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Originally Posted by OneFailure
I still have hope that the brexit plan will be fulfilled eventually as the supporters of the Brexit vote wont allow it to fail. The politicians will have to listen eventually instead of trying to stop it
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Based on the Brexit vote demographics, the more plausible scenario is that Brexit supporters will die out before any deal is reached, leaving the mess to those who never wanted to leave in the first place:
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While the "Leave" campaign won the referendum with 51.9 percent of the vote, young people — the ones who will likely grapple with the decision for decades — overwhelmingly wanted to remain part of the EU.
According to data gathered by the British pollster YouGov on election day, a staggering 75 percent of people aged between 18 and 24 voted for Remain.
But this youthful bloc was outweighed by an even stronger force.
What pushed the country toward Brexit, according to pollsters, was a remarkably high turnout among white, working-class older people — most of whom who voted Leave.
"The young have lost the referendum and the old have won," according to Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI, another British polling company.
Sixty-one percent of people over the age of 65 voted Leave, according to YouGov's data.
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