I've never met a brex regret

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Those reputed regretters...they must hang out in the psyches of rabid Remainers, for I sure ain't met one!

I haven't met anybody at all with regrets, most I have spoken to just want to get on with things

same here Kummer and from speaking with friends who voted remain, most are now coming round to the idea that leaving will be a positive step. The tide is turning. I'm hearing remainers say that they're surprised at how optimistic they feel. Perhaps they are regretting their vote to remain now they're just starting to see the possibilities brought forward by brexit?

I know about 6. One is livid with TM - she likes Sharia Law! (UKIP voter, thought there would be a general election and goadingly told me to "wait and see u scardy cat, wait and see!!!" [sic] I have reminded him this super tory cabinet was his choice as I had warned him prior to the vote.
One is a far right Tory - happy as a pig in brown stuff - can't wait for huge clamp downs on welfare, lowering of minimum wage, also wants tougher education testing, believes Gove's mate Dominic whatever that 'poor people don't have the clever gene the rich do' or whatever he wrote that sodding paper on.
Two have gone completely silent - no posts at all since the vote on fb. Most of their friends were leavers from what I could tell so unlikely that silence is about being bullied. No idea what they usually vote although one seems to like UKIP.
One is in Yorkshire and has been very anti fracking - the day after Brexit Germany banned it which has had him wondering if he knew what he was doing now he is "really looking into the environmental implications of Brexit and a little concerned" - understatement of the year. Tory voter.
One runs a travel company and didn't seem to realise this will likely cripple his business. He has focussed on football as two of his long term friends have fallen out with him over his choice - mainly because his logic was completely based on The Sun newspaper which he posted almost daily on the run up. Also a UKIP voter.
Last there's a guy who is an architect. I was quite surprised when he said the economy was doing better than it ever had done last week...turns out he didn't zoom out on XE . com and thought we were doing really well I think he is blissfully ignorant tory voter.

As a remainer, I am feeling more optimistic, not because I have stopped thinking we have done something very silly, but because Theresa May is at the helm.

Jeffrey - That's got to be a wind up surely?

I wonder how many people would have regretted voting remain if it had gone the other way. Quite a few sooner or later I think, although I'm sure no remainers here will wish to entertain that possibility We certainly can't assume that "leave regret" outweighs what would otherwise have been "remain regret".

Nope. All completely true .
I also fear I am becoming a Tory. Was a Liberal before. Think we need someone who is going to be a bit of a bitch about things now. I think 2/3 years time it will be very interesting to see the figures on the brain drain of all of this.

How can there be remain regret it if it all goes better?

Regret surely would be if it goes badly, if brexit turns out to be positive no one will regret anything.

I very much doubt remain regret would have been a thing - we could have always had another referendum on it. Now we can't ever go back.

"if brexit turns out to be positive no one will regret anything."

I do indeed think it will be positive once the dust settles.

But since the referendum was only 2.5 weeks ago, Article 50 hasn't yet been triggered and we haven't yet left the EU, how come there is already so much discussion of "people who regret voting leave"?

I very much doubt remain regret would have been a thing - we could have always had another referendum on it.

I don't think that's the case Jeffrey. It's been 41 years since the last referendum on our place in Europe, and no guarantee there would ever have been another. Had the result been "remain", I think it would have been taken as an encouragement for us to be come steadily more entangled in the EU until there was no escape.

So remain voters are insulting, patronising and guilty of stereotyping and at the same time in some Boden / Mark Warner /Jamie Oliver camp - if that demographic accounts for 48% of the population, time to buy shares

As it happens the leave voters I know best who are shocked and desperately trying to cling to their illusions are demographically typical, 80+, out of work, working class. They voted leave because apparently the world was just great pre 1975, we skipped across the globe wealthy and happy with the commonwealth acknowledging our superiority and entitlement. My daughter's love them but we have had to ban any talk of Brexit. Good luck with that plan app.scmp.com/scmp/mobile/index.html#/article/1988081/desktop

By the way leave voters, hope you are enjoying being distracted from boring economic arguments by this mornings sidebar of shame

Whatwouldrondo, you don't realise that the Daily Mail were pro Remain, right?

Eh? The Daily Mail were pro-brexit, Papayas.

So were the Sun.

Do you ever really regret your vote if your on the minority side? There can be a palpable relief that things didn't go as badly as you'd thought, but that's not the same as regret. I only know two people who've regretted general election votes, one wished ukip had been represented in the election before last so voted Tory in their absence. The other voted Tory in the last election because he believed the vote for anyone else was a vote for ukip and now bitterly regrets that.

papaya Without all the pro Brexit Daily Hates coverage of those "bad loser" remain voters this thread might never have happened...... they leave no prejudice unexploited.....

How weird to think the Daily Mail were pro remain.

Abuse from remainers? Remainers alone?

Gosh. There are so many who are superb at claiming victim status.

I've observed so much vitriol and hatred from Leavers on social media. It's really opened my eyes to how vile people can be.

And as for asking for a plan, well how very unreasonable!

There still isn't a plan btw.

Dh knows a leaver at work who voted leave due to immigration but didn't expect to win, on the Saturday after the referendum she was busy sending her friends and colleagues from work, including my DH, links to the second referendum petition as she would change her vote if she was given the chance. I am not even joking!

you don't realise that the Daily Mail were pro Remain, right

The Mail on Sunday were Remain. The Daily Mail was definitely Leave the EU.

The Daily Mail definitely has an issue with the EU.

winky that's been my experience on social media too. I've seen remainers express disappointment and generalised 'oh shit' but the leavers are the ones who have hounded people. I've been told to leave the country (dual nationality), that it's my type who are the problem, that I need to accept racism as the norm now, I deserve abuse on the streets, etc.. Never mind that most of these things were on statuses to do with my dcs schooling and one randomly about gin. These people have cried that they've been accused of being racist or stupid - not by me btw - then attack anyone who held a different viewpoint to them personally. I'm not stupid enough to know my friendship group is representative of the nation as a whole. Shame some of my so called friends don't.

Helmet I think they may be confused by the fact that the Daily Hate was pro Theresa May. Obviously if it had been pro Brexit it would have backed Andrea I am a mother and sat in a stationary cupboard in a bank for 25 years and know everything about economics and how to lead a country Leadham and would not have taken Theresa May out for lunch first thing after Davcam resigned to make sure they keep their power base in Number 10.......

I was strongly in the Remain camp, Leave voters can abuse me all they like on MN, I'm an adult, I can take it. I just wish they'd leave Polish school children alone.