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?

And yes to what Lweji said, every vote counted. They were presented by constituency but only for ease of presentation. Every single Vote counted in its own right and went to the total. I'm quite at a suggestion at any else and it dies imply that not everyone understood this .

"I think so many people thought that there was no chance we'd leave, that they felt safe in voting out"

How does that even make sense?

Well said lweji

Michael Gove , Farage, Johnson and Co. are about to educate a whole load of Leave voters in the importance of critical thinking and taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

You'll be paying for that late education out of your wallet and it will be extremely painful. Of course it's going to hit the poorest worst, as usual.

I regret the way you voted. Do you know the UK economy lost more money yesterday than it has paid in contributions to the EU in over 40 years? The far right are rubbing their hands in glee. The whole thing is a fucking disaster and I'm ashamed of my country.

I think that only time will tell tbh.

SOME people who have voted Leave have done believing what the politicians have told us, which, we know, was a pack of lies/half truths/distorted truths (from both sides btw).

I think that a lot of people will wake up from this vote in the same way that some voters woke up after the last general Elections. Feeling dumped by what the politicians have told us (Remember the people who voted Conservative but had never realised that it meant they would not be affeted by benefit cuts or the ones who thought the NHS was still safe etc?)
I think the same will happen now with people who have voted Leave (as per OP actually. I voted because xxx but I didn't realise it also meant yyy)

Note: if the majority had been Remain, I'm pretty sure that the opposite would have been true too.

Well you're brave to own it OP.

I think Boris Johnson feels the same way, from the look of him yesterday.

I don't believe this post for a moment

But if it's for real, I'm not interested in your self-flagellation

I think we also need to remember that a lot of people are NOt in the position to make some research. They don't have the sufficient understanding/knowledge of politics/economics etc.. to be able to do so.
So they are basing their choice on what the hear and read.

Yes on MN, it looks like that everyone should have known that xxx. That everyone could have done some research.
This isn't the RL world though.

And this is why the thing I am the most crossed about was how unbalanced the representation of the different views was in the press. One look at the tiles of the newspaper revealed day after day after day huge titles showing how bad it was to stay in the EU, lies after half truths about what the EU is doing and very little representation of what the Remains were saying.
For me, THAT wasn't a very democratic way of dealing with things. After all nearly 50% of the population has said they wanted to Remain in the EU. Where/when were they represented?

I believe it. Have seen lots of friends of friends saying the same on Facebook.

I am under no illusion that the next few yesrs will be a lot tough. And the vote has cost our household dear. We own a development site. With the pressure of immigration it was growing in value and we were sitting pretty. Now it will not sell for as much. But the next generation will have the chance of being able to afford to buy themselves a home.

We are also launching a business. If it works (business is always a gamble) we can sell to 60m people in England. We could have sold it to 500m across Europe. Leaving Europe will cost us personaly.

But we feel the right decision was made. I don't want to cover our country in housing estates to accommodate the sheer numbers of immigration.

This is the most depressing thread I have read on MN ever.

DAILY MAIL - please pick up on this one.
How many people noted out as some sort of 'protest vote' without knowing the consequence of their actions?
Has this vote allowed racism to rise and become vocal?
Was this an unnecessary vote that Cameron massively misjudged?
How many OUT voters were unaware that the ONLY world leader in support of this was Putin.
This is the end of the UK. The Union Jock. Possibly the monarchy.

You really think that professor

Immigration isn't that bad, you 've just been persuaded to think it is much worse then the reality.

And whatever new deal we come to with EU it is highly likely to include free movement ( remember - we don't get to negotiate the terms)

This is a reverse isn't it?

