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If you had a chance to vote again for Brexit would it be leave or remain?

314 replies

Stormyscratchywindows · 17/11/2022 14:36

Just saw a poll which said Public support for Brexit is at an all-time low, with one in five Brexiteers now saying they think it was wrong to vote to leave the EU. If you had a chance to vote again how would you vote - trying to make it a goady thread so feel free not to mention if you were remain or leave last time.

news.sky.com/story/poll-reveals-public-support-for-brexit-at-all-time-low-12749439

For me - I'd vote remain

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Miajk · 20/11/2022 00:41

RichardOsmansXraySpecs · 17/11/2022 15:34

Christ, let it go.

Why?
It's hard to let it go when it's going to affect the rest of our lives, just because people couldn't bother to think critically about what they were voting for.

Or if you truly know your incapable of thinking, just abstain from voting.

Most Brexit voters were satisfied with some anti-foreigner propaganda and a vision of a future that didn't make any sense to anyone with a brain.

Yeah, I'm not going to let it go but thanks.

Miajk · 20/11/2022 00:42

Freysimo · 18/11/2022 13:00

This. Why do remainers keep banging on about it?

Why are leavers either bigots or idiots? Tough isn't it. So many questions we'll never know the answers to.

j712adrian · 20/11/2022 00:46

No vote ever turned a bad idea into a good one.

Boosterquery · 20/11/2022 00:51

Voted Remain. Would do so again. Would vote Rejoin in a future referendum. Can think of lots of examples of people who have been left worse off as a result of Brexit. The only examples I can think of re British residents better off as a result of Brexit are: (a) currency speculators/investors who bet on the pound/stock market faĺling, and (b) people who are financially better off as a result of the kind of deregulation that allows sewage to be pumped into the sea.

JoannasFifthTry · 20/11/2022 02:59

I’d still vote remain.

What I genuinely don’t understand is why the f Farage is getting any air time? He’s a literally unelectable horror-story of a man but people are quoting his reaction to the PM’s suggested trade relationship policy. Why does anyone care what he thinks about anything? He’s absolutely vile and without a single redeeming feature.

If you need reminding - look at Etonian’s behaviour at the speech he gave at Eton recently. And why the f is he giving speeches at Eton (well known breeding ground of Tory wankers who somehow seem to be running our country?

BaBaBarelle · 20/11/2022 03:17

LEAVE THE DOGS OF EUROPE BEHIND US

If you had a chance to vote again for Brexit would it be leave or remain?
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Stormyscratchywindows · 20/11/2022 08:43

Swiss style Brexit - although this says over the next decade so no quick fix.

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Dogtooth · 20/11/2022 09:28

@Stormyscratchywindows this is interesting! The Tories are hamstrung though, the ERG is still somehow influential despite being a tub of morons that put Liz Truss in and lost the country 40 odd billion. I don't think they'd go for it.

vera99 · 20/11/2022 14:32

Good to see the usual Brexit headbangers are losing their shit over the flying a kite of the Swiss-type trade deal as a route back to sanity. At least with these terrible Tories, there are some adults back in the room that can see the economic carnage Brexit has done to this country and some vestigial common sense is coming into their addled brains. Sunak is rich enough and wise enough to know a)that he will lose the next election and resign and b) it's the right thing to do to repair some of the enormous damage that has been done.

MarshaBradyo · 20/11/2022 14:42

If Tories suggest changes and Labour stick with no their SM line then Labour winning could lock us in to where we are for another five years.

It’s a shame they drawn the line on that already.

ladygindiva · 20/11/2022 14:45

BobbyBobbyBobby · 17/11/2022 15:34

@Herejustforthisone Fiends or friends, we still won! 😘

It wasn't a fucking pub pool match.

Whatabouterry · 20/11/2022 14:47

Remain then, remain now.

Although if they’d kept us in the single market rather than pursuing the hardest and most damaging Brexit possible I’d have probably reconciled myself to it by now.

vera99 · 20/11/2022 14:58

When a so-called Brexiteer and an ex-member of the government call it shit you just know it is utterly beyond awful. To those that say they won something - no you didn't, we all lost but you're just too thick to care or notice.

