Family rifts over Brexit: ‘I can barely look at my parents’

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7. I have sympathy for the Millenials

Shortly before polling day my kids' grandmother announced that she would be voting 'Leave' because she wanted to die in an "England that was England again" (she's 87). When my kids gently offered up their quite different perspective, she informed them that they had no right to question her vote because her husband and brother had served in WWII to keep this country intact. That it was views like theirs that had ruined it and that they'd understand that when they got older (they're 20 an 23).

They were really quite hurt by the fact that she wasn't prepared to even consider how her vote might affect their lives.

I passed it off as an age thing, combined with reading the Daily Express every day of her adult life, but it was quite a damaging little episode.