Ah, the Tory economic wet-dream !
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UK Prime Minister May calls for snap election.
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She'd better not turn out to be Eastern European...
S&M isn't my thing. I'm more M&S.
I've been middle aged for 20 years. Maybe you need one of those holsters that hook over your chair arm. I was perusing one in a shop just the other day. Too many bloody remotes. I did try a 1-4-all remote but I found there were some operations/devices it just couldn't emulate.
From my experience with working with people with type 1 diabetics, perhaps hypo rather than hyper is more likely. Is hypo not more likely after a vigorous country walk? Anyway, apologies if this speculation causes offence but behaviour is affected by blood sugar levels even in non diabetics.
I have found and my wife has too, that at the lower end of the spectrum, I'm fine, it's just as my Glucose Levels go over 13 or 14 that it subtly changes.
And as for the hypo after a walk, it depends on how well May handles her Glucose Levels, if she is already higher than optimum, it can go even higher than rather going lower.
The original meaning of "mugwump" among Massachusetts Indians was "war leader". In American current usage, it means "a person who remains aloof or independent, especially from party politics".
It's all a lot of whiff-whaff.
Parliament sat for the last time yesterday.
Following the European Union referendum, there was a lot of newspaper noise about the old generation "betraying" their grandchildren, in reference to the disparity in voting between young and old voters.
This can also be seen in the 2015 general election.
The following data is from a House of Commons research paper, showing a population estimate for 2015, sorted by age range (numbers show millions of people).
That gives us 33.213 million aged 0-39 and 31.667 aged 40+. Obviously the younger group includes children who can't vote, so let's eliminate the 0-14 category and break down the 15-29 to eliminate minors. That brings the <40 electorate down to 18.458 million.
If turnout is consistent, the over 40 vote is roughly 70% larger than the youth vote. Of course we know from most analysis that the turnout among old people is significantly higher than that among the young.
Following the European Union referendum, there was a lot of newspaper noise about the old generation "betraying" their grandchildren, in reference to the disparity in voting between young and old voters.
This can also be seen in the 2015 general election.
The following data is from a House of Commons research paper, showing a population estimate for 2015, sorted by age range (numbers show millions of people).
- 0-14: 12.231
- 15-29: 12.619
- 30-44: 12.545
- 45-59: 13.018
- 60-74: 9.079
- 75+: 5.388
That gives us 33.213 million aged 0-39 and 31.667 aged 40+. Obviously the younger group includes children who can't vote, so let's eliminate the 0-14 category and break down the 15-29 to eliminate minors. That brings the <40 electorate down to 18.458 million.
If turnout is consistent, the over 40 vote is roughly 70% larger than the youth vote. Of course we know from most analysis that the turnout among old people is significantly higher than that among the young.
Turnout is higher for older people for several reasons - including people falling off the register when they move, something which happens a lot for young people (especially while at university).
If anyone is interested some voting stats for the 2015 GE
https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3575/How-Britain-voted-in-2015.aspx
As expected it shows a lower pecentage of young people voting than older people.
University students don't drop off the GE register if they are already on it when they move. They remain registered at their home address so they have several options open to them
1.>Be at home for a GE
2.>Request a mail vote
3.>Vote by Proxy
4.>Register for a GE at their student address.
As soon as I was able to vote I did so and have voted at every opportuunity I could except once. If you don't vote don't complain about the result.
https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3575/How-Britain-voted-in-2015.aspx
As expected it shows a lower pecentage of young people voting than older people.
University students don't drop off the GE register if they are already on it when they move. They remain registered at their home address so they have several options open to them
1.>Be at home for a GE
2.>Request a mail vote
3.>Vote by Proxy
4.>Register for a GE at their student address.
As soon as I was able to vote I did so and have voted at every opportuunity I could except once. If you don't vote don't complain about the result.
Unfortunately the figures I used have different age ranges so I can't do the calculation, but at first glance it looks as if those turnout figures could push the ratio from 1.7 well past 2.
Okay so using MacLeod's link and the 2011 census (again with some crude re-bordering):
- 18-24: 5,895,800*0.43 = 2,535,194 votes
- 25-34: 8,433,000*0.54 = 4,553,820 votes
- 35-39: 4,194,000*0.64 = 2,684,160 votes
- 40-44: 4,626,000*0.64 = 2,960,640 votes
- 45-54: 8,738,000*0.72 = 6,291,360 votes
- 55-64: 7,421,000*0.77 = 5,714,170 votes
- >=65:10,376,000*0.78 = 8,093,280 votes
- 18-39: 9,773,174 votes
- 40ys+: 23,059,450 votes
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They do, but by then they're not bright young things anymore.
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