Florenz · 20/11/2022 14:59

I will always vote for Freedom. Leave every time. If there was a referendum on England to leave the UK I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my county to leave England, I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my town to leave my county, I'd vote leave. If there as a referendum on my street to leave my town, I'd vote leave. and so on and so on. The smaller and more local government is, the better for everyone.

vera99 · 20/11/2022 15:02

Florenz · 20/11/2022 14:59

I will always vote for Freedom. Leave every time. If there was a referendum on England to leave the UK I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my county to leave England, I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my town to leave my county, I'd vote leave. If there as a referendum on my street to leave my town, I'd vote leave. and so on and so on. The smaller and more local government is, the better for everyone.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose...

ladygindiva · 20/11/2022 15:07

Florenz · 20/11/2022 14:59

I will always vote for Freedom. Leave every time. If there was a referendum on England to leave the UK I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my county to leave England, I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my town to leave my county, I'd vote leave. If there as a referendum on my street to leave my town, I'd vote leave. and so on and so on. The smaller and more local government is, the better for everyone.

What about if you wanted to move towns for work or whatever? Your post is demented.

vera99 · 20/11/2022 15:12

ladygindiva · 20/11/2022 15:07

What about if you wanted to move towns for work or whatever? Your post is demented.

Who is going to empty the bins and do national and local infrastructure and much else besides? The anti-vax mob were always marching and bellowing FREE-DOMMMM .....

Florenz · 20/11/2022 15:15

ladygindiva · 20/11/2022 15:07

What about if you wanted to move towns for work or whatever? Your post is demented.

What happens now if you want to move countries for work or whatever?

username8888 · 20/11/2022 15:15

The only thing i regret is that it occured just before a pandemic and the chaos it caused had chaos heaped upon it.

ShandaLear · 20/11/2022 15:17

DublinFemale · 17/11/2022 22:37

Two police services working together to try to limit smuggling is not in direct conflict of the good Friday agreement to a hard border on the Island of Ireland.

Now I was not physically there at the time of the checks but I am very certain there was no customs border as in a physical hard border during the checks. I bas that purely on how road checks are done by An Garda Siochana all over Ireland.

As for RS all of a sudden telling JB he was on board with working with EU/Ireland try to reach a compromise is really not surprising. JB is very proud of his Irish roots.

Do I believe Westminster will negotiate and stick to agreement? Most definitely not, the best way to guess future behaviour , look at past behaviour.

I was there. There was a physical hard border with guards, and look out posts, much as you’d imagine a border in the 80s (I’m sure you could Google photos if you wanted). The guards carried guns, and they would almost always search your vehicle - remember that this was during ‘The Troubles’ and they weren’t just checking for contraband, they were checking for guns and explosives. You would also be asked why you were travelling. Some days the queue could stretch back a mile or two and you could be in it for a couple of hours. I remain in disbelief that the DUP would support a hard border given that 93% of the NI population voted in favour of the GFA at the time and 57% voted Remain - both Protestants and Catholics. It does nothing but play straight into the hands of those who want a united Ireland. Only the real hardliners want a hard border but most people recognise that the GFA has brought a (albeit) fragile peace and loads of investment to the region. There is zero appetite for a hard border from businesses and citizens both in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Florenz · 20/11/2022 15:17

vera99 · 20/11/2022 15:12

Who is going to empty the bins and do national and local infrastructure and much else besides? The anti-vax mob were always marching and bellowing FREE-DOMMMM .....

Who empties the bins now? You advertise for the jobs, people living in the area take the jobs and you pay them to empty the bins. The same with other local services.

MarshaBradyo · 20/11/2022 15:21

Florenz · 20/11/2022 14:59

I will always vote for Freedom. Leave every time. If there was a referendum on England to leave the UK I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my county to leave England, I'd vote leave. If there was a referendum on my town to leave my county, I'd vote leave. If there as a referendum on my street to leave my town, I'd vote leave. and so on and so on. The smaller and more local government is, the better for everyone.

This is a bit bonkers. How are you dealing with schools, hospitals and defence? Does your street do all that separately?

whirlyswirly · 20/11/2022 15:22

Personally speaking, the impacts I've noticed have been exclusively negative from leaving. So, remain.

ladygindiva · 20/11/2022 15:26

Florenz · 20/11/2022 15:15

What happens now if you want to move countries for work or whatever?

Alot of paperwork and expense and red tape now thanks to brexit. And you want that to be the case if someone gets say a weeks supply teaching in a neighbouring town?? Give your head a wobble. You're nuts.