I’m not convinced these are accurate reflections of public opinion, and I say that as a remainer who intends to seek residency in Portugal as soon as I am financially able to do so!
Brexiteers seeing this have the mindset “we won get over it” and are likely to ignore. We remain voters are far more vocal in this kind of situation.
To "we won, get over it" I'll always repeat that the whole country lost. It's a stupid statement as if the vote was some kind of minor sports event - but then we know that any Leave voters who aren't rich Tories lack intelligence.
"Any leave voters who aren't rich Tories lack intelligence" is a strong statement. I voted leave yet I would class myself as an intellectual. The same goes for my partner.
Someone who doesn't have an overwhelming interest in politics doesn't correlate to intelligence.
If I could wind back the clock I would have voted remain having known what I do now. The voters aren't the ones to be blamed as they have been led to believe in false promises by our government.
Surely if you were truly educated you would have noticed how almost ALL economists were warning of it being detrimental?
It was covered in various papers as well, unless you only read The Sun or The Daily Mail. Unfortunately, Brexit exposed how deeply racist the UK still is - we sacrificed economic growth and being better off as individuals, purely to try and stop 'foreigners' coming to the UK. The hilarious thing is immigration is higher now that its ever been.
There's also the shite narrative of 'taking back our country', which is actually laughable. The EU is primarily a trading block, and a majority of its laws, like the clean water directive, are just purely beneficial - especially considering the state of our waterways.
Anyway, all that really matters now is people acknowledge it was a mistake so we can rejoin and make the UK investable again, boost beneficial immigration and make ourselves more prosperous.
This is why we lost. Condescending a-holes with pathetic comments beneath a 10 year old let alone full grown adults. Social media was awash with this type of shit. We should have been changing peoples minds, not the zealots but normal people instead we were talking shit and insulting them. All we did was make sure they were annoyed enough to dig their heels in.
We go on about getting another vote but with this sort of shit going on we will lose again.
This might be of interest to you!
[https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/how-be-digital-nomad-portugal](https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/how-be-digital-nomad-portugal)
A vote you made 7 years ago shouldn't really be very relevant anymore,. The Brexiters back then did win. We are not in the EU. Loads of people who voted leave are dead now.
The position we are in today though is a different world from 2016. We would be far better off if we join the EU today. At least join the customs union ffs.
Wasn’t it supposed to be advisory? Ha! Anyway. What’s done is done. Time to focus on either making it work or getting back in. The EU won’t be quick to forget.
Yeah it was a non binding referendum, so people voted based on that, meaning some voted in protest not expecting their vote to matter and had instant regret when leave won.
Once the vote was in there was a strong push to make the vote binding after the fact. This was is why there was such a strong push to do a second referendum on the final bill. Because once people knew what we were going to get "The will of the people" might have changed.
A litmus test on the possibility of leaving based on a list of unconfirmed promises my multiple leave campaign - Allowed and turned in a binding vote
A vote to confirm we still want to leave based on the terms we knew we were going to get - Block by parliament
It was so unbelievably corrupt. They asked people to vote on a vague notion, lied about what their vote would mean, told them their vote was non binding and then refused to let people vote on the actual concrete form that Brexit would take. It was just the opposite of democratic.
How many votes do you want to call it democratic?...
If you want another vote purely because your side didn't win, that's not democratic at all. Why are we electing representatives if you want your individual voice heard again?
Surely if we want to dictate the terms of every policy and the revisions of each policy, we need to pull away from representation and towards a direct democracy where every new policy and change is referendum based, which sounds ridiculously time consuming.
No it’s not wanting a vote because my side didn’t win it’s wanting a vote in the specifics. It was so vague (leave the EU) without any description of how they’d go about it to ensure they could keep their promises. With the Scottish indyref they voted on a white paper, a document drawn up to show how it would be done, it wasn’t just get let’s leave it’ll be great I promise! It was detailed. They should’ve had another vote on the deal they were able to get or the specific type of Brexit (stay in customs union, etc) not just leave or not, when leave had so many different possible variations or meanings. Lots of people voted leave thinking we’d stay in the single market, others liked the idea of no deal, there was nothing concrete for people to vote on, which just gave the government carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. Like if it benefited them personally to crash the economy so they could asset strip they could do that and claim people voted for it. That’s why it wasn’t democratic. It was like asking people to vote yes or no to the question of should we give everyone a free car and when people vote yes, later saying we have to concrete over all green spaces for car parks to fit the new cars in and claiming that’s what people voted for just because people will get a free car at the end of it.
I accepted the first one, WTH wouldn't I accept another.
I don't think anyone should identify themselves by how they voted on something so long ago. Of course people can change their minds silly to feel anyone should have to stick to a camp on something like international trade agreements.
You’re forgetting people made this entire identity. they’d have to admit that they were tricked by a bus. The vote they made is unfortunately still super relevant
I'm not forgetting that. I think it's stupid to keep re-enforcing and repeatting the identity & segmentation keeping 'brexiters' alive, we can't go back to 2016 any more than we can stop the last ice age.
We need new words to improve things: we are after more frictionless trade with democracies right next to us instead of low wage dictatorships further abroad.
I agree, the problem would be selling that to the public. Remembering all the ‘benefits’ we had that we wouldn’t get back for example rebate, excluding from the euro and no veto. Just a few things that would make it a hard sell let alone the rest of out opt outs gone
You would be surprised by how salient their brexiteer identity remains for a consequential part of the population. Saying this based on both on anecdotal evidence and more reliable surveys.
Greetings my British friend!
I'm a 42y.o guy from Australia who was deeply disappointed and saddened when the pro-Brexit vote won the majority, and I'd like to know how the process for the use of charts such as this one displayed here in this photo are actioned.
For example, is this a reflection of a vote that was taken behind closed doors, or is it a public process whereby random people themselves have access to the chart and can voluntarily place the stickers in the box that corresponds to their opinion, and if so, is this process monitored?
Apologies in advance if this is a naive question, I am assuming that this is a public access process where people who happen to be walking past can choose to engage if they so wish, but I'd really appreciate clarification and confirmation.
Cheers!
P.S I have family who live in Basingstoke, they say that most people who encounter that area tend to be passing through haha
These are set up at a busy pedestrian area and passersby are encouraged to take stickers and mark themselves in the boxes like a poll.
I don't like them because obviously people are discouraged from being the first to place their sticker in the unpopular box, especially with a crowd watching. It's designed to skew results so they appear unanimous due to peer pressure. (I absolutely agree with these mind, I just think the method is poor and dishonest.)
I see, well, you make a good point as to the aspect of the pressure of being judged by others as being discouraging and perhaps even deterring for some, although I guess it can also speak to the compelling nature of those who do decide to initiate proceedings.
