On the first part of today's 2Things. Students in Scotland do not pay. NatCen should have been doing there Social Attitudes survey in the 4 parts of the UK. The results would be radically different
I know that NatCen has a big sample and do research the whole of the UK. The example of tuition fees was just an example: generally public spending has been loaded against the young over the past decade and a half: you have the Triple Lock, but you close down the SureStart programme or other childcare support, for example. But I agree that there might be differences in these generational views in Scotland and Wales.
I just went back to look at the chapter, and it doesn’t seem to have considered whether this is different in Scotland, which for my money would have been a good way to test the hypothesis. Disappointingly, the discussion about left/right attitudes refers exclusively to Conservative and Labour voters, which suggests a focus on the (large) English samples. It’s also worth noting (Figure 7 in the generational divide chapter) that the cyclical effects on views on tax and spend are quite strong—about a decade for upswing and downswing—and that different generations do track each other. We’re definitely on an upswing at the moment.
On the first part of today's 2Things. Students in Scotland do not pay. NatCen should have been doing there Social Attitudes survey in the 4 parts of the UK. The results would be radically different
I know that NatCen has a big sample and do research the whole of the UK. The example of tuition fees was just an example: generally public spending has been loaded against the young over the past decade and a half: you have the Triple Lock, but you close down the SureStart programme or other childcare support, for example. But I agree that there might be differences in these generational views in Scotland and Wales.
I just went back to look at the chapter, and it doesn’t seem to have considered whether this is different in Scotland, which for my money would have been a good way to test the hypothesis. Disappointingly, the discussion about left/right attitudes refers exclusively to Conservative and Labour voters, which suggests a focus on the (large) English samples. It’s also worth noting (Figure 7 in the generational divide chapter) that the cyclical effects on views on tax and spend are quite strong—about a decade for upswing and downswing—and that different generations do track each other. We’re definitely on an upswing at the moment.