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Many of us have long suspected that the claim that Over 65yo delivered Brexit May be an over simplification.

This LSE study confirms that it is with the wartime generation being almost as keen on the European Project as Millennials, associating it as a movement for Peace.
The study also points out that this generation is diminishing and the findings about the beliefs of the post war generation weighted towards a more opposed view to Europe has relevance to the messages we need to work on in any comms.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/04…
3/. That generation (I am one, but not sharing the Brexit facing conclusions) experienced the loss of Empire, thus a lot of clout, (I believe confused with a loss of sovereignty) and mass immigration from the Commonwealth with possible fears about national identity,

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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #FBIR 🔶
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This is well worth a read. The author is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Prof Curtice’s Strathclyde Uni.

When a tactical vote may not work: the complex choice facing Remainers in the EP elections | LSE BREXIT blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/05…
If Britain used the same system as, for example, Germany, with no subdivision into regions, just allocating its 70 seats according to national vote shares, the d’Hondt system would create an almost perfectly proportional outcome.
3/ And the important point is that EP elections in the Britain not only use a somewhat disproportional system, but that the system is differently disproportional across British regions.

This looks at the 2014 vote split.
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #FBIR 🔶
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1/. Another bloody MP channelling Madame Arcarti channelling what we all want on #Peston
@andreajenkyns saying that SHE is speaking for the nation.

2/. Who is the Gavin Nixon that called the LE19 almost right?

Anyone knows
3/. Caroline Flint trying to make out that it is moderate to make virtually all of us all worse off by voting for May’s deal.

Nothing about the measures, the conflict

4/. @CarolineLucas speaking so well again.
She’s got the bit between her teeth.
Power from those wins in LE19
5/. #Peston shows that Conservative Party members prefer No Deal overwhelmingly. The supposition is therefore they will choose a hard Brexiter.

Of course they probably will. But that means they are so dim they will be signing their own death warrant.

#ToryInsanity
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #FBIR 🔶
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Labour tanked in the north east because it offered no clarity over Brexit, not because notherners are ‘angry leavers’ | The Independent independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-…
There was a rejection of ambiguity in Barnsley where there as a 17.3 % swing to the LD. There was a rejection of ambiguity in Sunderland where there was a 13.4%swing to the Liberal Democrats. There was a rejection of ambiguity in Wirral where there was a 11.1% swing to the Greens
A majority of people in 96 per cent of constituencies in the north now back a people's vote. 75 per cent of Labour voters in the party’s heartlands – the north and the Midlands – now back a people's vote and 76 per cent now supporting remaining in the EU.
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