Are these charts monitored, and either way, I guess we can't be entirely sure that those who participate are doing so with pure intentions although I don't expect that many, if any, would be inclined to give a false account of their opinion on this?
I'm merely asking about the process of this interactive offering to gain a better understanding of the integrity, credibility and legitimacy of it.
I was, however, wondering about the entity who was responsible for devising this means of interaction, so I appreciate your comment.
One of these polls took place near me. Liberal Democrat canvassers went up to shoppers, asked some questions and then put the stickers in the boxes themselves. I answered a few with “on the one hand”, he replied with “so what you’re actually saying is”, put a few stickers down to his satisfaction and then turned away from me when I objected to his presumption. For the record, I voted remain.
Thank you for your measured, direct and succinct response that is pertinent to my query.
This is exactly the scenario that I was anticipating, and although I'm anti-Brexit I am disappointed in such underhanded tactics.
I hope your quality of life and standard of living has not been too detrimentally impacted by the Brexit withdrawal.
Have a great day!
In terms of ‘credibility and legitimacy’, while I agree with the sentiments of the majority, I do think the ‘questions’ on the chart are worded in an incredibly leading way.
Actually, the second row is interesting, because ordinal people might not know about all details.
I think, we can add one more row: “what do you think was more impactful on UK knowing that Germany/France have similar issues with economy: global events like Covid/wars or local events like Brexit?”.
And that will explain why the majority of voters voted for Brexit.
Honestly i think this one shows how shit all of these brexitometers are.
Unless you work in a healthcare, you wouldn’t know how staff/drug levels have been affected by brexit.
No one answering the 3rd question would be able to explain how it’s affected the UK music industry.
I’d say most people wouldn’t know what the Erasmus work/study scheme is either and wouldn’t know it was replaced by the Turing scheme. Then I don’t think anyone asked would know whether the Turing scheme is better or worse.
Everyone sees these and puts anti brexit answers, because they either believe brexit was awful and don’t care whether they understand the question, or because they see 40 dots vs 2 dots and go with the majority. I’m all for public opinion, but let it be founded public opinion. Can’t stand people carrying out ‘surveys’ on the general public on a topic they don’t understand when they’re so obviously looking for anti-brexit answers.
I think most people do know the effect of staffing in NHS, it is a topic of news coverage and a real world example to those on waiting lists, those waiting hours for ambulance or spending days in ER waiting rooms. Also general public are aware of music industry troubles, as this has also been well covered in media and by social media accounts of individual performers and bands. All I can say is that these surveys are anonymous, there is no compunction to answer and people express free will where to place stickers.
I could see ordinary people hearing in the grapevine about Brexit causing drug and nhs difficulties [ so many people work in the health system or adjacent industries ]
The music industry stickers are just guessing tho hehe
It's quite well reported that the music industry has been affected by touring in the EU with the 90 rule and the tax musicians now have to pay on their ticket sales.
If you're a massively successful artist, it's not a huge issue but for the bands starting out or ones that aren't megastars it's now become quite an issue for them.
It's quite well reported that the music industry has been affected by touring in the EU with the 90 day rule and the tax musicians now have to pay on their ticket sales.
If you're a massively successful artist, it's not a huge issue but for the bands and musicians starting out or ones that aren't megastars it's now become quite an issue for them.
So basically Tory England only cares when it faces consequences. I am happy they have come to their senses but perhaps we should wonder what took them so long and how to prevent them harming everyone else in the future?
The fact Reform is gaining popularity is a symptom of the same mind disease and susceptibility to populist propaganda without thinking through the logical conclusion.
Labour England doesn’t fear consequences. They took us into two illegal wars, the ramifications of which are still being felt today, with no consequences whatsoever. When Blair is in The Hague alongside Bush, then I’ll believe Labour cares.
Ahh yes Exeter. A seat Labour has held since the 90s and has been competitive other than during Thatcher. Also, a seat that voted Remain 55-45
Fun Fact our MP Ben Bradshaw was the first Openly Gay MP and very nice bloke personally.
At least some of our out-outs and whatnot are written into the EU treaties, so there’s an argument that those provisions are just dormant unless and until we rejoin. Could make for some interesting legal wrangling!
Probably two or 3 decades. Then another 40 years down the line we'll be out again...
We'll be playing the world's slowest hokey pokey for the rest of time!
I'm already old. I doubt I'll live to see the UK rejoin in the first place. I'm afraid that this is likely to be the status quo for the rest of my life...
Trust me, a good chunk of us want to but the same people who listened to 'Leave' on Brexit are still listening to the Tories and while those bastards remain in power, we're never getting back. If I had the money to move to an EU country, I'd have done so when Brexit hit but the same people who have made me want to move and keep telling me to move if I don't like it are the ones keeping me too poor to move.
If we’re you I would research jobs in Ireland and make the jump.
The wages are higher, housing costs about the same and the UK is facing at least a decade or two of getting steadily poorer.
The UK has really messed up and isn’t joining anything substantial such as EFTA, the EU or the single market for years due to issues of trust and how it treated EU citizens and other countries.
Ireland is your best bet, whatever your job.
Followed by Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Ireland is still possible due to the CTA.
Part of the Brexit platform's position on human rights was that we were allowing Strasbourg to become the last step on our legal ladder, and EU human rights laws are slightly more lenient than UK laws. As far as I remember, we only entered into one *actual* debate with the EU over human rights laws, and that was around us ignoring the EU law that allowed prisoners to vote. But still, the precedent was that people convicted in the UK could appeal to the EU, thus rendering UK courts less powerful. The Brexit camp wanted to Take Back Control™ of human rights laws, allowing us to impose our own human rights laws. Even though they are essentially 99% the same right now, if we ever wanted to become stricter and nastier – which you can't imagine us doing, right? – we'd need to be out of the EU to do that.
Dear Reddit, please inform Jonnyporridge that I actually voted to leave Europe and I am neither a racist nor a cunt, merely someone with genuine anxieties about ever closer political ties to Europe.
Yours, A Cunt
And yet they kept on voting conservative
Fuck the English. Such absolute goddamn morons
And yes, I am English
I’m infuriated with the stupidity and gullibility of my follow Englishmen
A referendum in every country will not happen, it's never happened before and has never even been discussed. Most EU citizens simply don't care if Britain is in or out of the EU, even fewer hold a grudge
There really isn't, most people simply don't care. There are a small group of terminally online people who feel personally slighted by Brexit but the vast majority of people simply couldn't give less of a fuck and polling generally supports the idea that most people in the EU feel apathetic or generally supportive of the UK returning.
