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It has been a couple years since 51.9% of people in the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, which we know as the now-famous “Brexit” referendum.
Britain joined the European Union officially back in 1975. A couple decades later, David Cameron, the former prime minister in the UK, suggested a national referendum on the EU membership
and had the idea of settling the question of whether to ‘leave’ or to ‘remain’ a part of the EU, and was convinced most people would vote for the ‘remain’ option. Surprisingly only 48% voted to remain, while 52% voted to leave.
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There are a lot of pros with being a part of the EU, the most valued and also most important of all, freedom of movement, which resulted in great studying opportunities and easy accessible work in Europe.
“We hear a lot about how “young people want to stay in the EU,” and some do, but the truth is that not everyone eligible to vote showed up on that day in 2016.
While 90% of over-65s turned out, only about 64% of 18-24 year-olds voted (and, of course, not all of those voted Remain).” EU supporter, Madelina Key says:
“Brexit was a non-issue for me” which proves that a lot of young people didn't think their vote, or their voice mattered back then.
And now a big part of the young generation like Madelina are fighting against Brexit and participating in riots to stop the referendum from happening. As for the older generation: “We can survive without the EU”.
The big age difference for voters clearly shows a tendency of the older generation being more likely to vote for Britain to leave the EU rather than remain.
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