To do a straw poll on whether you're happy with where Brexit is heading?

[Bearbehind]

This isn't about the whys and wherefores of how we got here but, since no one I speak to IRL is happy with the path Brexit is leading us down and I've just seen a poll in the Metro strongly in favour of abandoning Brexit it got me wondering how wide spread it is.

This isn't supposed to be an argument thread or even how you voted, just Are you happy heading towards a hard Brexit

Yes or No

[madeleineinlondon]

No! Very very much not.

[wowowowow]

What is "a hard Brexit"

[LordPeterWimsey]

wowowowow, "hard Brexit" is leaving the EU altogether without any sort of half-way agreement about being part of the single market or the customs union. It puts our trade with Europe (and the rest of the world, given that at the moment all our trade agreements are as part of the EU) on WTO basic terms until we can agree new terms.

[LordPeterWimsey]

Or, put less neutrally, triggering Article 50 and crashing out two years later with no plan.

[dangerrabbit]

I voted remain so no. But even a friend who voted leave was telling me today she is not happy with how they are handling it.

[TeenAndTween]

Well, I didn't vote for Bexit, but given that is what the result was, I don't really see what on earth people were expecting if not control on free movement of people and the associated restriction of access to the free trading zone. We can't have our cake and eat it. We voted out.
All things considered I think TM is taking a steady measured course.

So I guess that's a Yes. Democracy in action for all its faults.

[formerbabe]

I voted to leave. Currently feeling neutral towards it as we don't know any details really.

[Pettywoman]

Nope, it's a massive cock up.

[wowowowow]

Thanks for explaining hard exit.

I'm happy. I think TM is a smart woman and she knows what she is doing - I'm quite confident in her at the moment.

[JWIM]

No.

[littleprincesssara]

God no.

[misson]

No. Particularly worried about the arrogance in the cabinet pushing a hard right Brexit and the ineffectual hard left opposition. Recipie for disaster.

No, no no.

[BusyBeez99]

Yes

[GrumpyOldBag]

No

[slowandfrumpy]

No. i was a remained to start with, though. had about a week of hoping TM would be different. now she scares the f* out of me. horrors.

[slowandfrumpy]

BusyBeez99

Can you explain why you are pleased, as I would like to hear the views of someone who does not feel the horrors. Maybe it will change my point of view....

[Buttercupsandaisies]

Yes

Mumsnet does not represent the full balance though - most leavers I know want Brexit to happen asap

I do wish mumsnet wouldn't go on about all the leavers changing their mind - I don't know one who feels that way

[VanillaCheesecake]

No.

[fishonabicycle]

Nope. Voted remain. Very concerned.

[errorofjudgement]

No

[Rrross1ges]

No.

[pigsDOfly]

Well, that's my point Bearbehind how can anyone have a view, happy or otherwise, if they have no idea what the hell it means.

I voted remain, so to answer your question: no I'm not happy with a 'hard brexit' nor would I be happy with a soft one.

Having said that, we had a vote for something and as we are supposed to live in a democracy that vote must stand.

Very few people understood the ramifications of a leave vote, even those in government apparently, who clearly hadn't thought it through as they had no plans in the event of a leave vote. The whole thing is a complete and utter shambles and no one know what the outcome will be. The government just has to make the best of a bad job.

They got us into the mess, somehow they've got to get us through it and out the other side.

[UnoriginalNN]

I think the inability to think ahead and have prepared an idea of what it could look like was just fucking dumb. But that's the extent of my feeling right now as it's all very much up in the air.

[IamWendy]

Yes.