[enitihas]

But aren't their elder people highly likely to be conservative voters, and also voting in large percentages. If those people do not vote in the next elections, won't the tories lose by a large margin?

Source: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/1... (And anything else I could find by googling gives similar stats)

The government may not be moral, but I don't know if any government makes plans for losing election in a landslide. Is there something I am missing here?

[tigershark]

The next national election is in 5 years time...

[leonixyz]

Electors have extremely short-time memory and are in most part deeply ignorant. Moreover, at the time the next UK elections will come, there will be enough "fresh" new elder people to fool. BTW they can still blame China, Italy, for the disease. At that time, people will believe them. Look at what Trump did with the US. If the mayority in 320 million believed Trump then there is no way the mayority in 66 million could not believe Johnson.

[walshemj]

And overwhelmingly voted for Brexit

[Jestar342]

The conservatives have just come out of the largest win in modern UK parliament history. They also posses an uncanny ability to be able to not see beyond the next year. They won't be concerned with the next election yet.

[luckylion]

A conservative would probably answer that any conservative is happy to give his life for god, queen and country. And the Tories might say that winning an election is less important than the future of Britain.

I certainly hope "how can we avoid our voters dying and kill of those of the other party" isn't a factor in the decisions.