Originally Posted by mscion

Spot on! Seems weird that a simple majority can decide the fate of a nation. So many complicated consequences of this decision...

Originally Posted by pichlo

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.

Originally Posted by endsormeans

jeez I missed out here on good convo...

To backtrackkk.....
Yes Dave ...
Supernova happens the best way as all the old text books say is ...
"Stop, Drop, and Roll" those pesky Supernova flames out that have decided to catch your clothes skin and hair spontaneously on fire,,,,
And during this Supernova ...
Don't forget to hydrate...

(hahahaha)

And as for that idea of building a wall around Britain....
Excellent idea..,,
I mean ...the Pope has one around the Vatican...
The Israelis have one ...
China has part of an unfinished one...(maybe they can get the Mexicans to pay for its completion too..?
The Trump wants one on the southern border...and once that one is done...I think one on the northern border should be built to keep all us Canadian hordes at bay...
Then when Trumps walls are done...and the American people realize that the walls aren't there to keep others out...but their own people in....
Ooooh boy...it will be interesting then.

so yeah...
I think Britain should build a wall completely around their country...
Be original in the design though...
Something different...
maybe dig a vastly wide and deep.... watery moat around all of Britain ....

oooops ...
glad I came in on the convo when I did...
Brexit and May are both "done" like last night's lasagne ...
they should just have referendums every 2 years so they can flip flop around ...completely ravaging investment, confidence in the British Pound and their stocks...actually their whole economic standing in the doing ...
keep it up with the waffling ....and the Brit economy may end up competing with Venezuela's shortly...
...
pichlo...if you need a place once you become an economic refugee ...
come on over...I will vouch for you...

Originally Posted by juiceme

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

Originally Posted by pichlo

That is partially true. I have seen quite a few online posts to that effect. One of them even admitted to exactly what you said, that he did not really mean it, he just wanted to give the government a bloody nose. So I take back my previous statement, I have met one.

But the vast majority of the protest voters remain confused to this day. They did not and still do not understand what they really voted for. My favourite - and there are surprisingly lot of them - are those who voted Leave "to keep all the Muslims out".

Another example. There was a Goodyear factory in Wolverhampton scheduled for closure by the end of 2016. Nothing to do with Brexit, the decision was made long before that. Wolverhampton was a strong Leave area with a 63% majority. Shortly after the vote, the BBC sent a team there to interview the factory workers. They made an hour long radio pprogramme about it that I listened to on my commute. The general feeling among the workers was Goodyear had a choice to close one factory in Europe and they chose the UK one because it was easier (due to UK law) than closing one in France, Germany or Poland. The workers' answer to that? Push their government to change the law, for their own protection? No. To vote Leave. To this day I do not understand how exactly they think it is going to help them but I doubt they actually thought it that far.

So, protest vote? