I don't disagree with this at all Danny. (Wish I was anywhere near being under-25 though).

The EU has the interests of European (and British) Financial Services and Corporate interests at heart beyond anything else - I'm not pretending any different. However, the social and regulatory safeguards in place across the EU despite this corporate focus are much better for the average guy in the UK than the deregulated, quasi-Victorian ultra-capitalist, "devil take the hindmost" mess this country stands to become in the Brexit dreams of Farage, Murdoch, Boris et al.

Take something as (to some people) trivial as food labelling. I like to know what's in my food and I like to know stuff like sugar / fat content. I want to know if it's full of artificial sh1te, Palm Oil, GM ingredients and the like - it gives me freedom to choose.

This heinous EU over-regulation was one of the first on the hit-list for the Brexit campaign. Why? Does it allow consumers to "take back control"? Does it hell - it allows manufacturers and retailers to hide all sorts of crap in their products without the consumer having a clue.

I'm looking beyond WW2 in history - history is filled with examples of what happens to the average person when wealth & capital are given free reign to enrich themselves further at everyone else's expense.

The EU is the lesser of two evils, in my book.

That one that allows them to put on the package things like "produced using pork from the EU", which means it can be from a mix of pigs from various countries and sources. While, coincidentally, Denmark is going through serious issues with their Pork, they previously proudly labelled as "Danish".

Whereas when labelled "British" it means born, reared, slaughtered and processed in Britain.

Then you have the egg problems within the continental EU that were allowed to be sold to consumers.

That is the main reason that I voted to leave the EU as I wanted us to have control of our own destinies back again and wouldn't mind betting that many more of us oldies felt the same way

Lesser of two evils, like I said. At least we still have such labelling for a couple more years :-)

Since the mass conversion of polytechnics to universities only happened 25 years ago, giving all and any the chance of a degree, that's not too surprising a figure to me.

Before that only the few stayed on for 6th form and university, the mass went out to work at 15/16 years old and learned on the job (and let's not knock real life as a means of education), so this would comprise a very large part of your 72%.