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Emelle Sat 25-Jun-16 12:11:10

I can honestly say that in making vote my only consideration was for the future of my children and grandchildren which meant I voted against my own concerns. Anybody else insulted by the blame our generation are getting for the result of the vote?

whitewave Sat 25-Jun-16 12:12:38

Nope!

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 25-Jun-16 12:26:19

No.

Charleygirl Sat 25-Jun-16 12:28:16

No, not yet

whitewave Sat 25-Jun-16 12:34:03

Living in the past no thought about the younger generation.

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 25-Jun-16 12:36:20

No. And I can't count how many times I have raised the two fingers sign to old codgers on tv saying they voted to leave.

Emelle Sat 25-Jun-16 12:39:02

I voted with the young ones. Guess I didn't make that clear.

Jane10 Sat 25-Jun-16 12:40:23

Me too. I know who I'm blaming though!

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 25-Jun-16 12:42:31

Oh bight. Apologies. I thought you were one of the "old codgers".

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 25-Jun-16 12:42:55

right not bight

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 25-Jun-16 12:44:05

Yes. They are going by the percentages. Not all of us voted Leave by a long way.

FarNorth Sat 25-Jun-16 12:44:13

I haven't been following the fallout.
Are the oldies supposed to have voted Out?

I think a referendum for any sort of change should require a vote of at least 60% in favour of the change.

Emelle Sat 25-Jun-16 12:45:53

I agree it should have to be a much clearer majority.

Badenkate Sat 25-Jun-16 12:47:27

No, guess you know how I voted and so did a surprising number of people I know of my age. But unfortunately around here is a proliferation of retirement homes and care homes and from various conversations I can make a good guess how many of them voted Leave.

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 25-Jun-16 12:48:34

scroll down for age percentage chart

granjura Sat 25-Jun-16 12:48:48

No, we voted remain, and our young family members and friends have thanked us for doing so and thinking about the future, not the past. Feels good.

PRINTMISS Sat 25-Jun-16 13:00:44

We voted remain, the balance was really fine - would we really be better off out? the thoughts of being able to make our own laws, etc., appealed, but against that the ever possibility of a war, when perhaps we would stand alone again. Spoke to another of our generation who voted out, because he wanted to be independent, "we fought on our own before, we can do it again" Can we? We live with so much uncertainty, we can only hope that the decision to 'out' was the right one for generations to come.

crun Sat 25-Jun-16 14:21:04

With an age bias as marked as that it will only take another 10 years for the Brexit majority to disappear altogether.

whitewave Sat 25-Jun-16 14:24:29

Perhaps our generation should have committed mass suicide on June 22nd. Then the only panic would be getting rid of the bodies !

Elegran Sat 25-Jun-16 14:32:21

We'd have been vilified then for causing mass incomvenience to younger generations at such a fraught time.

Joelsnan Sat 25-Jun-16 14:34:43

Sadly many of the give it me now generation have also not grown out of the juvenile 'I hate my parents' phase...They too will grow old smile

JessM Sat 25-Jun-16 14:46:24

#BlameCameronNotYourGran - because he was completely responsible for this cock-up. And because blaming grandmothers is ageist and sexist. And because the turnout was not high amongst the young - so it's 75% of the ones who cared. Not 75% of those eligible to vote.
And because it's more about education not age - and the young have much more and better education on average than the over 60s did.

merlotgran Sat 25-Jun-16 14:53:55

Those of us who were young when we voted to remain in the Common Market in 1975 should be thanked for giving the country something to winge about vote on.

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 25-Jun-16 15:07:11

From the link jings posted, a picture paints a thousand words - click it see the details.

Alygran Sat 25-Jun-16 15:21:02

Statistics, damn statistics......How is this data compiled? Is it on a telephone or exit poll? Where and when was it done and what was the sample size?