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Original poster

...to ask Brexit supporters on here whether they might now be having second thoughts?

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SafferUpNorth · 10/12/2020 10:49

Just that really. Would love to hear from Brexiteers on here whether they still believe in 'taking back control' at all costs, now that it's pretty clear there will be no deal, and the practical and economic implications will be huge...

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Glenthebattleostrich · 10/12/2020 10:50

With the sneering and nastyness on here why would anyone answer that?

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SafferUpNorth · 10/12/2020 10:55

@Glenthebattleostrich - not intended to be sneering or nasty at all, just a genuine question.

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HOkieCOkie · 10/12/2020 10:56

No,

Glenthebattleostrich · 10/12/2020 10:57

I'm referring more to every other Brexit thread. It's impossible to have any kind of discussion on here at the moment.

rosie1959 · 10/12/2020 10:59

Genuine answer I voted to remain but quite frankly now I am totally fed up with it all and would not be surprised if we tell the European Union to go stick their version of a trade deal where the sun doesn’t shine

KatieGGGG · 10/12/2020 11:04

@rosie1959 you’re annoyed at the wrong entity.

Anecdotally from those I know I imagine it’ll be half and half. Half regretful they voted based on lies, or at themselves for not being more informed beforehand. The other half who made the decision based on emotion not logic, and don’t care what it is as long as it happens.

MrsMiaWallis · 10/12/2020 11:05

@rosie1959

Genuine answer I voted to remain but quite frankly now I am totally fed up with it all and would not be surprised if we tell the European Union to go stick their version of a trade deal where the sun doesn’t shine
Yes me too.

My dh voted Leave and he feels like an idiot now. I feel sorry for him tbh, gullible idiot.

rosie1959 · 10/12/2020 11:07

[quote KatieGGGG]@rosie1959 you’re annoyed at the wrong entity.

Anecdotally from those I know I imagine it’ll be half and half. Half regretful they voted based on lies, or at themselves for not being more informed beforehand. The other half who made the decision based on emotion not logic, and don’t care what it is as long as it happens.[/quote]
Not really although I voted remain have never been a fan of the European Union

Mamamia456 · 10/12/2020 11:10

Yawn 😦

Hayeahnobut · 10/12/2020 11:12

The only person I know that still wants Brexit is just about to lose his job as a result of it. He's adamant it's for the best, "cos immigration", but can't see the irony that it's because of Brexit that his job is now going to a "foreigner". Plus there were no non UK born workers where he worked anyway.

I know several other leave voters, but they've changed their minds.

MrsMiaWallis · 10/12/2020 11:13

I also voted Remain but am not a fan of the EU. I voted Remain because i absolutely didn't want the massive disruption and upset that it was bound to cause and I was looking forward to perhaps retiring in France.

Catnuzzle · 10/12/2020 11:18

No. HTH.

WhatdoImean · 10/12/2020 11:21

I seriously doubt that there will be many people who will "regret" their vote.

Once people have committed to a decision, getting them to have regrets on that is very very unlikely - until the bad side of things starts to affect them personally, at least.

My purely personal opinion is that it was a con, but people who have been conned have a genuinely very very strong resistance to actually admitting (even to themselves) that this is the case. It is how a number of conn artists actually work - they keep going back to the same people, convincing them that everything is fine, but there were "unexpected expenses" etc.

Anyway - what is done, is done. I truly believe that there will be SOME disruption in supply chains (food/cars/etc.) for 2-3 months, and then it will settle down, with us paying more for stuff as slowly fade in importance on the world stage. Ho hum.

GirlsBlouse17 · 10/12/2020 11:22

There has already been a thread on this recently. Same question. Churning over the same stuff

MrsMiaWallis · 10/12/2020 11:22

Anyway - what is done, is done. I truly believe that there will be SOME disruption in supply chains (food/cars/etc.) for 2-3 months, and then it will settle down, with us paying more for stuff as slowly fade in importance on the world stage. Ho hum

This is what I think too.

Backtoreality1 · 10/12/2020 11:24

Totally happy with my decision.....why wouldn't I be? It was always going to be difficult but it will all get worked out.

helloxhristmas · 10/12/2020 11:24

My sister voted leave, the only person I know who did (or at least admitted it). Then emigrated. Thanks for that.

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 10/12/2020 11:24

God this gets asked near every week! I didn't vote to leave, but we are leaving, time to get over it.

MrsMiaWallis · 10/12/2020 11:25

@Backtoreality1

Totally happy with my decision.....why wouldn't I be? It was always going to be difficult but it will all get worked out.
Why wouldn't you be?! Why are you?
Lonelycrab · 10/12/2020 11:26

but people who have been conned have a genuinely very very strong resistance to actually admitting (even to themselves) that this is the case

This. No one likes to admit they were taken for a gullible fool.

Starlightstarbright1 · 10/12/2020 11:26

Maybe if people were given inpartial information to make an informed choice lots of people may have voted differently..

I sturggled to find anything unbiased at the time.

Both sides lied so no political party can shower themselves in glory. If they didn't think we could make the right decsision then we should never have been given the vote.

Also regardless no one factored in a pandemic which every coutry in Eurpoe has been delaing with so far less time for negotiatiing.

AlexaShutUp · 10/12/2020 11:28

It's impossible to have any kind of discussion on here at the moment.

Yeah, it's a really annoying thing, but I always find it's impossible to have any kind of discussion when I don't have valid arguments to back up my position. It's so frustrating!

MarshaBradyo · 10/12/2020 11:28

I voted remain but would be open to hearing positives from anyone who voted Leave - I could use some.

I can’t see how the current offer can be accepted. Which is very depressing all round.

Buddytheelf85 · 10/12/2020 11:30

It was always going to be difficult but it will all get worked out.

This is what I don’t understand. Brexit wasn’t a necessary evil. You presumably voted for it because you were promised sunlit uplands. Streets paved with gold. £350m a week for the NHS.

So it’s not good enough to say ‘It was always going to be difficult but it’ll all get worked out’. It was only the right decision if there is a substantial and measurable improvement - both economic and social - to the lives of the majority of Britons, in the short, medium and long-term. Otherwise, you were royally had, weren't you?

Buddytheelf85 · 10/12/2020 11:34

Anyway - what is done, is done. I truly believe that there will be SOME disruption in supply chains (food/cars/etc.) for 2-3 months, and then it will settle down, with us paying more for stuff as slowly fade in importance on the world stage. Ho hum

I hope that’s right and that the effects will be limited to that. But I think that:

  • it will result in Scotland voting to leave the Union
  • it may result in a resurgence of violence in, and connected to, Northern Ireland
  • there will be a disruption to the supply of medicines, and quite possibly the Covid vaccine.