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WickedsDesire -> Vince Cable: Young 'shafted' over Brexit (8/6/2017 6:40:47 AM)
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Vince Cable: Young 'shafted' over Brexit
Older people who voted for Brexit have "comprehensively shafted the young", Sir Vince Cable has said.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the Lib Dem leader accused the over-65s of being "self-declared martyrs" who claim leaving the EU is worth the cost. True
"The martyrdom of the old comes cheap," he said, as fewer have jobs to lose and living standards are protected by the triple lock on pensions.
"For the Brexit martyrs, paradise beckons," he added.
Quoting statistics that 64% of over-65s voted for Brexit - compared with 71% of under-25s who voted Remain - Sir Vince said he was "struck by the heavily Remain sentiment in colleges and schools, and the heavily Brexit mood of church-hall meetings packed with retired people" during the referendum campaign. True
He claimed that austerity measures had largely affected the working population, with pensioners suffering "relatively little" after the financial crisis. True
Young people, he said, have the added problems of "prohibitive housing costs, growing job insecurity and limited career progression". True
"The old have comprehensively shafted the young," added Sir Vince. "And the old have had the last word about Brexit, imposing a world view coloured by nostalgia for an imperial past on a younger generation much more comfortable with modern Europe." True
Oh dear! Right ive did my UK thread for today and dont say I don't try teach you johnny foreigners tremendous things and stuff.
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