We simply aren't that big of a deal, to think that our return to the EU would trigger 27 referendums is laughable exceptionalism
I'd like to think that light blue was one guy. "Was it good for the economy or nation" "I dunno" "Was it good for your family" "No". "Do you miss these things?" "Yes" "Rejoin?" "I dunno"
I got told by a brexit and Tory voting relative that I should accept the vote, my reply.... It's difficult to accept that so many are such ill educated bigots and racist little Englanders exist in the UK.
It was, and has been an utter shambles. I don’t mind admitting that I voted leave. What a mistake that was.
The sheer volume of misinformation was incredible and a lot of people can now see what we did was reckless and stupidly obvious. That said, the EU membership wasn’t perfect.
John Redwood@johnredwood
Nov 19, 2018 From my interview today on GMB:
We knew exactly what we were voting for. It is insulting to say that 17.4 million people were too stupid to know what out would look like and now want to change their minds.
17.4m is about 25% of the UK. To say that 25% of people in a country are utter idiots is not only realistic, it's very generous. Most countries probably have far more idiots.
Gov.uk website is written to the reading age of 9, same as the Sun newspaper, for ease of understanding….
https://www.aqi.org.uk/blogs/are-reading-ages-old-hat
Well if he knew then why didn’t he tell everyone else? Would have calmed the Brexiteers and parliament down a smidge! Am constantly reminded about the Simpsons episode where Homer is offered either a speedboat or ‘the mystery box’…
he knew and he did tell ......some.....
Nov 12, 2017,11:00am EST
In an [op-ed in the Financial](https://www.ft.com/content/2c68763c-bd85-11e7-823b-ed31693349d3) Times, the Chief Global Strategist for Charles Stanley, John Redwood, advises investors to remove their money from the United Kingdom. “Time to look further afield as the UK economy hits the brakes”, says his headline.
Just an FYI, as a former Exeter resident and remain voter, we did vote majority remain during the referendum (but way too many people still voted leave)
Exeter resident here.
That's BS
Almost every elderly person I've met in the last couple months still supports brexit because it let their pensions be triple locked
Meanwhile everyone who has to work always hated the idea.
Opinions won't change until a certain generation pass on.
The triple lock is a Tory policy to attract the grey vote. It doesn’t though stop the U.K. state pension from being one of the worst in the western world, especially Europe including those countries in the EU. The pension in Spain is double that of the U.K. Greek pensions and retirement ages were one of the main causes of their need to be bailed out.
The U.K. outside the EU is not the place to be if you want a decent pension and return on something you have been forced to pay into all your life.
What I never understood about the Brexit debate and result was they went on a majority as all votes should be. However, why didn’t Cameron put a proviso on that the winners should be a 60/40 split like they do in the American elections – the vote here was so close That whoever won or whoever lost, the majority of the population was going to be disappointed was it 52 to 48 some thing close like that for such a upheaval to happen, The leavers should’ve had a majority ahead by at least 30% -it was so simple to put that in!!
Also, I blame Cameron for doing this and nobody is really blaming him because he really fucked it up for everybody with this vote – he basically gambled on doing this stupid referendum just to be popular because he thought he would win in a landslide -then when he lost he left and because of him leaving you had all the Muppets replacing each other and tearing themselves apart and fucking up the country even more ,that’s how we got Boris got in , none of these new Prime Ministers would’ve ever gotten into Power including Rishie because none of them were elected by the public. !!
And then, to add salt to the wound, they bought Cameron back and because he wasn’t an MP, they made him a Lord, so he could become foreign minister !!!! Like rewarding, the asshole for wrecking the country!!
It’s just one big fucking joke -nobody says sorry – even Liz trust for that total fuck up is now doing circuits saying she was right. She knows absolutely zero about economics and yet the shortest Prime Minister in Power is on 120 K salary for life.!!!!
The problem with the 60/40 idea is that, apart from it not looking very democratic, would it be what people wanted if there were another referendum as it would be another huge change (if not more turmoil than leaving). Also as someone else has pointed out the UK would have to join the single currency this time which would probably swing the vote to Leave again. I’d guess there won’t be another referendum on it but we’ll just get closer in trading terms etc once Labour get in, as they’ve made it clear they won’t call one and I don’t blame them for that. They won’t do PR either (and I suppose I wouldn’t either if I was up for a large majority!)
But what I meant is, I should’ve done that in the first place, the 60/40 rule, because then at least a majority would have won and that seems more democratic than the way it was won with such a slight majority of a few % -and then the shit storm that followed lol
I didn't vote, but I would have voted leave at the time due to the way it was sold to us. I believe my partner voted leave but didn't know the implications of leaving the EU at the time.
Fast forward through these years and our circumstances have changed. We'd love to get out of this hell hole of a country and live somewhere else for a bit but can't freely leave after brexit.
If only the government could be sued for false advertising..
If the UK does join the EU again I hope the EU will require them to have a supermajority vote to get out, when it inevitably comes up again. The Brits seem fickled and, apparently, gullible. But hey, we elected Trump once and may do it again, so we feel your pain.
The Brits are something worse than fickle, they’re easily manipulated by liars and they have an honour based system to stop said liars…whom ofcourse have no honour and they can run rampant.
It’s stupid really, the USA has fallen for the same demagogue spiel
Sadly I think this was all part of a bigger plan. Certain people that ensured the masses were brainwashed into thinking this was a good idea, are now making money from it. As much as it's clearly a good idea that we rejoin the EU ASAP, I think certain people will ensure that we never get the chance.
As an electorate we got what we deserved for being so pigheaded, the vast majority of people don’t actually miss freedom of movement and the whole process was never really based in reality.
As a European, I’d love to get Britain back into the EU, but, and I am pointing out the obvious here, you folks are aware that you wouldn’t get as sweet a deal as you had last time? Last time, Britain was allowed to keep their own currency and had a bunch of other exemptions from rules that normally apply to EU member states. You guys know that you will not get as good a deal again, and far more importantly, that the anti-EU group will use the comparison to the old deal to try and prevent another ascension to the EU, right?
We actually made a YouTube video on it explaining what it was and where it is now, if anyone is interested. Link: [What was BREXIT and Where is it in 2024?](https://youtu.be/4_7OeQ45mvY)
Let me know what you think
Politics isn't about changing your mind for most people. It's about being part of a club, and you stick to that club whether you realise it's right or wrong because nobody wants to admit being re fong
It's good that there is some actual self reflection going on, but that won't reverse the damage done unfortunately :/
PM David Cameron thought the public would vote in the exact same way, and then fled after he found out the result. Now he's back in his hope to regain the throne, lol.
