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In 20 years though, I'll be a 47 year old banging on about when the UK was great and part of the union. Will the new younger generation have the same view?
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Perhaps the damage won't be forever, and in 20 years when the younger generations outnumber the minority of "but the old days" and "them furrin's" and "remember when the UK was great?"
In twenty years time we might be talking about the good old days with them foreigners & when the UK was great, & it'll be talking about the time we lived in before we left the EU.
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Perhaps the damage won't be forever, and in 20 years when the younger generations outnumber the minority of "but the old days" and "them furrin's" and "remember when the UK was great?" will be able to move the UK back towards the open liberal society it says it is.
It is not a given, this has galvanized a lot of people that normally don't care about politics though.
In the meantime it is pretty grim, but this post colonial hangup seems to be something a lot of countries went through, and now it is the UK that has to deal with it...and I still go through bouts of sadness walking around Belfast thinking NI really doesn't deserve more misery.
A border poll here is also at least 20 years off.
In the meantime, tell people about settled status, if you have no time to volunteer at least give money to causes and homeless people, join a political party if you feel like it and so on.