Brexiteers actually welcome suffering, for no reason I can understand

There are a few problems with the article. First and foremost :

A huge majority of older Leave voters say significant damage to the British economy is a “price worth paying” to secure Brexit, research shows are mad idiots.

There, fixed it.

No fewer than 71 per cent of over-65s are willing for the country to take a big economic hit – and half would accept a member of their own family losing their job.

But I mean seriously, don't they understand that economics pays for stuff ? You know, nice things like roads and hospitals and schools ? And that we need jobs because we quite like things like, say, food ?
EDIT : From the source, "half" refers to of those who said yes or no, excluding those who said, "don't know".

I do have one genuine critique mind you :

Only over-50s voted for Brexit last year.

That's a downright dumb statement, considering the same article just talked about younger leave voters as well. It's worthy of the Huffington Post, not the Indy (which has been a bit of a mixed bag of late).

However, YouGov also identified what it called Brexit extremism on the Remain side, with 34 per cent happy for the economy to suffer if that meant Brexit could be stopped.

That's a fair comparison, but I'd be surprised if Remainers believed that the economy would take a hit, making the question meaningless. Whereas I'd absolutely believe that Leavers believe it will take a hit, because it will.

EDIT : From the source (https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/08/01/britain-nation-brexit-extremists/) it's clearer :
a significant minority of Remain voters would be happy for the economy to suffer should it mean that Brexit were averted.
Ahh, well that indicates a potentially unfair comparison. Leaving will mean a permanent hit to the economy since there's absolutely no sensible replacement on offer for access to the single market. Whereas if the threat of leaving causes an economic hit which forces us to re-think, that hit is only temporary and the long-term damage averted.

Originally shared by Jenny Winder

#Brexit: Majority of older Leave voters say significant economic damage is 'price worth paying'
(For what?)
Only over-50s voted for Brexit last year!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-leave-voters-uk-economy-damage-yougov-older-pensioners-losing-jobs-income-taxes-a7870871.html