Has anybody changed their mind about how they voted?

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It seems not many people have?

Voted Remain and would vote the same again. I wish ill on those who didn't. So there.

Economically, I should specify.

Is DD drunk all the time like Juncker is reported to be?

According to James Chapman, then yes DD is a piss head.

The actions of the eu are totally to be expected. Doesn't change the fundamental question though. The eu is neither self determination or a human global order. It is a half way house of self benefit isolation from the world. We are all equal, or our differences are too much to integrate. I love fudge, but not in politics. I wouldn't change my leave vote. Short term pain over longer term benefit (despite current government incompetence). We have children so voting for their benefit surely?

Voted leave, would vote leave again. I was happy to have a referendum. Plus it helped me lose the friends that I needed to lose too.

Love the "short term pain" certainty from Leave voters. Like the UK is some economic powerhouse waiting to be unleashed.......

We didn't hear about short term pain before the Referendum - there was going to be oodles of money for the NHS, we'd 'take back control'. No mention from Leave of hardships. That was dismissed as Project Fear by Remain. Now apparently you agreed with us.

A couple of leavers on this thread have said they expected short term pain, but it would be worth it eventually. Please would a leaver tell me what the long term benefits will be and when we might start seeing them? March 2019? Five years? Ten? Twenty?

I voted remain and would undoubtedly again. My DM voted leave, woke up to the referendum result the next day and thought "Oh god. Um... I didn't really mean it. I didn't think we'd win." Like many (but by no means all, of course), I think she voted Leave out of a sense of general discontent at the way things in 'this modern world' (as she calls it) are going, rather than an actual understanding of what Leave would mean.

Voted remain would vote remain again.

As for short term pain - it won't be that short term and guessing the profile of a lot of Leave voters will be dead before we feel any benefits if we ever do.

I'd also like to know what the short term pain and long term gain entails.

When leavers talk of "short term pain" it suggests that they're either retired or rich tbh. "Short term pain" for me means losing my job and struggling to feed my family, it's not something I can airily waft away.

I can only assume that such leavers were unaffected by the last recession. We're still recovering, both in terms of careers and finances. Another recession could sink us. To completely remodel the economy when we are still recovering from a recession is utter insanity.

I'd put the short term as up to 10 years.

And I've no idea what the long term gain might be after we've told the 27 nations we trade with most and our neighbours to fuck off.

But it's okay as trump wants a trade deal.

I would feel better about having to leave the EU if somebody could actually tell me definitely how it will make things better. I want detailed analysis not fluffy statements about sovereignty. If anyone actually has some links which state what will definitely happen for the better and the evidence to back it up I'd love to see them.

I stood in the election booth and hovered, Pension or Housing for Kids?
I voted housing for kids and leave the EU.
I'd vote the same way again painful though it may be.

DJTW how do you equate leaving the EU with housing for kids?

But Patsy no-one knows what is in the future (whether in EU or not). The vote was "do you want to remain in the EU".

Rather like a divorce. You decide you don't want to remain in a marriage. You know that the process will be horrible and you will take a hit financially, you don't know what your life will be like in years to come, but you do know that you don't want to be in the marriage anymore.

There are too many people moving into to UK and house prices are at a crazy level.

That isn't going to magically change by leaving the EU though.

Why do you think it will?

Actually, it may well change but only because we've sold our economy down the river so there's no net benefit.

The economy of the NE was sold down the river years ago, industries such as steel, ship building, mining all long gone.

Seriously DJTW how is leaving the EU going to change or improve that situation?

@BMW6 I'm not asking to see the future, I'm asking about policies, trade and rights.

What rights will I gain that are better than what I have now.

In a divorce someone leaves because it's better to leave that to stay. They have reasons that make it better to leave. All I'm asking for is what those reasons specifically are.

Voted Remain for my children and grandchildren. I am 72 years old