Alistair Campbell
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Podcast Appearances
They're saying, wait a minute, actually, I don't think this is good.
So we've got Aisha, who's 17, who you'd expect to be pro TikTok, Instagram, social media generation.
But what she had to say, I thought, was on the money.
invalidation or validation you can you can find the invalidation very very quickly and and i i worry about those things and i think that's why we need to put more safeguards in place and i think the younger generation are really cottoning on to that i think the thing that's really come out through doing this right is gen z are talking to us and they're particularly the rest is politics gen z audience have really spoken to us they've said they're not happy they've said what they want and hearing you both talk today i think everybody gets it
But somehow we're missing how we actually say to them, we've got you.
It's going to be okay.
We see you.
We're listening.
It's going to get sorted out.
And in the meanwhile, the vacuum is being filled by⦠Popular charlatans.
Populist politicians on the left and the right.
And that is going to change our politics.
We've heard about young men going towards reform.
Some of that data was maybe a bit exaggerated, but there was definitely a swing.
We've heard more and more we're hearing about young women going to the Greens.
And it is going to change in the same way that all the issues we've discussed have already changed our society.
Fallen birth rates, more people living at home, huge amounts of student debt that most of them are never going to pay off.
It is now fundamentally changing our politics.
We don't have two-party politics anymore.
We are looking at a generation that are coming of age with the economic settlement that this country has after 2008 and everything that that meant for our economy and after Brexit.