To admit I didn't vote in the Brexit Referendum?

[WeAreTheCrystalGems]

I'm one of the 28% who didn't vote. Anyone else?

Mistigri-what group is that, out of curiosity?

I didn't vote-I was on a 13 hour shift. Probably wouldn't have voted even if I had been available.

And, no, I don't complain about the outcome.

Britons in the EU. Few of us got a vote: some were excluded by the 15 year rule, others by massive issues with the postal vote.

I live abroad and flew home specifically to vote so yes you are BU

I couldn't legally vote, so flying home to vote was not an option.

It seems like most people still don't have a bloody clue. I hear the same bluster and hyperbole now as I did in the run up to the referendum.

Reminds me of when all the planes were going to drop out of the sky on Y2K.

Some of the stuff being thrown about does have a bit of a ‘conspiracy theory’ feel to it

Well, I hope you won’t complain, whatever happens.

There should have been a minimum turnout required for the vote to have been valid, but seems too late now.

@HalfBloodPrincess Very much so!

@kalinkafoxtrot45 I said further up that I wouldn't but actually, I probably will if it affects me adversely.

Today 14:00 PigletWasPoohsFriend

I think it should they should have made it so 50% of all eligible voters had to vote for leave - so the non voters would have counted as remain.

You can't assume the votes of those that don't vote.

A similar precedent was set in the first referendum for Scottish devolution, where over 50% of those who voted, voted Yes. But they made up less than 40% of the electorate, so the vote was not accepted. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Scottish_devolution_referendum

I think the government were probably counting on not everyone voting. If they wanted us all to vote they should have made it compulsory. But then if they had I have a feeling it probably would have gone the same way anyway so who knows.

Most of the people who I know didn't vote (from previous conversations before the penny dropped about the fake NHS bus etc) are now cheerful saying how shit brexit is, and how crazy it all is, and how stupid the leavers were for voting that way while I sit there silently grinding my teeth and shooting daggers at them.

@Mistigri

My post was for OP, I hadn't seen yours. I think it's atrocious that not all expats could vote. Brexit affects those living abroad as well.

I think better not to vote at all than to go into the polling booth undecided having done no research and ticking leave at the last minute because you "fancied a change" like my colleague did.

It seems like most people still don't have a bloody clue
Have you read any of the documents produced by the UK and EU staff paid to have a clue

Reminds me of when all the planes were going to drop out of the sky on Y2K.
three years of hard work by thousands of geeks averted that one

thus not really comparable with Brexit.

@Ta1kinPeace Clearly I meant the panic as opposed to the actual event itself.

I've read newspaper reports, listened to opinions etc. I haven't done detailed research, if that's what you're asking. If I was going to do that, I would have done before the vote.

They might be paid to have a clue but they're still speculating. If I'm wrong, by all means point me towards the facts and I will admit my crapulence.

@WeAreTheCrystalGems
The fact that you did not vote is by the bye.
I hope that you are happy with the choices made by others
and will not complain if things get a bit rough in April.
Nor will you take the credit for any positive outcomes as you did not drive them.

Who’s to say the 28% who didn’t vote would have opted to remain? Likelihood it would probably been a near 50/50 split and we’d still be in the same position anyway.

Non voters should take no credit or blame. Shouldn’t have been a referendum in the first place.

Me neither. I’m not politically minded or knowledgeable (my degrees are in the sciences) and so based my decision to not vote on the probability of lies from each camp

Your degrees should be taken away from you.

Another UK citizen that couldn’t vote because at time I had lived 15.2 years in another European city.

I mostly avoid Brexit posts here because my posts won’t serve anyone in their dripping of vitriol for those who voted leave.

I do hope however, those who voted leave have only their left shoes to eat.

Most statements about what would happen post-Brexit were speculation. They had to be. Couldn't be anything else. Putting aside speculation, at least one thing was outright lie.

UK was not giving £350mln/week to EU. Claiming that amount could be recouped was a bald lie.

LokiDoki
Non voters should take no credit or blame
That is the case for EVERY election.

Anybody who did not vote in the EU elections should not complain about the MEPs we ended up with.
Anybody who does not vote in local elections should not complain about the priorities of their council.
Anybody who does not vote in general elections should not complain about Austerity etc
Anybody who did not vote in the referendum should not complain now.

Your degrees should be taken away from you

Why? Because I made an informed decision to not vote blindly on something I didn’t have all the facts for?

DFOD

I’m not complaining about anything. What will be will be. That’s what I chose, which is my right. Not my fault or to my credit whatever happens. If they held another referendum I’d exercise my right to not vote again as I still don’t have all the facts.

Your degrees should be taken away from you.

It's far from a majority of Remain voters but I have noticed a particular brand of contempt among some Remainers, not for the choices people make or even the reasoning that led them there but rather at the people who made those choices. They seem incapable of attributing someone reaching a different conclusion from them to anything other than stupidity. On its own, it's merely disappointing but I do believe that the same vitriolic attitude is cumulatively extremely damaging to any aspirations they might have of persuading people to share their political beliefs, far beyond the small numbers of vitriol spitters.

HalfBlood
If they held another referendum I’d exercise my right to not vote again as I still don’t have all the facts.
Fair enough. It was a crap question and both campaigns were crap.

Do you vote in other elections ?

I used to vote labour but I haven’t done for a while.

@Mistigri

What makes you think you should have been able to vote?