Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials

LSE.ac.uk ^ | April 2019 | Kiera Devine

[Cronos]

Very interesting read. Those who lived and fought in world war 2 are much, much more pro EU than the baby boomers

[Cronos]

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[Jonty30]

It is about the pensions

[FreeperCell]

Oh Boy..

[Farcesensitive]

The Ingsoc generation.

[867V309]

The EU was set up in response to the horrors and destruction of the Second World War.

well, that's your problem right there.

The EU was set up by elites to promote globalism: ie. the destruction of self determination, nationalism and independence.

Complete takeover by global elites is the goal of the deep state (US) and the EU.      make no mistake.

[irishjuggler]

The absolute youngest of the Brits born during WW2 would be 74. Elderly folks are more likely to get their news from (and trust) mainstream media. The mainstream British media has been scaremongering about Brexit for 3+ years. Of course, that’s going to influence the geezers’ opinions.

[higgmeister]

Very interesting read. Those who lived and fought in world war 2 are much, much more pro EU than the baby boomers

Nope! Flawed data. Most of that wartime coming of age, "Silent Generation", in England are dead, heavily incapacitated, or have borderline dementia. They were conditioned with mores not to speakout, hence the term "Silent Generation." If they are still alive, they depend on National Socialist Healthcare which hampers reasoned thought or expression.

This is more worthless polling.

[pepsionice]

I would suggest it’s creative-polling (at very best). If you live in the heart of London or any of the dozen-odd urbanized zones in the UK...you are more than likely to be either pro-EU or lean-toward-the-EU. If you live beyond the urbanized zones, you are more than likely to be anti-EU or distrust the whole mechanism.

A fair number of Labour voters will even tell you in a blunt way that the EU is a long-term problem and can’t be trusted. This idea that the whole of the Labour Party wants to remain in the EU...is a joke. But whether they’d go and vote for Johnson or the BREXIT Party is the big unknown.

[Winniesboy]

Most of that wartime coming of age, "Silent Generation", in England are dead, heavily incapacitated, or have borderline dementia.

Why, thank you. That's just about got me covered, though I'm not sure about the first one.

[Winniesboy]

Elderly folks are more likely to get their news from (and trust) mainstream media.

True. But it's the mainstream media, in the form of the Murdoch/Harmsworth/Barclay press, which have been the prime advocates of Brexit from the outset: and these dominate national newspaper sales.

[Mr Radical]

The source for this opinion piece? The London School of Economics and Political Science. Leading the Marxist assault on our young people’s minds for the last fifty years.

[Cronos]

The over 85s are pro remain. The 60 to 85s are pro leave

[Cronos]

Actually it wasn’t set up for globalism.

[higgmeister]

Do you actually fit the pre-war demographic or are you just a pensioner like me?

[higgmeister]

"Generational effects refer to the influence of environmental factors during each generation’s formative period (approximately between ages 15-25)..."

WWII in England started in 1939. To come of age (over 15 years old) according to this would mean someone born in 1924. That would make them 95 years old now or at the latest, 89.

[polymuser]

I highly doubt this claim, as I doubt our WWII folks like Japan or Germany as much as our Millennials.

[wildcard_redneck]

“The Ingsoc generation.”

The same generation who dissolved the British Empire leaving the bulk of it to dictstors and that had food rationing scheme until 10 years after World War II? Those ignorant, useless bastards?

[Oatka]

seek to remove Britain from an institution that has helped maintain peace in Europe for more than seven decades?

Of course the U.S. umbrella had nothing to do with it.

[Cronos]

Mainstream media in the UK has got the Telegraph, Sun and Daily Express as heavily LEAVE.