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 From: tims_new_home@yahoo.com 
  
 "nightjar"  wrote in message 
 news:YMCdnZDnRYaYlT7AnZ2dnUU78I_NnZ2d@giganews.com... 
 > On 12/10/2019 15:40, Stephen Cole wrote: 
 >> Dave Plowman (News)  wrote: 
 >>> In article , 
 >>>     Cursitor Doom  wrote: 
 >>>> I still have a legitimate interest, mate. And if there's another 
 >>>> Referendum I'll be voting in it again, same as before, just like 
 >>>> everyone else who voted Leave - plus not a few former Remainers who've 
 >>>> seen the light over the last 3 years. 
 >>> 
 >>> Oddly, most the polls seem to show the opposite has happened. 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> That€€€s no surprise as the electorate has changed; a million or more dead 
 >> Leave voters and a couple million freshly-minted teenage voters since 
 >> June 
 >> 2016. The longer that Brexit is fobbed off before a 2nd referendum the 
 >> more 
 >> the scales will tip toward Remain. 
 >> 
 > 
 > It is more complicated than that. 
 > 
 > As the population ages, it tends to get more right wing, so the ones that 
 > die off are replaced by others and the balance due to age remains much the 
 > same over time. OTOH, there is a generational effect, with each generation 
 > currently tending to be slightly more left wing than the one before. That 
 > means that, although the older a generation gets the more right wing, on 
 > average, it becomes, it doesn't become quite as right wing as the one 
 > before it. 
 > 
 > However, to add to all that, people with higher levels of education (A 
 > level or above) appear to be more likely to support remain and the overall 
 > level of education of the population is rising a few percent each year. 
 > 
 > The net effect is that there will be a trend towards greater support for 
 > remain, but I'm not sure that 3-4 years is long enough for that to make a 
 > significant difference. 
 > 
 > Of greater influence are probably dissatisfaction with the mess that the 
 > Brexiteers have made of the process so far 
  
 ITYF it was a Remainer who made a mess of the process 
  
 tim 
  
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