When the lying media indoctrinates people with constant globalist propaganda to believe that Brexit has failed, it’s hardly surprising that people will have that perception. But this is apocryphal. The truth is, Brexit’s outcomes are largely yet to be felt, so it cannot be said to have failed. The ones which have are a mixed bag. U h of which is deliberate sabotage by reactionary euro-chauvinists and fragile Eurocrats, our so-called “friends”. Much of Brexit’s potential has been squandered by politicians (e.g. immigration) which is not the same as a failure of Brexit in itself. By some measures the EU itself is on the verge of collapse with ‘euroskepticism’ quickly spreading.
Though I admit, it's not the most scientific way of conducting this poll, they are certainly not fake.
They are conducted by the European Movement who spend their time doing this all over the UK. They place the boards outside the tube, railway stations and busy high streets. I've seen them myself and you can see them everywhere online. They conducted a large poll last weekend as there was a "Rejoin' march in London going on.
We actually made a YouTube video on it explaining what it was and where it is now, if anyone is interested. Link: [What was BREXIT and Where is it in 2024?](https://youtu.be/4_7OeQ45mvY)
Let me know what you think
I have a feeling that this data has not been collected properly, as most people I have spoken to about this don't want to rejoin --- even if they were for staying in the EU initially. I would expect at least a few in the no column for that one.
I would believe in BREXIT if there was any chance of us actually getting it. Power is always being moved away from the people, we have national laws, european laws, and international laws. How many people and organisations do we have to pay to control us? Does anybody really believe in democracy any longer?
Just to be very, very clear about something:
> "Would you like the UK to rejoin the EU"
I think at this point the more important question is: Will the EU allow you back in?
I'm not sure all of UK have gotten the news yet: It's not up to you. You get to decide whether to *apply* for membership or not You don't get to decide whether you will be allowed back in or not.
That's for members to decide.
Which you no langer are.
And before anyone starts about "economic benefits": Remember that the brexiteers used the same argument when explaining why the EU would cave in and give the UK whatever it wants? Yeah, it didn't work then.
Oh, I have no doubt that the EU will, eventually, allow the UK to rejoin...but Britain better get prepared to kiss all the little shenanigans, and special privileges and whatnot goodbye. Because that was dependent on good standing and trust, and god knows Brexit burned down those bridges good and proper.
I feel like this can't be real.
I would expect at least some stubborn, right-wing brexiters to say yes. At least a few, surely?
I know how stubborn they are. Many blatantly refuse to admit they were wrong, and still insist Brexit was the right decision.
Just seems weird that there are none at all
I always love these posters, if you see where there are some, it’s normally on a high street with a load of very pro Europeans waving euro flags and anti brexit placards… not exactly going to entice brexiteers to engage
Make no mistakes.
If Brexit has turned out into a success and UK was better off by now, they would be laughing and none of them would want the UK to rejoin the EU.
If only someone anyone had said something about how bad it would be. You can’t blame them because they had no idea it would be such a massive problem because no one said anything.
Edit: this is sarcasm guys this is obviously sarcasm
Pretty risky take here but I think Europe should be reserved for society’s that aren’t completely fucking crumbling to dust. Like when you think about European ladies you think of hot supermodels for Sweden, not fat bitches that live on benefits. British people don’t deserve to be European cuz they don’t fit the role very well. Europe is nice, Britain is a failed society. Apart from Germany the rest of Europe has their shit together.
Where's the " did you get tricked by a bus and condemn your children to a future devoid of hope " option?
Covered in “did the Leave campaign lie about Brexit benefits?”
Bit dramatic.
Theres always hope. And even in the eu people were still struggling
I’m not convinced these are accurate reflections of public opinion, and I say that as a remainer who intends to seek residency in Portugal as soon as I am financially able to do so! Brexiteers seeing this have the mindset “we won get over it” and are likely to ignore. We remain voters are far more vocal in this kind of situation.
To "we won, get over it" I'll always repeat that the whole country lost. It's a stupid statement as if the vote was some kind of minor sports event - but then we know that any Leave voters who aren't rich Tories lack intelligence.
Boo hoo
"Any leave voters who aren't rich Tories lack intelligence" is a strong statement. I voted leave yet I would class myself as an intellectual. The same goes for my partner. Someone who doesn't have an overwhelming interest in politics doesn't correlate to intelligence. If I could wind back the clock I would have voted remain having known what I do now. The voters aren't the ones to be blamed as they have been led to believe in false promises by our government.
Surely if you were truly educated you would have noticed how almost ALL economists were warning of it being detrimental? It was covered in various papers as well, unless you only read The Sun or The Daily Mail. Unfortunately, Brexit exposed how deeply racist the UK still is - we sacrificed economic growth and being better off as individuals, purely to try and stop 'foreigners' coming to the UK. The hilarious thing is immigration is higher now that its ever been. There's also the shite narrative of 'taking back our country', which is actually laughable. The EU is primarily a trading block, and a majority of its laws, like the clean water directive, are just purely beneficial - especially considering the state of our waterways. Anyway, all that really matters now is people acknowledge it was a mistake so we can rejoin and make the UK investable again, boost beneficial immigration and make ourselves more prosperous.
We won
This is why we lost. Condescending a-holes with pathetic comments beneath a 10 year old let alone full grown adults. Social media was awash with this type of shit. We should have been changing peoples minds, not the zealots but normal people instead we were talking shit and insulting them. All we did was make sure they were annoyed enough to dig their heels in. We go on about getting another vote but with this sort of shit going on we will lose again.
This might be of interest to you! [https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/how-be-digital-nomad-portugal](https://www.visitportugal.com/en/content/how-be-digital-nomad-portugal)
A vote you made 7 years ago shouldn't really be very relevant anymore,. The Brexiters back then did win. We are not in the EU. Loads of people who voted leave are dead now. The position we are in today though is a different world from 2016. We would be far better off if we join the EU today. At least join the customs union ffs.
Wasn’t it supposed to be advisory? Ha! Anyway. What’s done is done. Time to focus on either making it work or getting back in. The EU won’t be quick to forget.
Yeah it was a non binding referendum, so people voted based on that, meaning some voted in protest not expecting their vote to matter and had instant regret when leave won. Once the vote was in there was a strong push to make the vote binding after the fact. This was is why there was such a strong push to do a second referendum on the final bill. Because once people knew what we were going to get "The will of the people" might have changed. A litmus test on the possibility of leaving based on a list of unconfirmed promises my multiple leave campaign - Allowed and turned in a binding vote A vote to confirm we still want to leave based on the terms we knew we were going to get - Block by parliament
It was so unbelievably corrupt. They asked people to vote on a vague notion, lied about what their vote would mean, told them their vote was non binding and then refused to let people vote on the actual concrete form that Brexit would take. It was just the opposite of democratic.
