The Brexit.
Well it has been a weekend since the country voted in favour of leaving the EU, but I think if you did that vote today the country would vote to remain, not because leave was based on lies it wasn’t it was based on spin like most politics are, the £350million NHS lie is not more a lie than David Cameron saying his EU deal is set in stone. Yes David might have secured a agreement but it still needed every EU country to vote to approve it, DC had them votes in principle and but nothing was legally binding and when has principles meant anything in politics, I think had DC secured them votes before the Brexit then we would have voted remain, but we voted on a maybe, as for the £350Million if you believed that then you haven’t really been following the campaign that well.
The hypocritical youth
The protests of young voters recently really have made me smile, yes the younger generation heavily voted to remain but let’s have a real look at how the voting actually happened.
74% under 24 voted to remain but actually only 36% of them bothered to turn out to vote.
56 % of those 25-49 voted remain but again only 58% of those age 24-34 year olds decided to vote. Now we look at the turn out for older generations who voted to leave then you will see all the turn outs are well over 70%. So I find it highly hypocritical of the youth protesting outside number 10, when 64% of your fellow age range didn’t bother to get of their bums and vote. So as many comedians have been saying it’s not that the elderly hate the youth of today, it’s actually that they bothered to get up and vote.
It’s also clear to see that those less well-off voted to leave and those better off voted to remain, for me and having spoken to a number of leave voters its clear this was a protest vote against a tory government and that actually many of them are not aware of what a leave vote actually means. Some even said they only voted leave as they never thought they would win. It’s also clear to see that immigration played a part in the remain vote an area of over 30% of foreign nationals living there all voted remain.
I think it’s clear to see that there are many different reasons for the outcome of the vote but Corbyn isn’t one of them and he has actually become a bit of a escape goat for the remain campaign, the man has always been a staunch anti EU and a quick simple google would show you this, so why labour as a party let him be the voice for them on this issue is a question for them, Corbyn was stuck he is a leader of a party that supports the EU but personally himself he doesn’t, so he never was going to passionately support it, if he said he was pro leave there would have been calls for him to resign, so he put a half-hearted attempt into a campaign he didn’t really support and his party knew this. Corbyn isn’t a leader I give you that but labour will never win an election without Corbyn being a front voice and the party taking on a number of what he believes in, he speaks on many issues to a younger generation of voter and also brings in new voters, me being one. I voted remain personally not due to the fact I am overly pro EU as I am not in the slightest but due to the fact it is better the devil you know.
Seeing these polls going around for another EU ref I find tired and boring, purely from the point of view that we say we believe in a democratic society, the people have spoken they voted leave and we need to accept that pick ourselves up and wait for article 50 to be initiated, and when it does we have to trust the people we have in charge.
I personally believe that by the time we leave the EU a number of other countries will be following us, and actually the UK has just got the ball rolling.
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