All terribly interesting but you forget the country voted by 2 to 1 in 1975 to stay in but in 2016 it voted to leave.

If people voted the same at 60 as they do at 20 we wouldn't have had a Tory government for most of the last century.

Indeed Most of those 60 year olds who backed leave this year almost certainly voted to stay in in 1975!

So trends may not predict the future.

Shhhh!!!!! You're not supposed to say that!

Of course we all know that, even the vast majority of 'Remainers'. Sadly, there are some folk out there who appear to have lost all grip of reality - at least on here anyway - and have resorted to getting their kicks from scraping barrels such as these.

I have a friend who emigrated to New Zealand about 10 years ago who came back during the summer for a family visit. I met up with him after he'd been back a week or so and his first words to me were: 'This country's gone mad'.

And it has. Threads like this prove it. People don't realise what what's happening to them because they're so caught up in it.

I dare say even the OP of 10 years ago would balk at this thread. Well, hopefully.

You're leaving out the fact that the age voting thing is a curve, not two steps. Those who are now close to the the next age group up vote more similarly to the average for the next age group. Those in the "old" age group who die are replaced by those from the middle group, the ones who are only slightly less likely to vote out.

There's a big hole in your calculations even excepting that the assumptions are not all rubbish in the first place.

I cared at the time that some people i knew who voted out wouldn't live with the consequences but its done now and for now atleast, we're leaving the EU.
Even if half of them were dead the decision has been made and in 30 or so years, those of us who are still alive, will know if it was the right decision or not.
Right now its all speculation.

Tis true

in 30 years, exactly how will will we know whether it was the right decision ?

The assumptions are common to all the exit and post vote polls.

Your argument was strange. Old voters die. As they go, they take a large, disproportionate, number of Leave votes with them. Middleaged voters becoming older, doesn't create new Leave voters , it just means the 2015 ones are older. They are replaced by younger, more predominantly Remain, voters moving into the upper age ranges . and, at the youngest end ,there's a larger number of, predominantly Remain, voters joining the electorate. Leave loses its key elderly vote, the middle aged vote over time becomes more Remain, and the new voters, coming on to the register, are predominantly Remain voters.

You seem to ignore the younger people, joining the electorate in larger numbers, or assume that voters act more like today's older voters , on this issue, as they get older. There's no reason to think that 30 year olds will suddenly start hankering after 1950s Britain when they get to 35 or 40 or even 60, or that an age group with more and more graduates will stop voting like the rest of the graduate population. . The only thing that would make Leave more popular in younger age groups would be if young people found Brexit had been a success - which is very unlikely , and almost impossible before leave's majority has gone - because any new trade arrangements will still be years off. Otherwise, they would have to have forgotten the benefits or being in, changed multiple attitudes they hold, or suddenly became Express and Mail readers.

That's not far off how long its taken for 52% to decide they weren't happy with it.

Besides, considering the claims on both sides, we'll either be better off financially as a country and individually or we wont, we'll either be less divided due to less people coming over here taking our jobs, women, food, benefits or whatever else is part of the latest version of that argument and we'll either be better off with a government who isn't accountable to the EU when deciding our rights or we wont.
That's a start anyway.

If the EU continues down its present path I don't think we should assume it'll still be in existence in ten years from now, let alone thirty.

What will you be able to do on "Independence day" that you would't be allowed to do the day before?

I'm enjoying my life in Heaven, I died reading your post, I've come close several times, usually as a result of exhaustion..

In 30 years time I'll be 110 and gaga. Had that been the case in June, I would have voted to remain.

Sleep at night and count the money I never usedd to have.

Decide our own destiny instead of the EU doing it for us.

Please explain the bit in bold, Mr Strut. How did the EU manage to stop TTIP ??? I await your response with bated breath.

Are you championing the fact there has been 120,000 deaths since the referendum in the U.K.

That's just sick mate, anyway we all know polls are bullshit as is the nonsense pushed out by the so called British election study with their 6%, that's fag packet politics and totally irellevent.

Please stop with the lies about the EU and TTIP, you show your ignorance over exactly why TTIP is now effectively dead and it's not because of your precious EU.

What a tasteful thread and what lovely attitudes being displayed. Better to be old than to be a c***.

Which they are.