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 nazi 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
… 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.
UK history is dishonest and delusional. It does us no favours.
Agreed. Not sure anyone else’s is much better. Africa mainly because Europe destroyed it. But all nations tend to tell themselves a rosy picture of their past.
Africa unfortunatly dose not have the media industry to tell what truth they can find.
But if you know any. Id Love to read any good fiction based on their history especially west Africa. That is after all how the west built our own biased stories.
I learned history in Scotland. There was no sugar-coating the evils of the ‘English’ colonial machine.
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.
@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)
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
