The profound point is that it was largely the votes of the elderly (look it up) that are propelling us out of the EU, the people like me with guaranteed state pensions paid at the traditional age, the people like me made prosperous by accident via several house-price booms and the people like me with gold-plated final salary pensions. People like me who are largely insulated from the future adverse effects of brexit. Among lots of other bad things, the brexit vote was a supremely selfish and ignorant one that is going to make the young people of today hate our generation for ever more. Still, I won't be worrying about that when I'm six feet under, so why should I care... Well it wasn't me, guv...
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