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Paul Adamson in conversation

Britain's young generation against Brexit

Paul Adamson in conversation

Paul Adamson

News & Politics, Rss

4.47 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Femi Oluwole, co-founder of the campaigning group 'Our Future Our Choice', talks to Paul Adamson about the growing mobilisation of young Britons who are fighting Brexit.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sharp Talk, the regular podcast of E-Sharp Magazine.

0:10.5

Go to eSharp.E.U for free access to all the podcasts to date. This is Paul Adamson,

0:15.7

and I'm in conversation with Femi Olule, who is the co-founder of OFOC, OFOQ, Our Future Our Choice.

0:23.4

First question, Femi, what on earth is OFOC?

0:26.6

OFOC is a movement of young people that basically say, this is our future, do not screw

0:33.5

it up with Brexit. We, the generation, the generations that will be living with

0:38.7

Brexit are ones that don't want Brexit to happen. I mean if you look at the data

0:44.3

that was provided by Lord Ashworth, by you gov, the under 55, possibly under 60

0:51.8

population of the UK voted to remain. And then when you add that in

0:55.2

with the calculations done by the Financial Times, done by Peter Kellner, and done by, recently,

1:02.2

by UK and a changing Europe, the remain majority, the majority in favour of Brexit vanishes and

1:10.2

reverses, in fact, at the end of 2020.

1:12.6

So of course leavers will say, of course, the people have spoken by quite a large majority.

1:17.6

They would claim 52%, 48%, but also maybe more vexingly for you, a lot of remainers will say actually,

1:23.6

well, the people have voted, we don't agree that with the outcome of the result, but we have to go along with it. How do you respond to that?

1:29.3

Well, the fact is nobody's getting what they wanted. If you ask anybody in the street, that the UK isn't giving them anything that they voted for.

1:46.0

And the fact is they're not getting what they voted for.

1:48.0

What are the main concerns of people who voted for Brexit?

1:51.0

They wanted a stronger NHS, they wanted more sovereignty, they wanted immigration controls, and they wanted to be better off. What are they seeing? They're seeing

2:02.9

the NHS which they were promised 350 million pounds a week. That promise vanished the day after

2:10.2

the referendum when every politician who claimed it then then pretended like it never happened.

2:16.5

And you've seen that the main politician who promised it, Boris Johnson,

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