Anger grows at The Boomers EU vandalism

ukcarper

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Perhaps those young people are the ones not feeling the benefit of EU membership. Hence the complete disinterest in voting. As makes no difference to them either way.

Could well be true but if that is the case only only 27% of younger people wanted to remain in EU.

PasturesNew

Many are confusing being in the EU ... and being able to go on holidays in Europe.

chewmylegoff

ukcarper wrote: »

Could well be true but if that is the case only only 27% of younger people wanted to remain in EU.

By that logic only 37% of the electorate as a whole actually want to leave the EU.

ukcarper

chewmylegoff wrote: »

By that logic only 37% of the electorate as a whole actually want to leave the EU.

Or 35% wanted to remain.

TrickyTree83

I struggle to see how anyone on here who supported Remain can defend the young feeling they've been robbed when only 36% of them turned out to vote. It's a disgusting statistic on its own and shows that 64% have a disconnect with real life matters and are more interested in Snapchat, Twitter, Love Island, Take Me Out, etc...etc...

wotsthat

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

I struggle to see how anyone on here who supported Remain can defend the young feeling they've been robbed when only 36% of them turned out to vote. It's a disgusting statistic on its own and shows that 64% have a disconnect with real life matters and are more interested in Snapchat, Twitter, Love Island, Take Me Out, etc...etc...

You're using this as evidence to beat today's youth when low youth turnout pre-dates Twitter.

TrickyTree83

wotsthat wrote: »

You're using this as evidence to beat today's youth when low youth turnout pre-dates Twitter.

The advent of social media means they were extremely unlikely to not be aware that a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU was taking place.

They would have been bombarded by TV, print and social media about it. And they still failed to turn out.

No excuses I'm afraid.

mwpt

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

How is it?

If only 10 18-24 year olds bothered to vote but all of them voted Remain it'd be a 100% vote for remain, but the percentage figure is abstract, it needs context to be of any use and in this circumstance the context is that only 36% of all 18-24 year olds bothered to vote. So instead of saying 75% voted to Remain, people should be saying 75% of the 36% that voted.

Not even half!!!

Come on, if they want to pretend like they're bothered now they should have been bothered in the first place. Perhaps this will have taught them a valuable lesson.

Your statement is dumb. Are you addressing it to the young people who did vote or to those that didn't vote? Because it sounds like you are being an elder generation jerk and lumping them all in one.

So, everyone knows that more young people don't turn out to vote. But that is irrelevant because the samples show that those that were asked, preferred to remain. There is no other way to say this, young people wanted to remain in the EU.

Stating that they didn't turn out is irrelevant to the point that young people wanted to remain in the EU. I don't have to argue this any further, it is completely obvious.

If you want to have a discussion about why young people don't vote and what makes young people so much worse as human beings (*) go ahead, but you will never be able to win the argument against the fact that most young people wanted to remain in the EU.

(*) They seem to be open game for mocking on these forums, snide (and somewhat dull-witted) references to them as the twitter generation or whatever other names people love to invent. It is actually painful to watch a society try to cling on to the belief that their own generation were so much greater, had it so much harder, worked harder, etc.

Thrugelmir

mwpt wrote: »

So, everyone knows that more young people don't turn out to vote. But that is irrelevant because the samples show that those that were asked, preferred to remain. There is no other way to say this, young people wanted to remain in the EU.

Time to move on. We will never know.

mwpt

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

I struggle to see how anyone on here who supported Remain can defend the young feeling they've been robbed when only 36% of them turned out to vote. It's a disgusting statistic on its own and shows that 64% have a disconnect with real life matters and are more interested in Snapchat, Twitter, Love Island, Take Me Out, etc...etc...

I blame the parents.