Thread: It's the final countdown!
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2019-01-16 , 16:05
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
This is not the best place for serious discussions but...
  • The distribution of Leave/Remain voters has been pretty even before, during and after the vote. Which is why it was so difficult to predict the result.
  • The number of undecided voters was very small. I have yet to meet anyone from that group. That includes people I know personally as well as those I met online.
  • I have yet to meet anyone who has changed their mind since the vote. That includes people I know personally as well as those I met online.
  • If there is any "buyer's remorse" then it must affect only the small group of undecided voters. If anything, the Leave voters I spoke to, either personally or online, are even more convinced that they were right. it might of course be a case of shouting louder to drown their own voice of doubt but they would never admit that.
  • Given the vote went one way with such a small margin, even a small proportion could swing it the other way. However if a second vote were held tomorrow, I would not expect a decisive victory one way or another. It would be another 48/52.
Okay, it is nice to get the truth out from the real source, someone who actually is affected by this brexit thing.

I have to say I'm a bit surprised about these facts since in Finland it is generally believed that the Brits feel a bit different, that actually many regret the way the vote went.
The story here is that the vote-to-leave campaign succeeded only because people were fed up with some events in UK, and cast a vote to leave just as a protest, so that many who voted did not actually want to leave EU but did it just to give a slap to the then-current govenment. Basically thinking that it would never go through so giv'em hell.

For that reason many are sympathetic and mourn for the poor Britons who made a bad choise because they did not believe it would stand chance to turn the way it did.
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