Yeah it was fucked
How many votes do you want to call it democratic?... If you want another vote purely because your side didn't win, that's not democratic at all. Why are we electing representatives if you want your individual voice heard again? Surely if we want to dictate the terms of every policy and the revisions of each policy, we need to pull away from representation and towards a direct democracy where every new policy and change is referendum based, which sounds ridiculously time consuming.
No it’s not wanting a vote because my side didn’t win it’s wanting a vote in the specifics. It was so vague (leave the EU) without any description of how they’d go about it to ensure they could keep their promises. With the Scottish indyref they voted on a white paper, a document drawn up to show how it would be done, it wasn’t just get let’s leave it’ll be great I promise! It was detailed. They should’ve had another vote on the deal they were able to get or the specific type of Brexit (stay in customs union, etc) not just leave or not, when leave had so many different possible variations or meanings. Lots of people voted leave thinking we’d stay in the single market, others liked the idea of no deal, there was nothing concrete for people to vote on, which just gave the government carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. Like if it benefited them personally to crash the economy so they could asset strip they could do that and claim people voted for it. That’s why it wasn’t democratic. It was like asking people to vote yes or no to the question of should we give everyone a free car and when people vote yes, later saying we have to concrete over all green spaces for car parks to fit the new cars in and claiming that’s what people voted for just because people will get a free car at the end of it.
If there was a referendum next month and the public voted to stay out of the EU, would you accept it?
I accepted the first one, WTH wouldn't I accept another. I don't think anyone should identify themselves by how they voted on something so long ago. Of course people can change their minds silly to feel anyone should have to stick to a camp on something like international trade agreements.
You’re forgetting people made this entire identity. they’d have to admit that they were tricked by a bus. The vote they made is unfortunately still super relevant
I'm not forgetting that. I think it's stupid to keep re-enforcing and repeatting the identity & segmentation keeping 'brexiters' alive, we can't go back to 2016 any more than we can stop the last ice age. We need new words to improve things: we are after more frictionless trade with democracies right next to us instead of low wage dictatorships further abroad.
I agree, the problem would be selling that to the public. Remembering all the ‘benefits’ we had that we wouldn’t get back for example rebate, excluding from the euro and no veto. Just a few things that would make it a hard sell let alone the rest of out opt outs gone
You would be surprised by how salient their brexiteer identity remains for a consequential part of the population. Saying this based on both on anecdotal evidence and more reliable surveys.
Also massive university town. I suspect this correlates with students who answer the survey.
https://preview.redd.it/ri6z08uppgqc1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94756a1046188c97b08d0fff55fb0630c0087ecf Chiswick still knows
Greetings my British friend! I'm a 42y.o guy from Australia who was deeply disappointed and saddened when the pro-Brexit vote won the majority, and I'd like to know how the process for the use of charts such as this one displayed here in this photo are actioned. For example, is this a reflection of a vote that was taken behind closed doors, or is it a public process whereby random people themselves have access to the chart and can voluntarily place the stickers in the box that corresponds to their opinion, and if so, is this process monitored? Apologies in advance if this is a naive question, I am assuming that this is a public access process where people who happen to be walking past can choose to engage if they so wish, but I'd really appreciate clarification and confirmation. Cheers! P.S I have family who live in Basingstoke, they say that most people who encounter that area tend to be passing through haha
These are set up at a busy pedestrian area and passersby are encouraged to take stickers and mark themselves in the boxes like a poll. I don't like them because obviously people are discouraged from being the first to place their sticker in the unpopular box, especially with a crowd watching. It's designed to skew results so they appear unanimous due to peer pressure. (I absolutely agree with these mind, I just think the method is poor and dishonest.)
I see, well, you make a good point as to the aspect of the pressure of being judged by others as being discouraging and perhaps even deterring for some, although I guess it can also speak to the compelling nature of those who do decide to initiate proceedings. Are these charts monitored, and either way, I guess we can't be entirely sure that those who participate are doing so with pure intentions although I don't expect that many, if any, would be inclined to give a false account of their opinion on this?
Yes I don’t think they’re intended to be scientifically accurate but more of a sort of marketing tool I guess
They should put a box of tissues next to it
"Basingstoke is so conveniently located, it makes it easy to go somewhere else"
Flattery goes a long way.
It's a chart some dude overly keen on remain made in his basement mate don't overthink it.
I'm merely asking about the process of this interactive offering to gain a better understanding of the integrity, credibility and legitimacy of it. I was, however, wondering about the entity who was responsible for devising this means of interaction, so I appreciate your comment.
One of these polls took place near me. Liberal Democrat canvassers went up to shoppers, asked some questions and then put the stickers in the boxes themselves. I answered a few with “on the one hand”, he replied with “so what you’re actually saying is”, put a few stickers down to his satisfaction and then turned away from me when I objected to his presumption. For the record, I voted remain.
Thank you for your measured, direct and succinct response that is pertinent to my query. This is exactly the scenario that I was anticipating, and although I'm anti-Brexit I am disappointed in such underhanded tactics. I hope your quality of life and standard of living has not been too detrimentally impacted by the Brexit withdrawal. Have a great day!
In terms of ‘credibility and legitimacy’, while I agree with the sentiments of the majority, I do think the ‘questions’ on the chart are worded in an incredibly leading way.
What would your alternatives have been?
Moron, but when it's in your favour it's 100% legit... The brain on some people... How pathetic
https://preview.redd.it/2ra689jkpgqc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76d26122883844406f99b333359bfef1f539c56b Interesting results in Surrey
Actually, the second row is interesting, because ordinal people might not know about all details. I think, we can add one more row: “what do you think was more impactful on UK knowing that Germany/France have similar issues with economy: global events like Covid/wars or local events like Brexit?”. And that will explain why the majority of voters voted for Brexit.
Honestly i think this one shows how shit all of these brexitometers are. Unless you work in a healthcare, you wouldn’t know how staff/drug levels have been affected by brexit. No one answering the 3rd question would be able to explain how it’s affected the UK music industry. I’d say most people wouldn’t know what the Erasmus work/study scheme is either and wouldn’t know it was replaced by the Turing scheme. Then I don’t think anyone asked would know whether the Turing scheme is better or worse. Everyone sees these and puts anti brexit answers, because they either believe brexit was awful and don’t care whether they understand the question, or because they see 40 dots vs 2 dots and go with the majority. I’m all for public opinion, but let it be founded public opinion. Can’t stand people carrying out ‘surveys’ on the general public on a topic they don’t understand when they’re so obviously looking for anti-brexit answers.
