Operation Fightback - Millennials vs Baby Boomers after Brexit

I'm sure most people have seen this graph (or one similar) being bandied about this morning. It shows that 18-29 year-olds voted Remain by a 45+ point margin whilst baby boomers voted Leave by a 25+ point margin.


What can the 75% of young people who voted Remain do now? How can young people stand up and reject a referendum result ushered in by people who won't live long enough to see the true long-term repercussions of our exit?

We have to protect our country from a group of people who thrived under social democracy and the welfare state and are now intent on dismantling it.

I wrote a very short blog post this morning called Millennials aren’t going to take it any more. The fight begins this morning.

What do you think?

75% of young people might have voted to remain, but 25% of young people chose to leave. In a democracy, everyone's vote is equal and therefore you can't differentiate between the demographics just because the referendum result was different to your political bias. There is also argument to suggest that young people don't have enough life experience and have been trapped in an idealistic bubble wherein they don't comprehend the true consequences of Britain being a member of the EU because the see the world as some rosy utopia.

52% of people voted Leave so we are leaving.

75% of young people voted Remain but apparently that's not a characterisation of that demographic.

(In 2015 43% of people voted Labour, 27% Conservative, 5% Lib Dem, 8% Green and 8% UKIP. That's a pretty mixed bag but it shows young people lean further to the left than older people. A 75/25 split is pretty decisive). source

In the Scottish referendum 65% of 16-29 year olds would have voted to leave the UK as oppose to 32% of over 55s. Does that mean we should have a second Scottish referendum?

Who's saying we should have a second EU referendum? Not me.

But the young people in Scotland voted "decisively" to leave the UK, however they were kept in the UK by the elders who voted overwhelmingly to stay in the union. By your logic, the Scottish referendum was against the will of young people and therefore unfair because they'll have to live with the "consequences" for longer.

You have to respect the outcome of a referendum but you don't then give up and go home if you lose.

You fight for what you believe is best for you, your country and other people. That's what politics is.

What do you want me to say? "A whopping great majority of people (er 2% majority) voted Leave therefore I accept the outcome and look forward to working together with Britain's older voters destroy everything I believe in".

I'm sure most people have seen this graph (or one similar) being bandied about this morning. It shows that 18-29 year-olds voted Remain by a 45+ point margin whilst baby boomers voted Leave by a 25+ point margin.


What can the 75% of young people who voted Remain do now? How can young people stand up and reject a referendum result ushered in by people who won't live long enough to see the true long-term repercussions of our exit?

We have to protect our country from a group of people who thrived under social democracy and the welfare state and are now intent on dismantling it.

I wrote a very short blog post this morning called Millennials aren’t going to take it any more. The fight begins this morning.

What do you think?

Unfortunately these same young people will have to deal with what the older generation wanted.

Why do young people think there is a conspiracy against them, as if the elderly simply thought "what will screw over our grandchildren the most?"

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As someone who is apart of that sector, the young people group I genuinely do not. I do not believe that the older generation is trying to conspire against us because I understand that people had good intentions in wanting us to leave but unfortunately thought about themselves more than what's good for everybody. I don't blame people, I get that people put themselves as first priority. I do however find it unfair that the majority of the younger sector who voted to remain, if any thing goes wrong would sadly be the ones to suffer the most though the voted otherwise. It's us who are just starting our careers, entering university and wanting to find ourselves as people. The older generation generally speaking have already established themselves, either retired or in a secure career that allows them to vote leaving. When the older generation who mainly voted for us to leave, pass away, it will be us still here dealing with the decision. It's our future at stake here. I'm about turning 19 and I'm petrified.

Young people certainly aren't doing themselves any favours with this sore loser bs. We're already thought of as whiny self-entitled dickheads who throw a tantrum anytime we don't get our way, and now just to reinforce that idea everyone is going on social media ranting about old people or crying over the realisation that their social circle of like minded pinko leftist revolutionaries isn't actually representative of the national population.
The referendum is over, the result is in. Take it on the chin, dry your eyes and move on. The last thing someone who's worked their entire lives wants to hear is condescending waffle from some scruffy wet-behind-the-ears student about how right they think they are.

Pretty sure that's what the Leave campaign was all about.

I'm sure most people have seen this graph (or one similar) being bandied about this morning. It shows that 18-29 year-olds voted Remain by a 45+ point margin whilst baby boomers voted Leave by a 25+ point margin.


What can the 75% of young people who voted Remain do now? How can young people stand up and reject a referendum result ushered in by people who won't live long enough to see the true long-term repercussions of our exit?

We have to protect our country from a group of people who thrived under social democracy and the welfare state and are now intent on dismantling it.

I wrote a very short blog post this morning called Millennials aren’t going to take it any more. The fight begins this morning.

What do you think?

Do you know what the likely outcome will be? Somebody who went into a coma last year and comes out of it in 5 years will notice no real difference in the Britain they left and the Britain they wake up in

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But we don't know that. Already, there's been drastic negative effects. If it wasn't for these negative effects that already happened not even up to a day after the results but hours after, no one would complain as much.
At this point, I'm now just hoping for the best. I'm done crying over spilled milk. If it goes well, that's great as it is all to our advantage as a country then if it does not go well, I guess we'll just have to pick up the pieces and learn from our past mistakes. Hopefully the pound will gain its worth again, that Cameron will change his mind on leaving or at least we'd be able to find a good prime minister in replacement and most importantly that Scotland will see some benefits in staying with us. This is me being optimistic. The truth though is that optimism is at times very far from the reality. Fingers crossed we'll be ok.
Tuition fees have raised to 9,000 from 3,000 over the years...the last thing young people need who fall into at least £27,000 in debt is a recession. And the government even had the audacity to state it may increase over the years. In Germany, if I remember clearly it is free of charge to study at university. Now we've left, who knows how hard it would be for British students to receive a free education by studying and partly staying in Germany.