Newsflash: young people don’t care about the EU referendum. On the whole, we are neither Eurosceptic nor Europhobic. I work as features editor of millennial female news lifestyle site, The Debrief. When we asked our readers how they were going to vote on 23 June, an overwhelming 71 per cent said they would vote to remain. 19 per cent said they didn’t know. As a millennial myself I know that my peers have hardly found the Brexit debate inspiring – the prospect of leaving the EU is not something many of us had considered and we resent it being forced upon us.
The EU – complete with fisheries, Jean-Claude Juncker, Schengen and Maastricht – has hardly been on the tip of our tongues in recent years. Unless, of course, we were planning our next cheap trip to Berlin. Brexit: the pros and cons – has not been the go-to subject of discussion when we get together at the pub or shout at one another in nightclubs (and this isn’t just because we drink less, do fewer drugs and go out less than our parents).
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