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

No, terrified we are heading to an absolute disaster.

94 no

12 yes

Yes.

We don't know what is likely to happen either way. Don't like the way Europe is heading either.

No.

But then I am an over-educated member of the bourgeois intelligentsia and therefore, it seems, despised by the majority of my compatriots and by my Prime Minister.

(Thank goodness I'm not a pesky human rights lawyer! )

wowow
Loads of people I know who are appalled by at he prospect of Brexit have been speaking out for YEARS about what the gvnmt's policies have been. It is really unfair and untrue to say nobody complaining about Brexit complained before. Bollocks.
To answer OP's question - No.
I have tried really hard to listen to Leavers to see some good, because frankly I'm terrified. I haven't heard anything apart from it being cheaper to export because the pound has tanked. But that means the vast amount of products we import are more expensive. Already petrol has gone up a fair bit. It's terrible news for universities - we have lost so much talent already because of the uncertainty. Race crime has soared. No more money for NHS. I don't blame leave voters for this. I blame an unscrupulous, criminal, lying bunch of politicians. But if I'd voted leave and saw direction May was taking us, I'm not sure I'd be putting my hand up and announcing to people I regretted it in person, but I'd answer anonymous polls differently. So I am not at all persuaded by those who say that they've not met any leaver who regretted their vote. So what? There are plenty, even if you don't know them.

NO

Northern

Working class (Terrace house - Liverpool)

bog standard ordinary human

NO!

By the way - just in case this means you make assumptions about my education/background/newspaper of choice I'll add that info for avoidance of doubt.

Educated to degree level in Modern Foreign Language
Lived and worked in three European countries. (Speak 2 of those languages well)
For ten years I had a job that meant 50% of my work was carried out abroad.
Live in London
Professional role
Read The Economist, Guardian, Telegraph, Private Eye and yes the Daily Mail. Listen to Radio4
Not a fascist!!!!! Or a racist. Or a thug. Or stupid. Or ill-informed.

No!

No wayyyy.

The UK is fucked because of a referendum that should never have taken place, 'the winners' of which hadn't a clue what they were voting for.

My poor boys (3 and 5mo) have a very different future ahead of them to the one I'd hoped they might have.

Not the current line of thinking, no.

Whilst I appreciate it may all be bluff and bluster in order to get a softer deal it's causing the continuation of divisiveness and is exceptionally worrying in tone.

And well done to you Chikara... you should have attached your CV too. Jojo -a fellow well educated Londoner

No.

I'm trying not to think about it too much because so far it looks disastrous.

No.

Not from SE, not University educated and grew up in a council house.

I know someone who voted out, spouted the usual stuff about immigration. She knew how I voted and how worried I am about DH's job as they import and export a lot of stuff through Europe. The other day she had the nerve to bring up Brexit with a "it's what we all wanted" uh no actually, there was only a very small majority and I bet that was down to those who thought they would vote Leave without thinking it would actually happen, as some sort of protest. I bet if they did it again now the results would be different.

The only people I know who voted to leave all sited immigration as their reasons. And sadly, none of them are well educated at all. One was my GM and the stuff she was coming out with was unbelievable. She thought she was voting Leave to get rid of Cameron! Me and my GD tried to explain various things to her but she was having none of it. She does read the DM though and treats it as some sort of Bible.

No

Yes.
As for MN being representative of the general voting population the straw polls on here before the GE indicated a Labour landslide.........

No.

No. brexit has already crashed the pound and started a brain drain. Bloody nightmare.

PS
i was at a meeting the Saturday morning after where lots of local council politicians we jubilant about "taking back control"
come the September meeting they were VERY quiet
I'll report back from the big October meeting ;-)

The idea that people with lower levels of educational attainment, living outside London, working in non-professional roles etc are responsible for BREXIT has been challenged by the geographer Danny Dorling.

MN is disproportionately graduate/middle class (not all/me obvs). They have done surveys on us before- I've seen them! - but I don't know where they're kept.

This fits with the average (not all obvs) remain profile.

Netmums would most likely throw up a different result.

What "brain drain"?

And sadly, none of them are well educated at all. One was my GM and the stuff she was coming out with was unbelievable. She thought she was voting Leave to get rid of Cameron

To be fair to her...she was right! He disappeared instantly.

I'm sure there are not particularly enlightened people on the remain side too. I heard stories about people voting to remain because they were worried that the England team wouldn't be able to play in European football matches. And I have met several remainers who seem to think we are leaving Europe (I'm sure the story about the girl who voted remain because she was worried she wouldn't be able to eat French fries again can't be true!)

No