I regret the way I voted.

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After a long day reading Facebook (didn't announce on there that I'd voted out), colleagues talking and family (who do know how I voted) complaining, I really wish I'd voted to remain.

I read a few bullet point articles and felt swayed by the amount of money were were paying to the EU. But I feel as though I'd partly not researched enough and also believed the hype.

Seeing the pound falling and friends worried for their jobs etc, I feel as though I've done something really bad. In fact, I'm sure I have.

Does anyone else regret the way they voted, whichever way that was?

Sigh. That should be "housing tenure".

OP at first when I read your post I did feel angry with you, but then I remembered that the out was carried by over a million votes, so a heck of a lot of other people would need to change their minds as well.

I feel more angry with my parents who are in their 70s & 80s and I believe voted as they did purely to stimulate interest rates and also due to some ill-defined rhetoric about immigration. They are both educated people and have plenty of time to read all the forecasts and nuances of their decision, but still chose to sell their GS down the river for the sake of a few quid which they can't spend anyway as they have too much money and nothing to spend it on.

I feel angry with the newspapers that took a stance to up circulation, but don't seem to be celebrating much about the victory that they allegedly wanted.

I feel angry with David Cameron and the Tories for forcing this debacle in the first place and for DC and his cronies running a half-hearted campaign which failed to talk much at all about the real changes people would see almost immediately. I also feel angry with them for spending their time tearing themselves apart, rather than focusing on the bigger picture.

I feel angry with the Labour party for not engaging successfully with their core voters and explaining that a vote for Leave is not going to stop zero hours contracts and will make salaries even lower as food and fuel prices go up.

I feel angry with the 29% of the population who couldn't be bothered to vote, either through apathy, or because their pretty little heads couldn't understand the tewwibly complicated arguments, so they thought they'd give it a miss.

So in short, whilst I'm not delighted with your vote, I suspect you'll have plenty of time to regret it yourself in the future without others roasting you.

I think this highlights why decisions like should never be based on a 50:50 vote. The margin should have to be 2/3 or similar to make such a big change. We should have to be really SURE it is what the majority want, and not let it be vulnerable to people being caught up in a bandwagon, or hoodwinked by misinformation.

Maybe it should even have to be a double vote - another one 2 months later that verifies the original result.

I am certain there are lots of people who voted out because they thought about the issues and can to a rational decisions - fine - no problems with that.

I am also certain that there are a lot of people who don't really know what they voted for in reality, got caught up in the emotion, believed the propaganda, or just wanted to kick the establishment because their lives are tough. And I fear a lot of those will be disappointed that their lives don't get much better.

And I feel sad that the younger generation are feeling that no-one cares what they think.

Hmm. People applying for british citizenship have to take a test to see how well they understand the structure of the country don't they?

perhaps we need a test like that for every voter!

My parents voted to leave. My mum spoke to me about it before she voted and I thought she had badly misjudged and misunderstood things. She had no idea about the wider implications. She understood the whole thing on only the very simplest terms. I think she was taken in tbh. Played. Myself and my husband voted to stay.

I feel that we have made a very hard rod for our very soft backs.

But op you were not alone and I do think the campaigns were not run honestly and truthfully. What's done is done. One of my favourite authors, Alice Munroe sais 'Do what you want and live with the consequences' - well we will won't we. What else can we do?

I can see quite a few posters saying 'I researched it all and voted Leave' but no one saying what they found out in the course of their research that convinced them. There is a distinct lack of credible evidence that leaving will be better, just the hollow feelgood stuff about 'take back control' and having more money for the NHS - which Leave are now backtracking on as fast as they can.

In case it wasn't obvious, I was and am still Remain. I can see how people were persuaded that immigrants were a major problem by the media, and how people have stopped feeling that their vote actually counts. But I still think voting Leave was a foolish decision and based on very little substance.

You are swayed by what you read on Facebook ???

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I used this as an example of circumstances many people find themselves living in and which drive them to look for change in he most unlikely quarters.

But it's like kicking your dog for something your partner did.
The protest vote should be in government elections not the Union that has been in effect buffering the actions of right wing governments that don't care about workers, environment or the most vulnerable in society.

The votes have exceeded a million votes in 3 hours

um ... it says 870k and that's in 2 days.

I think if we want honest campaigns, we should start now.

