Posted on 05/11/2024 7:50:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is rare for voters to change their minds soon after referendums. Experience from Canada to Scotland, from Norway to Switzerland, suggests rather that opinions tend to move in favour of a referendum result more than they swing against it. But Brexit seems to be an exception.
Since the 52-48% vote in favour of leaving the European Union in June 2016, the majority view among Britons has shifted, and especially so in the past two years, towards the conclusion that the decision was wrong.
One way to take the temperature is to visit two English towns called Richmond which voted in very different ways in 2016. In Richmond-upon-Thames in London, which voted 69-31% to remain in the EU, opinion has hardened. Gareth Roberts, the Liberal Democrat council leader, notes that post-Brexit niggles such as longer border delays and more intrusive passport controls have helped to solidify local opposition. A Leave voter sitting by the river says he has not changed his mind, but that he is disappointed by the Tories’ failure to strike big trade deals outside the EU.
The other Richmond, in north Yorkshire, voted 57-43% for Brexit. One Leaver in the market square echoes his southern counterpart by insisting that he still supports Brexit but he complains that it has not been properly done and that immigration has surged despite repeated Tory promises to reduce it. A local bartender says that she voted instinctively to leave but that, were the referendum re-run, she would work harder to understand what it would really mean.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Yeah. Putin is a sweety pie. My mistake. No ruthless ambition or vast sums of wealth at his disposal, no absolutely crystal clear funding of the Brexit campaign and his stooge Nigel Farage.
Not ALL of them, just an annoying number.
And this is because UK bennies are better than French or German ones.
Well, the Brits can be grateful that, the other European nations didn’t invade and destroy Britain to prevent her from exiting.
In keeping with tradition, I did not read the entire article, but found it amusing that the two people who voted for Brexit quoted in the excerpt both said they still supported Brexit, but were disappointed in its implementation.
The young ones maybe...because they don’t know better.
Aren’t there other countries opting to leave?
So the Brits prefer enslavement to the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who call all the shots in Europe? Yeah right.
Why don’t the Economist Bolsheviks ask the farmers in Holland what they think of the EU? /spit
>Britain has yet to Brexit.
Britain is being made to pay for attempting to do so.<
The old Britain, prior to in immigration of one million non-EU immigrants per year since the Brexit vote, supported it. Now??????
Demographics is destiny.
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Well they just doubled down on the same policies that they enacted brexit to get away from.
They're socialist. It's expensive to maintain the NHS. So they will continue to do that. Brexit or not.
Years ago, I lived in the UK, read the Economist, and found it a good mag. Not any more.
It really is hard to believe anything one reads today. I seriously doubt this... It all depends who you talk to.
If they turned off the free stuff for life they might go someplace else or back home ,LOL
Met some Bride last night. They did not like being part of the ‘eu’ at all. So, yeah, 🐂💨💩
FAIL!
Regards,
Brexit is continuously undermined by a segment of the British citizenry that favors a one-world government.
many Jews wanted to go back to Egypt too wen the going got tough in the free world- Thankfully they didn’t!
I am thinking the people of Britain wanted to stem the flow of forced immigration most of all.
People complain about how things are now. If Britain had stayed in the EU, they’d still be complaining about how things are.
Oh please....more from the “if you voted to leave it was because you weren’t educated” crowd.
On the other hand, yes, immigration has, deliberately, become worse since...which was a top reason for ‘yes’ votes on Brexit. They have a fake system of representation, worse than here.
I’m not sure there’s a true representative system anywhere in the world at this time. Back to taxation-without-representation.
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