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

[Shookethtothecore]

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

Most of the fishing industry would have voted out

It's not turkeys voting for Christmas, it's turkeys buying and prepping all the Christmas Dinner, finishing off by shoving some stuffing up their bum and going for a lie down in the roasting tin.

The people i know who voted to leave are quite varied and several are definitely university educated
3 x tradesman
2 x retired
1 x life coach and author
1 x IT person
1 x charity ceo
1 x recruitment consultant
1 x policeman

Most people i know voted remain, (including me) most i guess are university educated but definitely not all.

People I know who voted leave:
x1 electrician
x2 stay at home parent
x2 farmer
x2 retired people (PiL)
x1 antiques dealer

Vast majority of the people I know voted to remain though.

Keep it nice if possible please people are untitled to their reasons and I don’t want to derail this into a slanging mathx, what’s the point of that really?!

I have a farmer on my fb who I don’t know well enough to ask, but he is a very vocal leave voter and a very vocal conservative voter

I did. I'm 25 and a marketing executive

Sorry

Please elaborate on “real intelligence” then CoffeeRunner...I will do my best to try and understand

Remainers tend to be people who have benefitted personally from EU membership, and who hope to carry on doing so, mainly in the relatively prosperous south. Leavers tend to be those who have suffered financially under the EU yoke, and who can see no improvement to that situation - fishermen, manufacturing industry workers, small businesses, shopkeepers.

Sorry OP my bad😊

have no real life intelligence.

What on earth is this ^^^?

They hate the EU and wished we’d never joined, and they want ‘control’ over their country.

See, this I don't understand.

EU was born out of the reality of what the 2 World Wars did.

Yugoslavia was at war before the new states emerged. Croatia etc.

Moreover, we live in a globalised world now.

Leavers are living in a fantasy if they think they can "take back control" and win on a trade deal with powerful nations in 2019/2020 like China, USA, Russia, India.....

I know of a fellow process engineer, someone in retail logistics (supply chain), someone in the building trade and a social worker. 2 of which have heritage from a former commonwealth country. 1 of which is a baby boomer.

There really is no hard and fast rule. This decision divided the nation

@Shookethtothecore
In 1973, the U.K. voted to join the Common Market, as it was known then. This was sold to the general public as literally a Common market to make trade with the Europe easier. The U.K. stopped all trade deals with the Commonwealth so trade was supposed to be simplified as in the U.K. was trading with its closest neighbours. In successive years the wording was changed to become the European Community. Still pushed as trade deals. As time went on it became known as the European Union, each government took the U.K. deeper and deeper into the EU, nobody ever asked the British public again if this was a good option. Politicians from all sides became more and more vocal depending on whether they agreed with closer ties with the EU. Several Prime Ministers signed various treaties with the European Union. The British public were never consulted again, politicians made the decisions to take the U.K. down the road of closer union with the EU. In my opinion, as this was the first time since 1973 the public were asked. People who remembered the first ever vote decided that their country had been subsumed into a European Union that they were not told about and were never consulted upon. So that's why I think many retired people voted to leave

HE administrators, estate agent owners, young people from wealthy families. Some because of immigration, others because they don't like EU.

Good to see a thread like this on here, as it might suggest that Leavers are not necessarily thick, racist, white, gullible people. (Appreciate that what you do isn’t a fool-proof indicator of personality.)

I’ve met very few Remainers who believe in freedom of movement from a moral perspective. They either say nothing about it, or accept it as a price to pay. Remainers tend to quote economical arguments (ie their personal situation) and fear of the unknown as reasons for staying, mostly. Occasionally issues such a maternity policy, handling climate change. But not much else.

In/out for the UK is an extremely complex question for the voting population. Nobody has a grip on it, really.

Leavers I know:
Company directors x 3
Journalist
Charity Manager
Three of whom are university educated. One Conservative voter; two Labour; one SNP.

Two members of my husbands family both voted to leave, are both ex forces and have both received direct threats on their lives from the IRA. Errrr........

Quite a few of us in my circle of friends and acquaintances - mix of ages and backgrounds, but all university educated with professional jobs.

Accountants, HR Manager, Mechanical Engineer, Solicitor, Banker etc.

Common denominator amongst us is that we have all lived and worked abroad in various countries, so perhaps we can see how a life can be built outside of the EU.

I agree that the question is too complex for yes/no answer.

Accountant
Accountant
Banker

EC is a corrupt behemoth in their opinion.

I think the notion that those who voted leave are somehow thick is one of the reasons were in this mess. People do have genuine fears / opinions that people dismiss too easily. It's like Trump winning in America.

The simplest way of explaining what I mean is in terms of Mastermind.

People with a specific intelligence will score amazingly well on their chosen subject - but fail on general knowledge.

People with a real intelligence will score highly on either both, or general knowledge.

People who are acutely aware of the whole world, not just their own little bubble.

I don’t think anyone who voted anything is thick. I don’t think we were given enough true information to be informed correctly. People filled in the gaps of information with their own personal opinion and I’m wondering what made people form those opinions.

I know 5 people and they all are retired, when discussing Brexit they all said Britain was great and could be again - well a version of this

Lots of judgement on here from people who seem to think they are better than others. Some even hoping to have the last laugh on people they know. Shame on you.

I know lots of people who weren't sure which way to vote and some of them are 'very clever' people !