“Not sure the polls got this one wrong.”

I believe I know one reason. If the press et al accuses the “Leave” faction of being nothing more than irrational, uneducated, stupid xenophobic racists they aren’t likely to be honest with pollsters about how they intend to vote.

Another economic issue is what happens to the Scot’s share of the UK national debt if they leave? I bet they will try to stick the rest of the UK with it and but is there anything they can do about it?

I suspect it’s a number of things. Young people do tend to be quite a bit more to the left. Membership in the EU is also all they’ve ever known, and I think that’s quite important, too. They have no memory of another type of Britain, another type of sovereignty, so I imagine it’s a lot less important to them.

It is also possible (although I don’t have stats on this) that young voters in Britain have different demographics than older ones. They probably are more in favor of immigration from third-world countries, since they are more likely to be immigrants or the children of immigrants themselves? As I said, that’s a guess on my part, however.

According to Politico.eu “Three quarters of British voters aged 24 and under voted against Brexit.”
What is the reason for this split? Does it reflect a Left/Right split where most youths are Leftists or is there some other reason?

I admit I am woefully ignorant of English history but how is it so easy for Scotland to demand an election to separate from the United Kingdom? We fought a bloody civil war about this. If it were this easy here in the US would the Red and Blue states separate?

For half the human race, security is of far more importance than self-determination. Fear of failure is yuge.

Also, the liberty of self-determination provides no scapegoats, only a mirror. Most haven’t the internal fortitude to unflinchingly look in the mirror.

Even fewer see failure as a ladder of lessons, necessary to real achievement. Lincoln failed to win election more often than he succeeded. Edison tried 9000 unsuitable materials before he found a suitable filament.

Only “a long train of abuses”, that promises intolerable tyranny can make the majority of men choose “liberty or death”.

I am reminded of the Guardian’s 2004 Clark County, Ohio campaign, where the Guardian enlisted Brits to write Kerry-supporting letters to residents in the county.

Dear Limey assholes
Last week G2 launched Operation Clark County to help readers have a say in the American election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio. In the first three days, more than 11,000 people requested addresses. Here is some of the reaction to the project that we received from the US.

Dear wonderful, loving friends from abroad,
We Ohioans are an ornery sort and don’t take meddling well, even if it comes from people we admire and with their sincere goodwill. We are a fairly closed community overall. In my town of Springfield, I feel that there are some that consider people from the nearby cities of Columbus or Dayton, as “foreigners”- let alone someone from outside our country.
Springfield, Ohio

Have you not noticed that Americans don’t give two shits what Europeans think of us? Each email someone gets from some arrogant Brit telling us why to NOT vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies … I don’t give a rat’s ass if our election is going to have an effect on your worthless little life. I really don’t. If you want to have a meaningful election in your crappy little island full of shitty food and yellow teeth, then maybe you should try not to sell your sovereignty out to Brussels and Berlin, dipshit. Oh, yeah – and brush your goddamned teeth, you filthy animals.
Wading River, NY

Rather similar reaction, it would appear.

Bob From Virginia
For the life of me I cannot understand why 48% wanted to stay in the EU? Didn’t they realize that they were surrendering their freedoms?
Brits under 30 voted for Remain. Many who did so later stated that the EU “kept us out of war.”

Had the EU just been a customs union, without the micro-controls of unelected Brussels bureaucrats, there would not have been such support for the Leave vote. Without the Brussels bureaucrats, I doubt the vote to Leave would have even come up.

No, it’s probably some other market cartels at work. If it was Soros, you would have seen it tank BEFORE the elections. Just like in 2008.

God has been telling you, Art, to get away from Leftists and your academic “pension” for years if not decades now.

People that refuse to listen because “my pension”, isn’t worthy of lecturing others about what God means, do you understand what that means, Art.