I’m yet to meet a leaver

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Or have I but they’re just too ashamed to admit it?

Ah. Another secret meeting. And a list of the secret attendees. Any more astonishing revelations that have only been revealed to you? Where do you find these secrets? Or is that a secret too?

I don’t know any leavers either

The fact that the EU is so close to big global corporations and its interests lie with them rather than with nation states or indeed, actual people...
Blackrock
Amazon
Microsofy
BHP Biliton
BAT
all have UK ministers as consultants
so what is gained by leaving the EU

It's funny how people so desperate to get away from being exploited by the E.U. are so happy to be exploited by disaster capitalists like Rees-Mogg .

And so mad keen for our "freedom " and "sovereign decision making " that they didn't vote to get rid of FPTP when they had chance. At the start of the coalition government.

And rarely bothered voting in the European elections.

Most Leave voters I know are racist as well. Proper 'they should all fuck off home' racists. To the Leave voters getting angry about people pointing out the racist elements of the Leave vote and campaign, do you really genuinely not see the racism? Are you being wilfully blind, pretending it doesn't exist because it makes you uncomfortable? Maybe you really don't see the racism behind Britain First (for example) huge and vocal supporters of Brexit, (until they were banned from Facebook for racism) and really do think that Farage's racist poster is just informative?

My parents voted leave. Daily mail readers, thick and racist.

Our neighbours, very racist.

A school mum I knew. Daily mail reader and racist.

That's all I know who left and why.

@HateIsNotGood I'm a big girl I can hold my own.
As a leaver you get used to the name calling and assumptions about your intelligence.
I can't wait to prove that 17.4 million people were right.

Everytime these things seem to fill up with people holding individual English (and always English) people responsible for Irish history. Going by my irish family half the problem isnt the British history teaching, its that they seem to talk about nothing else except the evil english whilst completely submerged in the culture. They wouldnt dream of taking up issue with random Germans for the holocaust (and the slightly dodgy collaboration history there is quickly brushed over), so why is it ok with English people? many of whom have irish blood, or ancestors who suffered as much from the ruling classes?

As somebody very much in the middle of it as half and half, its boring and nasty on both sides. Pure nationalism and im sick of the effect of nationalism on history which in turns causes rubbish like brexit.

We also seemingly cant talk abut the protestants killed in the republic during the formation of northern ireland, or those thrown out. People would rather 'report' things than talk about them.

I do talk to my neighbours yes they're pakistani and Polish. You seem to be making a pathetic attempt at painting me as a snob because I live somewhere cheap and cant afford anything else, how does that work then?

2000 is a very good sample size. Its found surveys dont really get anyore accurate above that. But its just repeating what we already know. Unless its a massive coincidence racism skyrocketed after the referendum and Leave voters were statistically much less educated,

A couple of my friends are leavers. They are both racists and ironically both have immigrant backgrounds themselves.

and really do think that Farage's racist poster is just informative?

Farage didn't just daw this poster. These scenes were on the TV just about every day. IT was the reality. Why is is racist? Do you think we should conceal the facts? If left to continue - letting undocumented people into Europe over a million young men at that point mostly with a culture and view of women totally at odds with our own. If let to continue. what would be the future of Europe ? Africa is huge and many there saw Merkel's words as an invitation to come over. Sorry, but this was and is a huge issue that needs to be kept under control - nothing to do with race.

A couple of my friends are leavers. They are both racists and ironically both have immigrant backgrounds themselves.

Ironically, a lot of the people who feel that they are being targetted by racists are very racist themselves, mostly against other minorities though.

They're never going to out themselves because of angry remainers.

DH is a leaver. His issue is because the EU is undemocratic. The power is in the hands of the bureaucrats.

I'm a remainer because I like European laws so far. They tend to be 'greener' than we might otherwise be. And I'd definitely prefer to deal with them rather than the Americans!

He's definitely neither thick nor racist.

I live in a village that's about a 50 50 split at the referendum. It's probably slightly more remain now.

Someone is holding a Brexit celebration dinner and is selling tickets...not sure what they're celebrating...more austerity?

"Brexit celebration dinner" in a village?" Divisive bullshit.

Farage’s poster was very informative in my opinion.
It certainly worked.

The poster was racist and misleading and demeaned the plight of the many refugees whose lives were devastated by the war in Syria, the vast, vast majority of whom were not headed anywhere near the UK.

It was deliberately designed to appeal to racists. Even Brexiters like Bojo and Gove hastily distanced themselves from it.

I know three Leavers. One is a totally dyed in the wool racist - really unpleasant about it - and also into a bunch of mad conspiracy theories. He's everything you would expect.

One is a fairly decent bloke, but not super well educated, and tends to believe what he reads on FB. I've heard his reasons for voting Leave and they are 90% bollocks that he got fed by Facebook memes saying that the EU was about to start conscripting British kids into an EU army or something.

Actually, the third is much the same. Not a bad guy, but definitely a believer in whatever the Daily Mail has told him. I find it a bit painful as he'll regularly get very wound up about things that are palpably and proveably not true.

I've let to hear any of them give an explanation for why they voted Leave which was based in any kind of fact at all.

It’s funny how you all know so many racists, & quite intimately too. 🤔

The dinner is actually in the village hall. They're selling tickets.
I agree its v divisive.