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

[anonymous-user]

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.

This does seem very silly. I work with a lot of young men under 25 and almost all of those I know and have heard of have voted out - apart from the Scottish. I wonder if people will say they are racist or patriotic when I say they are soldiers?

[Mario149]

bmw535i said:

This does seem very silly. I work with a lot of young men under 25 and almost all of those I know and have heard of have voted out - apart from the Scottish. I wonder if people will say they are racist or patriotic when I say they are soldiers?

Misguided?!

[vonuber]

It's an interesting comparison to the previous poll:



Currently it's a swing from 65%/35% to 57%/42%, albeit with a smaller sample size of 799 to 416.

[EnglishTony]

Why would the EU implode? It works fine. Better even without Britain in it. Which is why the EU is not standing in your way right now. In fact they are holding the door open for you and they have got a taxi waiting. Off you go

[Otispunkmeyer]

EnglishTony said:

Why would the EU implode? It works fine. Better even without Britain in it. Which is why the EU is not standing in your way right now. In fact they are holding the door open for you and they have got a taxi waiting. Off you go

Yes works brilliantly. Group of little dictators at the helm, a hole the size of Jupiter in the finances and high youth unemployment. It's well rosy.

For me that man juncker is reason enough to hit the silk.

[sealtt]

I'd love to hear from someone who voted Remain but would change their mind to Leave.

Fully understand the logic of leavers staying leave and retainers staying remain, even leavers turning remain makes sense due to all the negative effects of leave being reported, but what's the logic of originally voting remain but wanting to change to leave? There has not been any positive campaigning about leave since the day of the vote, just negative news stories.

[StottyEvo]

Everybody seems to be forgetting how terrible the EU actually is. Free market aside, the bureaucracy, gravy train, open borders and regulations imposed were abhorrent.

[lostkiwi]

Economically however the EU has a trade surplus, unlike the UK.

[Eric Mc]

lostkiwi said:

Economically however the EU has a trade surplus, unlike the UK.

Does that imply their trade surplus will be even better as the UK's trade deficit will not be included in the figures now?

[lostkiwi]

Eric Mc said:

lostkiwi said:

Economically however the EU has a trade surplus, unlike the UK.

Does that imply their trade surplus will be even better as the UK's trade deficit will not be included in the figures now?

It does.

[Jonesy23]

vonuber said:

It's an interesting comparison to the previous poll:



Currently it's a swing from 65%/35% to 57%/42%, albeit with a smaller sample size of 799 to 416.

I suspect the numbers are slightly swung by there being over 9000 threads currently on here on this subject and a lot of people not bothering any more.

And self selecting polls are meaningless as we have surely learned by now.

Personally I wouldn't change my vote either way because I'm not a fking idiot and actually thought about it before I did it.

[stevemiller]

Jonesy23 said:

I suspect the numbers are slightly swung by there being over 9000 threads currently on here on this subject and a lot of people not bothering any more.

And self selecting polls are meaningless as we have surely learned by now.

Personally I wouldn't change my vote either way because I'm not a fking idiot and actually thought about it before I did it.

Agree and I did exactly the same.

[dandarez]

If I could go back in time would I change my vote?

YES, I bloody well would!

I'd vote NO - instead of the YES that I did!!!

If you're confused, I'm talking about June 1975.
Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?

Did I make the same mistake in June 2016?
Nope.

And I wouldn't change it.
Love Europe.
Absolutely loathe the EU.

[gothatway]

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.

Hang on a moment - don't forget all those dire predictions of what the EU was storing up until our referendum had been held. If the EU makes further moves towards their beloved ever-closer union (e.g. a EU army), that would only strengthen the Brexit conviction.

[towser44]

gothatway said:

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.

Hang on a moment - don't forget all those dire predictions of what the EU was storing up until our referendum had been held. If the EU makes further moves towards their beloved ever-closer union (e.g. a EU army), that would only strengthen the Brexit conviction.

There's a fair bit on some of the newspaper websites tonight talking about some leak regarding a European Superstate (albeit seems to be on the pro-brexit papers sites)

[AJL308]

towser44 said:

gothatway said:

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.

Hang on a moment - don't forget all those dire predictions of what the EU was storing up until our referendum had been held. If the EU makes further moves towards their beloved ever-closer union (e.g. a EU army), that would only strengthen the Brexit conviction.

There's a fair bit on some of the newspaper websites tonight talking about some leak regarding a European Superstate (albeit seems to be on the pro-brexit papers sites)

You can't post something like that without a link FFS!

[bloomen]

Voted remain. Still would. Not because I love the EU but because the status quo is adequate enough and considerably more adequate than how the nearish future will end up.

As the reality, or total lack thereof from both sides, roll in it's not getting prettier any time soon.

And I'm enjoying the wailing from the young folks. The little sts should've actually voted. There's a hard lesson for them.

[Beati Dogu]

dandarez said:

If I could go back in time would I change my vote?

YES, I bloody well would!

I'd vote NO - instead of the YES that I did!!!

If you're confused, I'm talking about June 1975.
Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?

Did I make the same mistake in June 2016?
Nope.

And I wouldn't change it.
Love Europe.
Absolutely loathe the EU.

Good point. I wonder how many of the "old" are correcting the error they made back in 1975 when they were "young".

[ZX10R NIN]

It went tits up before & people didn't have a say on that, it's funny how the Euro & European markets are being hit harder than the UK. It's done lets get on with it europe is busy trying to stop anymore referendums in Sweden & the Netherlands & shoring up it's position so we should be doing the same.
Most people knew what they were voting for end of so let's get on with the decision & start moving forward.

My only disappointment in the whole process is that Cameron resigned rather than carry out the will of the people which for me lowered my opinion of the man.

[Robertj21a]

///ajd said:

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"".

I see that you are conveniently forgetting about all those Remainers who thought matters affecting them would be only holiday money or the lack of phone roaming charges. They're probably the very same ones who will be quick to moan when immigrants move in next door.