Is there anybody here who voted 'leave' who now regrets it?

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Just wondering.

I'm generally not a very political person but seeing the total mess which seems to have been created by the government following through on the vote to leave the EU.

I think that the sane thing is to say 'OK we made a mistake, please can we stay in the EU.

I guess they won't because it's following through on the vote.

I know a lot of people are saying there should be a second vote, but I think these are people who voted to remain in the first place.

I was wondering if there would be any backing for a second referendum (or simply a let's forget brexit) from anyone who originally voted to leave. Maybe it's not delivering as you expected? Do you think that the pro-brexit politicians misrepresented things to you and you'd vote differently if you had a second chance?

(PS name change if you're embarrassed !)

MissyCooper where I work i am possibly in an English minority. I count Romanians, Poles, Estonians and Lithuanians as my colleagues.
What did I want from leave? A clean cut. Not owing money. Not being tied to European legislations for the next x number of years. An opportunity to trade with other countries without the disapproving glare of Europe. An opportunity to stand on our own two feet and make our own decisions. Current deal doesn't do this.

I agree with a previous poster. TM didn't expect the country to vote leave. Plans in place were wishy washy.

Unfortunately what we are being offered at the minute is no good to those who voted leave or remain.

I didn’t even want the vote in the first place! I researched, I listened to both sides and I thought leaving would be a good idea. Now that’s been revealed to not be the case I feel like I was duped a bit. Especially by Boris saying that the money would be better spent elsewhere except it was never that straightforward was it? I’m desperate for there to be a second referendum so I can try and undo the damage I assisted in causing. DH feels the same.

No regrets at all. I did a lot of research and voted accordingly

Nope, and I favour a hard brexit. >Dons Hard Hat

No regrets whatsoever, hoping now for a hard Brexit and no deal.

@TwitterQueen1 what are the “but because foreign/EU policy has been prioritised over domestic policies”?

Thank you for answering.

But what is it that you want her to do to achieve all of these things? How do you think that can happen now? Are you ok with crashing out with no deal?

Bunnyhop, I am so sorry for you. To listen to a politician like that, misunderstand what they are saying, not do your own research then make a vote that you later regret, I just feel so awful for you. Perhaps next time you have the huge responsiblity of voting on the future of our country, you might take the time to look into it for yourself.

As the people who voted leave and don't regret it sit and watch the chaos our country is descending into, how bad will it have to get before you do regret it?

When a bottle of brown sauce costs ten pounds a bottle in the supermarket because of high trade tariffs and the low value of the pound.,,so when our cost of living is through the roof?
When people start having their homes repossessed because interests rates are through the roof?
When people start losing their jobs because businesses leave, because the cost of doing business in a stranded island is too high?
When people don't get their operations or medication on the nhs, because rhe cost of importing medication means what little value money we do have means we can't afford the treatment,

When does it become so bad, that you start to regret it? Or is increased poverty,homelessness, unemployment, more sick people your aim?

Not me. Voted leave and would vote leave again. And again.

Genuine question. Not goading.
Those who are v happy for us to leave what is your idea of a solution to the issue of Northern Ireland.
Their seems to have to be a customs border either between northern and Southern Ireland or between mainland UK and Northern Ireland.
Either way wars have been fought over

When a bottle of brown sauce costs ten pounds a bottle in the supermarket because of high trade tariffs and the low value of the pound.,,so when our cost of living is through the roof? When people start having their homes repossessed because interests rates are through the roof? When people start losing their jobs because businesses leave, because the cost of doing business in a stranded island is too high? When people don't get their operations or medication on the nhs, because rhe cost of importing medication means what little value money we do have means we can't afford the treatment, When does it become so bad, that you start to regret it? Or is increased poverty,homelessness, unemployment, more sick people your aim?

The idea that we have to belong to this corrupt, horrendous club that is the EU in order to avoid this scenario is precisely the reason I would vote leave again. Why should any country be held hostage, basically because they want our money to prop up other countries?

Baffling.

Voted leave, don’t regret it.
Truly believe that once we are out, in a couple of years, more countries will follow.

Also want hard brexit and no deal.

I honestly think the exit deal / politics involved in leaving the EU are too complex for average Joe to make a decision on, based on some tabloid headlines, bit of news on the telly once in a while, Facebook memes, and rantings from some semi / un-educated people around them.
It's a very serious and difficult matter to understand, I fully admit I was not well informed enough to make a decision & cast a vote on Brexit.
I don't blame leave voters for the way they voted at all. How could they have known it would be such a mess.

The idea that we have to belong to this corrupt, horrendous club that is the EU in order to avoid this scenario is precisely the reason I would vote leave again. Why should any country be held hostage, basically because they want our money to prop up other countries?

Precisely and exactly the reason that I voted leave and the longer that this goes on the stronger my belief that we should leave.

