I remember staying up all night and seeing the GFA document being agreed in 1998.

 

First election I remember was 1992!

Quickly google it. Actual statistics, not "statistics" :( Sorry, brexiter.

 

Nope, that's not good enough. :(

 

If you claim statistics exist that support your position, then you should have no problems posting the source - OTOH, if you don't/can't then I call BS!

 

The first time I remember a General Election was 1997 when Tony Blair became Prime Minister - I remember vividly how my mother described what each of the GB-wide parties stood for to my 7-year old self: Lib Dems - funding hospitals. Labour - funding hospitals AND schools. Conservatives - Looking after the rich (so obviously I thought that Tony Blair was pretty nifty).

 

That's an AQ level of over-simplification :heehee: , but I suppose you were only 7 at the time.

 

As I mentioned in my OP, the '83 GE is the first I took interest in, and I have detailed constituency-level stats for that and every GE since. [if anyone is interested, I can post them to you]

I remember when I could first legally vote in the 2005 GE and I knew nothing about politics, but voted Labour simply because it was the opposite of what my Dad believed and with that I trusted it was the right thing to do. :lol: (and turns out it was!)

 

I think the 2010 GE certainly engaged me more, and I've gradually learned everything I know since then.

Deleted some posts. Can we keep the quality of argument above a 'no u' level and actually include either sources or relevant discussion points? Thanks.

First general election I recall was the 1987 one and the first one I voted in was in 1997. I would say I became interested in politics around 1993/94

Deleted some posts. Can we keep the quality of argument above a 'no u' level and actually include either sources or relevant discussion points? Thanks.

 

Have done another spring clean on this topic. Please don't be a boring bast*rd, people.

I've voted in every GE that I've been eligible for (since 2005) but I only started developing much more of an interest from my early 20s onwards. The main factor that has shaped my political views in recent years is one of my close friends, who lost his job in the early 2010s and spent a long time suffering the cuts (particularly to Mental Health trusts- he has Aspergers) under the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition to the point where he became very depressed and suicidal.. and combined with the feeling of betrayal after the Lib Dems reneged on their promise on Tuition Fees I moved to back Labour in 2015 and have done ever since. I'm hopeful that the next GE will be about bigger issues than Brexit such as Climate Change to shape a better future, and that we can heal the divisions that have been exploited and deepened by those with deeply political motives.

Probably took interest in the 2010 General Election.

 

Maybe other as my school was used as a 'Polling Station' and we got the day off back in primary school.