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Title: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: xht on June 12, 2016, 07:38:11 AM LONDON — On June 23, tens of thousands of young Britons will be gathered at the Glastonbury music festival, whose headliners include Coldplay, Muse and Adele. Others will be avidly following the European Soccer Championship in France or biting their nails in anticipation of the next episode of hit teenage soap “Hollyoaks.”
Oh, and there is the referendum that day asking them whether Britain should leave the European Union. “Wait, are we even registered to vote?” Priya Patel, 25, asked her friend recently, as they waited outside a theater in east London to see their favorite stars arrive at the British Soap Awards. Would she want Britain to stay in the European Union? “Oh, definitely,” Ms. Patel, a medical practitioner, answered impatiently, switching her attention to her smartphone, visibly more interested in televised dramas than in the long-running tensions between her country and Brussels. “Wait, what just happened?” she exclaimed as a “Hollyoaks” star rolled by in a car. Holding the attention of young voters — and getting them to turn out on June 23 — is one of the biggest challenges for both sides in the campaign over Britain’s place in Europe, especially for the advocates of remaining in the European Union. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/world/europe/while-young-britons-favor-staying-in-eu-they-arent-big-on-voting.html Title: Re: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: RealityTruth on June 12, 2016, 07:45:17 AM No they don't favor. Young people want to leave EU. that's just another propaganda garbage article.
Title: Re: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: saddampbuh on June 12, 2016, 08:07:56 AM don't hold it against them, they've just been brainwashed at school and university to believe in multiculturalism and equality and white guilt and the rest, it takes a few years of real world experience for that to wear off
Title: Re: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: alyssa85 on June 12, 2016, 12:04:52 PM Young people have never been interested in voting. It is not till they start a family (around age 30) that they suddenly get interested in politics and the state of the nation. After that they vote faithfully. It was like that a century ago and will be like that a century hence.
Title: Re: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: Lethn on June 12, 2016, 01:40:52 PM No they don't favor. Young people want to leave EU. that's just another propaganda garbage article. Speaking as one of those 'young' people I want to leave the EU, by the way, interesting fact, a large proportion of Scottish people who wanted to vote for independence was the young. Title: Re: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: bryant.coleman on June 12, 2016, 02:34:56 PM No they don't favor. Young people want to leave EU. that's just another propaganda garbage article. Speaking as one of those 'young' people I want to leave the EU, by the way, interesting fact, a large proportion of Scottish people who wanted to vote for independence was the young. The teenage support for Scottish independence was huge. http://s3.mirror.co.uk/mirror/ampp3d/articles/indy-ref-by-age.jpg An unbelieveable 71% of the Scottish teenagers votes YES during the referendum, but they were swamped by the 73% NO vote from the pensioners. The youth are getting more and more intelligent nowadays. Title: Re: While Young Britons Favor Staying in E.U., They Aren’t Big on Voting Post by: criptix on June 12, 2016, 04:11:16 PM Most media in UK are predicting a voting turnout of 80+%
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