of 50-64 year-olds support Reform
- 29% of 65+ year-olds support Reform
Voting record Reform in the last election.
Oh, a fascists supporter
Nathan The British empire was fantastic for us. I can see the good and the bad in it, but I’m not going to slap my own side, am I? We stopped a lot of low-level tribal conflicts that were going on in Africa.
… and an idiot
He’s a reform voter being uninformed, self assured, and completely unreasonable is presupposed.
If any of their voters actually bothered to look into the things they claim to care about they would realize that Reform offer zero solutions to any of them, either because the thing they care so much about turns out not really to matter, or because the issue is infinitely more complicated than Nigel Farage is prepared to admit.
… and an idiot
Well nearly 100 years of movies etc failing to show the truth about pre colonial Africa.
Its hardly a surprise he dose not even recognise we raised multiple African city States to the ground.
Add the likes of pit rivers influence on our early british museums etc. There is still a strong belief that the west found undeveloped savages rather then complex multicultural settlements throughout pre colonial Africa.
As a society we still do not make any effort to portray the truth about Africa pre colonisation. Hardly a surprise young brits grow up dumb to reality.
That said. Some how thinking Europe was a bastion of peace and goodwill to all nations in the 17 and 1800s. While the Africans were constantly at war.
Yeah thats real idiotic with no excuse.
The word you want is “razed” (instead of “raised”).
Sorry nope.
Only if you are American. And as I’m in the UK talking about our history. I’ll stick with UK English
US English also uses raze. Raise a barn to build it. Raze a barn to destroy it.
Nope. Raze is the correct spelling in British English
Raise to the ground is the spelling used with that term in UK english.
It isn’t, though. The word raze comes from the French, raser (shave) where the word raise comes from old Norse ræran (to rear). Both have been in use with separate meanings since middle English (1100s) and here is an example of the usage with Z from 1669:
Earths…which the…salt in the water razeth off from several rocks.
~W. Simpson, Hydrologia Chymica 361
@HumanPenguin @titaniumarmor I don’t think that’s a difference between UK and US English. I think you meant razed too (a fellow Brit).
Nope if you look up using rated is a modern term adapted from US English. It is common in younger Internet raised populations. But those of us in our 50s never use razed.
@HumanPenguin I did check before I commented and I’m the same generation as you. There is a difference between raise (to lift) and raze (to destroy)
