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#BrexitVote: 27 Tweets That Speak To How The Big Decision Could Affect Our Generation

June 24, 2016 | Posted at 6:23 pm | by Richelle (Follow User)

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Great Britain will be leaving the European Union. The British electorate voted on the big decision in a referendum held Thursday.
 

Millions of the British participated in casting their vote on whether the U.K. should leave or remain in the European Union. In fact, according to BBC News, more than 30 million people voted, making it the highest voter turnout (71.8%) in a UK-wide vote since the 1992 general election.
 

At the end of it all, 48.1% wanted to remain, while 51.9% wanted to leave.
 


 

After the vote, former London mayor Boris Johnson, who has become the public face of Vote Leave, proclaimed to many that the final results did not mean Britain would completely isolate itself from all of Europe.
 

“I want to speak to the millions of people who did not vote for this outcome especially young people who may feel that this decision in some way involves pulling up the drawbridge or any kind of isolationism,” he said. “I think the very opposite is true. “To those who may be anxious at home or abroad this does not mean that that the UK will be in anyway less united nor indeed does it mean that it will be any less European. We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe… But there is simply no need in the 21st century to be part of a federal system of government based in Brussels that is imitated nowhere else on earth. It was a noble idea for its time but it is no longer right for this country.”
 

Johnson is not the only one who wants to share his opinion on the historical decision. Many are expressing how this epic decision will impact the next generation, particularly since the majority of voters who wanted to leave the EU were of older generations.
 

According to British pollster Yougov, 64% of those between the ages of 25 and 29 wanted the U.K. to remain in the EU, while 61% of those aged between 30 and 34 wanted to stay. Interestingly, the results revealed the older people were, the more likely they were to vote to leave the EU.
 

Numerous Millennials are now upset and dismayed about the long-term impact the decision could have on their future. They have even started a petition calling for a second referendum. Receiving support for younger voters online, the petition has already garnered the 100,000 signatures needed for the U.K. parliament to debate the issue again.
 

With tensions mounting and discussions constantly continuing to take place, here’s a collection of interesting news and views shared by people from around the world about the vote on Twitter: