DEAR YOUNG BRITISH PEOPLE

The EU referendum is on the 23rd JUNE and here’s some scary stats the BBC decided to throw at me this morning: 

“just over a third of 18- to 24-year-olds intend to or are certain to vote, compared with well over two thirds of the over-75s” mix that with “those under the age of 35 are roughly twice as likely to vote to stay in as those over the age of 55″

DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS HEADING? No? Then let me spell it out for you, Hamilton style:

We are gonna get ourselves kicked out of the EU if you don’t get your arse down to the polling station and VOTE for us to stay on the 23rd June.

So, here I am, doing my best to convince you to VOTE STAY.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

I get it. You’re apathetic. Politics is boring/corrupt/pointless, all the parties are the same, we’re screwed anyway etc etc. I FEEL YOU. Mate, do I feel you. But THIS referendum has NOTHING to do with political parties or alliances, even the muppets running this country are split. THIS is about the SINGLE QUESTION of if you want us to stay, or want us to leave.

And if you don’t vote for us to stay, then the older generation will most likely vote for us to leave. 

SO WHY ARE WE HAVING A REFERENDUM?

The EU has been going pretty great considering it was all one giant experiment, and it’s been swimming along mostly A-OK for years, but then… the Tories got desperate. Last election, they promised a referendum to get some of the right-wing *cough*UKIP*cough* votes, so now, here we are, having a vote about the EU even though, WE HAVE NO FUCKING PROBLEM WITH THE EU.

BUT WHAT HAS THE EU EVER DONE FOR US?

Being a member of the EU means you can hop across borders as you please: you can study abroad, live abroad, and go on holiday abroad within the EU with much less hassle than if we were outside it. 

But they are also responsible for a bunch of welfare laws that we take for granted: 

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But seriously here’s some other things that you might not have realised were thanks to the EU:

At the minute it’s a great symbiotic system where we have plenty of freedom but also, plenty of support. 

SO WHY DO PEOPLE WANNA BREXIT?

Because it sounds like a breakfast cereal and I’m guessing they’re hungry af. Admittedly, we have to pay a fee to be in the EU (but relatively, this is minimal) and it can also mean more “red tape”. But as far as I can tell these are all just very polite ways to say that the EU just have too much gosh darn ~power~ over us. URGH. First of all, this is not the British Empire, we’re allowed to have allies, and it’s a good thing that we have other nations keeping us in check. (And with the Tories destroying the country, you might find yourself hoping that the EU did have more power to keep us in check). Secondly, we’re already a special snowflake in the EU, and they grant us PLENTY of leeway, so it’s not as if they’ve got us by the tighty whiteys. 

Originally posted by ealylo

The Leave campaign are scapegoating refugees as to why we need to leave the EU which would be hilarious if I didn’t live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by white middle-class racist UKIP voters that are goddamn licking it up. (Cornwall. Don’t even.) They are using the recent “migrant crisis” to emphasise that as soon as someone becomes an EU member they can live anywhere in the EU, as in, all the EU countries that are nicer than we are and actually let people fleeing from their wartorn country stay, can therefore decide to move to the UK. But, yo, leaving the EU won’t stop immigration. And even more hilariously, our borders are actually more likely to be weaker if we leave the EU than stronger.

Putting aside the fact that apparently millions of people in our nation don’t give a fuck about refugees that are in part OUR GODDAMN FAULT and certainly if you’re a human being OUR GODDAMN CONCERN, the Leave campaign are apparently forgetting about OUR IMMIGRANTS. 

As in:

2.2m British nationals that, if we leave the EU, are suddenly dumped into muddy water. Oh yeah, Leave campaign, I really see you caring about them. 

I’ve honestly never seen such hypocrisy in my life. 

OH, AND IT’S ECONOMIC SUICIDE

The Leave campaign cannot produce a single independent study to show that economically we’d be better off leaving the EU.

jk it’s because we’re NOT.

Our economy is now so tied to the EU that it would be a fucking MESS if we left. It’s 57% of our trade. It’s 1 in 10 of our jobs. It could take us a decade just to untangle ourselves. And, lord knows, we’d never win Eurovision again.

TO SUMMARISE

On JUNE 23RD please vote to REMAIN IN THE EU. If you do nothing, it’s likely we’re gonna be outvoted by hypocritical racist UKIP-wankers and get our country in an even worse financial state.

The reason I am here BEGGING my 12 followers and 200 spambots to VOTE TO STAY is because the last time there was a referendum, I was a naive little undergrad, and I thought “this option is so obviously better, everyone’s going to vote for it” and HAHAHAHAHA DID THAT NOT HAPPEN. You may think you don’t need to vote, but YOU DO. 

Governments are only as smart as the people informing them.

We need to give our idiotic government as close to an actual representation of our country’s opinion. That means we need to get our turnout percentage up to AT LEAST two-thirds like the over 75s so that the result of the referendum is an actual reflection of opinion.

