How About Another EU Referendum?

How About Another EU Referendum?

Poll: How About Another EU Referendum?

Total Members Polled: 462

Oh no - not again - I'm abstaining: 11%
Yes please: 29%
Absolutely not: 60%
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Discussion

Al Gorithum

Original Poster:

3,663 posts

207 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Full disclosure: I voted to leave the EU.

However it's pretty clear to me that I was sold a pup by the lying Boris and Reece Mogg etc, but even if it can be done successfully we don't have any talent in Govt to pull it off, therefore if there was another referendum I'd vote to remain.

I wonder how many other other Leavers have changed their mind?

What say you?

bloomen

6,854 posts

158 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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The original should've told people what they were actually voting for. In retrospect it's utterly deranged that it was so woolly.

toon10

6,140 posts

156 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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I voted remain but no, there shouldn't be another referendum. Our reputation in mainland Europe isn't great and I don't think trying to re-join would be well received or do either side any favours. Our country is already divided since the first one so another referendum would just add more division and take up more time and effort from the government. That time and effort would be better served elsewhere with all of the issues the UK has right now.

TCX

1,976 posts

54 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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How about another 2,best out of 3? Scissors paper stone?
Done over......and out full stop.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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toon10 said:
I voted remain but no, there shouldn't be another referendum. Our reputation in mainland Europe isn't great and I don't think trying to re-join would be well received or do either side any favours. Our country is already divided since the first one so another referendum would just add more division and take up more time and effort from the government. That time and effort would be better served elsewhere with all of the issues the UK has right now.
I agree with this.

I voted Remain and I believe that Leaving will have (and is having) a negative effect in several different ways but we made our own bed and now we need to lie in it.

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Countdown said:
toon10 said:
I voted remain but no, there shouldn't be another referendum. Our reputation in mainland Europe isn't great and I don't think trying to re-join would be well received or do either side any favours. Our country is already divided since the first one so another referendum would just add more division and take up more time and effort from the government. That time and effort would be better served elsewhere with all of the issues the UK has right now.
I agree with this.

I voted Remain and I believe that Leaving will have (and is having) a negative effect in several different ways but we made our own bed and now we need to lie in it.

It's not binary.

Johnson and his cabal mentioned, hyped in fact, the Norwegian and Icelandic options, the point being that we could leave FOM without any financial problems. The only downside being we would lose any say in what direction the EU would go.

We do not necessarily have to limit ourselves to either of those routes, but we do need to renegotiate, or rather negotiate, a proper plan to include trading with one of the world's biggest trading blocks.

Brexit is done and that's it. There's no apparent way the EU would let us back in, not without penalties so heavy that it would cost us more. We should forget about that. But agreed change, cooperation and working with the EU is quite possible and would give advantages.

A Winner Is You

24,942 posts

226 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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TCX said:
How about another 2,best out of 3? Scissors paper stone?
Done over......and out full stop.
What it really means is "keep having them until I get the result I wanted, then it will be considered settled for generations." See also Scotland.

LasseV

1,754 posts

132 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Countdown said:
I agree with this.

I voted Remain and I believe that Leaving will have (and is having) a negative effect in several different ways but we made our own bed and now we need to lie in it.
But you can always change your mind. Brexit is stbed from UK POV. As an EU citizen i haven't even noticed it. There is no hard feelings if you want to join back. Of course UK politics need to be more capable of doing co-operation with EU27. You cant have farage or bojo kind of monkeys in charge.

CharlesdeGaulle

26,099 posts

179 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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I was a Remainer but there's no going back. Parts of the EU are glad we're gone, and rejoining would see us needing to adopt the Euro. We had it and we blew it, now we have to live with it.

Biggy Stardust

6,796 posts

43 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Derek Smith said:

Brexit is done and that's it. There's no apparent way the EU would let us back in, not without penalties so heavy that it would cost us more. We should forget about that. But agreed change, cooperation and working with the EU is quite possible and would give advantages.
You might not have been keeping up on affairs but the EU are determined to be total aholes on the subject, not us.

Candellara

1,876 posts

181 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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I voted Leave (and bitterly regret it) but after all the lies that were sold to us, i'd now vote Remain

Vanden Saab

13,895 posts

73 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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62 no 26 yes that is a majority in rejoiners eyes...rolleyes

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Biggy Stardust said:
Derek Smith said:

Brexit is done and that's it. There's no apparent way the EU would let us back in, not without penalties so heavy that it would cost us more. We should forget about that. But agreed change, cooperation and working with the EU is quite possible and would give advantages.
You might not have been keeping up on affairs but the EU are determined to be total aholes on the subject, not us.
It's certainly a dirty trick, this sticking to the law.

There's no need for them to be gentle, kind and considerate. We are competitors now. We stuck two fingers up at them, decided not to negotiate, and now you want them to do what? Not abide by the agreement?

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Al Gorithum said:
Full disclosure: I voted to leave the EU.

However it's pretty clear to me that I was sold a pup by the lying Boris and Reece Mogg etc, but even if it can be done successfully we don't have any talent in Govt to pull it off, therefore if there was another referendum I'd vote to remain.

I wonder how many other other Leavers have changed their mind?

What say you?
Ditto.

bloomen

6,854 posts

158 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Derek Smith said:
There's no need for them to be gentle, kind and considerate. We are competitors now. We stuck two fingers up at them, decided not to negotiate, and now you want them to do what? Not abide by the agreement?
Guess so.

How dare they.

speedy_thrills

7,760 posts

242 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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I thought the UK was going to start building it's own EU within the Anglosphere.

CANZUK (One assumes Ireland would also be invited?)

oilit

2,618 posts

177 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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I voted stay, but after the europe approach to ukraine, if the vote came again i would vote leave, they remind me of the playground bully.

Biggy Stardust

6,796 posts

43 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Derek Smith said:
Biggy Stardust said:
Derek Smith said:

Brexit is done and that's it. There's no apparent way the EU would let us back in, not without penalties so heavy that it would cost us more. We should forget about that. But agreed change, cooperation and working with the EU is quite possible and would give advantages.
You might not have been keeping up on affairs but the EU are determined to be total aholes on the subject, not us.
It's certainly a dirty trick, this sticking to the law.

There's no need for them to be gentle, kind and considerate. We are competitors now. We stuck two fingers up at them, decided not to negotiate, and now you want them to do what? Not abide by the agreement?
How to break this to you.............. cooperation needs both sides.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Biggy Stardust said:
How to break this to you.............. cooperation needs both sides.
How to break this to you......signing up to an agreement and then threatening to walk away from that agreement when it no longer suits, isn't co-operation.

Equus

16,770 posts

100 months

Friday 24th June 2022
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Biggy Stardust said:
How to break this to you.............. cooperation needs both sides.
yes

In respect of which, if we did have a second referendum and voted to return to the EU, what makes you think that Brussels wouldn't just stick two fingers up and wander off laughing?