European Union Referendum - Did we make the right decision?

After a neck to neck campaign between Remain and Leave, the UK voted to leave the European Union. The results caused quite a stir across social media as well as amongst political parties. The two main parties: Labour and the Conservatives were divided on the issue, creating a lot of public concern. 

There were even further divisions within the campaigns themselves. Jeremy Corbyn suggested that despite himself and the Prime Minister originating from the Remain campaign, he said he would not share a platform with Cameron because he is 'making a completely different argument'. Many young people were angered by the result, protesting that the UK had 'voted away their future'. 

Suggesting that elderly voters who weren't affected by immigration of students voted to leave on prejudice. There were also problems within the individual campaigns after the referendum, the Remain campaign from the Labour party seemed 'weak' and 'unhelpful', and there was public dismay as to the Prime Ministers position in the Remain campaign.

Should a leader who wanted to stay in the European Union, govern a country who wished to leave? The leave campaign suffered much controversy after the result, when Nigel Farage claimed that £350 million of European Union cash wasn't going to go on the NHS after Brexit, despite the claim being one of the leave campaign's strongest arguments. 

The most recognisable dismay for the technical generation was the uproar on social media. Facebook, Twitter erupted in rage concerning the result, suggesting the outcome of the referendum was an 'irreversible mistake'. Many people claimed that they voted to leave as a protest vote against the Prime Minister and had not intended to leave the EU. Humorously, I heard on the streets of Kent near my school a voter utter, 'If I had known that Boris would have been in charge, I would have voted differently.'

Realistically, no definitive proof could be provided for either campaign due to the UK not experiencing life without the EU in the first place. Now we have voted for such an experience, only time will tell if we made the right decision.