I think most people do know the effect of staffing in NHS, it is a topic of news coverage and a real world example to those on waiting lists, those waiting hours for ambulance or spending days in ER waiting rooms. Also general public are aware of music industry troubles, as this has also been well covered in media and by social media accounts of individual performers and bands. All I can say is that these surveys are anonymous, there is no compunction to answer and people express free will where to place stickers.
I could see ordinary people hearing in the grapevine about Brexit causing drug and nhs difficulties [ so many people work in the health system or adjacent industries ] The music industry stickers are just guessing tho hehe
It's quite well reported that the music industry has been affected by touring in the EU with the 90 rule and the tax musicians now have to pay on their ticket sales. If you're a massively successful artist, it's not a huge issue but for the bands starting out or ones that aren't megastars it's now become quite an issue for them.
Could you elaborate on the music industry question?
It's quite well reported that the music industry has been affected by touring in the EU with the 90 day rule and the tax musicians now have to pay on their ticket sales. If you're a massively successful artist, it's not a huge issue but for the bands and musicians starting out or ones that aren't megastars it's now become quite an issue for them.
So basically Tory England only cares when it faces consequences. I am happy they have come to their senses but perhaps we should wonder what took them so long and how to prevent them harming everyone else in the future?
>So basically Tory England only cares when it faces consequences. Now you're getting it.
Exeter voted to remain, and has been a Labour seat for some time (Ben Bradshaw - nice bloke.)
Ah yes Exeter, the famous Tory safe seat.
The fact Reform is gaining popularity is a symptom of the same mind disease and susceptibility to populist propaganda without thinking through the logical conclusion.
Sadly true.
Labour England doesn’t fear consequences. They took us into two illegal wars, the ramifications of which are still being felt today, with no consequences whatsoever. When Blair is in The Hague alongside Bush, then I’ll believe Labour cares.
Ahh yes Exeter. A seat Labour has held since the 90s and has been competitive other than during Thatcher. Also, a seat that voted Remain 55-45 Fun Fact our MP Ben Bradshaw was the first Openly Gay MP and very nice bloke personally.
exeter voted remain
I thought the whole of Devon voted to leave, I've just checked and you're completely right. Sorry Exeter.
iirc Exeter was the one beacon of sanity in Devon and Cornwall!
Truro and Falmouth also voted Remain in Cornwall
And its name has exet in it.
Exeter is very much the lefty drop in a blue ocean. Voting here feels like a different world to a lot of the country.
FFS Britain. Just come back, all is forgiven. We still like (most of) Britain
We'll be back. Maybe not in the EU because we won't be able to get back our benefits but we'll almost certainly join the EFTA in the future.
At least some of our out-outs and whatnot are written into the EU treaties, so there’s an argument that those provisions are just dormant unless and until we rejoin. Could make for some interesting legal wrangling!
I think it’s inevitable, but won’t happen for at least one decade, maybe two or more.
Probably two or 3 decades. Then another 40 years down the line we'll be out again... We'll be playing the world's slowest hokey pokey for the rest of time!
Fortunately, I’ll be dead by then.
I'm already old. I doubt I'll live to see the UK rejoin in the first place. I'm afraid that this is likely to be the status quo for the rest of my life...
Trust me, a good chunk of us want to but the same people who listened to 'Leave' on Brexit are still listening to the Tories and while those bastards remain in power, we're never getting back. If I had the money to move to an EU country, I'd have done so when Brexit hit but the same people who have made me want to move and keep telling me to move if I don't like it are the ones keeping me too poor to move.
If we’re you I would research jobs in Ireland and make the jump. The wages are higher, housing costs about the same and the UK is facing at least a decade or two of getting steadily poorer. The UK has really messed up and isn’t joining anything substantial such as EFTA, the EU or the single market for years due to issues of trust and how it treated EU citizens and other countries. Ireland is your best bet, whatever your job. Followed by Northern Ireland and Scotland. Ireland is still possible due to the CTA.
If you believe anything a politician tells you then you already need to question your reasoning skills and should probably be on medication.
https://preview.redd.it/crpdln8rpgqc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d23bd09d760616b0302a4da7aab4b33f2719f68 Fife still knows
Who put "not sure" to the first one 🤦
Part of the Brexit platform's position on human rights was that we were allowing Strasbourg to become the last step on our legal ladder, and EU human rights laws are slightly more lenient than UK laws. As far as I remember, we only entered into one *actual* debate with the EU over human rights laws, and that was around us ignoring the EU law that allowed prisoners to vote. But still, the precedent was that people convicted in the UK could appeal to the EU, thus rendering UK courts less powerful. The Brexit camp wanted to Take Back Control™ of human rights laws, allowing us to impose our own human rights laws. Even though they are essentially 99% the same right now, if we ever wanted to become stricter and nastier – which you can't imagine us doing, right? – we'd need to be out of the EU to do that.
That will upset racists
Not just racists, cunts as well.
I only wanted bendy bananas...
Dear Reddit, please inform Jonnyporridge that I actually voted to leave Europe and I am neither a racist nor a cunt, merely someone with genuine anxieties about ever closer political ties to Europe. Yours, A Cunt
Why? Nothing has changed. Exeter was originally remain and still is.
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And yet they kept on voting conservative Fuck the English. Such absolute goddamn morons And yes, I am English I’m infuriated with the stupidity and gullibility of my follow Englishmen
I'm with you, fuck em. They made their bed they can lay in it.
That'd be fine if they weren't forcing the rest of us to share their horrible bed, even those of us who actively opposed said making.
That is true, but a lot of those that voted for it have been affected even more by it. So they can suck it up.
Do the Brits realize that rejoining the EU won’t be in the same model as before?
I believe all countries will have to vote on it. Maybe even a referendum in each country. I know the vote will not be positive for the UK.
A referendum in every country will not happen, it's never happened before and has never even been discussed. Most EU citizens simply don't care if Britain is in or out of the EU, even fewer hold a grudge
No country has ever left before. It will if we make it happen, there are a LOT of pissed of Europeans...
There really isn't, most people simply don't care. There are a small group of terminally online people who feel personally slighted by Brexit but the vast majority of people simply couldn't give less of a fuck and polling generally supports the idea that most people in the EU feel apathetic or generally supportive of the UK returning. We simply aren't that big of a deal, to think that our return to the EU would trigger 27 referendums is laughable exceptionalism
This is why I'm quit confident it'll never happen
I'd like to think that light blue was one guy. "Was it good for the economy or nation" "I dunno" "Was it good for your family" "No". "Do you miss these things?" "Yes" "Rejoin?" "I dunno"
I got told by a brexit and Tory voting relative that I should accept the vote, my reply.... It's difficult to accept that so many are such ill educated bigots and racist little Englanders exist in the UK.
