Out of interest, if you voted leave what do you do for a living?

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I promise I won’t ask you anymore questions or it turn into a slanging match, you are untitled to your opinion.
I don’t know anyone of my friends who voted leave, the odd acquaintance who voted leave “because they didn’t really understand” but the people I am friendly with all seem to be remianers. We are in our 30s and to teaching, sales and banking type jobs. Dh is a solicitor and all do law in one form.
I was wondering if certain sectors voted leave generally and if what you did for a living influenced your leave vote, and if you could possibly explain why the leave vote would benefit your sector. I am not here to judge at all just trying to understand

I don't believe the film director ofall the jobs stated here. The film industry campaigned vociferously against Brexit and is due to be royally shafted.

I am a secondary teacher and don't know any teachers who voted Leave. That said we haven't had a show of hands at a staff meeting or anything! Quite a few year 13s actively cmapaigned for Remain. We are in a astaunch Tory area and the area in general voted in line witht he UK's overall figures ( ie about 52% leave). Our MP is a proper Brexiteer.

I don't actually know, but think my MIL and stepFIL voted Leave. Both retired civil service workers. I don't even know how they vote in elections.

DF (retired uni lecturer) and DSM (civil servant) both in Scotland. Both remain.

Those of you who maintain that you only know two people who voted Leave, and that they are your aged PILs who are retired rag and bone persons and regularly post about EDL on facebook.
You are deluded.
You actually know loads of people who voted Leave, they just don't mention it to you because you give off strong Remainer vibes and they can't be arsed to listen to your specious arguments about the benefits of FofM etc.

Remember this?

The UK has been told it must pay an extra £1.7bn (2.1bn euros) towards the European Union's budget because the economy has performed better than expected in recent years.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29751124

Britain quietly settled its latest altercation over the European Union budget by paying a 1.7 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) bill that Prime Minister David Cameron originally derided as “appalling.”

Britain transferred the money in two instalments on July 1 and Sept. 1, (2015) the Brussels-based European Commission said in a statement on Thursday.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-03/u-k-settles-eu-bill-once-called-appalling-by-cameron

None of the ones I know that work earn enough to live without the help of tax credits. They all seem to want a no deal as well

Other than that retired

Friends of ours who voted leave;
Business Owner
Company Director
Plumber
Engineering consultant
Financial Director
Nurse
Police Officer
Insurance Negotiator
I could go on, but pretty much everyone in our area voted leave.

I have never lectured anyone for their vote. I’ve pulled people up on racism and xenophobia, but I’ve always tried to understand a leavers point of view incase I’ve missed something. People turning this thread sour and leavers and I don’t know why as it’s not that type of thred

Clav as we have all told you before the contribution to the EU budget is tiny in percentage terms. Have you forgotten that posters have explained this before?

If anyone wishes to talk with authority about budgets it is essential to remember the full context. As has been explained to you on numerous occasions in return for less than 1% of GDP we formerly enjoyed the national benefit of unrestricted access to successful trading bloc with a potential market on our doorstep worth $18.8 trillion of 500 million consumers.
This is what we are walking away from so please stop banging on about saving the under 1% for the EU budget- that has been far exceeded by Brexit already anyway.

I work in government

I don’t know many Leavers in our circle - we are teachers and the vast majority of them are Remainers round here.

The people I know for sure who voted Leave are:

• a PE teacher
• a youth worker
• a plumber
• a supermarket delivery driver
• retired

Your British friends might be fibbing to you of course - a bit awkward telling someone who lives in France, and married to a Frenchman - that you voted to leave the EU

I'm not married to a French person. Why do you make up random shit about people? Typical brexiter respect for facts ;)

I don't know many leavers because I move in a remain bubble - big UK-listed company that makes and participates in European supply chains - which is why the leave voting shipping manager is ... well, leaving . The few leavers I know are mostly family and we don't discuss it. Interestingly it's the older generation of my very middle-class well-heeled family that voted leave, while my DH's working class catholic Potteries family voted remain!

he voted due to Merkels open immigration policy

Why would someone vote because they didn't like another country's immigration policy?

I would have thought it was better to vote on British immigration policy

lonelyplanetmum
If anyone wishes to talk with authority about budgets it is essential to remember the full context.

