Will skim through the last couple of pages in a minute but before I do I want to address the 'People at Uni are mostly voting remain, dem dere genius students are intelligenterer' argument gripping the country right now.
As somebody in my early 20s who has delayed going to Uni until next Year because I wanted to get a bit of experience and money for the first time i'll say now that argument is not a great one.
Yes some of the plebs with 2 GCSEs and no teeth who hate foreigners attached themselves to the 'leave' campaign and they're idiots. But at the same time I know this supposedly well educated age group.
Your average young student on the standard path here in the UK
Gets mandatory schooling until 16. Leaves 3 months later to go to college/6th form
Does that for approx 2 years then fucks off to Uni 3 months later.
They are NOT people you generally want to be looking at for sage advice in an unprecedented World changing decision. Most of them haven't had a single real job by this time in their lives and they LOVE the EU benefits. Why wouldn't they? A lot of them want to study abroad, a lot of them want to take their degree and live abroad particularly in places such as Germany with financial service type degrees. A lot of people in that age group I know and also don't really know well but here cited some great reasons to stay in the EU such as
"We NEED to vote remain, not because I think it will make this country better, but because it's easier for me to LEAVE it"
"What about the cheap holidays abroad?"
"EU is great, I want to study via the Erasmus programme, this might not happen in the future"
Very self serving, sometimes idiotic decision making process by youngsters here. A majority of which have never seen any real EU issues because they're not in the real World.
I'm not doing this to generalise, and will say that plenty of well educated students who have taken the time to research and particularly ones who argue in favour of EU due to the economic uncertainty have great points. But this whole weird idea that half of the country is now saying the University students here clearly know what's best is equally as bad as believing old unemployed baz from Stoke who thinks foreigners are coming here to steal his wife, kids and 10 hour a week dish washing job.
If I want to ask an 18 year old with no job experience, doing a creative arts degree at a low tier Uni a question, it'll be about going to Greece on the cheap with the lads and getting fucking hammered for £5. There's a LOT of students like that. Because I actually know them and see them at University.