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?

A lot of lies have been pulled apart of here.

That is true.
There is a topic for this and loads of threads.
It does surprise me that MNetters can still say they believed whatever they were presented by whatever campaign.
There was good journalism and lies exposed. But some newspapers campaign for one side. This should not happen. Ever. Information media should have the responsibility to be as neutral as possible and present arguments by both sides. Always.

Ah well op, you're not alone.

Other reason I heard yesterday- 'my husband told me to vote leave so I did' 'why was that?' 'I dunno'

I voted leave. So did my dh. Neither of us regret it and so far the effects of the outcome have worked well for us.

Pebbles...
Immigration numbers ... yes I know it because our council has just announced it must build two new towns over the next 15 years to accommodate the population growth. All the roads in Essex are massively overloaded. The train lines are over crowded... (even when the rain doesn't knock the system out).

If the Remain campaign had won they wouldn't even speak of another referendum. No, Farage made it clear that he would demand another referendum if the Leave campaign lost by 5% or less. As for the Labour blaming above - words fail me!

The reason for this referendum was not about the EU, not at all - it was for various Tories to butt heads to advance their political careers. The EU you voted against was the EU that prat Johnson made up, back when he was a 'journalist' and bears no relation to the actual reality. All that crap about 'sovereignty' - it's gone. We now have no control over European and global decisions that will affect us. Well bloody done, little Englanders (because that's all there will be soon).

Have you been affected by the outcome already orange bird?

Professor - your trains are overloaded because the rail services were privatised. There is no incentive for the pragmatic rail companies to provide comfort - all they have to care about is profit so that means not spending on extra carriages when they can cram everyone in a few.

Hello,

I think there are several issues here. First, I think many people did vote according to their emotions. Yet, part of the emotional response was based on a growing disaffection with an increasingly expansive and distant EU that, it would seem, is shared by many people in other European countries as well. Others felt that somehow, the EU is dominated by big players such as France and Germany and the UK is marginalised already. A remain vote would increase the sense of impotence and marginalisation. Also, many people who, (like me) are struggling on zero hours contracts, inadequate housing and a gross uncertainty about our future and our children's futures voted to leave because for all its rigour, European Law and European funding has done nothing to improve our quality of life or hope for the future. Change of some sort may be better than the situation we are in now (it certainly could not be worse). Some people voted to leave because they were enthused and excited by the promises made by the Leave campaigners.
However, as 'Leave' voter I am really disappointed by the complete negativity with which the decisions has been received. We were told things were going to be tough for a while, but then we were assured they would get better. So where are those voices now?

So, we either stick this out and see if we can make it without the EU (and Scotland and Northern Ireland) or we make a collective statement to the Government that we got it wrong.

Media In Biased Shock!!!

People are already losing their jobs because of this.
Also our countries credit rating has been downgraded. That affects the rate of interest paid by the government when they borrow. It costs us more money.
I wouldn't be horrible to anyone like the OP, but it is frustrating.

I could be very wrong, but what do zero contract hours have to do with the EU?

If anything, the EU was pushing for better work conditions. Including shorter weeks.
Zero hours sounds more like a Conservative gift to employers as usual. (Going to check)

Too late for regrets. What is done is done. I'm disappointed in the result, I voted remain. I also voted to stay in the UK at the Scottish referendum and now it seems we are about to be hit by another one in the near future. I am now pondering my thoughts on that should it happen. First time round I didn't have to be persuaded, it was a definite stay from the outset.

I wonder how many regretful EU exit voters will sign the petition for a new referendum...

The train lines are over crowded... (even when the rain doesn't knock the system out).

Were migrants the cause of the privatisation of rail companies, and, importantly, rail tracks? For how the tracks were (are?) poorly maintained?

Fantastic set of questions for a great analysis there nonna

If the Remain campaign had won they wouldn't even speak of another referendum. Personally I would have respected the Leave side's calls for another one, I've always thought these things should have a set minimum in voter turnout and percentage of votes. Not that this would have failed on voter turnout, whichever way you wanted it to go that was an great figure.

Re immigration, I think this is why the remain campaign failed. It failed to acknowledge immigration as a problem, instead it decided to call all leave voters racist.
I know it is a problem, my sins school is doubling in size. The tiny bit of playground built over. PE consists of running on the spot.

Roll on the collapse of the EU!

Of all the extremist things said in wake of referendum, I think this might be the worst. One thing for Leavers to gloat, or claim that they really "understood" the voters (or "didn't understand" from Remainers), and loads of other tripe being spouted.

But to actually WISH for collapse of the EU. Whatever happened to respecting sovereignty (ie, that would be their decision & we should keep our noses out)? Plus why should we wish all of our insecurity & divisions onto them. Wishing for EU collapse is the meanest thing I've heard anyone say.

Someone I know had said all day on Thursday they weren't going to vote, didn't know wHo to vote for and couldn't be bothered. Yesterday they announce they had voted, a leave vote. Later in the day during a group discussion about the referendum they ask 'does this mean we'll be getting the Euro now?'. WTAF!!

I totally despair.

On zero hours:
www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/zero-hours-contracts

Few countries use this. It's regulated in all that use them, except the UK.
In all likelihood, by leaving, things will get worse for UK workers, not better, as the right wing government does as they please.

my train lines are crap/ schools oversubscribed.
But not because of immigration- because of privatisation, lack of funding, increases in house prices because of lack of building/increasing amounts of investor landlords
if you expect these to improve as we leave you are in for a shock

It failed to acknowledge immigration as a problem, instead it decided to call all leave voters racist.

It was discussed in MN and presented in many places that migration was not a problem, and the reasons why it wasn't the problem that the far right wanted it to be.
Still, people prefered to believe that others going in was the source of all that is wrong in England ( and I do mean England). Not the government policies.

There is no point in regretting it now. We all knew that there would be turmoil initially. We need to be positive. Enough of the doom and gloom.

Don't beat yourself up about this. The campaigns on both sides were absolutely terrible, but I think the remain one was particularly unpleasant and aggressive. If the nation had been given balanced information, the result may have been different. The problem is though that Brussels just wasn't listening to our legitimate concerns and this has been a big wake-up call. Perhaps they'll start listening to the other pro-leave EU nations, but it's all too late for us.

The mn demographic might not find it a problem but clearly half the country does and not just the right wing.

It failed to acknowledge immigration as a problem
I saw a lot of politicians pointing out that we don't even limit the non EU immigrants to the target level, and there was nothing stopping us doing that. That if immigration was a big problem it was a failure of the UK government and not the EU.