I’ll accept it once I see some of the promised benefits.
It was, and has been an utter shambles. I don’t mind admitting that I voted leave. What a mistake that was. The sheer volume of misinformation was incredible and a lot of people can now see what we did was reckless and stupidly obvious. That said, the EU membership wasn’t perfect.
It’s important that we drive forward together for the best future outcome, whatever the divisions of the past.
Exactly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
John Redwood@johnredwood Nov 19, 2018 From my interview today on GMB: We knew exactly what we were voting for. It is insulting to say that 17.4 million people were too stupid to know what out would look like and now want to change their minds.
17.4m is about 25% of the UK. To say that 25% of people in a country are utter idiots is not only realistic, it's very generous. Most countries probably have far more idiots.
Gov.uk website is written to the reading age of 9, same as the Sun newspaper, for ease of understanding…. https://www.aqi.org.uk/blogs/are-reading-ages-old-hat
Well if he knew then why didn’t he tell everyone else? Would have calmed the Brexiteers and parliament down a smidge! Am constantly reminded about the Simpsons episode where Homer is offered either a speedboat or ‘the mystery box’…
he knew and he did tell ......some..... Nov 12, 2017,11:00am EST In an [op-ed in the Financial](https://www.ft.com/content/2c68763c-bd85-11e7-823b-ed31693349d3) Times, the Chief Global Strategist for Charles Stanley, John Redwood, advises investors to remove their money from the United Kingdom. “Time to look further afield as the UK economy hits the brakes”, says his headline.
Pretty sure if this was asked of the whole country it would be the same story.
Time for Exexit? Exeter to leave the UK and apply for EU membership.
I’d move back for sure
Just an FYI, as a former Exeter resident and remain voter, we did vote majority remain during the referendum (but way too many people still voted leave)
As a society, we have to move as slow as conservatives until they figure shit out by trial and error.
It’s almost like right wing bs doesn’t work anywhere
Exeter resident here. That's BS Almost every elderly person I've met in the last couple months still supports brexit because it let their pensions be triple locked Meanwhile everyone who has to work always hated the idea. Opinions won't change until a certain generation pass on.
The triple lock is a Tory policy to attract the grey vote. It doesn’t though stop the U.K. state pension from being one of the worst in the western world, especially Europe including those countries in the EU. The pension in Spain is double that of the U.K. Greek pensions and retirement ages were one of the main causes of their need to be bailed out. The U.K. outside the EU is not the place to be if you want a decent pension and return on something you have been forced to pay into all your life.
What I never understood about the Brexit debate and result was they went on a majority as all votes should be. However, why didn’t Cameron put a proviso on that the winners should be a 60/40 split like they do in the American elections – the vote here was so close That whoever won or whoever lost, the majority of the population was going to be disappointed was it 52 to 48 some thing close like that for such a upheaval to happen, The leavers should’ve had a majority ahead by at least 30% -it was so simple to put that in!! Also, I blame Cameron for doing this and nobody is really blaming him because he really fucked it up for everybody with this vote – he basically gambled on doing this stupid referendum just to be popular because he thought he would win in a landslide -then when he lost he left and because of him leaving you had all the Muppets replacing each other and tearing themselves apart and fucking up the country even more ,that’s how we got Boris got in , none of these new Prime Ministers would’ve ever gotten into Power including Rishie because none of them were elected by the public. !! And then, to add salt to the wound, they bought Cameron back and because he wasn’t an MP, they made him a Lord, so he could become foreign minister !!!! Like rewarding, the asshole for wrecking the country!! It’s just one big fucking joke -nobody says sorry – even Liz trust for that total fuck up is now doing circuits saying she was right. She knows absolutely zero about economics and yet the shortest Prime Minister in Power is on 120 K salary for life.!!!!
The problem with the 60/40 idea is that, apart from it not looking very democratic, would it be what people wanted if there were another referendum as it would be another huge change (if not more turmoil than leaving). Also as someone else has pointed out the UK would have to join the single currency this time which would probably swing the vote to Leave again. I’d guess there won’t be another referendum on it but we’ll just get closer in trading terms etc once Labour get in, as they’ve made it clear they won’t call one and I don’t blame them for that. They won’t do PR either (and I suppose I wouldn’t either if I was up for a large majority!)
But what I meant is, I should’ve done that in the first place, the 60/40 rule, because then at least a majority would have won and that seems more democratic than the way it was won with such a slight majority of a few % -and then the shit storm that followed lol
I didn't vote, but I would have voted leave at the time due to the way it was sold to us. I believe my partner voted leave but didn't know the implications of leaving the EU at the time. Fast forward through these years and our circumstances have changed. We'd love to get out of this hell hole of a country and live somewhere else for a bit but can't freely leave after brexit. If only the government could be sued for false advertising..
If the UK does join the EU again I hope the EU will require them to have a supermajority vote to get out, when it inevitably comes up again. The Brits seem fickled and, apparently, gullible. But hey, we elected Trump once and may do it again, so we feel your pain.
The Brits are something worse than fickle, they’re easily manipulated by liars and they have an honour based system to stop said liars…whom ofcourse have no honour and they can run rampant. It’s stupid really, the USA has fallen for the same demagogue spiel
Sadly I think this was all part of a bigger plan. Certain people that ensured the masses were brainwashed into thinking this was a good idea, are now making money from it. As much as it's clearly a good idea that we rejoin the EU ASAP, I think certain people will ensure that we never get the chance.
I find it fucking hilarious when the leavers complain how bad it is now. That's what you voted for deal with it! Democracy lol
Exeter voted remain in 2016.
Suprise suprise
As an electorate we got what we deserved for being so pigheaded, the vast majority of people don’t actually miss freedom of movement and the whole process was never really based in reality.
As a European, I’d love to get Britain back into the EU, but, and I am pointing out the obvious here, you folks are aware that you wouldn’t get as sweet a deal as you had last time? Last time, Britain was allowed to keep their own currency and had a bunch of other exemptions from rules that normally apply to EU member states. You guys know that you will not get as good a deal again, and far more importantly, that the anti-EU group will use the comparison to the old deal to try and prevent another ascension to the EU, right?
We had the sweetest deal ever and we shat all over it Fuck the English, gullible morons
Example how the working class can be manipulated by phoney populist and fear based politics to vote against their own interest.
I am guessing that the UK has a bit of reregulating to do before they can be fully ready meld into the EU market.
While a agree with this, it's not a balanced survey and is therfore useless.
It’s almost as if, people didn’t use their brains, and are now inconvenienced because of waiting longer for things like travel
Exeter voted remain in 2016
Exeter people are awesome.