Op it is done now, we have to figure out how to move on. Don't dwell on it.

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It's disastrous. Marie le pen , Putin, trump and Richard little john are all thrilled though. These are in your camp op. Are you ok with that?

I wanted to wake up and find yesterday had all been a bad dream. I live in a staunchly remain area so at least not having to be polite to leave voters.

I keep saying this and I will say it again....

Signing a petition demanding a second vote to get the answer YOU want is akin to living under rule of a Dictatorship, rather than as a part of Democratic society

I don't regret the way I voted and I am sick of people suddenly claiming to regret their vote based on the vitriol of Remainers - which is coming in surpising amounts!!

There's a petition to trigger a second referendum - atone for your mistakes and sign it at least petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 (I come from a country that specialises in second EU referenda so it can happen!)

Honestly, people voting to stay in the EU did not really 'know' what they were voting for either. The country voted for a common market in the seventies, I would be quite happy to be in a common market now. That is not what we got.

I was surprised by the result, that doesn't mean I wasn't pleased by it. It took me completely by surprised, I follow politics in reasonable detail but I don't remember ever being so taken by surprise by anything before.

I wonder why we all thought remain had done it? This is a genuine question, I am not that convinced by cries of media bias tbh, although I did thing Farage popping up all over the place was a conspiracy by the Remain campaign.

All I can say is Loletta the remain campaign should have addressed the problems that you have listed and said how they were going to improve them despite the immigration. Instead all they said was this isn't a problem and you are a racist for thinking there is.

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People feel their voices aren't being heard. So they take the opportunity - any opportunity - to shout louder. Their opportunity this time round was an EU referendum and they roared. But here's the thing.... They're still being called bigoted racists. The pace at which we leave the EU is going to be glacial and people are going to get frustrated. So unless this very issue is addressed, guess what's going to happen next time there's another opportunity, say a General Election?

The pp who is concerned about the impact of immigration on her train service in Essex genuinely seems to be posting with no sense of irony. I'm a bit gobsmacked by this, given the famous line about fascism being acceptable to the Italians because Mussolini made the trains run on time. (Apparently he didn't even manage that in the end - it was just a line sold to the public, if you'll excuse the pun...) Did you honestly not hear any chilling historical echoes in your own post?

I also think it is rather disingenous for leave voters to claim that they did not vote for the far right. At, but you did, you see. Even if that wasn't your primary concern in voting leave -even if you are not yourself a racist - you and everybody knew that that the inevitable consequence of a leave vote would be the increased political legitimacy of the far right. You just considered that that it was an acceptable side effect of the thing that you wanted most, as opposed to a universally dangerous threat which has to be stopped by all of us. You know, like getting the trains to run on time. I'm afraid we are all responsible for the consequences of our votes. It's the downside of living in a democracy, surely? My jaw is on the floor at some posters who think that those particular consequences of the leave vote are nothing to do with them. Seriously?

I also think the bullying tone taken by the Remain campaign massively backfired.

I am a huge fan of Obama, but his hectoring 'telling off' really annoyed me, and I think a lot of others.

If the EU had actually renegotiated properly with Cameron I may have been persuaded to change my vote.

The letter from Latvia was the only thing that gave me pause in the whole campaign.

There's a petition to trigger a second referendum - atone for your mistakes and sign it at least petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 (I come from a country that specialises in second EU referenda so it can happen!)

Why would anyone put their name to that in public and confirm both their stupidity AND their bad grace?

It doesn't work like that. You can't just keep going until you get a result you like. It's not rock/paper/scissors.

It's a bit much for the remainers to call leave voters uneducated and then pull a stunt like that, which shows how little grasp of anything they have.

I also think the bullying tone taken by the Remain campaign massively backfired.

Yes

I am a huge fan of Obama, but his hectoring 'telling off' really annoyed me, and I think a lot of others.

Oh yes.

" Even if that wasn't your primary concern in voting leave -even if you are not yourself a racist - you and everybody knew that that the inevitable consequence of a leave vote would be the increased political legitimacy of the far right. "

Yes. How could anyone not see that when the entire campaign was led by the likes of Gove, Farage and Johnson, and cheering from the sidelines came from Le Pen, and Trump etc.

we are going to see a massive swing to the extreme right now. And those most vulnerable people, those valued public services, they are what will suffer the most.