The article explains how it came to the conclusion. Young people are much more likely to vote to remain in the EU, with older voters more likely to vote and more likely to vote to leave the EU. In the referendum, 52% of the voters voted to leave. That was 37% of the electorate, with 35% of the electorate voting to remain. No fundamental change should be made on such slim margins, without there being an actual plan to allow an informed vote. In the intervening period, more older people would have died than younger people. In addition, ~250k people in the UK have lost their jobs due to Brexit, some EU27 citizens resident here have registered as British citizens and are therefore able to vote, and Brits abroad who may have voted to leave previously will now understand the impact regarding their pension not going as far due to the falling pound, and reciprocal healthcare not being available if we do leave the EU. Who knows, perhaps UK people who have lived elsewhere in the EU for more than 15 years will also be given a vote, so they can choose to stay where they are as an EU citizen. Everyone is now much more informed on what the actual impacts of leaving the EU would be, both for the country and for us as citizens. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar all voted to remain in the EU. The Welsh assembly recently announced they would campaign to remain in the EU, if there is another vote. It is now only England who still want to leave.The country won’t suddenly heal itself. However, if we leave the EU, there will be shortages of food. There will be shortages of medicine. The NHS is already understaffed, and that would only get worse. Even more people will lose their jobs. Even more jobs would not be created. ‘Ex-pats’ may be forced back to living here, moving in with their families who may not have space in their homes. Younger people will realise that their freedom to live, work, study, retire and travel freely around the rest of Europe has been taken away from them, and they do not have the same opportunities as their parents had. If we do leave the EU, all the issues with education, welfare, policing, local council funding, transport and austerity would continue as they are all directly managed by our government. The 0.7% of our tax contribution that pays for full membership of the EU would not go far in any other area. Freedom of movement is a two way street, and this country has an aging population. Just wait until the older people expect the younger people trapped here to care for them. My parents both voted to leave. They are both sick and tired of Brexit, and now understand that ‘leaving the EU’ would never end. It would take decades. Even Jacob Rees-Mogg has said any benefits (of which I’m yet to hear any) would take 50 years to be realised. My mum would not vote in a confirmatory ballot. My dad would vote pro-remain. The only way to make it all go away is to stop it. Then we would have the time to focus on the things that really are important for us as a nation. Time to crush the far-right nationalist (English) populism that has become so visible in parts of our politics. Time to forget all this ever happened and just carry on as we were. Life really wasn’t that bad. In fact, we were doing quite well.Is leaving the EU worth ‘it’? No, it isn’t. Stop Brexit.This is a good article. Remainers care much more about remaining than Leavers do about leaving.https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/06/everything-you-think-you-know-about-leavers-and-remainers-wrong
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