A Very Gloomy Predication, I Hope He Is Wrong

[emmie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-42574540/viewsnight-the-brexit-generation-is-dying-out

[New Judge]

“…or we might all be living on Mars so it won't matter anyway.”

Yes it will. If the EU still exists Mars will be a member of the EU. It will be a prerequisite if any Europeans are to be allowed to travel there.

“Let's meet up here again in 25 years time, to compare notes…”

I can’t. I’m washing me ‘air that night.

[hereIam]

I think more older people voted out, but I don't know for sure obviously. I just feel it's dragging on far too long and I did not expect that.

[emmie]

hereiam
i did and its going to be a long haul after 2019, as many of these trade talks, deals won't be done and dusted.

[Guilbert53]

The EU wont exist in 25 years time.

Without the money from the UK the countries that benefit from being in the EU (those that currently take out far more then they pay in) will not get as much money and wonder if all the hassle is worth it (plus seeing all their best people go to other EU countries for work).

And without the UK money the German people will soon get fed up with having to bail out Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland etc every few years on their own.

Plus if the Romanian criminals (and other EU criminals) cant come here they will start to go to other EU countries, and those countries will soon get fed up with that.

Plus people will start to look at how much these MEPs get as a pension (Farage will get about £73,000 a year pension) which WE, the EU members, are paying for, and realise the whole thing is a massive gravy train for European bureaucrats (many who are unelected).

The EU is going to implode soon, we are just the first to leave.

[mikey4444]

From the figures that I have seen, Aaronovitch seem to be right.....more of the older Ref, voters, voted to leave, and more of the younger ones voted to stay.

Both groups will continue to get older of course, but the older ones are statistically more likely to die first, rather than the younger......that is just plain common sense.

But at no time did he say that all younger people voted to stay and all older people voted to leave.

[pixie374]

Nobody knows the age groups- they weren't on the voting forms.

[mikey4444]

Pixie...yes that is strictly true. But the demographics seem to show that it is indeed true that Leave votes were strongly correlated with lower education and higher age. :::::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum,_2016#Voting_demographics_and_trends

[pixie374]

From a census 7 years ago... I've never been asked. I don't know anyone who has and the polls weren't accurate before it either. I'm not convinced. The only person I know who voted remain is 62 ( which proves nothing either!)

[mikey4444]

That is how Polling works Pixie.......choose to believe it or not.

[pixie374]

I believe that's how it works- just not the accuracy. They say they are guessing from 7 year old information.

[mikey4444]

Pixie....most local populations in any given area don't change very much for time to time, demographically-speaking. In other words, the ages, sexes and numbers living in any given Ward will be approximately the same, with little change.

So, the 7 years since the latest Census in 2011 will still be accurate enough for the purposes of correlating results from election to election.

Swansea is a College town, with 3 colleges operating here. So certain Wards will have more younger people present than others.

Conversely, there are areas where older people are more likely to live.

The science involved is not meant to be 100% accurate, but a margin of error is allowed for.

[emmie]

Mikey are you saying below that if you voted leave
you are more likely to be uneducated and old. I voted to leave and like to think i have some brains left and certainly not old, at least i'm younger than you.

"Pixie...yes that is strictly true. But the demographics seem to show that it is indeed true that Leave votes were strongly correlated with lower education and higher age. "

[Peter Pedant]

I am in one of the families that block voted
We asked the young ones what they wanted as they were going to have to lie in the bed ( we ) made - and voted as they directed

I am surprised more didnt do this

[mikey4444]

Emmie...the stats seem to say that if you were older and uneducated, than you were more likely to have voted to leave.

But that doesn't go on to say that every person who was older and uneducated voted to leave.

[-Talbot-]

But that doesn't go on to say that every person who was older and uneducated voted to leave.


Older than what?

[pixie374]

Older than the ones who were younger and didn't.

[Peter Pedant]

// Older than what? //

old enough to know better - ter daah !

[ichkeria]

The oldest person I know - working class veteran of WWII - is a staunch Remainer

[tonyav]

Brexit: Macron warns Europe could split after Britain leaves EU and calls for unity

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/brexit-macron-warns-europe-could-split-after-britain-leaves-eu-and-calls-for-unity/ar-BBHSUl5?li=BBoPWjQ

[ToraToraTora]

it's been suggested that todays saucepans will not outlive their parents. Stand on me I see how weak these nippers are, most of them have hissy fit when they can't find their I phone charger. Still nice tack from the SGB.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28191865