D-day veteran says, on asked about 75 years of peace that he hopes it continues but Brexit worries him in that respect

[StealthPolarBear]

Let's be clear. This is someone who saw the last world war. Has lived in peace a long time, and is worried. As lots of us are.
Come and laugh and roll your eyes. I know you want to. Just remember WHO you're laughing at this time.

Let's also be clear. This is someone who some people in this country felt, due to their age, shouldn't have had a vote on the EU Ref as they were too old (and that still rumbles on today) and it was the younger generations future they were f*ing up.

Some people need to remember WHO they are talking about and what sacrifices they made for us before saying they are not worthy/entitled to vote.

Rant over.

Some Baby boomers (like Faridge) claim the Blitz spirit and shit like that. Based on watching morale boosting WWII films rerun on BBC2 when they were growing up. I am about a year shy of being a baby boomer. Some of this stupid shit they come out with is dreadful. People like my Mum who was well into her 80s in 2016 didn't fall for it. Her last vote before she died was Remain. Her uncle (Irish like her) was a decorated civilian war hero.

The brexit voting demographics showed that while in general older voters were more likely on average to be pro brexit, this was not the case for those few remaining who were sufficiently old to have been young adults during the war, either in the services or knowing the reality at home. They well understood what a good idea cooperation and unity is, I suppose.

My parents and in-laws were of this generation, unfortunately dead before the vote - they'd all have been saddened by what we're throwing away.

It makes me so angry that Farage and co are using the sacrifices made in that war to try to twist it into their own agenda.

They espouse some of the very ideology that they fought against- of superiority, dividing and "otherness". And my Grandfathers generation knew all too well what the end result of that was in the 1930s.

My now 96 year old MIL voted Remain - she did war work in munitions and an aircraft factory. She was married by the time her age group received the call up, and they didn't call up married women so didn't see active service.

She thinks the younger Leave voters in the family are stupid.

errol that’s really interesting.
Those people banging on about how we will “survive” Brexit as we did the war never actually had to!

Farridge didn't even have the guts to face the Press when yesterday's results were being announced. Of course we don't know how someone would act when faced with being called up to go to war, so we might have found that there was a braver more noble side to him. On the other hand, WW2 had its share of spivs and black marketeers, and Farridge is much more likely to fit that profile.

Also, as one who was born right at the tail end of the baby boom, Farridge would have been growing up at a time of increasing prosperity for everyone. Not for him the rationing which went on until the early 1950s.

Interestingly my father fought in the war and I think he would have voted to leave (he died 3 weeks after the referendum and was too ill to use his postal vote). But his view was that he was in favour of the "Common market" as it was known, but didn't like the "ever closer union" thing. I think he would have been happy with our staying in the customs union though and would have been against all the no deal nonsense.

My parents were children during the war. My mother was 11 when it ended.

Both are 85 now and voted Remain. Both would agree wholeheartedly with that war veteran, even though he is older than they are. Both have also said that whilst they had their gripes about the EU, it has generally been a force for good. Both said that they also wanted to support the younger generations, who were more likely to want to remain in the EU. Both said "it is much more their future than ours", meaning young people in general.

That gave me tears in my eyes then and still does.