I looked up statistics. There was an average 72% of the population who voted - a high turnout, which means it wasn't just the oldies who turned out. (General Elections between 1997-2015 were about 65%). In the past 30-40 years, younger voters ( under 35 ) just haven't bothered to vote, so that's where the political parties, of ALL spectrums, need to focus.
As for being fed lies, I don't doubt it at all. Politicians would lie to themselves if it were convenient.
You may not have seen that of the 30 most elderly areas in the UK 27 of them voted to leave.
And now only 30% of people think leaving is a good idea.
I agree it would be lovely to just get over it but you can't get over things until they are actually over and this is gift that won't stop giving.
It is still having new and negative impacts on people's lives, real life consequences. We haven't even finished imposing border checks on food yet - still all the fruit n veg etc plus much else to come in. Stagger the pain, because if we felt it all in one hit there would probably be riots.
I'll keep this to food (mostly) as this is a food thread on a food forum.
Excellent food producers are still now having to give up due to the extra cost and paperwork involved in importing and exporting. Real people are losing their jobs and diversity wise we're all poorer for it.
It's ok in my book for people who are just discovering how effected their lives are to express their frustrations and upset.
If my business went under because of it I'd be whining loudly too.
Just get on with it is like telling a poor person to accept their lot and just be poor, people deserve a bit of empathy and the people in that article if you read it are real people.
We are all poorer after this move.
A lot of people do say "well how did you manage before" but it was the 70s when the UK joined the EC and that common economic area over 50 years changed the face of Europe forever, the landscape is unrecognisable from that bygone era. There's no tardis to simply switch things back to the way they were.
Right up to the 80s we produced 80% of our own food. Today it's 46%
We heavily rely on imports.
A lot of that farming land is now gone, many small holders threw in the towel and there was no coherent food security plan for Brexit, there still isn't any decent plan.
So overall as we lose good food, freedom of movement, billions of pounds in business, lives go down the tubes and something as essential to life as food security is ignored I think it's ok for people (including journalists) to whine as loudly as possible at those (who you and I seem to share a contempt of) that sit in power incompetently and complacently screwing things up because they're too busy lining their own pockets and preening their enormous lazy egos.
In fact really is whining enough?
