I voted Leave but don't deserve abuse for it !!!!

[AmyWatt1972]

Yesterday I voted to leave after months of thought about all the main issues regarding membership.

I decided to leave based on sovereignty, I don't want a closer EU/United States Of Europe. I don't want my son to be in an EU army.

Immigration and economics for me were lesser issues. But still influenced my vote.

The names on here and Twitter that have been directed at leave voters has astonished me.

I am not uneducated, racist or xenophobic. I simply want the best for my country and that IMO is leave and I am overjoyed with the victory today against all odds.

Maybe if those on the remain side looked more into the arguments instead of name calling it would have been a different result.

It shocks me that labour supporters on Twitter are saying these horrible names against leave voters, but they need us to get their seats in the north, I don't think it is a good idea to insult your own base.

Even on mumsnet rhetoric has been appalling, I have had posters say they can't bring themselves to speak to leave voting parents.

Why can't you just accept maybe that leave possibly has a better campaign/arguments.

This idea that many leave voters regret the vote is wrong, everyone I know who voted leave is in a joyous mode today.

Can we just move on now and accept the result instead of insulting 52% of the population.

"It sucks the uneducated, naive, and bigoted in"

After reading this thread I couldn't agree more.
Some truly mind boggling reasons for voting given on this thread.

Duchess nor do I!

And yes they are all ignorant.

user1466795781 -

user1466795781 - you know it is quite likely that France is about to push our border controls back to Dover? They won't let us check people at Calais anymore...

user146679578 go back to your smoke and games please.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07gr86m/eu-referendum-campaign-broadcasts-vote-leave-14062016

Let's see how much of this comes true?

I'm betting none of it - because the NHS is as breaking point due to govt cuts, not the EU. Not migrants.

Tamesa: one way in which I feel my DC's future is compromised is the fact that research in Universities in the U.k is funded to the tune of £160bn a year by the EU. A figure I do not see as replicable by a Gvt fighting to build its industries and trade anew. And once our Universities are merely classrooms our 18 yos as sure as hell won't be able to go and study I'm Maastricht , fee free and with a grant, as they can now.

However, I will say it again, cameron and our politicians knew that segments of the British public have no idea about politics yet this massive decision was handed over to these people. That's not democracy thats criminal neglect of the public's welfare and security

I think Cameron had no idea of the level of ignorance in the electorate, it's not as if he's ever spent any time with them.

There's a reason referenda were banned in Germany after WWII - because Hitler used them to remilitarised the Rhineland in 1936 and unify with Austria in 1938. Manipulating popular ignorance is not good democracy.

User you are showing your ignorance - police at the Tunnel are armed :)

You want to close one of our links to Europe - so no more quick business meeting in Paris or Brussels then? How on earth do you propose we trade?

I am sure Britain First wanted armed boarder patrols though

This is unusual for me. I generally read to the end of the thread before posting, however, I read as far as the post saying you have children. Can't be arsed to read anymore. You have ruined your children's future. I only voted remain to try and protect my DGC.
You can't see any further than the end of your nose and you will be sorry.

@ immergation. That has to have been on purpose. I mean - nobody would think user was a dunderheaded shitkicker who was stunted of thought would they?

Blu the financial fallout for universities is tragic. And UK students will lose the option to study abroad for free as other EU countries don't have tuition fees.

It is tantamount to fascism to berate and pillory a person who is different to you and what you believe in.
Claims about amounts paid into the eu have nothing to do with political ideology likewise how these amounts may be hypothecated subsequently, although I am not sure that the hypothecation claim was ever made. These claims may or may not be inaccurate but they are certainly not fascist.

*The NHS is hugely supported by immigrants - whether the EU or elsewhere. We now know that the leave campaign lied about the £350 million extra. Even if they hadn't, the NHS will cease to exist without the immigrants that hold it together.

Goodbye NHS, I'm off to Scotland*

But what part of Brexit means that said immigrants will not be here anymore??

Immigrants helped build this country, we would be nothing without them- but who has actually said we will be without them? This decision does not mean we are closing our borders nor are we 'kicking people out'

I think there is a huge ridiculous amount of scaremongering on both sides.

Manipulating popular ignorance is not good democracy.

I agree. Glum, glum, glum.

We protect our boarders with lethal force if france don't want to protect theirs from who? people fleeing war?

You don't even know how ridiculous you sound - we don't have a mandate to shoot anyone coming into the uk because you vote leave

*Support for Brexit has come in from Trump, Le Pen, right wing fascists across the board. The rest of the rational world has reacted with horror, sadness and condemnation, the markets are fucked.

How sodding blinkered do you have to be to still think this was a good idea?* i want to steal this quote

Manipulating popular ignorance is not good democracy

exactly x

I think there is a huge ridiculous amount of scaremongering on both sides

Yep

We protect our boarders with lethal force if france don't want to protect theirs.

You think we can do that?? Did you think we could if you voted leave? You're wrong.