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To ask if you would support a second referendum and what would you vote?

350 replies

questabellatreetop · 13/03/2019 23:03

As the title says really, along with whether or not your vote would be different from last time.

OP posts:
Parky04 · 14/03/2019 06:42

Voted remain and wouldn't vote again. In fact I won't be voting ever again in anything.

Galvantula · 14/03/2019 06:46

I'd be nervous, but yes. I'd still vote remain.

The worry would be if people were complacent again and didn't bother to vote.

I don't believe it is undemocratic, based on the fact that it has clearly been shown to be a batshit idea impossible to 'deliver Brexit' in the stupid timetable that the government set by triggering A50.

I'd like to think that a lot of people would have realised it's a total shambles and bad for the country.

N0rdicStar · 14/03/2019 06:47

Yes. Remain

I think we would remain. More youngsters now able to vote woukd vote remain. Some older leavers will have died and many leavers will convert( know several in my family who are livid at being lied to).

TheNumberfaker · 14/03/2019 06:58

Do not understand people saying they wouldn’t vote...

FenellaMaxwell · 14/03/2019 06:58

Remain and would vote remain again but I don’t want to have to. I want the government to acknowledge that Brexit is an impossible shitshow and have the courage to revoke it. They need to stop clamouring for popularity votes and get the fuck on and do what is in the nest interests of the country, which is remain. We’ve elected them to look after our best interests so they need to bloody get on with it, not expect a population, the vast majority of whom lack the knowledge needed to do so, to do it for them.

Alanna1 · 14/03/2019 06:59

Remain. And I’d vote remain again.
I want a second referendum because people were lied too - I hope people who voted to leave might have changed their minds - everyone has a right to change their minds. If the majority still vote leave, I’ll find it easier to accept. None of this is undemocratic! The remain campaign last time was also pretty rubbish.

And everyone on here saying remain - I believe we all have a responsibility to get out and campaign next time! If there is a next time.

BigCoat · 14/03/2019 07:00

All these people who voted leave and would now vote remain, have you written to your MP to tell them that? If not, please do!

I will do this asap

peachgreen · 14/03/2019 07:46

Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm a staunch remainer but I'm not sure holding another referendum would solve our problems. If the result was remain, that would be one thing - Brexiteers could form a party, come back at GE time with a well thought-through plan and seek a mandate (which would be terrifying, but a much more democratic way of getting it through). But I suspect the result could well still be leave - there are obviously leavers who have switched to remain but there's also a lot of people who feel the initial result should stand, whether they agree with it or not, and they might vote leave for that reason. And then what happens? There's just a newly-refreshed insistence that we leave, hang the consequences etc etc.

The whole thing is a complete mess.

FilthyforFirth · 14/03/2019 07:51

Yes and would vote remain again. I do not understand the argument that it isn't democratic to have a 2nd vote. People now know what they are voting for. They 100% did not the first time round. If leave wins again, so be it, that's democracy, but refusing to allow people a say now the facts are known is ludicrous.

TonightJosephine · 14/03/2019 07:53

I will do this asap

Thank you, every little helps! Smile

Biker47 · 14/03/2019 07:54

Leave, would vote leave again.

time4chocolate · 14/03/2019 07:59

Posted this on a similar thread a while back but the idea of having a second Ref fills me with dread (not just because I voted leave). We have enough division as it is, the campaigning this time around would be worse than the first time. I don't think it would be fought on the actual questions posed it would be fought on the basis/perception that your first vote wasn't good enough, your voted the wrong way so have another go, that it is undemocratic (whatever anyone else argues, that will be the perception of it). Any facts on the referendum questions would be drowned out imo. Just my view.

SummerHouse · 14/03/2019 08:00

Yes. Remain. But I am uneasy about a second referendum. It's one of those things you hope for and then you get it and think oh shit
But still, yes, still remain.
I cried on the way to work when we got the leave vote and didn't really understand that emotion. I just felt like something was ruined that day and I am not sure, whatever happens, if it can be fixed.

TonightJosephine · 14/03/2019 08:03

I don't think the argument that it would create further divisions is a very strong one though. Theresa May's deal is dead in the water, so we are left with the very two extremes, no deal or remain. I don't believe that the predictions about what will happen if we leave with no deal are "Project Fear" - I believe that they will happen and in some cases are already happening. (Travel by Eurostar has been all but impossible for the last 10 days now, with no end in sight.) If we leave with no deal, things are going to get really bad in the UK, very quickly. Do you really think that remainers are going to take it lying down? Or do you think it's more likely that they will get really angry and keep telling leavers how this mess is all their fault?

BeerandBiscuits · 14/03/2019 08:09

Mumsnet polls are never representative.
If we had a referendum on whether there should be a second referendum I think the answer would be a definite no

TooTrueToBeGood · 14/03/2019 08:12

Having watched the collective incompetence of our elected representatives over the past few years, I'd vote yes to return to an absolute monarchy.

NameChanger22 · 14/03/2019 08:13

I think we need to have one. I even know some brexiters who want one. I voted remain and I would again.

Chickenwing · 14/03/2019 08:14

I want to vote again. I would change my vote.

TonightJosephine · 14/03/2019 08:15

I think we need to have one.

What's the alternative? There's no mandate for any of the available options and Parliament are clearly completely out of their depth.

They decided to ask the public to make this decision so we should have the final say.

stillpinching · 14/03/2019 08:21

Mumsnet isn't the only'poll'. Several have been done and suggest support for ref2. I would be very nervous about the outcome because we'd really be stuck with it, but would of course vote remain.

People who say it would be anti democratic are so misinformed about how democracy works, leaving aside the filthy campaign leave illegally ran. The whole country being held to ransom by extremists in the Tory party and an increasingly despotic pm is incredibly undemocratic and making me lose all sense of belonging for a country that, until now, I had a lot of fondness for, despite never calling myself patriotic.

jackstini · 14/03/2019 08:21

Voted remain and would again

I don't believe the first vote was worth anything as people were basing their decision on lies and lack of info

Now there is a bigger realisation of what it means and entails I know a lot of people who would change their vote and feel angry about the duplicity

The cost is depressing to do it I know but I still think beneficial compared to what could happen in 2 weeks

time4chocolate · 14/03/2019 08:21

I think a GE is more likely but who knows. TM could sprout a unicorn horn on her forehead and I wouldn't be surprised😊 such is the state of affairs atm.

WeirdCatLady · 14/03/2019 08:22

No. I voted in the referendum already and think the government should abide by what the majority wanted. The losing side don’t get to keep having a crack at it until they get the result they want. Best of three? Five?

molamoob · 14/03/2019 08:23

Yes. Remain.

MadameMim · 14/03/2019 08:25

Very very anti another referendum, and I would vote Leave on principle. I'm speechless at the sheer arrogance and uselessness of our politicians and can't believe people are still pushing for another referendum and/or revoking Article 50. The last referendum showed that a majority wanted to Leave. The entire point of democracy is that you give the people a voice and go with the majority; calling a second referendum pisses in the face of that.

Besides, what if remain then wins by a similarly narrow margin? Do we do a best of 3?

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