Unfortunately the UK has a voting cohort that is both large and willing to screw over subsequent generations.
Like when people are against a president if the economy isn't doing well, regardless of if the alternative candidate would've been better.
This also isn't an issue thats being campaigned on. If there was another vote to join the EU, and people got flooded with anti-eu messaging specifically targeted at the demographic, I'd bet that number would drop.
By the time we got around to implementing it enough old people had died off that the vote would have gone the other way already.
The 18 year olds who vote less but vote for good parties are doing good, overall. The 60 year olds voting Tory their whole lives - not so much.
It's very easy to blame the young for all the problems earlier generations created and exacerbated. Not too wise though.
Eh, this is far from a given. Mao's Red Guards were passionate and idiots. America's young men are currently in thrall of Clavicular and his ilk.
The most powerful empires in history have had large rebublics at their cores for good reason. The wisdom of a crowd greatly increases with its diversity.
Short/medium term though - and I think the voters should have understood this, you'll struggle a bit. But after about 15-20 years the UK will be fine. You just have to suffer a bit now. Look at the big picture.
And yet the biggest trading partner now dictates the standards, now without any UK input.
In my view, you traded being one of the leading voices in what is increasingly shaping up to be one of the world's superpowers for being a somewhat isolated middle power, nostalgic for its former glory.
Why would that be worth it?
The UK just keeps kicking young people down. The boomers voting against our interests are whipping us into working to pay for their triple locked pensions.
The ballot paper arrived the day before the vote.
It was impossible to return it in time, and indeed, when I checked, my vote had arrived too late and was not counted.
[1]: Gilbert, Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights (2014), p. 73: "Freedom of movement within a country encompasses both the right to travel freely within the territory of the State and the right to relocate oneself and to choose one's place of residence".
...is a typical tell-tale cadence in the current breed of LLMs.
The tell-tale signs change over time, but this one is very obvious.
> ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom
Also young people always blame last gen for whatever, so expects -8 ~ 0 years old would vote for exit again…
FWIW I think Brexit was dumb but I never felt strongly about any of it because it doesn't effect me in any way. I'm not saying their views on Brexit specifically are likely to change.
Keep paying Thameswater so their execs get bonuses while their pipes leak and destroy roads