Jeremy Paxman says 'no votes for pensioners'

The British people were given a choice and the choice came down on the side of leaving the EU.It certainly wasn’t all or even most over 65’s that voted that way.
Blaming older voters is simply a divisive way to cause trouble, Paxman is jumping on a bandwagon of ‘celebrities’
Who are doing this.If the vote had gone the other way nobody would castigate younger voters.
At 65 there could well be another 30 years of life left to live, Love, and vote!
It is adding to the cult of the young, who must have everything go their own way.

If it’s in the DM, every word of it will be absolutely true and the reporting on it fair and balanced

I endorse everything lemongrove said above. If there are so many "betrayed" younger people out there, how come more of them didn't turn out and vote in June 2016?

Ah! So easy to point the finger at the young. That doesn’t remotely excuse what the Brexit vote will do to the future generations and this country as a whole

The economic argument is lost. Expect a lot more finger pointing in diversion of the truth.

I don't think there should be fingers pointed in any direction. Discrimination is never pleasant.

I don't endorse everything that lemon said because she's wrong. It was a majority of over 65s who voted to leave.

It sounds as if Jeremy Paxman is "losing it" as the current phrase goes. He's becoming more and more eccentric.

I have read the article and it doesn't seem to mention Brexit at all. It's about State pensions, house prices and the apparent ease that all present pensioners had in getting constant full time work all their lives.

At least he's saying for all pensioners, not just women.
Does he mean for all people over pensionable age, because I notice he is not collecting his state pension as he doesn't need it?
He's got 3 grown up kids. Is he saying that he just sat back and watched the value of his house go up whilst not helping his own kids on the housing ladder, because I certainly helped mine, and my house is worth less than theirs now. Perhaps I should ask for my money back.

Well I googled the story - the only links are the DM article ( written by their show business correspondant) and this thread. There is a link to similar things he said 18 months ago- bet this thread will soon be on FB

Paxo is a Tory and he's not the only Tory who's lost it.

Perhaps he's got to say things like that because his new wife is only 38. He's got to be on the side of the youngsters.

About time Jezza was put out to pasture. He's becoming an increasingly grumpy old bampot.
Are there public records which confirm that the majority of the over 65s voted to leave??

This is in a speech he made at an event held by Intelligence Squared, a debating society. I think it is easy for him to say he doesn't claim his pension and that pensioners shouldn't get the heating allowance etc. as he was earning £800,000 for presenting Newsnight and £240,000 for chairing University Challenge. If I had been earning that kind of money I wouldn't want my pension either.

A quick google search finds he has admitted he doesn't always vote and has employed domestic help paying them less than the minimum wage.

Jeremy Paxman doesn't live in the same world as us, for a supposedly intelligent man he makes some stupid comments.

Older voters who voted out did so for the love of their children and grandchildren. Completely fed up of being bled dry and told what to do by the Germans and French. If there had been a serious review and major changes made to the way the Union is managed, more people would have been willing to give it another chance.

Oh dear I suppose I'd better stop saying how much I fancy JP!

Teetime hope you are receiving help

It wasn't just older voters. I worked in Waitrose when the result of the referendum was announced. The majority of the staff were young people, and when the result was broadcast a huge cheer went up from the shop floor. Why doesn't Jeremy Paxman just get over it, and get on with it?

Paxman lives in a parallel universe to most in this country and has no idea how many live. Perhaps he should spend some time away from his rich and media chums and relocate to the Midlands or North East before he makes sweeping generalisations about over 65s. Many pensioners are comfortably off, but there is a sizeable proportion who ar poor and depend on their pension and winter fuel payments etc to live. I am one of the 36% of the over 65s who voted Remain, but can understand why 64% didn't. Has he forgotten his family history and great grandmother? Just because he doesn't always use his vote that is no reason the rest of us should become disenfranchised.

Bloody cheek. A good idea though would be to pension off at 65 MPs starting with Corbyn who's 68 I think.

I do think that there was some merit in the argument for restricting the vote in the EU referendum to those under the age of 65 as ultimately that vote was very much about the future of the younger people in the U.K. I’m not so sure that I agree with restrictions in general or local elections though, when the decisions that government takes are more about the more pressing immediate issues.

I understand though that most people would not accept such a proposal.

Breda - even someone over the age of 65 could live for another 30 years or more (my own mother is 92 and I had a great aunt who is 103 when she died), are you suggesting they should be disenfranchised for 30 or even 40 years? The effects of the EU referendum affect everyone not just the young.

Well said oldwoman70
PS I have always had a strange taste in men. Happy to put JP up here in the East Midlands if he needs to escape his London life!!!
PPS I voted leave and don't mind who knows it.