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justanovice Tue 15-Jan-19 20:06:08

If we had another EU referendum tomorrow would you vote the same way as you did in 2016?

ayse Wed 16-Jan-19 00:34:00

In any case the margin between leave and remain was slim and first past the post democracy imo is outdated and a better PR system could be established. Perhaps then more people would feel it was worth bothering to vote!

RosieLeah Wed 16-Jan-19 06:36:11

I voted Leave and would do so again.

Alima Wed 16-Jan-19 06:39:37

I would vote leave again too. It is the seemingly power hungry unelectedness of the EU lot that really gets through.

NannyJan53 Wed 16-Jan-19 06:43:31

Voted Remain, and I would do so again. Our children and grandchildren's future is at stake.

This is a complete shambles, and the Government could not organise the proverbial in a brewery!

Blencathra Wed 16-Jan-19 06:48:49

I voted remain and would do so again. I am horrified at the complete shambles. I think it very selfish to leave when we would deny our children and grandchildren all the advantages that we have enjoyed. They are the ones we should be thinking of.

mcem Wed 16-Jan-19 07:25:23

My feelings too Blencathra even if it means the awful prospect of going through the whole process of another referendum.
Appalled at the current level of chaos!

paperbackbutterfly Wed 16-Jan-19 09:42:17

Yes, Leave. I voted not to join the Common Market and I still feel we were better off out. Time to take back ownership of our own futures.

GranJan60 Wed 16-Jan-19 09:42:37

Absolutely REMAIN - as before. I know the EU has faults - everyone in Europe accepts that. But we can help reform from within - people have (up to now) respected the British view if given the right way - not arrogantly! And the greatest thing the EUhas done is give us peace in Europe - although there are lots of other things we take for granted at the moment. Our national selfinterested Press have a lot to answer for.

GabriellaG54 Wed 16-Jan-19 09:42:42

YES
I voted LEAVE and have not changed my mind.

GabriellaG54 Wed 16-Jan-19 09:45:16

One would hardly buy a house then let some unknown group in another country tell you what you could and could not do in it. Utter madness.

jenpax Wed 16-Jan-19 09:47:28

Yes I voted remain, am a passionate European and would vote remain again ????

BlueSapphire Wed 16-Jan-19 09:48:59

Voted leave and would definitely do so again.

Dollyis50 Wed 16-Jan-19 09:49:00

Definitely looks as though the majority of people are sticking to their original decision. The democratic process has led to this situation and we just have to get on with it now.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 16-Jan-19 09:49:25

I voted leave, as did our 5 AC, we would all vote leave again.

I cannot understand why anyone is in favour of Junker, Tusk and the rest having a say over our destiny.

Why would you want an outside entity decide on our tax laws, which is in the process of happening.

AllTheLs Wed 16-Jan-19 09:49:30

I voted Leave with the (perhaps simplistic) view that the less people we had coming into this country, the less we'd need to rip it up to provide infrastructure - houses, roads, railways, etc.

But then if we don't have the EU's environmental laws, planners & builders will be able to ride roughshod over green spaces anyway.

However, I'd probably vote Leave again because during the last 2.5 years the EU has not endeared itself to me. I've really come to dislike the institution.

Mouse Wed 16-Jan-19 09:52:23

I voted remain and would do again.

Culag Wed 16-Jan-19 09:56:16

I would vote Remain again. The EU needs reforming from the inside.

Bubbe1 Wed 16-Jan-19 10:00:33

I would vote the same way: OUT!

Saetana Wed 16-Jan-19 10:01:35

Yes - I voted Leave and would vote Leave again - the reasons I voted Leave in the first place have not changed, and the bullying of Theresa May by the EU has just cemented my already strongly-held views.

Crazygran Wed 16-Jan-19 10:04:50

Voted leave and am more definite about wanting to leave now. Think of the way we would be treated by Germany ,France expect if we stay in !

Howcome Wed 16-Jan-19 10:09:09

I’d vote differently I was a remain - I would now vote leave, I’ve changed as I've lost all respect for the EU experiment in this process and now want out before it all collapses and takes us with it. When I voted for the EEC way back when it was not what it is now, no one asked me to vote on the EU just the “Common Market”. Plus my children voted exit and it’s their future.

GrannyIris5 Wed 16-Jan-19 10:10:12

I would vote leave again. European Court of human rights does nothing to help our country etc etc

hereshoping Wed 16-Jan-19 10:10:30

I'd vote leave again, and no deal.

diddy Wed 16-Jan-19 10:11:42

Yes I'd still vote to remain

sarahcyn Wed 16-Jan-19 10:15:09

Yes.
I voted Leave because I think the EU is rapidly becoming dysfunctional. As a supranational power it’s overweening. The environmental impact of its agricultural policy has been overall pretty bad and (this is important for me) it pays only lip service to its own animal welfare standards.
The EU has always had obvious advantages for the higher-educated and the better-off but less educated, worse-off people have not seen the benefits as clearly. I’m not saying there haven’t been benefits, just that the Remain campaign failed to make them clear. It’s significant that in all low-income groups, most people voted Leave. With freedom of movement, literally anyone can come to the UK if they are EU citizens and while it’s very nice for a comfortably off graduate like me to have plenty of baristas in my local coffee shops, I’m painfully aware that it is never the likes of me who have to move over and make room.
I might have been tempted to change my mind in a 2nd referendum if only the EU hadn’t been such total b***ends in negotiations. Their strategy is to make the UK suffer as much as possible so as to deter any other nation from trying to leave. It’s backfiring.
And don’t get me started on Juncker