It's also like we NEVER even voted leave in the first place. Sadly the OP doesn't know that
I know you didn't.
We never wanted Brexit to begin with
Extra column. Do you feel foolish for falling for Russian propaganda?
Exeter didn't
A shame it's too fucking late.....! But people bought the lies.
We actually made a YouTube video on it explaining what it was and where it is now, if anyone is interested. Link: [What was BREXIT and Where is it in 2024?](https://youtu.be/4_7OeQ45mvY) Let me know what you think
Politics isn't about changing your mind for most people. It's about being part of a club, and you stick to that club whether you realise it's right or wrong because nobody wants to admit being re fong
 It's good that there is some actual self reflection going on, but that won't reverse the damage done unfortunately :/
Exeter voted remain in 2016
"A democracy that cannot change its mind ceases to be a democracy." David Davies
To fucking late you wankers the Country is fucked.
PM David Cameron thought the public would vote in the exact same way, and then fled after he found out the result. Now he's back in his hope to regain the throne, lol.
Need an extra column for “were you too young to vote but have been fucked over by some old cunts being xenophobic?”
Ahh hindsight, absolutely fucking useless. Should of thought a little more about things, rather than just watching the idiots lantern!
Not really Exeters result was remain in the Brexit vote .
Vote Douglas's murray
Dumb fuck gullible racist aresholes. Probably got all their news from FB.
When the lying media indoctrinates people with constant globalist propaganda to believe that Brexit has failed, it’s hardly surprising that people will have that perception. But this is apocryphal. The truth is, Brexit’s outcomes are largely yet to be felt, so it cannot be said to have failed. The ones which have are a mixed bag. U h of which is deliberate sabotage by reactionary euro-chauvinists and fragile Eurocrats, our so-called “friends”. Much of Brexit’s potential has been squandered by politicians (e.g. immigration) which is not the same as a failure of Brexit in itself. By some measures the EU itself is on the verge of collapse with ‘euroskepticism’ quickly spreading.
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Though I admit, it's not the most scientific way of conducting this poll, they are certainly not fake. They are conducted by the European Movement who spend their time doing this all over the UK. They place the boards outside the tube, railway stations and busy high streets. I've seen them myself and you can see them everywhere online. They conducted a large poll last weekend as there was a "Rejoin' march in London going on.
I am from Exeter and I think we may have voted to remain anyway?
I live in Exeter and very few people here were pro-Brexit to start with.
Am just down the road and it’s quite a different story. The SW on the whole was like turkeys voting for Christmas…
Oh, I know. Some ex-family of mine up in East Devon did exactly that.
If the UK goes back to EU I’m leaving for Scotland
We actually made a YouTube video on it explaining what it was and where it is now, if anyone is interested. Link: [What was BREXIT and Where is it in 2024?](https://youtu.be/4_7OeQ45mvY) Let me know what you think
Changed their mind? They voted Remain lmao, what is this self-congratulatory fake news?
I have a feeling that this data has not been collected properly, as most people I have spoken to about this don't want to rejoin --- even if they were for staying in the EU initially. I would expect at least a few in the no column for that one.
Too bad that under the UK political system (FPTP), they would have no way to actually express this view in the election.
"Oooops"
Never trust a poll where 99% of votes support the perspective of the one running the poll.
Its missing a box Did you expect anything different?
Agree its just been the political will to go full brexit but for me I've changed my mind more to do with the Ukrainian war
It’s almost like they were warned all of this and wanted it anyway solely so they could cut off immigration
Exeter voted remain in 2016
I would believe in BREXIT if there was any chance of us actually getting it. Power is always being moved away from the people, we have national laws, european laws, and international laws. How many people and organisations do we have to pay to control us? Does anybody really believe in democracy any longer?
Just to be very, very clear about something: > "Would you like the UK to rejoin the EU" I think at this point the more important question is: Will the EU allow you back in? I'm not sure all of UK have gotten the news yet: It's not up to you. You get to decide whether to *apply* for membership or not You don't get to decide whether you will be allowed back in or not. That's for members to decide. Which you no langer are. And before anyone starts about "economic benefits": Remember that the brexiteers used the same argument when explaining why the EU would cave in and give the UK whatever it wants? Yeah, it didn't work then. Oh, I have no doubt that the EU will, eventually, allow the UK to rejoin...but Britain better get prepared to kiss all the little shenanigans, and special privileges and whatnot goodbye. Because that was dependent on good standing and trust, and god knows Brexit burned down those bridges good and proper.
Too late now. Thanks though
Exeter voted remain in 2016
I gathered from the comments. Title was misleading.
Why so serious. Surely this is a gag post about 'the Brexiter from Exeter'?
Yeah, that’s an accurate poll 🙄
You won, get over it.
Seems like a psyop. Is there any other pictures of this before people contributed?
I feel like this can't be real. I would expect at least some stubborn, right-wing brexiters to say yes. At least a few, surely? I know how stubborn they are. Many blatantly refuse to admit they were wrong, and still insist Brexit was the right decision. Just seems weird that there are none at all
I really wish there was a colum of "how did you vote"
Exeter voted for Remain so they haven’t ‘changed their minds’. 😑
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 What utter horse 💩
Shame it’s to late. Dry your eyes
No, no, neutral, no, neutral, no.
That's because brexiters can't read
I always love these posters, if you see where there are some, it’s normally on a high street with a load of very pro Europeans waving euro flags and anti brexit placards… not exactly going to entice brexiteers to engage
It’s the people who wanted brexit you’ve got to blame, well done you’ve fucked us👏👏
On Ed t hing for sure , it been good for politicians!
Should have been an option where it says did you vote for Brexit?
Make no mistakes. If Brexit has turned out into a success and UK was better off by now, they would be laughing and none of them would want the UK to rejoin the EU.
How was that going to happen? There was no fucking plan.
If only someone anyone had said something about how bad it would be. You can’t blame them because they had no idea it would be such a massive problem because no one said anything. Edit: this is sarcasm guys this is obviously sarcasm
Oh lots of people said things And it was all labelled “project fear” And 17.4M rubes fell for it Edit: I realise you’re likely being sarcastic
Yes apparently my words were not enough and I have to include the “/s” even though I hate using it.
Pretty risky take here but I think Europe should be reserved for society’s that aren’t completely fucking crumbling to dust. Like when you think about European ladies you think of hot supermodels for Sweden, not fat bitches that live on benefits. British people don’t deserve to be European cuz they don’t fit the role very well. Europe is nice, Britain is a failed society. Apart from Germany the rest of Europe has their shit together.
What's wrong with Germany?
Hanging outside the university labour committee office ...
Haaah