Why are the young people supporting the Lib Dems?

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As the title says, a lot of young people are now supporting the Lib Dems. Someone in one of my classes told me that they want to legalise weed, so that could be a reason, but are there anymore (in your opinions)?

republicants seem too much like the old breed. they arent in touch with what people today need or want

I'm not a British subject, but it's probably because they're a relatively "fresh" party in the sense that they've been the third party for years and years, so the Liberal Democrats can take bold policy positions that are refreshing, and change often resonates strongest with the young (see also Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008).

Why are the old people supporting the con reps?

Because young people tend to be more liberal and more also more willing to go against the "established" party organizations, ignoring the tradition of voting for one of two parties.

Because the British youth, like youth across the globe, tend to be more secular and socially liberal than their parents. The Liberal Democrats are the most secular party in Britian (their leader is an atheist), the most socially liberal (they plan on going beyond Labour when it comes to combating homophobia in schools and are the least xenophobic and most Europeanist of the parties), and have a leader who relates to the youth.

Nick Clegg came to my university and based his talk on young people, enforcing that he will scrap tuition fees. That is a big YES for students like me, though it may not benefit me personally. I personally dislike all parties because they say things to brainwash us that they haven't thought through and can't carry out, but to me Nick Clegg seems the most sensible and less interested in telling everyone how rubbish his opposition is than Cameron and Brown. Cameron especially. All his talks seem to be 'don't vote Labour or Lib Dem' 'if you vote for them _______ will happen which is BAD'

hmm my reasons are; they want to lower the voting age to 16, the scrap of tutition fees, strangly the mansion tax aslo (acording to their maifiesto) they have the best education policy and reconise that throwing mony doesnt solve much unless it is directed... and ofcourse the added benifit of not being labour or conservitive oh and im pro europe and imegration..
also left wing.

Because young people often lack the cynical edge needed to cut through to what a party is actually about? Also, with our education system in tatters, many young people have no historical perspective. Thus they cannot see through layers of spin. By way of example, the much touted "we haven't been in power in 65 years and look at the mess THEY made of it" line...Accurately, there hasn't been a liberal government since 1915. 65 years ago they were one third of a wartime coalition under Churchill, and for true accuracy the "Liberal Democrats" have only existed since 1988.

It may not be much, but its a detail people seem to be unaware of. A little twist on the actual situation.

The Liberal Democrats were founded in 1988. The beginning was in 1981 when a bunch of senior Labour Party members left the party and founded the Social Democratic Party. Soon they created an alliance with the Liberal Party that took the lead in the polls in 1982. This alliance ran also in 1987 and the parties merged in 1988. One of the founders of the Social Democrats was the cabinet minister who legalised homosexuality in the mid-1960s. So there's a link with the liberalisations of the "swinging 60s" and the Liberal Democrats of today.