24-06-2016, 22:37
Well I think it's the right result, if not a good one.
I would have preferred, and expected, a higher majority to vote Leave but don't think it's any accident that the only regions in England that showed a majority in favour of Stay are the big conurbations where there are large immigrant populations (and thats not a comment pro or anti immigration, just an observation and statement of fact).
I'm surprised at the disparity of feeling across the age ranges - young In, old Out sort of thing - but I guess thats primarily because we have several generations that were born in Europe and don't know anything else.
I wonder how different the Leave majority would have been if the criteria to vote was to have contributed to the country by paying tax for at least 5 years or to have been born in the UK?
I think the scare tactics and of both campaigns did no-one any favours and just muddied the waters and was horribly devisive over what has always been a single issue vote - Sovereignty. Everything else follows from that.
I hope and expect that the disillusioned young will come to accept and be grateful that their more experienced elders made this choice now, while we had the chance, and divorced us from the corrupt imperialism of an undemocratic and non-representative European Federal Government.
I also thinks its a shame that todays rhetoric across Europe about reform, fairness and transparency didn't take place before the vote. Maybe our legacy to the EU will be that they will improve it for its remaining members? However, I think it more likely disillusionment will spread.
The challenge lies ahead, but at least we have control of our own destiny.
I would have preferred, and expected, a higher majority to vote Leave but don't think it's any accident that the only regions in England that showed a majority in favour of Stay are the big conurbations where there are large immigrant populations (and thats not a comment pro or anti immigration, just an observation and statement of fact).
I'm surprised at the disparity of feeling across the age ranges - young In, old Out sort of thing - but I guess thats primarily because we have several generations that were born in Europe and don't know anything else.
I wonder how different the Leave majority would have been if the criteria to vote was to have contributed to the country by paying tax for at least 5 years or to have been born in the UK?
I think the scare tactics and of both campaigns did no-one any favours and just muddied the waters and was horribly devisive over what has always been a single issue vote - Sovereignty. Everything else follows from that.
I hope and expect that the disillusioned young will come to accept and be grateful that their more experienced elders made this choice now, while we had the chance, and divorced us from the corrupt imperialism of an undemocratic and non-representative European Federal Government.
I also thinks its a shame that todays rhetoric across Europe about reform, fairness and transparency didn't take place before the vote. Maybe our legacy to the EU will be that they will improve it for its remaining members? However, I think it more likely disillusionment will spread.
The challenge lies ahead, but at least we have control of our own destiny.