The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[TightEnd]

Presumably Boris got the memo from Ken: "must invoke Hitler"

Godwins law comes up again, quite amazing

[TightEnd]

yet this was in boris's 2014 churchill book

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in a poll yesterday boris is trusted in the EU debate by 32% more than cameron (53 to 21%)

really is a teflon politician

[DaveShoelace]

yet this was in boris's 2014 churchill book

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in a poll yesterday boris is trusted in the EU debate by 32% more than cameron (53 to 21%)

really is a teflon politician

I must admit I still like Boris, even though he has said and done some shitty things in quick succession during the out campaign.

[Doobs]

Presumably Boris got the memo from Ken: "must invoke Hitler"

Godwins law comes up again, quite amazing

..and a pair of bellends line up behind him

But Tory Leave campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg said Mr Johnson's comments were "absolutely true".
He said Hitler and Napoleon "wanted to create a single European power... by force. And the EU is trying to do it by stealth."

Former Conservative cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC Mr Johnson's article was "rather good" and used "some historical parallels" to explain the concept of "greater Europe".
"I think the whole process of trying to drive Europe together by force or by bureaucracy or whatever other means ultimately makes problems, and that's what he was saying."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36295208

[The Camel]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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[TightEnd]

here you go again :-)

the young could always turn out and vote......

[TightEnd]

not sure this really helps the cause

vince, george and ed against the background of a remain branded ryanair plane in a hangar

sure we are all hanging on every word...

[neeko]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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I understand and agree with the direction of the curve, but whenever a graph is that smooth it looks suspicious.

[DungBeetle]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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I'm voting to stay in.  However, not sure I agree with your sentiment here - surely there is an argument that older people will make wiser and more informed decisions?  Albeit not a decision I agree with in this particular case.

[4KSuited]

here you go again :-)

the young could always turn out and vote......

At the risk of some ridicule:

Since when did "the young" know what was best for themselves?
By the age of 20 I was smoking 20+ a day, drank 40+ units a week, regularly took class A drugs and had unprotected sex far more than I should be admitting on here. Whilst I'm certainly no Einstein, I have an above average IQ, so you'd think I'd have better sense. But even by the age of 30, when I'd cracked the first three excesses, if you'd have told me what the social & political state of affairs were going to be in this country/the EU/the Middle East/ USA in 2016, I'd have told you that you were seriously off your head & see a doctor asap. I can't speak for anyone else, but I seriously worry about how much further into freefall we will go as a country if we continue to cede control of our laws and our borders. Nothing worth having in life comes easily or cheaply, so of course there will be an economic cost - but in my view it'll be worth it. I suspect that a lot of the Remain campaigners feel similarly, but they just can't bring themselves to vote to get off the gravy train.

[redsimon]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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I was pro Leave in my teens and twenties and thirties, probably a sceptical remainer now in my 50s

[david3103]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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I was pro Leave in my teens and twenties and thirties, probably a sceptical remainer now in my 50s

Try viewing those figure against the size of each age-range. There are around 13,000 >100 and 440,000 20yr olds...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_for_the_United_Kingdom_using_2011_census_data.png

[The Camel]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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I was pro Leave in my teens and twenties and thirties, probably a sceptical remainer now in my 50s

Try viewing those figure against the size of each age-range. There are around 13,000 >100 and 440,000 20yr olds...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_for_the_United_Kingdom_using_2011_census_data.png

The average age of people in the UK is 40.

Almost exactly the fulcrum point where the majority of people supporting remain changes to leave.

[MintTrav]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

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I was pro Leave in my teens and twenties and thirties, probably a sceptical remainer now in my 50s

Try viewing those figure against the size of each age-range. There are around 13,000 >100 and 440,000 20yr olds...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_for_the_United_Kingdom_using_2011_census_data.png

Slight fall-off in Leave support amongst the 100+ age group.

[The Camel]

Here they go again. The old trying to screw up the future of the young.

Click to see full-size image.

I was pro Leave in my teens and twenties and thirties, probably a sceptical remainer now in my 50s

Try viewing those figure against the size of each age-range. There are around 13,000 >100 and 440,000 20yr olds...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_for_the_United_Kingdom_using_2011_census_data.png

Slight fall-off in Leave support amongst the 100+ age group.

That'll be my Great Aunt Winifred.

True Europhile is Winnie.