Bregret/ regrexit

[Mistigri]

Or whatever you want to call it.

Got to say I was cynical about this - thought it was just the press cherry-picking the odd hapless individual. But I just followed a link to the Daily Mail's main article on "what does Brexit mean for you" and read the comments section. It's astounding. Perhaps 80% of the comments are expressing regret or fear about brexit, and these are getting large numbers of up-votes, whereas pro-brexit comments are getting down-voted.

A lot of people are complaining that they weren't properly informed by their newspaper of choice ...

Zippy the fault is entirely Cameron for choosing to decide a very complex issue with a referendum, when we already have a functioning representative democracy to make difficult decisions for us. And for not ensuring that the referendum question was a choice between two considered, concrete alternatives.

To me it was a numbers issue. Public services can't cope with the numbers and last year ds didn't get into our very local very average school, plans to build on all our local green spaces. The pressure on public services had become more personal to me. I openly admit (here and in real life) that I've made a monumental mistake and I'm an idiot.

Thank you for being kind. I don't deserve it. I expect there are a lot who feel the same.

We don't know how many people are regretting voting leave, we can only guess. As a leave voter who is not regretting anything, I see this as an understandable reaction to the hyperbolic fearful attitude to the leave vote in the media, as well as the fact that Cameron resigned and Osbourne has been largely silent about what happens next.

I KNEW that there would be some jobs lost due to a leave vote, I voted leave anyway. It was easier for me to make that decision given that my job is not at stake, but as a small business holder I think I will be onto a better future out of the EU. I am allowed to vote in my own interests, just like those who voted remain in their own interests. I also truly believe that our long term prospects as a country are better outside an EU that is committed to ever closer political and monetary union. We would always have been on the sidelines of that, given that we were not part of either of those things.

Also given that there are many countries who are as fragmented as Britain in their approach to their EU membership, it is entirely possible that whole thing will crumble. We could then have a true common market again. If indeed this proves to happen, it again entirely justifies my vote. An edifice that cannot survive the loss of one member is not a strong, cable organisation.

Obviously everyone is entitled to vote to benefit themselves, that is the point of voting.

I didn't think of myself though. I don't think the brexit will really effect my job. Any recession will effect me but not my job.

I did think of the 3,000,000 jobs that are linked to the EU and millions of other jobs that are based in big business that are only based here because of our links with the EU.

I also thought of the money we contribute, not just that gets allocated to us, but that helps countries in the EU that need development. Improving the world can only benefit us. I think some of the Leave arguments were strong and not just based on fear but I could never vote for a premise that was based on how much the UK could take from the world without giving much back.

Kummer no one has forced you to read this. There is no need to be so aggressive.

Those are all good points gunting. I just think our prospects are better in the long run out rather than in.

The silence is a huge problem
If DC loves his country so much, he should be saying something at the moment
That said, as a leave voter, I'm beginning to think why some are going to say theirs was a protest vote...the silence is going to lead to the vote being ignored I assume. I did see a few MNers saying we'd stay even if the vote was to leave
I reckon the plan is, radio silence til after Tuesday's protest, then call a vote in the Commons and reject the result.
I nearly abstained. I now wish I had. It isn't actually worth the trek to the polling station, they will do whatever they like.

Also we CAN give back to the world without being part of the EU. There is no reason to assume that we won't. The UK gives foreign aid now. If we don't like the way the government in power chooses to spend the aid budget, or we want a bigger aid budget we can vote in a government that will enable this. In the EU we have not enough say.

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chocolate I wonder if that domain name is for sale!

it is! Quick, let's snap it up ...

A friend of mine planned to vote out even though she wanted the UK to stay in the EU. She was convinced that if we voted out there would be lots of renegotiation and reform in the EU and changes to keep the UK in.

I haven't seen her since the vote so don't know how she's feeling now.

She'll be feeling like shit no doubt. Much like myself. I feel like I was so blinkered about something so important and gave no consideration to the racist types and how this would galvanise them. I'm appalled with myself. No doubt your friend is too.

zippy quit the auto flagellation and get angry with the people who lied to you! The more I digest what's happened, and why, the more disgusted I am with the people who put us in this position - and I don't mean a few leave voters suffering buyers' remorse.

I'm sorry zippy, unlike the others I have no sympathy for you, you deserve to feel like shit.

Fake I'm not looking for sympathy. And misti I'm angry at others but more disappointed in myself.

@ zippyswife and those so anxious they feel they need to do something:
There's an online petition which has already garnered over 3.5M signatures, asking for a 2nd referendum. It allows you to check how many have supported it in your constituency. Write to your MP and ask them to represent your view at Westminster. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215
Many feel the EU referendum process was unfair. I was personally disappointed that both sides lied. And that there was no independent body providing true factual information, or even vetting what was communicated before it hit the media.

At the heart of it all it appears all are in agreement that our establishment needs to change. Leaving the EU will not fix what is broken with our system. And many who voted to Leave are outspoken about not understanding the full impact of their decision. Just Google 'Bregret'.

Someone pointed out that article 50 hasn't been triggered. And the vote wasn't legally binding. It is an advisory. We can still get out of this.

Yawn.....

Millions of leave voters aren't on facebook or twitter and nor do they leave comments on newspaper sites. If you base your opinion on leave voters from these sources then you show the same ignorance that the racists do.

The Sun have done the same:
indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-sun-has-also-got-around-to-telling-its-readers-what-brexit-will-mean-and-they-are-not-happy--WySvafrAVZ

@ all those idealists:
-the £ is at a 34 year low
-3000 jobs already lost in just 2 companies and it's only day 4
-France Wants to abandon border controls at Calais, sending refugees straight to our doorstep
-the UK is now so cheap it's even more appealing, foreign Investors are buying the £ and will buy properties
-an emergency bailout fund of 250bn is required, it'll only scratch the surface
At the end of all this, in a Country already in debt to China to such a sum we'll never see this country debt free in our lifetime, do you really think there'll be more Money for the NHS, benefits, Social housing, and the reason we are all on this page, our children, their welfare and education? Just saying...

I wonder whether some leavers won't start regretting until their children start getting made redundant.

Extraordinary cognitive dissonance for Farage to pop up yesterday and announce that we had been heading (in his expert opinion ha ha) for a recession anyway.

I have lived in two countries in which the live in 'domestic help' was provided by young female graduates from overseas, whose home currency had become so cheap that their best option was to export their own labour and do other women's ironing and child care.

I don't understand why so many British people seem to believe their currency is immune from volatility no matter how they behave. Just because we are the fifth (briefly the sixth!) biggest economy etc etc doesn't mean it will always be so. Complacency and arrogance.

Latest figures are 7 percent of those who voted leave regret it and 4 percent of those who voted Remain regret it. So although majority would be cut, result would be the same if re-ran.