Vote, Now we are a few years down the line, do you think brexit should have happened ?

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Personally I say no, even though I voted to leave, at least I can look back and say this was a mistake
if the vote was to happen now I would vote remain

my reasons for voting at the time was because, I wanted this country to be the captain of its own country and not to have to follow whatever another country told us too
basically Independence

also we were also lied to that, this would really improve the NHS which was clearly aload of shit looking back

I can at least own my mistake saying voted leave but, I now I think it was the wrong choice

I also think the media are a lot to blame, by making out no way will people vote to leave
And that only racists will vote leave

the whole country was in shock the next morning when the results came out

Although only 62% said it was 'more of a failure' and 55% said it was 'wrong to leave the EU' - 30% 'right to leave the EU'. The second question (30% right to leave the EU) is more reflective of the question in the op.

You are just trying to save face.

Nobody would be stupid enough to vote for such a shit show twice

It was the very worst thing this country has ever done. I remember waking on the morning of the result and me and my adult children were absolutely poleaxed. Their lives have changed because of Brexit. As has mine

I was shocked and angry on the day of the result, and I'm still angry about it all these years later.

A typical Brexshiteer response! The facts don't matter, it was all about the feeeeelz...

I was on the fence prior to it happening. However, I absolutely think it should have waited until the fall out from covid had been sorted. Brexit on top of covid was not a good combo.

I can't say my life has changed because of Brexit - I still holiday in the EU once or twice a year. If my dc decide to work overseas it's more likely to be in Australia or the US.

People voted mostly to stop mass immigration and get control of our borders. This was never done correctly, it only got worse

It's probably not the vote people regret, but how terribly it's been orchestrated.

You can see with the rise of Reform that people don't actually regret what they initially thought they would be voting for. We've just had pathetic wimps for leaders since then.

Voted no then and I was right.

Other people have mentioned how the racist Little Englanders voted already.

No, never have.We are supposed be the UK but NI and Scotland were huge remainers. In England and Wales the difference was "a little bit". It wasn't a fair UK decision.

Not to mention that the racists all played themselves anyway.

They replaced the nice white Christian Europeans who tended to come temporarily for the brown Muslims who want to stay. I don't think that was their intention, but it was perfectly clear to anyone with half a brain.

Biggest single fuck up a government has made in my lifetime. Shortly followed by Gordon Brown selling off half the country’s gold reserves. No wonder we’re financially screwed.

Yes, and references to ‘in hindsight’. The reasons why it would be a bad decision were outlined over and over again at the time.
Unfortunately people perceived these arguments to be coming from a ‘ liberal, middle class’ direction, much as now people still reject ‘expertise’ as being ‘lefty’ and ‘woke’.
I’m not sure there is a solution to that at the moment, and it is all made worse by the fact that so many people only consume ‘news’ and ‘facts’ nowadays via social media which is skewed by algorithms. So people just get fed a diet of what they want to believe and opinions get completely polarised.

Prior but not after it was called

So little parliamentary discussions on how the referendum would take place it’s unforgivable

it became quite obvious during the referendum that few MP’s had much in-depth knowledge of how the EU operates so if they had so little understanding why did they think the public understood and should vote on it

and I do not agree that it was a huge shock, momentum had been building Westminster were too wrapped up in their bubble to understand the strength of feeling that many had towards the main parties and the mistrust people had and how let down they felt I don’t believe it was just a vote against the EU I believe it was a vote to shake the system up to have a real change (similar to Trump support)

and that’s not to say anti immigration didn’t play a part it certainly did but being part of the EU for many wasn’t an issue until it was pointed out that huge changes could be made and change they went for

Indeed.

55.8% voted remain in NI so not particularly huge. Over a million people voted leave in Scotland.

Didn’t Brexit come before covid?🤔

What a stupid idea. Please never use your vote again - you can’t be trusted with it.

Lots of things changed. The European Medicines Agency moved out of the UK (4000 scientists either left the country or became unemployed. European Banking Agency left the UK ( I don't know the figures). Basically we lost sway with the big industrial groups across the whole continent. It has cost UK industry billions and continues to do so. Then we lost a whole tranche if professional and skilled EU workers ( plus all the British professionals who followed the money) Then all the civil service effort to back fill all the EU processes and rules that we had to publish ourselves and bring into uk law independently.
We were on our knees before COVID.
I voted remain. I could not believe that we would vote for Brexit. I awoke the next morning and was completely dumbfounded. I still am, to be honest.

Well mine has. Ditto my children.

You may as well say "I'm alright Jack so I don't care"

Absolutely not. I was totally shocked at the vote.

I don’t think you can blame voters for the fact the government is corrupt and dysfunctional. I supported leave, but did so based on the memories of the UK government being a decisive and effective institution. If the leave campaign pledged to spend the money on the NHS and instead spent it on cocaine and hookers I don’t people can then say Brexit voters were stupid for not foreseeing it.

Yes brexit was before covid

Also after the decision to leave MPs fought to stay, or fought any sensible trading agreements thinking they could have a rerun - this meant any trade agreements were crap - hence Boris getting in. The remainer MPs made everything worse.

As a country we were so lied to by the leave campaigners that I honestly wish there was some form of legal action to be taken against them. They’ve destroyed trust in politicians even further.,
Also shows how divisive social media makes everything. Very depressing.