What did you vote based on in the EU referendum?

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Whether be leave or remain , what made you choose the option you did.

Brexit party. How dare our politicians refuse to abide by a democratic referendum!

How are they refusing!

Article 50 has been enacted - it’s just the how which is the problem.....

Anyone who thinks Brexit is easy talks shit.

Honestly I think the vast majority of people voted emotionally - based on whether they like being part of europe or not. Wherther they want to be connected to / in a group with France Germany etc or not.

That's not unreasonable, we're only human. We like to think we make decisions bad on cold logic but study after study shows that's not what happens at all!

Anyway I voted to stay because I like being connected to the other countries in the EU, I feel they are our neighbours and allies and friends. I like travelling in Europe freely eurostar and onwards on the fab trains, and feeling that this is a part of where i belong. I feel European I suppose as well as british and English and a Londoner.

Of course there are many excellent reasons for staying and enormous uncertainty around leaving. So I can justify my feelings very easily.

Bottom line is, I like being in the EU and I want us to stay.

Oh so voting

Remain
Change (tactical)

Remainer. Voted Lib Dem as did dh (who is an EU national living in uk).

Conservative

Keeping freedom of movement, so single market and customs union membership. Also for all the other economic reasons, but the emotional one that really drove the 'obvious' option for me, was FoM. Still is.

How dare our politicians refuse to abide by a democratic referendum!
What do you think they've been trying to do for the best part of 3 years? It's the Leaver victim mentality again. So sick of seeing it on these threads.

Voted remain in the Referendum because it was very clear that Leave had no plans and were living in some kind of fantasy world. IMO this has led to Leavers being disappointed that Brexit hasn't happened yet. If you promise something that can't be delivered without damage, then people are going to be upset and whinge. Some of their campaigning was designed to appeal to racists (breaking point poster etc) and I did not want to be associated with people like Farage et al. I work in an industry where international research is crucial and could see what a disaster it would be (and has already been) if we lost opportunities for collaboration. In the EU election I voted LibDem for obvious reasons.

I voted for the candidate least likely to get elected locally, so that I had participated in an important democratic exercise, but to thumb my nose at all the parties and say "none of them". I was among 148 votes for my choice.

In the first ever referendum, I voted in but between the 1970s and 199os the direction of travel towards geographic expansion of the EU, political integration without fiscal harmonisation and the gradual loss of local determination has put me off.

I would opt-in to be part of EU supranational agencies on medicines, power generation strategies and Euratom, education, environment, police enforcement/co-ordination, aviation, employment standards, food health and safety, and general movement of employed labour and capital, even if we pay to be part of those groups.

I don't want to fund the lifestyles of party functionaries masquerading as elected officials who are there as part of aggrandising their powers and fiefdoms.

It's an elaborate way of sitting on a sharply pointed fence.

I usually vote green but am now voting for the Brexit Party. I am a 'green leave'. It's not the most pressing issue but I never know why the green parties in the EU don't stop the carbon intensive and extravagant regular perambulation between Brussels and Strasbourg.

Do you mean the Euro elections? (a lot of people seem to be answering based on this). Or the referendum to leave or remain? (which I think is what you mean, seeing as you use the word referendum, not elections).

In the referendum I voted remain based on the weight of evidence that we are trade-wise, economically and socially better in – as a member of the largest trading block there is, the UK is able to punch above is weight.

*its weight

I voted for the Brexit Party and Leave in the referendum.