I also think it's disingenuous to say that younger/educated people want to stay because they work for companies that require EU cooperation.
Why is it disingenuous?
We run a trade surplus with the EU in services, primarily education, finance and law. The people working in these sectors tend, on average, to be younger and have reached a higher level of educational attainment. I don't think my employer would have the global reputation it has without the benefits that the common market and deregulated migration brings.
I would postulate that the younger generation are much more prone to influencing and media reports as they haven't had enough life experience to make an informed decision based on experience, or become more cynical/distrusting of big business.
The reality doesn't bear that out, though. Both of the UK's biggest selling newspapers are against the EU, as is Sky News. If "media influence" affected younger people more than older people, one would expect younger people to be more vehemently against the EU. They're not.
An excellent example would also be the 2015 General Election. Again, the biggest selling newspapers were in favour of the Conservatives. Younger people tended to vote Labour, with the discrepancies in polling data being attributed to older people silently voting Conservative.
I completely disagree. I think it is the other way round. I have yet to hear 1 cogent argument for remaining, especially 1 that can relate to the population.
The only argument for remaining is "this is what we currently have, this is how it benefits us economically, do you like it or not?"
The burden of proof in an argument always falls towards the people who are arguing for change.
The only argument I've seen so far is that the European Court of Human Rights "force us to pay money to terrorists". Never mind the fact that the ECHR isn't the EU, has nothing to do with the EU, and we'll still be a member even if we leave the EU. Nor, for that matter, the fact the ECHR
didn't decide that.
Steveman said:
Nail on head moment there, prepare to be flamed.
Disagreeing with someone isn't "flaming" them, you know.
But that's a Farage special isn't it? Anyone who disagrees with him is a "troll" or a "social justice warrior", because all "right thinking people" think exactly what he thinks.