British Millennials: You've stolen our future

[Yavin4]

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/24/news/millenials-eu-referendum-brexit/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom

Many youngsters are also worried leaving the European Union will mean isolation. A reader comment on the Financial Times that has been widely shared on social media said: "The younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied."

Many students have also expressed worry about their ability to study abroad in other European Union countries in the future.

There will be a net-migration out of Britain of its most talented young. They will leave to seek opportunities elsewhere.

[Press Virginia]

1. Unlike the ones who left to work in other EU countries?

We don't know what this means in the long term or even the short term.

The panic may be unfounded.

I don't understand why many of the same people opposing the Brexit were in favore of Greece leaving the EU.

[Yavin4]

2. People advocated that Greece have its own currency.

Not leave the EU.

[Press Virginia]

4. Oh! For some reason I thought they were for the Grexit. My mistake

[calguy]

3. Millennials as a group gave their future away

Like millennials in most countries today, they didn't bother to vote, now they cry about the outcome.

[msongs]

6. yes but they have their ipads, iphones, ipods, ear buds, and other china made toys to comfort them n

[DonCoquixote]

7. was this needed

Do you have to kick Milennials when they are down, and going down lower? Do remember, these Millennials will be the only people able to care for you when you get older.

[Native]

10. not nice

[DonCoquixote]

8. saY that when

a college kid has their ballot rejected thank to the laws written here
or when an employer stacks them on extra hours because their boomer arse can.

Granted, Milennials do need to vote more, but a lot of the reason they do not is because those Boomers in power stack the deck against them any which way they can.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Exactly...like so many of the millenials in the US, they had better things to do.

Going to Marbella on summer hols, pub crawling, back packing across Europe, getting pissed with their mates (drunk) etc. etc.

Couldn't be bothered to apply for an absentee ballot, much less send it in.

This analysis has been gleaned from British sources.

[pampango]

12. Exactly. Old folks vote. Young folks don't. Guess which group politicians listen to. n/t

[LeftyMom]

5. "Sometimes, when I go to bed, I think that if I were a young man I would emigrate."

-Jim Callaghan, foreign secretary, 1974

God, knowing history is depressing sometimes.

[daleo]

11. There will be fewer opportunities to work in the EU

But fewer EU migrants competing for jobs in Britain. Most likely, the two effects will balance out, more or less.