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To ask: if you voted LEAVE and...

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allegretto · 24/06/2016 16:39

.....Scotland subsequently leaves the UK is that a small price to pay for winning or would it have made you change your mind?

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incywincybitofa · 24/06/2016 21:53

I do think London might want the economic relationship whilst ignoring the vote of the nation.

Interestedinthemisinformed · 25/06/2016 17:08

I'm very interested to know how those of you who voted leave intend to explain to your choice to you children when they're grown up enough to understand? It seems to me that they'll be rather agitated when they find out that you screwed their future. I mean, the future of young people in the UK was already bleak so I can't wait for you to tell them you threw them out of a plane without a parachute.

AlpacaLypse · 25/06/2016 17:16

I voted Leave on the grounds of not wanting to be part of a dysfunctional and fundamentally undemocratic United States of Europe. I have been waiting for an opportunity to do so ever since Maastricht was signed back in 1992, when what had been intended as a trading agreement started to show its true colours as a unification process. Long term, I think Britain will be better off out. But I was well aware that the divorce process was always going to be painful, and it may be a few years before the dividend begins to appear. I hope my teenagers will join the job market at the right time to take advantage of it.

Kummerspeck · 25/06/2016 17:23

It wouldn't have changed anything for me either. Scotland should not hold us all to ransom
I have seen FB posts from people in Scotland saying "Move here. We'll be in the EU and still have an NHS" with no awareness that they would have to apply to join the EU, income from North sea oil is low enough that they'd have been bankrupt by now if Indyref had been won and that a lot of their NHS funding comes from the UK government so they will not be in clover either.

tametempo · 25/06/2016 17:37

Such pessimism, Interestedinthemisinformed What exactly makes you think our children's future will be bleak after this result?

Lilmisskittykat · 25/06/2016 17:58

Scotland couldn't afford to leave the uk ... End of

caroldecker · 25/06/2016 18:02

interestedin, so a country which aims for global free trade and treating all potential immigrants equally, sharing resources/education opportunities/relationships with the most relevant/best people regardless of location is a bleak future.
However, a country which erects barriers to trade and immigration except for a small (less than 10% of world population) group of white people with a christian ethos is a bright a rosy future?
I think the Remainers are the racists.

PlymouthMaid1 · 25/06/2016 18:11

No it wouldn't have made any difference.

scaryteacher · 25/06/2016 19:14

I'm very interested to know how those of you who voted leave intend to explain to your choice to you children when they're grown up enough to understand? My child voted remain, but was ambivalent about doing so, as he could well understand why his Dad and I voted leave, as he agrees about what pisses us off about the EU, especially the lack of transparency and democracy.

I think Sturgeon was looking for the opportunity to have another Indyref whenever she could possibly justify it; so had there been a change in the government of the UK she would still have cited 'material change' because she could.

I think there are Scottish voters who wanted to remain in the EU, but will vote no to leaving the UK.

PlymouthMaid1 · 25/06/2016 19:59

My children are grown up but my reasons were the same as Alpaca above and I stand by them. I expect a better Britain (or England and Wales) to come out of this after a few years of turmoil. I hope so for my granddaughter. Staying in offered a bleaker future.

BriteRainbowBright · 25/06/2016 20:48

No, I'd still have voted to leave

Ginmakesitallok · 25/06/2016 20:55

I came to the conclusion that Leave was best for the country and to be honest what Scotland or NI would or would not do did not affect that decision.

Not so much about what NI will do as what it will do to NI

Very sad that people don't give a shit that the peace process is put at risk, that the country will be torn apart again by borders, and renewed calls for a united Ireland. People don't give a shit about n ireland.

Thanks guys.

RortyCrankle · 25/06/2016 21:25

I'm not sure how reasonable it is to expect people to vote purely on how it affects 2m people. Are the other 62 million not worthy of consideration?

scaryteacher · 25/06/2016 21:35

Will it necessarily be torn apart by borders though? I understand the border was porous at the best of times anyway, so I don't know if it's sensible/feasible to put them back up.

Ginmakesitallok · 25/06/2016 21:43

Well given that it'll be our only land border with an eu country I'd have thought decent birder controls would be necessary??

Rorty- have you any idea what n irish people have been a through? Do you remember the days of border guards? Do you have any recollection of the troubles? Ffs

RepentAtLeisure · 25/06/2016 23:33

Scotland couldn't afford to leave the uk ... End of

They will leave the UK to rejoin the EU. If they need more cash the EU will give it to them, it won't be in their interest to let Scotland fail.

DigestiveBiscuit · 26/06/2016 08:13

What so Scotland will want to join the Eurozone, and go the way of Greece - because they won't be able to use the pound?

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