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

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

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

Total Members Polled: 819

No - voted Leave, def still would: 53%
No - voted Remain, def still would: 36%
Yes - voted Leave, would change to Remain: 4%
Yes - voted Remain, would change to Leave: 2%
Didn't vote - would vote Leave now: 1%
Didn't vote - would vote Remain now: 2%
Didn't vote - still wouldn't vote: 2%
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Mario149

Original Poster:

7,750 posts

177 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Been talk of buyer's/non-buyer's remorse so thought I'd stick this up smile

eatcustard

1,003 posts

126 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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We voted out, get over it, move on

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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I voted to leave and would do so again if the vote were recast tomorrow.

tomw2000

2,508 posts

194 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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You also need to add:

Didn't vote - if I got another chance would vote Leave
Didn't vote - if I got another chance would vote Remain



romeogolf

2,056 posts

118 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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My partner's brother in law voted leave and later said he'd vote remain if he had the chance. He didn't understand what he was really voting for and thought it was just to 'get rid of immigrants'. Only afterwards when we had the news on did he realise what was actually happening.

Zippee

13,445 posts

233 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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romeogolf said:
My partner's brother in law voted leave and later said he'd vote remain if he had the chance. He didn't understand what he was really voting for and thought it was just to 'get rid of immigrants'. Only afterwards when we had the news on did he realise what was actually happening.
It's for reasons such as this that I think we should never have had a referendum, way too important a subject to leave to people who haven't a clue to decide.

Eric Mc

121,785 posts

264 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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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.

Fittster

20,120 posts

212 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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We voted in the first time, out the second time. I'm sure there will be another vote one day.

Jonesy23

4,650 posts

135 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Zippee said:
It's for reasons such as this that I think we should never have had a referendum, way too important a subject to leave to people who haven't a clue to decide.
And yet the same method is used to choose MPs!

So I think I spot a flaw in your plan unless you mean you should be one of those making the decisions while those you deem unworthy are blocked out. Maybe you can follow the South African model as they had a similar idea?

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Fittster said:
We voted in the first time, out the second time. I'm sure there will be another vote one day.


We've only ever voted on EU membership once.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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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.

Timmy40

12,915 posts

197 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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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
I'm afraid I'm in agreement with Mervyn King that in his bid to make up ever more scary stories Osborne over egged it and the stories just became too dire to be believeable.

Remain realised this and stopped but there was no time to create and entire new positive strategy and campaign plan with just a few weeks before the referendum.

Lesson is that just scaring people isn't enough. The kids storey about the wind and the sun having a contest to get the traveller to take off his cloak comes to mind.

KingNothing

3,159 posts

152 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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If Cameron (or whoever) came back with a piece of paper from the EU with some actual compromises instead of the piece of paper he came back with the last time, which was just a piece of paper that Juncker had wiped his arse with, I'd consider changing votes.

MikeyC

836 posts

226 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Jonesy23 said:
Zippee said:
It's for reasons such as this that I think we should never have had a referendum, way too important a subject to leave to people who haven't a clue to decide.
And yet the same method is used to choose MPs!

So I think I spot a flaw in your plan unless you mean you should be one of those making the decisions while those you deem unworthy are blocked out. Maybe you can follow the South African model as they had a similar idea?
well, strictly not exactly the same as electing MP's, we use 'First past the Post' for them

but we *do* get another chance to choose the correct result every 5 years for them !

andy_s

19,397 posts

258 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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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.
The thing that struck me was, like the Scotland question and virtually everything else politicians deal with, is that it's more concerned with slinging mud at the other side than advancing good reasons for their decisions. This is evident across the dispatch box every PMQs, it's like a zoo.

The exit plan black-hole was obvious, yet not many intelligent journalists, commentators, voters or even politicians made much noise about it.

I think because they feel, and are probably correct, that most votes are cast for visceral reasons rather than logical ones, so they hijack the tabloids, ramp up the hysteria and watch the votes pour in.

I've seen the blame being passed around between the EU, the government, the extremists on both sides and the press, but I believe the fault lies firmly and squarely at the feet of the electorate for always voting for a class of people that continually demonstrate they are fairly useless at their jobs (managing a country) and only plan as far as the next election.

Eric Mc

121,785 posts

264 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Timmy40 said:
I'm afraid I'm in agreement with Mervyn King that in his bid to make up ever more scary stories Osborne over egged it and the stories just became too dire to be believeable.

Remain realised this and stopped but there was no time to create and entire new positive strategy and campaign plan with just a few weeks before the referendum.

Lesson is that just scaring people isn't enough. The kids storey about the wind and the sun having a contest to get the traveller to take off his cloak comes to mind.
I wasn't allocating any blame for this to one side or the other. BOTH sides have been to blame in this regard.


We all know that there are negative aspects to the EU but the positive aspects were never really championed with any passion or enthusiasm.

And, what's more, this came on top of pretty much 30 years of consistent misinformation meted out to the British public about the EU (and its predecessors).

romeogolf

2,056 posts

118 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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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.

R E S T E C P

660 posts

104 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Zippee said:
romeogolf said:
My partner's brother in law voted leave and later said he'd vote remain if he had the chance. He didn't understand what he was really voting for and thought it was just to 'get rid of immigrants'. Only afterwards when we had the news on did he realise what was actually happening.
It's for reasons such as this that I think we should never have had a referendum, way too important a subject to leave to people who haven't a clue to decide.
Yes that'd work. "You people are all too stupid, I run the country so I'll decide what's best for you"... That kind of thing?

It sounds like the guy above voted based on the ridiculous campaigning that was taking place (on both sides). That is how many people vote. Most people voted with good intentions for what they believed was best for their country, as explained by people "in the know".
Surely the politicians wouldn't be allowed to broadcast blatant lies just to achieve their goals? Oh... they would? Then we're fked!

TLandCruiser

2,788 posts

197 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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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

madala

5,063 posts

197 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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tomw2000 said:
You also need to add:

Didn't vote - if I got another chance would vote Leave
Didn't vote - if I got another chance would vote Remain
If you were to uninterested to vote first time round ...... well to be honest you can go and fck your young self ....... frown