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Young people across the UK have reacted angrily at the result of the EU referendum, blaming the baby boomer generation for selfishly dragging them out of the European Union.

Polling by YouGov showed that as many as 75% of young people aged 18-24 voted to remain in the EU, in stark contrast to those over 50, the so-called “baby boomer” generation, where the majority voted to leave.

Those aged 16-18 and unable to vote in the referendum, despite being some of the most affected by the result, were also around 70% in favour of remaining in the EU, according to the British Election Study. Last year an initiative backed by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP proposed lowering the voting age to 16, but the government rejected the idea on the grounds of cost.

#NotInMyName and #WhatHaveWDone were soon trending on Twitter as it became clear that voters had chosen to leave the EU.

Young people feel they have had their futures stolen by the older generations, who have already saddled them with mounting debt, and keep increasing tuition fees despite having had free university education themselves. They feel increasingly cheated by a generation who have retired in their early sixties with triple-locked pensions, but voted to remove all the privileges they enjoyed from future generations on the basis of cost.

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