If like many other millions of young people in the country you woke up horrified to find that Ramsay Bolton, sorry, Nigel Farage has led Britain’s old/racist/conspiracy theorist hordes to victory, you may need some comforting. We’re not making assumptions here, that’s just the stats.
If you missed it (where have you been?), last night the most brutal, vitriolic political battle of this century came to an end. It was won on a knife edge with the politics of fear – particularly the issue (ahem, scapegoating) of immigration – proving victorious. It was a divisive race with clear lines of opposition being drawn – young vs old, city dwellers vs the provincial, Scotland vs England, London vs England, Northern Ireland vs England, Europe vs England. Can someone tell England's mum that he is not socialising well with the other kids in class?
It was a gruelling and exhausting experience, but it’s not over yet: David Cameron resigned this morning, and the markets plummeted. The impact will be felt for many more weeks, if not months and years. Winter is coming, and we need to plan.
We fought nobly and hard
We need a new leader
Okay guys thinking caps on. Didn’t we elect leaders so that they make the big decisions, especially ones that would take decades of experience to fully understand?
Is the Brexit win seriously going to be enforced when 48% of people don't want to leave, which incidentally is considerably more people than the 37% that voted this government in?
Where was Jeremy Corbyn in all this? Jeremy, what are you doing mate?
Something’s not right. It might be time for some new blood, some young blood. What’s Stormzy up to?
How many retweets do I need to become prime minister
— #MERKY (@Stormzy1) June 24, 2016
It might also be time to start considering that the Baby Boomer generation (people that are 50+ years old) may not have our best interests at heart. Young people have been consistently asked to shoulder debts in part related to an ageing population (pensions, NHS) all the while knowing we’re unlikely to achieve the same level of wealth or comfort. By the time we’re old we’ll be lucky if there is an NHS or any state pension at all, and let’s not get into the whole property ownership thing.
Many critics are pointing to the high turnout among the over 60's as indicative of a protest sentiment from the silver-haired generation. They're angry about cuts to public services and blame the EU, even though it was the UK government that implemented those cuts and it was the middle-aged-plus crewdem that voted them in. Baby boomers, are you thinking straight?
Besides, didn’t that generation already have an EU referendum? In like 1975? How many referendums do those guys need? Real talk: Will they even be around to feel the full effects?
One thing though, if we are going to rep ourselves, we are gonna have to actually turn out to vote. Turn out, and get turnt up when we win. Register to vote ahead of the next big clusterfuck here.
What can we do right now?
