DEAR YOUNG BRITISH PEOPLE
The EU referendum is on the 23rd JUNE and hereâs some scary stats the BBC decided to throw at me this morning:Â
âjust over a third of 18- to 24-year-olds intend to or are certain to vote, compared with well over two thirds of the over-75sâ mix that with âthose under the age of 35 are roughly twice as likely to vote to stay in as those over the age of 55âł
DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS HEADING? No? Then let me spell it out for you, Hamilton style:
We are outgunned
Outmanned
Outnumbered
Outplanned
We are gonna get ourselves kicked out of the EU if you donât get your arse down to the polling station and VOTE for us to stay on the 23rd June.
So, here I am, doing my best to convince you to VOTE STAY.
I get it. Youâre apathetic. Politics is boring/corrupt/pointless, all the parties are the same, weâre screwed anyway etc etc. I FEEL YOU. Mate, do I feel you. But THIS referendum has NOTHING to do with political parties or alliances, even the muppets running this country are split. THIS is about the SINGLE QUESTION of if you want us to stay, or want us to leave.
And if you donât vote for us to stay, then the older generation will most likely vote for us to leave.Â
SO WHY ARE WE HAVING A REFERENDUM?
The EU has been going pretty great considering it was all one giant experiment, and itâs been swimming along mostly A-OK for years, but then⊠the Tories got desperate. Last election, they promised a referendum to get some of the right-wing *cough*UKIP*cough* votes, so now, here we are, having a vote about the EU even though, WE HAVE NO FUCKING PROBLEM WITH THE EU.
BUT WHAT HAS THE EU EVER DONE FOR US?
Being a member of the EU means you can hop across borders as you please:Â you can study abroad, live abroad, and go on holiday abroad within the EU with much less hassle than if we were outside it.Â
But they are also responsible for a bunch of welfare laws that we take for granted:Â
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But seriously hereâs some other things that you might not have realised were thanks to the EU:
At the minute itâs a great symbiotic system where we have plenty of freedom but also, plenty of support.Â
SO WHY DO PEOPLE WANNA BREXIT?
Because it sounds like a breakfast cereal and Iâm guessing theyâre hungry af. Admittedly, we have to pay a fee to be in the EU (but relatively, this is minimal) and it can also mean more âred tapeâ. But as far as I can tell these are all just very polite ways to say that the EU just have too much gosh darn ~power~ over us. URGH. First of all, this is not the British Empire, weâre allowed to have allies, and itâs a good thing that we have other nations keeping us in check. (And with the Tories destroying the country, you might find yourself hoping that the EU did have more power to keep us in check). Secondly, weâre already a special snowflake in the EU, and they grant us PLENTY of leeway, so itâs not as if theyâve got us by the tighty whiteys.Â
Originally posted by ealylo
The Leave campaign are scapegoating refugees as to why we need to leave the EU which would be hilarious if I didnât live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by white middle-class racist UKIP voters that are goddamn licking it up. (Cornwall. Donât even.) They are using the recent âmigrant crisisâ to emphasise that as soon as someone becomes an EU member they can live anywhere in the EU, as in, all the EU countries that are nicer than we are and actually let people fleeing from their wartorn country stay, can therefore decide to move to the UK. But, yo, leaving the EU wonât stop immigration. And even more hilariously, our borders are actually more likely to be weaker if we leave the EU than stronger.
Putting aside the fact that apparently millions of people in our nation donât give a fuck about refugees that are in part OUR GODDAMN FAULT and certainly if youâre a human being OUR GODDAMN CONCERN, the Leave campaign are apparently forgetting about OUR IMMIGRANTS.Â
2.2m British nationals that, if we leave the EU, are suddenly dumped into muddy water. Oh yeah, Leave campaign, I really see you caring about them.Â
Iâve honestly never seen such hypocrisy in my life.Â
OH, AND ITâS ECONOMIC SUICIDE
The Leave campaign cannot produce a single independent study to show that economically weâd be better off leaving the EU.
jk itâs because weâre NOT.
Our economy is now so tied to the EU that it would be a fucking MESS if we left. Itâs 57% of our trade. Itâs 1 in 10 of our jobs. It could take us a decade just to untangle ourselves. And, lord knows, weâd never win Eurovision again.
On JUNE 23RD please vote to REMAIN IN THE EU. If you do nothing, itâs likely weâre gonna be outvoted by hypocritical racist UKIP-wankers and get our country in an even worse financial state.
The reason I am here BEGGING my 12 followers and 200 spambots to VOTE TO STAY is because the last time there was a referendum, I was a naive little undergrad, and I thought âthis option is so obviously better, everyoneâs going to vote for itâ and HAHAHAHAHA DID THAT NOT HAPPEN. You may think you donât need to vote, but YOU DO.Â
Governments are only as smart as the people informing them.
We need to give our idiotic government as close to an actual representation of our countryâs opinion. That means we need to get our turnout percentage up to AT LEAST two-thirds like the over 75s so that the result of the referendum is an actual reflection of opinion.
That doesnât happen if you donât vote.Â
So please, check you are registered to vote RIGHT NOW. And on June 23rd, VOTE TO STAY.
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