Post by @LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y/117178068155814756

Social media use among the elderly is catastrophic. They VOTE, unlike many young people. And the platforms/outlets mentioned here fill their minds with superficial slogans.

Steve Woods

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk 59 min. ago

"Thanks to their media diet – whether that’s GB News, the Daily Mail, Facebook or X – Reform’s voters have become convinced that their opinions are far more widely held than they actually are. For all the endless worry about young people’s use of social media, or liberal filter bubbles, it is Reform’s older, conservative voters who are the most out of touch with the UK as it actually is."

#ReformUK #UK_politics

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-from-lanyardians-to-yookay-the-strange-new-language-of-britains-right/

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Steve Woods

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk 49 min. ago

@LaChasseuse A septuagenarian writes: my use is definitely catastrophic; it's a complete waste of my time. :)

Lilly Hunter

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot 42 min. ago

@wood5y When out canvassing with a friend at the last election, we encountered an older lady out walking her dog. She immediately started talking about Farage ("He's our saviour!") because he would kick out all the "foreigners". (This is in a small northern Scottish town with close to zero migrants and a housing surplus) What foreigners? we asked her. Do you mean the radiologist at the hospital? The new dentist? The optician?
She looked confused. These were just slogans to her, not real people.

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