To ask if Leave voters would still vote the same way, knowing what they know now? And what people who didn't vote now feel?

[longestlurkerever]

I think I'd find it easier to accept the result if I knew that the majority of the country were still happy with the decision to leave, now that they realise that the economic predictions were not scaremongering, that there really is no fallback plan for how to forge a new deal with the EU and now that the leave campaign appear to be backtracking on many of their claims.

No judgment, it's just that the decision is not binding yet. There are reports in the media of people regretting their vote to leave but I don't know how widespread a feeling that is.

In response to the earlier posts, there were several threads after the Cologne attacks which had as their main thrust the fact that no one gave a shit. That in Germany, the answer was to blame the women attacked. The press barely reported it. The Guardian in the UK put it underground. A Code of Conduct for women was drawn up by the Cologne mayor.

There have been other attacks in the last few days in Sweden.

There is a general feeling that a lot is being under reported.

Many on these threads were appalled at the way the whole thing was handled both at a national level and European level.

It has little directly to do with Free Movement of People as a EU concept. Arguably it has a lot to do with sovereignty in as much as many economic migrants arrived under Merckel's open arms scheme and they were linked to the attacks (not the genuine refugees)

I can imagine there were Leave voters generated as a result - perhaps due to the feeling that actions with Germany were throwing women's fundamental rights in Western Europe under a bus. Or that the EU didn't really respond in any meaningful way. Or perhaps that due to free movement these people with disregard for women's rights were soon free to move around Europe.

I'm not sure. But let's please be really careful here when we dismiss people's fears. The one lesson we should learn from this EU Ref is to listen.

I am wondering how these accusations of racism in the EU who "like to punish those who aren't crystal white" sit with the assertions that the EU was on the verge of allowing 76 million Turks freedom of movement within the union?