The fact that the process has turned into an unmitigated disaster is not the fault of those who voted to leave - it is entirely the fault of the politicians who failed to adequately prepare and who have gone out of their way to make the negotiations fail and now we have the leadership contest to further derail proceedings. I'm guessing this is also the fault of the leave voters?

To all those looking for a hard brexit please can you explain what benefits you expect us all to gain and how these will outweigh the downsides?

I did a lot of research before and after the referendum and as far as i can see all the predictions made before have come to pass, which gives credibility to them continuing to be right about the negative effects in the future. I have a finance job and well versed in the state of the economy.

Really really want to hear the positives.

No regrets at all. My only regret is that the politicians are making a mess of it. Rather than showing a strong front, they are bickering like children. No wonder we have a weak position.
We were never going to get exactly what we wanted. And the deal struck was better than I anticipated but not perfect. However only a fool would expect to vote leave and get it all our way.
As tough as the negotiations have been, we have been weakened further by the infighting of politicians, driven by their agenda not the agenda of the democratic vote.
To say all leave voters did not know what they were voting for is naive, yes there are some, but no more or less than those remainers who look the other way to all the negatives being part of the EU brings. We are all guilty of not fully appreciating the full impact of either way of the vote.
That is true in any vote. We vote to what 'parts attract us the most and ignore the not so attractive parts because to us the opposition has far more less attractive parts, and we ignore the parts of the opposition that is positive.
Remain/leave, each have positive and negatives. People will vote on what they hold value more, and ignore the rest.
To ignore a democratic vote I think is the most dangerous aspect of all this, but that is simply my perspective as the value of our vote is something I hold in high value.

But that's the remain campaigns fault for not letting people know how damaging it would be

And surely therein lies a large part of the problem. Its someone else's fault. That attitude is shocking, take responsibilty for your own actions. he made me do it barely has a place in a nursery playground certainly not ever from the mouth (or keyboard) of an adult who is capable of educating themselves and voting accordingly.

Voted remain, but couldn't face another referendum. The first has caused a lot of damage, and divisions in the country. On the bonus side it has shaken up Westminster - but that place needs a total reboot rather than a re shuffle.

I'm not sure what I would do if there was another referendum. Maybe build a bunker and become a prepper! I really couldn't face more years of confusion & propaganda. Part of me just wants them to bloody well get on with it, so we can start rebuilding the country.

The whole situation is just bonkers at the moment, in my eyes no one really won, there is no proper Brexit deal on the table, is anyone really happy with the current situation?? well maybe the rich bastards who got to keep their off shore bank accounts away from the EU tax avoidance laws - the rest of the uncertainty normal folk have to face is not an issue to the 1% club.

I don't regret voting leave. I am however frustrated with the arrogance of the govt to have asked the question in the first place without 10 plans in place should it go another way to what they wanted.

I know leavers and on the whole i dont think they've changed their minds.

My boss - very intelligent, but 69, of the generation that did not want to end up in the EU in the first place and has had a lifetime of being keen to get out.

MIL and FIL same age as my boss and pretty much same kind of mindset. MIL not aware of the issues and the main reason she cited to me about wanting to leave is not wanting to subsidize the Greeks Spanish and Italians. FIL said it was "very simple as we put in more money than we get back out." Boss said similar.

80 year old uncle - always opposed EU. Said we hadn't voted in 78 for the EU in its current form just for a trading relationship.

BIL - not very bright just copied my in-laws. Not sure that he's giving it much thought since but he has started going out with a Polish girl and moved her over to the UK so brexit is going to be very inconvenient for their future.

Friend aged 40, female. Intelligent. Thinks EU is just awful and wants out.

Friend aged 36, female. Not intelligent. Hoodwinked by racist propaganda. Don't know if she's changed her mind. I don't ask. The reasons she gave me for voting to leave were hair-raising. She literally said: " there's this man in London he's a rapist and a Muslim and we can't get him out because the Europeans won't let us, it's health and safety gone mad, we have to get out"!!!

Male friend, 45, knows his own mind, voted to leave because " we couldn't go on as we were could we"?

My old car park attendant he was only young (50) and he's died since. Voted to leave because he didn't want a European army.

My mum's friend in her 60's. Voted to leave because she " didn't feel British anymore" in particular cited Muslims!!

That's all the leavers I know.

@missesbiggens I did research and I didn’t misunderstand the giant red bus that stated there would be £350m per week to put into our healthcare system. My point (again) is that I felt that some of the points that swayed me were revealed after the vote to be untrue. Hope you’re picking through everybody’s replies and coming up with nice, clever responses. Maybe @ me next time - I nearly missed you

The leave campaign lied and have been fined for doing so.

Given the incredibly small margin for leave and the fact that they have been found to have lied and the fact that Russian interference has been discovered plus the election fraud committed by vote leave and Aaron Banks invalidates the the previous referendum result.

I don't want another referendum. The government are willing to pretend that the last result is a mandate for hard brexit. This shows the level of self-serving mendacity and out and out dishonesty in the political class. So you can't trust the public and you can't trust the politicians, so what can you do?