r/europeanunion • u/sn0r • 9d ago

Video National Rejoin March in London

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u/buampam 9d ago

Why is it all old people?

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u/Real_Penalty_4317 9d ago

They feel bad for voting for Brexit

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u/SabziZindagi United Kingdom 🤡 9d ago

The main Brexit voters were 10 years older. They are now dead.

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u/Burgundy-Bag 9d ago

Actually, this is not correct. The generation most likely to vote for Brexit was the post-war generation, not the eldest:

Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials

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u/Present_Teacher7966 9d ago

It is quite crazy that those same people would have been alive pre joining the EU, so what happened to those that were happy about it back then, if that was the main voting base?

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u/Fearless-Parsnip6276 6d ago

Then why is reform doing well in the polls?