Why most people regret Brexit: A majority of British voters now believe the split was a mistake

The Economist ^ | 05/11/2024

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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.

[bobbo666]

Oh, BS. The complaint is about how the gov’mt corrupted the intent and imported a lot of folk from trash countries — parasites who have ruined the economic boom that would have otherwise occurred. Even legal immigrants (not just the illegals) were encouraged in with no skills and only open hands for $$$.
Why? So gov’mt folks could skim the $$$ piles.

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“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.”

Any claim that issue would be better under the EU is nonsense. It would be worse. The problem is that their own leaders have the same goal. To destroy western civilization and bring everything under an evil world power. One would have to be brain dead to consider the articles argument valid.

[higgmeister]

Thank you for making me see that this is from “The Economist[sic].”

[CdMGuy]

Consider the source. Just one more left wing rag.

[sergeantdave]

There’s no bigger gang of scoundrels, thieves and liars in England than the low-IQ, fascist scribblers at the Economist.

[Albion Wilde]

It's The Economist. Don't listen to their bias. Who did they ask—other globalist elitists?

[dfwgator]

Brexit was sabotaged.