It was mainly the educated/qualified who voted remain ? Poll please

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While watching this morning's Eu debates an argument was put forward
that it was mainly the educated/qualified in the large cities like London
Edinburgh and Brighton voting to remain as they were the most mobile/
more likely to be moving to Europe for jobs etc
This is not necessarily this poster's view but it does seem these places
have more "knowledge "jobs than the provinces So I would like these
degree holding Mmnetters to disclose whether there is any truth in this?

No degree ,live in old miners village in Wales where I was born,only one in family to vote remain.

Bsc. Voted to leave.

Me: Degree - remain
DH: Masters - remain

Me: degree holder from 1980's, voted remain, but saw many of my peers vote leave (and interestingly, none voted leave with immigration concerns).

Parents:
df voted remain (educated, speaks languages and lived globally, but eurosceptic)

dm voted remain - (lived around the world, speaks 4 languages but is eurosceptic mainly because of the racism she's received over the last x years from eu migrants) .She ONLY voted remain because she wants her dgs to have opportunities.

A lot of people have moved and graduated since 2011. Why have the BBC based their assumption on 5 year old figures?

The BBC reported this statistic. They did not make an assumption about it.

Also, while it is true that people move around, and the demographics of an area can change, it's usually very gradual. For an area to have been one of the poorest 5 years ago, to be wealthy now, something very unusual would have to have happened, like discovery of oil or similar.

And we only do a census once every 10 years, so there aren't any more reliable up to date statistics.

MEng - leave

Thank you for your answer Sanity

BSc and PGCE- leave.

Post grad remain London.

Yea Degree and postgrad me DH was academic, DS also postgrad all my parental family and their descendants. we voted Remain.

BUT I feel that education though influences a decision it is not the sole most decicive factor. SOME important things might be the type of qualifications you have, the subject you studied and where you work now. For example if you run your own business or depend on a business that depends on EU trade. Some people would depend on funding from EU but some plan to migrate to USA / EU. Some might have considered the future of their family. Some felt emotional about people from EU working in the UK. I personally have never been affected by French or Germans working here. I home educated my son so school places did not affect me. DS has now finished Masters in a top Uni.

Now the result Leave means literally LEAVE the UK and could be whether UK citizen or you foreign. That was what it has meant. Leave has 2 sides. First Brits may leave. I know Brits who now seek to get EU citizenship from a parent or desendants to leave for EU. Second the effect is that the 3.2 million EU nationals in UK will be forced in a position where they are no longer protected or have right to stay in the UK. They 've built a home, paid taxes and their children are born here and have right to citizenship but the mother can be deported and the family split - very sad this. From this point of view those with highest qualifications would have an advantage.

Degree, Masters, PGCE and PhD voted Leave

Degree, Scotland, Leave

Interestingly, a number of my contemporaries, also who have degrees, voted Leave but told their families they voted Remain for fear of retribution.....!!!!!

LLB, LLM - remain

'Now the result Leave means literally LEAVE the UK and could be whether UK citizen or you foreign.'

Nope - not really - my df schoarship at top US uni - voted remain and will not leave. My dm - from east africa who speaks 4 languages and who wanted to vote leave (due the racism from ,the very people EU who are now calling UK people racist ) but voted remain for the benefit for the younger generation, wants to remain. My ds, a huge great mix of the entire world, doesn't like the vote but wants to stay in the UK and his df, a EU citizen (we are divorcing) still won't leave the country - good on him.

My soon to be h is not planning to leave even though he never really integrated.

I'm getting ds his dad's EU passport and I'll get one too (if soon to be ex will help) So what - just means we'll have more options - noone in my family wants to leave right now. Just more options.

I have a degree and voted leave.

Dp doesn't, he would have voted leave but was overseas for work. He is a high earner in a good job. All 4 directors at his company voted leave.

Statistically it is true.

However I know people who did the exact same degree and post grad studies as me, who voted oppositely. So, it cannot be said that all Leave voters are all uneducated, just that statistically more of them are.

I'm not sure what this proves now though. The result came a week ago. Now surely all of us should be looking to our leaders and questioning why the current shit storm is happening, standing together against the racists who are behaving as though they have a mandate to behave in a hateful way.

Britain leaving the EU is a historical moment, one I think is a mistake, but it will happen and there is no point in railing about it now. It is more important now that the people stand together against the political elite who have split us, by calling a referendum which was poorly handled, for their own ends, that we stand against racism.

During the post war years only 3 - 5 % of students went on to University. Post 1980's it's bobbed around 50 %. In my opionion that is quite an interesting statistic.

PhD, early career academic, voted Remain.

Partner, Msc, manager at a university, voted Remain.

I suspect that we are fairly typical. One factor for me was the impact upon research and jobs, and that, sadly, shows signs of coming to fruition. The job my partner was applying for, and was informally told she was guaranteed an interview, has been put on hold until a senior manager approves funding in light of events. As for me, it's going to make applying for jobs in mainland Europe much harder (they were already scarce), and we will very likely see less collaboration with universities on the mainland, and less conferences. The sciences could be hit harder, I gather. I have a one year post from September, but after that, I'm very worried.

Oxbridge Degree + masters + pgce both myself and dh and we both voted remain.

Both siblings have PhDs and both voted remain.

Degree. Voted remain. DH left school at 16, has his own business and significantly earns more than me - leave.

I voted Leave and I have four MBAs.

Degree, Masters, Professinal qualifications, used to support remain. But I am nearly 60 (god that sounds awful) so have seen more of life than a thirty year old. Same for dp.

Alisvolatpropiis I agree that we stand against racism.

I have PhD from a top UK Uni and voted Remain.

We may see patterns with variables regionally but I dont know yet a study proving a causal link of this referendum result with certain variables and such a thing may need yet several studies to come. Education is different than having a degree. People from identical or similar backgrounds don't always decide the same. And vice versa some decision does not always mean people come from specific background. In the past few years a lot of things have been changing in the UK but I dont know whether more so than previously. My neighbourhood changed a lot.

What happens from now is that we will be seing the events unfolding.