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@suzieseaside wrote:

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 ........................................ there would have been approx 1.88 million additional Remain and 0.62million Leave votes, bringing the totals neck and neck at approximately 18 million each.

 

 

..........................................there would have been approx. 19.63 million votes to Remain and 18.63 million votes to Leave out of a total of approx. 38.26 million votes,  which would have given remain about 51.3% of the result.

 

 

It’s a shame they feel betrayed, and I have said elsewhere that there needs to be some education about politics and democracy in schools and colleges.  But there were warnings in the media and they were urged to vote back in April and May.  They could have made it happen.

 

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That was a lot of work which must have taken several envelope backs and I congratulate you on your achievement. Can't help thinking you may have just been (almost unconsciously) looking for a certain result before you started though!

Your re-working brings about the result I had expected it to. In fact it was the result I had been expecting before the actual result. So now I know why I was surprised on Friday morning! It was because I had forgotten to take into account the lack of political engagement among the young.

As you say, the young only have themselves to blame but I sympathise with them on their blamimg the old, being a young person myself in many ways, though not in age! I don't think it's any good teaching politics and democracy in schools or colleges; I know when they tried to teach me my eyes just glazed over.

As the age composition of the population continues its inexorable shifting, the elderly is the group the politicians have to look after first. So things like the triple lock on pensions, or whatever it's called, are unfair on the young who have to pay for it - if they can earn enough to pay tax. It is especially difficult for those who come from poor backgrounds and cannot call on the bank of mum and dad. Thus the divide between rich and poor is perpetuated.

Still, I'm not sure that they will necessarily be any worse off out of the EU than in it.