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We should have a group of elders picked from the best universities in the land. And they should oversee us idiots and make our decisions for us. Then there should be a further group of wise elders over seeing if what they're doing is correct. Much like Iran but without the hanging gay people.
Fact is the people are dumb. We voted Labour back in to power after iraq. That has been proven time and time again. 99% of people will vote based off word of mouth between workers and tiny headlines heard between songs on Radio 1, KISS, Heart radio etc etc.
My sister voted remain simply because she had heard that the EU puts in rules to help with childcare vouchers or something?. She didn't even know if it was true.
I doubt it's that simple.
If you follow the idea that Labour voters are more likely to be worse off than Tory voters, we know that Labour voters voted more likely to remain.
Suppose that you are right. It makes little sense for the worst off to vote for something that was, and is, likely to hit their pockets for a number of years afterwards, though maybe that lack of sense explains something.
But still more likely that the under 45s voted to remain in general. If that wasn't the case, then either the over 45s didn't vote to leave overall or did by a couple of percentage points overall, which doesn't seem likely.
I believe the 16-18 age group should have been allowed to vote. After all it's the young people of today who will have to put up with the consequences a decision forced on them by a group of people still harboring grudges against Johnny Foreigner.
Is there any reason to believe that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation findings are less that accurate?
From https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/brexit...-opportunities
An exerpt:
"We found that support for Brexit was strongest in areas where a large percentage of the population did not have any qualifications and were ill-equipped to thrive amid a post-industrial and increasingly competitive economy that favours those with skills and is operating in the broader context of globalisation. For instance, 15 of the 20 ‘least educated’ areas voted to leave while all of the 20 ‘most highly educated’ areas voted to remain. Support for Brexit was also stronger than average in areas with a larger number of pensioners. Of the 20 youngest authorities 16 voted to remain, but of the 20 oldest authorities 19 voted to leave."