EU spending projects/EU budget contributions seem to be the UK government's biggest bone of contention.

Another one from 2013;

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24286784

The UK government says it objects to a 3.9bn-euro (£3.3bn) top-up for the EU budget demanded by the European Commission - just as the UK opposed a 7.3bn-euro top-up earlier this year.

The UK was outvoted on the extra 7.3bn for this year's EU budget - so the UK will have to pay about 875m euros more.

If the same happens over the 3.9bn then the UK will have to pay another 470m.

The Commission says bills rolled over from 2012 have to be paid - mostly for EU projects in struggling regions.

^"When citizens across Europe are seeing their family budgets under pressure, it is unjustifiable that the European budget should be going up in this way," a UK Treasury spokesperson told BBC News.
"The UK did not support the budget increase earlier this year and does not support this one."^

The extra allocation is separate from the EU's long-term budget for 2014-2020, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).The MFF spending targets were agreed in tortuous negotiations earlier this year.

(You keep claiming authority on EU enlargement - but my links show otherwise.)

You actually know loads of people who voted Leave, they just don't mention it to you because you give off strong Remainer vibes and they can't be arsed to listen to your specious arguments about the benefits of FofM etc

Oh yeah thats deffo it...not

I know three people who voted remain and two that voted leave

One leave voter is my dad and the other a friend

The remain votes are ds1 boyfriend, my husband and a friend

Ive no idea what other people voted as i dont feel its important that i know

Remainer vibes my arse

Mistigri

My apologies then - perhaps I have mixed you up with someone else - I thought I had remembered that your dc had French passports.

DH and I are directors of our own company. 8 full time staff as well as ourselves, good turnover and profit margin.

Both voted Leave and both clearly thick as pig shit

@jane I don’t get where you think anyone is calling you thick for voting?! I stated this thread and that was never my intention?! It seems leavers are the only ones rolling their eyes and calling themselves thick. I do t know you I have no idea what your like, nor do I care really. In the nicest way possible.
What I am interested in is if your profession had dealings with EU regulations or issues that influenced your vote?

Excuse the typos trying to cook tea and mumsnet

I’m a nurse,
DH and BiL both graphic designers working in print
MiL- retired, worked as self employed and then employed by local government in catering.
I spent some time reading up around various different issues, I read Martin Lewis piece on what effects we would have and took the questionnaire which told you which way you should vote on the basis of what areas you deemed important.
Those of you who go on about NHS workers shooting themselves in the foot, a major reason for me voting leave was because we were under threat of forced privatisation and being moved to an American style health system and we did not want that to happen. Lo and behold, we are now being told that it is going to happen if we do leave the EU!
I also saw/heard/read about the struggles we had caused to nations like India and Pakistan. We made them our colonies and have responsibility towards them having cause some pretty massive issues there and yet people are struggling to enter the uk from there due to the freedom of movement from the EU.
I was unsure what way I was going to vote even up until I got into the booth despite all of my research telling me that leave was what was right for me. Fear of the unknown I suppose.
Anyway, the whole process has been an utter disaster. The MPs who have been stalling everything for the past 2 years should be sacked. We had a vote, the voters voted to leave by a majority now get on with it and do your jobs.
I had quite high hopes for Corbin before all of this but just don’t know what is happening with him now. He wants us to renationalise things but we can’t while we are a member of the EU. And yet he still keeps trying to block things.

Retired x 5
School support worker
Police Officer
Primary School Teacher
Insurance Call Centre worker
School caretaker
Nursery workers x 2

@Rufusthebewilderedreindeer well all these Syrian refugees who were welcomed to Germany will soon be entitled to EU passports. That's obviously his thinking.

From this quick skim I would say a huge majority are retired?! Am I right based on this thread? Am I right in thinking these people would of been (generally) in the age who voted in initially?!

Almost everyone in the military I know well enough to discuss such things voted leave.
Within the family
6x engineers
8x medical doctors
3x teachers
4x investment bankers

Interesting about the military. Do you know their reasoning for that?

From this quick skim I would say a huge majority are retired?!

Haven't checked - but most posters are probably on speaking terms with their parents .

Aaah thank you dolly

Wasn't trying to be clever...just didnt get it