Would you change your Ref vote if you could go back time?

[sealtt]

TLandCruiser said:

romeogolf said:

A colleague has just said she voted "leave" because her niece's school won't have a Christmas tree because it might offend non-Christians.

Other than the fact that I call bullst on the tree issue, it worries me that this is what people voted for.

And a women at work voted remain because she thought she would not be able to go on holiday to Spain and she did want boris to be pm

Further supporting the point that a public referendum was not a suitable way to resolve this matter, regardless of the outcome of the referendum.

[audikentman]

We had 1 vote In
1 vote Out
Maybe we should have a vote to Shake it all about?

[carreauchompeur]

ash73 said:

Eric Mc said:

Or maybe the time in the lead up to the referendum should have been spent educating people rather than engaging in facile and downright imbecilic argument.

Hear, hear

Yes, fully agree with this. Even the pro-remain leaflet the Government sent out was woefully inadequate. Should have been a well designed leaflet saying: if we leave, we exit X,y,z and if we remain, etc... Then left people to make the choice.

[motco]

Eric Mc said:

Or maybe the time in the lead up to the referendum should have been spent educating people rather than engaging in facile and downright imbecilic argument.

Yes, they reaped what they sowed. I would take issue with 'argument' and sustitute 'propaganda'.

[tomw2000]

madala said:

If you were to uninterested to vote first time round ...... well to be honest you can go and fck your young self .......

Agree. I did vote. I mentioned it purely terms of poll option coverage. Not to give options that reflected my own position.

[Countdown]

Hoofy said:

Eric Mc said:

Or maybe the time in the lead up to the referendum should have been spent educating people rather than engaging in facile and downright imbecilic argument.

Pretty much.

There was enough information out there. The problem is that people only believed what they wanted to believe.

[Jasandjules]

I could not decide so did not vote. I still can't quite decide now. But I accept that the Leave vote have won and in my view we should do so as a result.

[vonuber]

I've heard from at least 3 people who didn't vote because they thought it wouldn't matter. All under 25 too.

Muppets.

[Mario149]

vonuber said:

I've heard from at least 3 people who didn't vote because they thought it wouldn't matter. All under 25 too.

Muppets.

Yep, such a shame. I work with young people indirectly in an organization that, amongst other things, encourages them to get involved in political and local issues and support their local community. Hopefully the work we are doing, which is on a national scale (big responsibility!), will engage more young people into the process which is so critical for their future.

[markcoznottz]

ash73 said:

Eric Mc said:

Or maybe the time in the lead up to the referendum should have been spent educating people rather than engaging in facile and downright imbecilic argument.

Hear, hear

We are governed by idiots, there was no mention, for example of potential loss of bank 'passporting' due to brexit. Did they think we were too stupid to understand? The remain pamphlet made no mention of this iirc.

[AJL308]

vonuber said:

I've heard from at least 3 people who didn't vote because they thought it wouldn't matter. All under 25 too.

Muppets.

Which is precisely why the 'young' have no right at all to abuse the 'old'.

[Mario149]

Rerun of vote looks like it would now yield a 2% result in favour of Remain at this point, on PH only of course.

[///ajd]

Mario149 said:

Rerun of vote looks like it would now yield a 2% result in favour of Remain at this point, on PH only of course.

Seems that way.

It seems likely the democratic will of the UK has already probably changed its mind.

Given a fair proportion (but not all) have voted on the basis of some pretty big whoppers, their change of heart would be decisive, and the stakes are pretty high here - I'm not so sure why a re-vote is being so clearly ruled out as undemocratic. Another vote would be democratic. And it is not the case of keep voting until you get the answer you want - its a case of "oh dear even the supporters of leave are going "oh fck"".

[andy_s]

AJL308 said:

vonuber said:

I've heard from at least 3 people who didn't vote because they thought it wouldn't matter. All under 25 too.

Muppets.

Which is precisely why the 'young' have no right at all to abuse the 'old'.

Turnout
18-24: 36%
25-34: 58%
35-44: 72%
45-54: 75%
55-64: 81%
65+: 83%

[kurt535]

Mario149 said:

vonuber said:

I've heard from at least 3 people who didn't vote because they thought it wouldn't matter. All under 25 too.

Muppets.

Yep, such a shame. I work with young people indirectly in an organization that, amongst other things, encourages them to get involved in political and local issues and support their local community. Hopefully the work we are doing, which is on a national scale (big responsibility!), will engage more young people into the process which is so critical for their future.

too late...

[EnglishTony]

A second referendum wouldn't change the result. Cameron knows this and that is why he is against having one.

I trust Cameron’s future employers are happy with this state of affairs.

[AJL308]

TLandCruiser said:

And a women at work voted remain because she thought she would not be able to go on holiday to Spain and she did want boris to be pm

I'm coming around to the idea that there should be some form of intelligence test before someone is allowed to vote. Seriously.

I have no idea how you would implement it but it surely can't be beyond the wit of us to come up with something?

[Bradgate]

I was always going to vote remain, and would do do again.

A lot of ill-informed people appear to have cast a protest vote, and are now shocked by the escalating crisis their stupidity has created.

[VolvoT5]

I think a lot of brexiters may change their mind over the next few weeks as the economy starts to go totally tits up.

On the basis of this pole a re-run would change the result already. Just imagine what will happen in 3-4 months when economic issues start to kick in.

Perhaps we should have a poll "How would you vote in a second referendum".

[SeeFive]

VolvoT5 said:

I think a lot of brexiters may change their mind over the next few weeks as the economy starts to go totally tits up.

On the basis of this pole a re-run would change the result already. Just imagine what will happen in 3-4 months when economic issues start to kick in.

Perhaps we should have a poll "How would you vote in a second referendum".

I know right now. 4 months isn't long enough to execute article 50 and start to rewind all that is necessary. Any reaction to change my view would be based on negative spin and risk averse market knee jerk reaction.

I am in for the long game, making sure I am out, properly up and running independently when the EU expensively implodes.