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

My remain vote was because I am incredibly risk adverse. I hate not having a plan and I’m always a “worst case scenario what do we do” kinda gal and there simply wasn’t enough information I could rely on to take the risk. Some of the jobs named and my husbands friends who voted leave have high powered high pressured jobs and cope with risk much better

The 2 openly declared leavers I know are construction site managers, middle tier role, if we crash out the type of construction we work in will collapse (figuratively, I hope) and they’d be left with no one to manage and loads of time to kill.
Both mentioned sovregnity and immigration (more like “immigrants that push prices of houses up and force us out of the neighbourhood” than “immigrants that steal jobs”. There’s literally no way London could be built as it’s built without Europeans, predominantly east Europeans, and they admit it)

Finance officer

Leavers I work with:
2 x accountants (degree educated)
2 x accountants (not degree educated)
2 x customer service (1 degree educated, 1 not)

Remainers I work with:
3 x accountants (degree educated)

My parents both voted to leave. They are retired, didn't go to university, read the Torygraph and live so rurally that I sometimes wonder if they have ever spoken to someone who has a different race or religion to them. In their defence I do love them very much.

Really shocked at public sector workers and civil servants - literally turkeys for Christmas isn’t it 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I'm not a leave voter but the people I know who did vote to leave are:

1. IT analyst of some sort
2. Customer service (motor industry)
3. Accountant
4. SAHM
5. Doesn't work, is on disability benefits of some description
6. Retired
7. Small business owners x2 (husband and wife who own a business that export to Europe!!!??? Go figure)

I’m a remainer but people I know who voted leave are:
DWP worker
Retired x3
NHS admin
Plumber
Estate agent
Labourer
Insurance underwriter

Most of my friends are very vocal Remainers - lawyers, accountants, teachers, university workers.

I know a few retired who voted leave, and I quote directly from one, who is a first generation 1960's immigrant, "to get the foreigners out".

I also know a senior lawyer, who specialised in EU law for a long time, and is duel qualified in another EU country. His is by far the most convincing argument I've heard.

In my personal experience, a person's occupation doesn't really seem to have mattered much (I know people from a wide variety of occupations who voted Leave). However, I would say real intelligence did play a part.

By way of example, I know a Headteacher and a Financial Controller who both voted Leave but, despite their degrees & experience, have no real life intelligence. They are experts in their fields but know very little about anything else - although both profess to know everything about everything. On the other hand, the two people I know whom I would consider to be the most truly intelligent, both voted to Remain. One is unemployed (due to disability) and the other works as a HCA (due to being labelled "disruptive" at school and leaving without qualifications).

In short - whether you were able to obtain a degree & thereby enter a profession is irrelevant. Whether you have a real life intelligence does seem to have a bearing however.

Banker.
Retired.
Sahm.
Teacher.
Marketing.

Two of whom have strong opinions that tend toward the libertarian. One felt that local industry specifically was undermined by EU rules. One out of a sense of nationalism and the other, I have no idea.

I voted to remain, as did most of my family and friends. We've all remained fairly civilised with one another, thankfully.

To add, of all the people I know that voted to leave, only one openly voted conservative. Two I'm not sure how they vote but think its labour from things they've said in the past, the rest definitely vote labour.

CoffeeRunner wow patronising much

Farmers?! Surely not!

4 x farmer
2 x housewife
1 x small business owner
1 x advertising manager
1 x lifeboatman
1 x journalist
1 x bus driver

Nearly all of my circle of friends are retired or semi retired baby boomers, as am I.
We all went on to higher education and had professional careers.
The only person I know who voted leave in our immediate circle of family and friends, including the younger generation, was my DB. I still don't know why and I suspect he doesn't either. But he's a knee-jerk Tory although not very political.

However, people I know who were born before the baby boom, ie in the 1930s to 1945 ish, generally voted leave.

We, baby boomers and all, voted to stay in the EU by about 2 to 1 in the previous referendum in 1975 - one of the first times I voted.
I had more reservations now about the EU than I did then, mostly about its internal workings and enlargement, but I still think we would be better off all round staying rather than leaving.

Yes coffeerunner funnily enough most of the Remain voters I know are also afflicted by a conviction of intellectual superiority!

I only know one person who voted leave. Occupation-Twat

To many to list as I am from a leaver area. It's been a real exercise in self control as we are directly affected by it, so I am very angry with my immediate family members. But very quickly, the first that spring to mind are a retired policeman, teacher, farmer, fireman and lots of factory workers or unemployed.

Let's just say that if Nissan and Komatsu go tits up, I'll have the last laugh. (But I have to tell myself that they voted for a change rather than against the EU, if that makes sense)

Do you know why so many of the retired generation voted that way

I think because that generation voted to be in the EEC which they understood to be about a trading relationship with members. However they saw the EEC change over 40 years to become the EU with everything that entails, but a different entity to what they voted for, and never had the opportunity again to vote on what it was becoming. There has also been a long standing fear that the EU was moving towards becoming a federal entity with political, economic, fiscal and legal union. Also, over 40 years, the media and UK politicians were always very negative about the EU.

The people I know who voted leave:
Retired military policeman
Retired accountants manager living in Spain
Police detective
Logistics manager
Career coach
Physiotherapist

If the truth is patronising then so be it.

That is my personal experience. Not an in depth study.

A sizeable number of ethnic minorities voted out because of immigration. Many of us see it as unfair that E.U. citizens have free movement yet those from the former colonies where the queen is head of state have to jump through 1000 hoops to get a tourist visa. Vote leave lured many on the promise that immigration would be fairer post Brexit.

That said I did not vote leave but my mum and all her family did
Dad - systems engineering
Mum - social worker
Aunt - project manager
Uncle - school teacher

People I know voted leave:
High up civil servant
Teacher
Electrical engineer
Student nurse
Several tradesmen who worked on various members of family's homes.

None of them are racist and all feel patronised now to say they didn't know what they were voting for, were taken in by the statistic on the bus and would change their minds.

All would vote leave again.

Also considering the thread opened as someone saying interested and not making judgements it's a pity to see there are still patronising comments on here about type of people who voted leave.

Actually my aunt voted Brexit. She works in further education (not a teacher). It did surprise me. I'm fairly sure her dc, my cousins voted remain, and possibly her DH as well.

Stealth DH is a Labour Party member and active in the local constituency party , which is quite rural. He often mans a stall in the local market on a Saturday and buttonholes chats to people about various issues.
He too was rather surprised that any farmers he spoke too, mostly Young Farmer, 'county' types were pretty much all leavers. Now that really is turkeys voting for Christmas.