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bell-cot
Sigh. It almost makes one wish for the (rather mythical) Good Old Days - when King Charles could have ordered that the current wretched lot of politicians be drawn & quartered. With their replacements given front-row seats at the spectacle, "as a sign of the King's favor". And reminder that they'd best prove worthy of said royal favor.
sph
Or when people took to the streets when stuff got bad. I feel the modern citizen feels so powerless to change the status quo that the political circus is an accidental form of entertainment we use to escape from the reality of it.

Panem et circenses.

benj111
Plus the fact that the Tories have been busy criminalising protest.
benj111
Well I'd settle for the good old days when it wasn't just old people that voted, or the good old days when a party had the good grace to implode whilst out of power, or the good old days when Europe was the Tories whipping boy rather than its own party. Id even settle for the good old days when Johnson wasn't still seen as a viable candidate. Still!
tjpnz
I could see the young people of Scotland voting again given independence is back on the agenda. I wonder what it will feel like for the brexiteers to be on the other end of a simple majority.
sph
It's hard as a Millenial or Zoomer to believe your vote counts. I would say it is delusional. In my 35 years, living in two countries (Italy and UK) I have never experienced a government that wasn't deep dysfunctional and rotten to the core.

Not even one.

Older people keep saying my vote counts and this politician will fix all the issues, and I just want to laugh in their face. The younger people from the zoomer generation from what I understand have just given up. What even is the point?

benj111
I don't buy that argument. The Brexit vote was single issue, and young people still didn't go out to vote.

By not voting you just make the problems worse

SideburnsOfDoom
Paul Krugman called this "the moron risk premium"

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1573656086716071937

https://www.ft.com/content/08908266-cc47-4cda-b8d4-97a8ac433...

Proven
As in "risk premium as determined by a moron"?

The UK's situation is no different from continental redistributionist disasters - big government, too much spending.

The only reason why the US hasn't fallen to that level is that the dollar is a major reserve currency.

netsharc
BTW the FT link says it seems to have been coined by a Dario Perkins...