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?

The moral of the story is -
Be careful what you wish for.

Bengalcatmum
Keep calm & carry on is exactly it , we are a country bursting with intelligent more than capable people with talents galore. We will find solutions and gain a heap of respect & pride in ourselves . Have faith people & don't panic please

I hope your assessment is correct bengalcatmum, I really do.

I'd have a lot more cause for being positive if any of the experts were out saying these things that they said before the vote, or indeed if the papers that told people to vote Leave were celebrating.

I can assure you 100% that bengalcatmum is living in lalaland.

On EU deals - If we have to have freedom of movement of people then we will have to kindly decline any trade offer with EU

This would be LOL funny if it weren't tragic that the UK has been steered by people with this level of ignorance. It's staggering that anyone could possibly be this naive. And a very good example of why the referendum should never have been held.

Keep calm & carry on is exactly it , we are a country bursting with intelligent more than capable people with talents galore. We will find solutions and gain a heap of respect & pride in ourselves . Have faith people & don't panic please

What gung-ho nonsense. Where is your evidence that we (who exactly, the government?) will find solutions. What is the PLAN? Your leaders, Gove, BoJo et al have yet to come up with one so how on earth can you be so sure?

Do you live in a house? Would you live in a flat? BTW no one who has a cardiac arrest on 16th floor or above has ever survived

I think is also sums up the entire campaign.
Bengal is badly misquoting from a small Canadian study that looked into the survival rates of people having heart attacks in Toronto
In that study, around 3.8% of people survived, and that fell to under 1% for people living above 16th floor

Sorry to derail but what on earth is the significance of Bengal's post?

The only thing I can think of is that generally people living in high rise blocks have poorer life expectancy due to poverty than those who don't, whether they are on the ground floor or the 16th floor.

So ....the best thing to do is panic?
Ok then - I'll run around screaming that the sky is falling in
but hang on - that will achieve exactly what?
Apart from make people afraid when they don't need to be.

We are were we are - we need to make the best of it ..surely there is nothing else to say?

On EU deals - If we have to have freedom of movement of people then we will have to kindly decline any trade offer with EU

We won't actually have to decline though, will we? Quite the opposite. What you mean here, I think, is that this is what you want to happen.

Agree plato. DH works for the EU and the work they do is amazing. Never, ever hear anything about it though.

The problem is surely the rampant power our media has. We obvs can't restrict freedom of speech but the Murdoch controlled press (massively anti because he knows he can't control Europe, but can the UK) has spun lie after lie and nobody can do a damn thing about it.

The parallels with 1930s Germany are frightening. Propaganda, 'foreigners' told to get out, fighting in the streets, and a blond dickhead seducing poor people with a promise of a better life. My blood runs cold.

the Murdoch controlled press (massively anti because he knows he can't control Europe, but can the UK)

Actually what's weird here is that the sun was Exit, but the times, also murdoch, was remain.

Not at old Jason...
The mail was the same...
It's called hedging your bets :)

I think its very easy to feel this way in the aftermath and with the smug "told you so's" from those who voted to remain. It would not be appropriate to feel or act victorious when there is such uncertainty.

However, we are just days in. There is a long road ahead of us. There was a referendum for a reason. I think there were misinformed voters on both sides of the argument - to go around spouting that everyone who voted to leave are uneducated is far more prejudice than those leave voters are racist and / or xenophobic. People have personal circumstances - its very easy to sit in your expensive London houses with your European holidays and feel like you have the moral high ground. There are eurosceptics in mainland Europe too. People want reform, DC asked for it and was refused. Angela Merkel is a moron with her policy on "letting in" everyone from Northern Africa. JC Juncker is an arsehole. Let the value of the pound fall - bring it on. UK stocks will rally on the back of it. Just watch.

No. Leavers, have conviction! Yes there was scaremongering on both sides but the remain "campaign" continues to do this and everyone has gone into a frenzy and jumped on the bandwagon because they think its trendy.

Nobody voted for Farage. He is not exclusively synonymous with the desire to leave the European Union. Such hatred being spouted. Can't you see it is this that is dividing us?

Not panic of course, I never said that. I asked what the solutions are that you talked about. What are they?

There is a distinct lack of critical thinking among Leavers.

It sounds like delaying our exit may not be that simple.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/25/eu-emergency-talks-brexit-berlin

What? No expensive London house here. Are all the Remainers on this thread from London then?

Bengal I am with you.

Of course you're not masterofdragons, just as many others aren't. Oops did I generalise?! My bad. None of that going on here at all.

There is a distinct lack of critical thinking among Leavers

Is there? You've met them all have you?

Jason The Times is supposed to be an educated newspaper and as thus can't be seen to obviously take sides. However, if you read the Times in the days running up to the vote there was a definite Out swing, with carefully selected news. Nothing like the Guardian.

I find your remarks unbelievably flippant and thoughtless unlucky and august.
Do you really think all remainers live in castles with slaves to wash our feet while we snigger at the poor unwashed?
So we should let 'the sky fall in' and do nothing about it?
Try telling that to the people who have already been told they've lost their job, or had a long awaited offer of a job retracted, to the people already bring spat on and insulted in the streets, to those who will have to leave the country because their company will move.
Of course there is something to do. Hold somebody accountable for the devastation, force the twats that pushed it through to stick to their (obviously unattainable promises), comfort and support those who will or already are losing out.

The sad thing is that those likely to suffer the most are those who strive for equality and wanted better for the whole country.

As I live a reclusive existence and don't mix much, please can someone tell which sorts of people have already lost their jobs as a direct result of Thursday's vote, and which companies have definitely confirmed that they are moving out of the UK?

If the future of Britain rests on statements like "we could not accept any trade agreements with Europe" then I'm less optimistic about the future.
Trade agreements are not optional, they are necessary. Britain needs them and in order to enter into them Britain needs to accept certain terms. Freedom of movement would be a very significant one for a lot of European nations.