That doesn’t happen if you don’t vote. 

So please, check you are registered to vote RIGHT NOW. And on June 23rd, VOTE TO STAY.

Originally posted by yourreactiongifs

We’re already fucked here in the colonies, don’t get fucked over there too!

The European Union isn’t perfect. Infact, it’s in dire need of a damn good rewiring. However, it’s in our best interests to stay. We, the UK, absolutely cannot survive outside of it.

A lot of the older generation feel betrayed by the EU because they were, according to my parents and grandparents, sold the idea of entering it based on a lie: Labour told them it would only be a trade agreement and then, well, it wasn’t. Entering it completely fucked our relationship with the Commonwealth, too: sense of betrayal aside, most Commonwealth countries have free trade with one another but we can’t do that because of the EU treaty.

So a lot of people want out because they never really wanted in in the first place.

But.

It is way too late to change those things. Our relationship with the Commonwealth is likely to remain fucked no matter what we do at this point, and while I understand the anger at having been tricked into political union I don’t think anybody can reasonably claim that pulling out 30 years later is a sensible balm to the wound.

The Tories want out of the EU because they want out of the European Convention on Human Rights, among other things. That sentence alone should tell you why we need to stay in: our government is pissed because Europe won’t let them commit war crimes.

Please, guys. Vote to stay in. Remember when the boomers outvoted our attempts to get a fairer voting system? This will be a thousand times worse.

Some of the same high profile people who spoke out against Scottish Independence (English people, mind) spoke out in favour of leaving the EU at the last election. (David Cameron may have changed his tune, but what’s new.) I don’t want Scotland dragged out of the EU because we didn’t get independence. Especially since we were being threatened with getting kicked out of the EU if we became independent. The EU isn’t evil.

Whoa there satan call down

The simple yet beautiful promise ring he gets for you

How he likes your hair 👑💕

His favorite dress on you 👗💁

tbh i study law and if 5sos’ management took action against the magazine i doubt they’d win the case just because most of the article is smartly worded in the sense that the fakeness and attempt to slightly twist words can just be argued as perspective and opinion :/ however that doesn’t mean they won’t try to take legal action and if they do 5sos literally will be forbidden from speaking up about the article as it can be held against them in court and they can potentially mess the case up. so, i’d wait a while before jumping on their asses for not speaking up because they could fuck up a potential lawsuit. not excusing anything in the article btw i’d just like to point out from a legal perspective that if there’s a case at hand they won’t be allowed to address the situation

also a lot of ppl are saying ‘i wish they’d hurry up’ idk how … familiar u all are with law but u literally cannot ‘hurry’ a legal case up, especially not lawsuits. like it does not work like that lol. really quickly, i’d like to point out that what the author of the article did is not slander, it would be considered libel, but he didn’t actually misquote 5sos (i mean, he could have but i don’t believe he’d risk his career like that) he simply wrote their answers in misleading ways, made things seem harsher than they actually were, and just wrote an all out shitty article. it’ll be incredibly hard to sue and make the process incredibly harder because of this.

anyway, when suing for defamation, it’s a huge and very long process, as u need to prove that false facts and statements were communicated in an article, that it thoroughly injures a person’s reputation (which is more difficult to prove than u may think), AND that the person who is defaming said person is not privileged (this is hard to explain but long story short in some cases a person is allowed to spread negativity about someone on certain basis’, it’s a messy thing that is associated with freedom of speech and expression).

another thing i’d like to acknowledge, defamation is not a crime, it’s actually a tort and torts often take very long to process and happen in the court system, surprisingly no matter how famous you are. i’d like to note that defamation cases can very often take up to 12 months (sometimes years; but because they’re famous i see it lasting less time) to go through with. law suits are tricky and there’s a reason a lot of people don’t go through with them. so if 5sos are in fact going through with this (which, i do believe they are, otherwise they would have spoken on this and not had their families make vague comments). you may have to give them a while before they speak up. it takes a while to actually file a lawsuit itself so they may not tell us that they’re doing that for a while (if they are, that is) to make sure everything is set :/ again they might not be taking legal action but in the chance they are i thought i’d let u all kno how long this process actually is!

so as soon as i heard catch 22 i thought, ‘damn this would make a great tv show theme song.’ sooo, here it is :)

This is my new favorite thing

seeing Joe Jonas with 5sos dead ass feels like seeing my ex boyfriend hanging out with my boyfriend and I’m not sure how to feel about it

DRUM LESSONS with huke lemmings

did Luke seriously just roll away from Calum 

I feel like no one appreciates rolling luke

have you ever heard a cute boy giggle its literally life changing

because luke has been looking particularly boyfriend lately 

She lies awake  Trying to find the words to say  I wish I was, I wish I was  Beside you +

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