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Working people did not want brexit. Business owners did not want it. The numbers were tipped by old retirees who had died by the time it actually happened.

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Are you saying that 52% of British people are retired?

A majority of those working full-time or part-time voted to remain in the EU; most of those not working voted to leave.

https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2016/06/how-the-united-kingdom...

If you look at various ways to slice the voters and look for over 50% leave voters you get arbitrarily many "people with X attribute" factors. Being in England, having lower education, being white, each age group over 45, being christian, etc etc. But it's misleading towards those groups as well, since it's usually just somewhat over 50% so it's misleading to characterise those groups of people through this.

No, but the only two people that I personally know who voted for Brexit, my partner’s parents, were both retired. They did it as a protest because they never thought that it would pass.

They immediately regretted it once my partner explained how it would fuck up her/our future.

They have subsequently both died.

Anecdotical evidence is not just useless, it's deceiving. I only know one person who voted for Brexit, and it's a low-40s Scottish lawyer who lives in South West London (the posh part). And he's still alive. It doesn't mean anything.

Ah yes I remember in 2001 reading on Slashdot how only old Christians voted for Republicans/Bush, and they will soon die and George W Bush will not get re-elected.

It was even said on HN/Twitter during Covid 2021, how Trump supporters were dying in great numbers from refusing face masks and it was again Game OVER for Republicans, only for him to get elected again in 2024.

9/11 massively changed bushes popularity.

It’s telling that Farage is polling around 25%. So much for mass Brexit aupoort. Maybe Johnson didn’t hold it the right way.

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