It seems crazy to me to have something so incredibly important to be decided by a 1% difference in voting. You'd think there would have to be a 60% majority or something.
I thought that too.
But then there was some idiot analyst on CBC last night telling me that the 1M difference in votes was an astronomical difference and meant that it was a landslide so now I'm not so sure.
But is the resistance to mass immigration to Europe simply about racism? Or are there concerns of overburdening social programs, health, welfare,etc.
Not simply, but it is there. And the other arguments are obviously intertwined. Wealthy and/or educated immigrants from rich countries are less likely to require such resources than refugees from Syria are.
So Nigel who campaigned for "Leave" said they would put all that EU money towards NHS now says that was a mistake and campaigned on closing immigration now says the UK will still need and allow immigration. What was the point of this leave vote aside for economically? Which we know is a short term disaster, uncertain long term.
The thing is that it's not like it was unanimous amongst the younger generation. It appears by those statistics that a majority of the younger generation wanted to stay but that doesn't make up a country and everyone's vote counts the same as any other regardless of age.
No but the impact of this will be paid on the economic backs of the youth over a longer term. Not saying the old vote counts for any less, but they were arguable the least informed about the long term implications, cared the least and are least impacted by the long term implications. Again an FU from baby boomers.
It's also a huge majority of young voted to stay... though not unanimous.
No but the impact of this will be paid on the economic backs of the youth over a longer term. Not saying the old vote counts for any less, but they were arguable the least informed about the long term implications, cared the least and are least impacted by the long term implications. Again an FU from baby boomers.
It's also a huge majority of young voted to stay... though not unanimous.
But given the trend of increasing Euroskepticism with age, it's likely many of the current young would end up being in favor of leaving as they get older anyways.
But given the trend of increasing Euroskepticism with age, it's likely many of the current young would end up being in favor of leaving as they get older anyways.
People just want to stick with what they know from when they grew up. As the youth of today grow old they will want what they had now but the youth will have some different ideas that the old people will not want.
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Basically the older people were sold entirely on lies, robbed of their savings/pensions and will continue blaming immigrants for their problems even though they brought this on themselves because of their vote. They screwed themselves the most too since they are the earliest to retire and their pensions will get impacted the most by the 100 billion pound crash.
Maybe they'll actually consider their problems are not caused all by immigration. Probably not and good luck retiring.
But given the trend of increasing Euroskepticism with age, it's likely many of the current young would end up being in favor of leaving as they get older anyways.
Or if you are a cynic, the older age tends to correlate well with racism.
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