10 years since Brexit-would you vote the same?

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I was listening to a podcast today about this, and it was really interesting. They had a group of people who voted Leave at the time, and although most of them were unhappy about how it has panned out, only one would have changed his vote if they could have voted tomorrow.
I voted remain at the time, and would do so again. The loss of freedom to travel across the EU, and work without visas is a loss, most likely not to me, but to DS who would have loved to have travelled across Europe and work his way with ease.
What would you do, and why?

@BuzyLizzieswhat were your reasons for voting to leave, and have they stayed the same?

I voted remain and will would. I live in NI which voted to remain and which arguably has faced the most day to day consequences since leaving.

Am I the only person who has sailed through passport control entering other EU countries practically on my own? In Spain and Germany, I got waved to the entirely empty non EU desk and while the poor buggers re entering Madrid and Frankfurt respectively had to stand in a vast queue for ages.

That said, I believe there has been the odd other downside to Brexit.. but for me, definitely not in travel convenience!

Staunch remainer.

I still feel really sad about the loss of opportunity for people to work abroad- and angry about the rise in prices of everything.

I voted remain, and would do so again. And had Remain won the vote, there'd still be people arguing for us to get the hell out. Still, at least the UK has been an object lesson for any other countries who might otherwise have been reconsidering their EU membership.

I didnt like the way Europe called the shots. And their daft laws that we had to obey. And I don't want closer ties with Europe or a European army.

We aren’t part of a political 28 country block.
Yes I know our MEP’s had a vote but a) incredibly few people knew who their MEP was and b) even less knew what they were voting about .

What are all the daft laws we repealed upon leaving the EU?

Michel Barnier said just last week that we’d be welcomed back under our old terms. Would you rejoin if that were the case, out of interest?

It’s all the bendy banana type shite that The S*n made up and their readers believed them. There is a list of them here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth

Not to work.

My son couldn’t be with his pregnant fiancée for some of her pregnancy because he hadn’t yet got his visa, and he couldn’t work when he was in Sweden with her. Their baby is now two, they are married, and have another child, but he can’t currently leave Sweden because his visa application is being reviewed.

My other son couldn’t get seasonal work in a ski resort, despite being an excellent skier, and fluent in French, because he didn’t have an EU passport- several of his friends did because they had Irish parents/grandparents.

Free passage in Europe benefits young people enormously, and that has been denied.

I voted remain as I am from continental Europe myself. I have to say I know many immigrants who have voted leave. Especially those with no links to Europe, but not only. Always thought it funny but of course, it’s the reality - immigrants being anti immigration.

And of course, there's no EU mandate for passport colours, we could always have had them.

I would go back in a heartbeat, but I feel like permanent damage has been done. I’ve just been doing some research and although a EU armed force was under consideration, the UK military law which predates EU Armed forces would mean that we wouldn’t have been made to disband the British Armed Forces. About 30% of British laws were influenced by the EU, but they were often assimilated into existing laws, and used to strengthen them, i.e for workers rights, the 48 hour per week working time directive was introduced to protect workers from being forced to work more than 48 hours per week. The main areas of legal input were related to trade, industry and import/export of goods. Post Brexit, import and export if goods from/to the EU means most small businesses can’t trade with the EU as the cost is prohibitive, farmers are taxed on income, property and receive no EU subsidies, as an example.

I voted Remain, I would still vote Remain and to rejoin.

I am still bitter about the loss of freedom to live anywhere in the EU. I know one leave voter who believed all the lies on the buses and would now vote remain. I also know one idiot who voted leave "because we won't actually leave but it will stick a finger to the government" - so incredibly irresponsible we're no longer friends.

I voted Remain and would do so again.

I’m genuinely still really fucking cross about Brexit which I know some Leavers will laugh about and tell me to ‘cope’, but the whole thing has been an enormous shitshow and has impacted my MH (along with Covid and Trump).

I also know some people who voted Leave but would now vote Remain. 🙄

Leave and would again. We are a continent and a collection of unique countries. The EU wants us to be the United States of Europe - without the democracy.

Voted remain and would do so again.

What daft laws?

Remain voter and still would vote Remain
No freedom to live and work in EU without it being expensive.
We have also come out of the Dublin agreement and no access to Eurodac , hence Reform going on about the rise in small boats across the channel from 258 ( approx) in 2019 to 41-44k in 2025. Well we have no access to any EU information regarding previous asylum claims.🙄

Our EU workers have gone home because the whole settled and pre settled status is a nightmare.

Can't see anything good about it.

Yes.

Remain then and Remain now.

I voted leave. I was wrong, and I regret it dearly.

Same here.

Can you name one please?

I was a reluctant remainer. There were benefits to the EU, but I was cautious about the EU's future direction rather than enthused. Remain was the known quantity and the safe vote. Overall the EU was going to affect us anyway, and staying in would have retained more influence than those changes occuring anyway.

I wouldn't change how I voted then, but I wouldn't rush to rejoin for the sake of it. If we could return to the positioning that we had, that would be more persuasive than the regular standard and losing benefits that we had previously.

Strengthening our relationship with the EU would be positive, but that probably needs more time.