I’m yet to meet a leaver

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

but I am an academic, so unlikely to meet any.

redeye you sound like a right pompous nerd

The most stupid of all was every MP that supported a referendum taking place (as it had to go through parliament) without debate or discussion

UKIP has just become in number if votes the third party in the UK

How could they have been so stupid and unprofessional all deserve to loose their seats or should have the decency to step down for letting the public down so flippantly

Oh FFS. Not another fucking Brexit thread. Aren’t there enough already to keep you occupied OP?

but I am an academic, so unlikely to meet any.

And the star prize for overweening arrogance goes to redeye.

I know several and most don’t admit it for fear of accusations

What accusations would those be then? If it’s the great thing they keep telling us it is, surely they’d be proud? Or they can’t really believe that they’re fucking up the country and are too chicken shit to take the deserved pelters for it - can they?

I know 1, he voted Leave in the hope that it would trigger a border poll in NI.

As for knowing people who voted leave, I don’t really discuss it but all of my friends and family members living in Scotland (as do I) voted remain including my parents in their 70s, and my grandfather who was 92 at the time of the referendum but died a few months later. I do have some family and friends leavers who live in England though. I must have met some up here though but I don’t tend to interrogate people about their voting choices!

but I am an academic, so unlikely to meet any

I think the poster of this meant that statistically speaking, academia votes remain (I imagine not entirely for altruistic reasons. Their funding could be dramatically cut). I don’t think she meant academics = cleverer people than your average Joe = votes Remain!!

Each “votes” should have been “voted”

Also, I do wish remainers would vent their spleen elsewhere than leavers. People were entitled to vote as they pleased. If remainers don’t like the result - well, you should have tried harder 🤷‍♀️ Lessons will hopefully be learned, amongst the chief of which should be that if you’re feeling good about something, don’t rest on your laurels. Take responsibility, educate yourselves and each other.

(PS I don’t live in the UK, so not my circus)

A close friend voted to leave. I, along with everyone I know (as far as I'm aware) voted remain. Said friend has stated privately that she regrets her decision and I've noticed that she'll join in with 'if only we could remain' discussions without stating how she voted to those who are unaware!

Come north and talk to the baby boom generation 🙄. They are everywhere ☹️

What are they then jennifer? I’ve yet to hear a decent reason to leave

And that attitude is exactly why people don't want to engage with you on this subject.

I voted leave, as did my entire immediate family (apart from my brother, but we don’t talk about that). My close friends voted remain, not for any strong desire to remain in the EU, but for much more prosaic reasons. I have yet to meet any hard-core remainers...I don’t make the assumption that they don’t exist though, that would be rather small minded.

Where we live it's majority leavers. Maybe you are living in the wrong place?

We mean despite everything we now know about the consequence of Brexit esp a no deal people are still saying they would vote for it again?

People in this camp.surely cannot be surprised when others judge them as naive inward-looking little islanders with no idea or care about how the rest of the world works esp in terms of trade?

I'd have no respect for people who voted Leave. It damages my and my familys life chances for which I don't forgive. As with the OP I don't consciously know or socialise with any leavers.

Agree with shewore. By the sounds of you, I would keep quiet about voting Leave too.

But everyone in my family voted Leave, and given how the EU has behaved since we voted out, I am even stronger in my belief that we need to get away from them.

Well there is a point. The EU is merely enforcing the rules that we signed up to. Which bit of EU behaviour is wrong?
And why do we think rich Brexiters are feathering their considerable nests by shifting assets and business to the EU?
And of course who last votes in a WTO election?

I'm leaving

I know a couple of people who voted leave and are now very embarrassed that they have, as people start loosing there jobs and companies are moving away, it’s exactly the opposite of what they hoped leVe would mean. Others I know don’t regret it and just pretend that it’s not Brexit that’s causing this (unlike virtually every economist in the UK and elsewhere - because what do economists know?!) they say it’s the way Brexit has been negotiated- as if there was a way of leaving the EU and still having all the benefits of membership - which the EU has said from the start, before the vote, would never happen.

The fact we have already lost more in revenue since the referendum than it would cost us to be in the EU for the next 45 years gets glossed over by pretty much all of them!

youbumder yeah, so with the tone of even your post back to me, I think have nicely surmised why Leavers don’t particularly say they voted Leave to people like you. Here is a tip - not everyone thinks like you.

My mum is a Remain voter and is outraged. She is openly racist and couldn’t give a toss about the ideology of the EU. She voted in terms of economics. There are so many nuances in how people vote.

I voted Leave, for a number of reasons and one was immigration as I don’t think unlimited immigration from one block of countries is fair or beneficial.

There's at least one academic who voted leave. He wrote an article about it. So there's one out there. I haven't met him though. Overwhelmingly though, academics didn't vote leave, we don't fit the profile. I certainly haven't met a single one through work.

The ones I do know fit the profile. Only a handful have ever publicly admitted it though.

Cameron called the vote thinking he would win. It is possible to live in a bubble.

Apart from my 90 year old grandma me neither. But I live in the south east and tend to socialise with like minded people which is probably the same as you.
FWIW my grandma would vote remain now if she had the chance - she regrets her decision and felt that she wasn't given enough true info

My DH is a leaver. I'm a remainder. Our house was bags of fun during the referendum!!

I am a leaver and I don't know a single remainer. And why would or should they be ashamed!? They were the majority in case you have forgotten