I volunteer in community initiatives and I meet a lot of young people. This is something they resent a lot about older people who voted for brexit. Quoting from Akauya's post.
I work in one of those serviced office places. The majority of young ones here voted to leave.
On the day of reckoning one asked me "did I do the right thing?" FFS!!!!!
“Blame the other man” seems to have become the UK’s standard setting.
It’s possible that the other outcome would have come about if a greater percentage of young people had actually voted.
And am I the only person who suspects that UK would be in roughly same economic position we are now if we’d stayed in?
Our high level performance isn’t that different to France, Germany,Italy, etc… So to believe some of the more extravagant claims about what what would happened IF we’d stayed in, then one needs to believe that for some reason we’d have substantially outperformed our EU partners.
Covid…and even more importantly a loss of the appetite for hard work…has had far more impact. (NB…my own appetite for hard work disappeared decades ago.)