Nonno

Yes, I agree with all of those
I'd add that it highlights how many people are perhaps not very bright

I was undecided but voted remain in the end because I didn't want to face the inevitable short term recession.
However OP I truly believe Britain has a better future outside the EU once we have sorted ourselves out.
The next few years are going to be very painful and we as a country were very brave voting out.
I have a baby and I feel he will have a better future now. I don't want him to live in a country of over 80 million when he is an adult when resources are struggling now and I can't even get a house. My kids are mixed race and it has nothing to do with not wanting more brown people.
I hate all the ageist posts now spreading on Facebook.
My parents voted out because they are scared about the destruction of the green belt that over population will bring.

I think we also need to remember that a lot of people are NOt in the position to make some research. They don't have the sufficient understanding/knowledge of politics/economics etc.. to be able to do so

This is why a referendum on an issue like this should not happen.
Or at least it should have required a bigger majority vote. At the very least a majority of all registered voters, not just those who voted.
Politicians in general, and Cameron in particularly, did a really bad job of this.

It's not that people aren't very bright.
It's that people are undeducated.
And have never been taught critical thinking
And that there is no opposition or investigation press (I mean a REALLY good one that will make a point of sending any politician saying a lot of lies back to base).

It IS crazy for example that the best way to get a whole lot of (un)biased views of this issue would be the follow MN rather than reading the press.
A lot of lies have been pulled apart of here. Why has not been mainstream?

There's a specific topic for this ---->

Not sure why you posted this OP, what is done is done & there's no going back.

But no I don't regret my vote, I looked into it and thought about it and even nearly fell out with part of my family because of it. We then put a ban on talking about it as things kept getting way too heated.

I voted remain. However I've accepted the vote of the majority but it is galling to hear people are now regretting voting to leave - your choice, your vote, think about your choices in greater detail next time you vote. Best piece of advice is assume everyone is bull shitting and go with your gut feeling.

Lweji this is where the limits of democraty appear in full light.

I find the hysteria quite amusing. Not because I'm blasé about the whole thing and I certainly don't pretend to know masses about the economy. What I do know though is it was widely predicted by both leave and remain that there would be massive financial turbulence in the days leading up to and after the referendum. Stocks change. The pound dropped, then went up a bit and will probably fluctuate quite a bit over the coming weeks. It's not unusual for investors to panic when there is uncertainty. But people are jumping on the market losses and believing that this is how it will be forever. The truth is, nobody knows. Financial groups and experts can give predictions. But unless they can see the future it's just guesswork. There's not really a precedent for this so it's hard to accurately predict what the long term outcome will be.

Change is scary but it can also be a good thing. I disagree strongly with the petition to call another referendum. So you want a democratic society but only as long the vote goes your way? I've also seen a nonsense petition about making London independent. Everybody needs to just calm down. Panic is what will cause financial losses.

FFS, immigration to the UK is MINISCULE. It is nigh on impossible to get into the UK these days.

You have been sold a total lie and you should be ashamed of yourself for it.

Look at Boris tripping over himself to delay activating this. He didn't think it would happen and now he is terrified of the consequences. He stood in front of a sign saying "Let's give £350m a week to the NHS", knowing full well this was a lie. What is he going to do now? How is he going to explain that one?

The UK will wither and die into the backwater it bloody deserves to be. It will be a slow, painful, drawn out process.

Bloody iPad...... to continue..

But the most important thing for me is sovereignty and the right to govern ourselves. The ability to change the government or hold them to account. We in the UK invented parliamentary democracy. It is our gift to the world. Under EU rule we were being offered a trinket of EU funding in return for being told what to do by the likes of Junkers. He has shown the EU to be arrogant and not able to reform and it does need reform.

Yes, city traders may loose their million pound bonuses. Oddly enough I can't shed a tear for them. And some banking and finance jobs will move to Frankfurt. Those super paid jobs are forcing ordinary people out of the housing market. Such massive differences in wealth is never healthy.

On balance, As Edith Piaf sang... .non je ne regrette rein.

This is what's wrong with referendums, and ridiculous spoiled lying man-childten with massive egos running campaigns and ignorant people being allowed to vote.

But hey, that's democracy.