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?

I too voted to leave and have no regrets I still believe it was the right to do, what I do feel let down by now is the behaviour of some leavers who are ardent racists and we are being used as the excuse. Also the behaviour of of some of the remain voters who appear to think that democracy only applies if they get the result they want. I've a dreadful feeling that I may have damaged my relationship with my daughter because of this, but I voted for what I believed and still believe is the correct way. As for the person who says they have to fire two workers on Monday that's rubbish , we're still members of the EU for at least 2 more years

I do not regret for one moment voting to remain. I am 'out' as a remainer, and can tell anyone my reasons knowing the facts. You should be ashamed for voting without researching. Next time there is anything to vote about - please think about it deeply, what it means for you, your family, for the nation as a whole, and if what is being promised is actually likely to happen.

My husband worked for Goldman Sachs until Easter when they had a cull. He has been unemployed since then. Back then they were making plans to move their operations to Poland in the event of Brexit. I'm massively stressed that he will struggle to get another job with all the banks looking to move. Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Credit Suisse have all said they will move too.

Agree totally I voted out too and proud

You are not the first person I have heard say this....but bear in mind nobody likes change anyway. Why did you vote that way without researching first and carefully considering your vote? I have overheard more than one person saying that they voted out "for a laugh"and now regret it. otally agree with many on here including dickorydockwhatthe...and I might add that round here there was a HUGE push to get people to vote out, red (labour? noticable?) placards up by the side of roads, leaflets through the door, scaremongering re how much people from other countries are clogging up the National health system (might I add...and do you REALLY think France is going to hold back the people who want to come over here from Calais now we have snubbed them and voted out?) I didn't agree with a lot of how it was run, the lies that were put about and the emotional appeal to the masses...it seemed to me. All of us, me, DH and 3 daughters tried to research and research properly without bias and voted for what we thought would be right...and nobody knows either way as to me neither way was ideal, and out is totally unknown.
Live with it. We are where we are and the mass of people in Britain has voted that way. Xenophobic ? Some of them, definately, and very sadly.

I find some of these remarks amazing.

If any of you had the faintest idea of what the EU had in store for you all, you would not be lambasting this lady for voting to Leave. OK she did it on a few bullet points but her instincts were correct.

I( have thoroughly read and researched the history of the EU, The Lisbon Treaty, The Fundamental Law of the European Union and The Five Presidents Report.

Just a thought: How would you have felt if you had woken up some time next week and found 20% VAT slapped on all food, clothes, medicines and even funerals........richer? More able to provide for your kids? That was just for starters...........

i do not regret how i voted and i do not think there is a right or wrong vote as not one person knows how this will pan out as no country has ever left the eu before(other than the country that only exports fish!) a democracy is a democracy and everyone is intital to an opinion, im not disapointed in the result and would never tell someone they are wrong for voting how they did however the vindictive remarks on social media is appalling everyone on facebook or chat forums has now become a political expert when even ours experts dont know what the future holds, we could benefit from it or it could have a negative result however this is the very reason i feel we should never have had a refueredum, i do not feel the average working person is responsible to make such a important vote, especially not if you use it so flippantly that you regret it only hours later based on media hype!

I think you should be ashamed of making such an enormous decision without doing some proper research. But that's the problem....the ramifications of this referendum are huge and yet it was the average person who had to decide. Unfortunately there were many millions like you who didn't know what they were really voting for.

The EU have been holding back making some laws and giving out their accounts with good reason. I dread to think what they would have done if we voted to remain.

I don't regret my vote

The thing I don't get it is that when I ask the leavers I have on my facebook what is so positive about leaving, the reply is "We will make Britain great again." When I ask how, I don't get any answer at all. Friends of mine have been told its time for them to go back where they came from. Gove and Bojo and have no idea what they are doing next. Farage is saying the £350 million was a "mistake". I try to find out what EU regulations people have objected to and they are mainly nonsense. I saw someone complaining before the vote that EU regulations have changed to make car seats safer and they don't want to have to buy a new car seat for their youngest child... I keep thinking about one of my sixth form students who's an EU immigrant and was asking me about going back to her home country to study medicine and then coming back here to work in the NHS, part of my thinks I need to tell her to not leave the country in case she can't get back in... I'm struggling to see the positives.

OP how could you think voting out would be better for the economy - did you not read anything before the vote? At least you could now go and sign the petition demanding another referendum

While it's true that not all Brexiters are racists, all racist voters voted for Brexit.

Don't worry what is done is done. Your single vote may have made little difference as mine didn't. You can't change it now so there is no point worrying about it.

No, I don't regret voting out and I would do it again. I didn't listen to much of the hype, I decided long ago I did not want to be part of a federal Europe who made all our decisions for us. They are a corrupt, and apparently, totally untouchable organisation. They have not produced any financial reports for years, so nobody knows where a lot of the money has gone. Many foreign politicians are now beginning to be jailed for mis-use of EU funds Our MEPs have very little power and are frequently outvoted, and we can't vote the powers-that-be either in or out. The last straw came long ago when they watered down our rabies protection laws so much that a lot of countries not in Europe will no longer accept them!

I saw someone on Twitter state that not all leave voters were racists but the problem is now that racists think 52% of the population agree with them.

Sums it up perfectly IMO

No I don't regret my Leave vote at all.
Don't let all the bullies get to you,making you feel guilty. We will be ok.Life goes on & we will cope.They need us more than we need them. If things were not going wrong we wouldn't of had the vote in the first place & a lot more than half the country know it!

I felt really proud of our democratic system when I saw that mob screaming abuse and threats at a politician who at the end of the day was on the same side of the majority of the electorate in this country.

Just a quick point, but no he wasn't. The majority of the electorate did not vote Brexit. The majority didn't. 52% of a 72% turnout did, which is a little more than a third of the actual electorate. I make this point because it's an extremely important distinction. His side were several million short of comprising a majority of the electorate.

We have no previous experience of voting in a referendum (well most of us). As the vote was very close I have signed the online petition for a second referendum. Don't beat yourself up if you have changed your mind. There was sooo much propaganda.

Your single vote may have made little difference as mine didn't.

Add one or two million individual votes that didn't matter and sleep soundly.

I am proud to have voted remain - just not proud explaining to my children (of 'immigrant' heritage) exactly what the majority of voters voted for (or rather, against).

I'm gutted. It feels like mourning.

In Ireland we don't really have referendums, because they just repeat them until we vote the way they wanted in the first place. Neverendums, I suppose you'd call them.

Maybe Britain can do the same?

Stupid to vote without knowing what you were doing and stupid to vote to leave (and I'm bring polite here). But you're in good company. Don't wind me up further by being "sorry" now. The milk is truly spilt.

I happen to know a very senior member of the Daily Mail editorial team who, like most highly educated people, voted Remain. This person now claims to feel 'really bad' about spending the last few months urging their readers to do something that they themselves knew all along to be utterly disastrous for the entire country, but 'you know, it's my job'. Make of that what you will.

Heyday absolutely. Let's all cut the drama. It's done. It'll all unfold gradually.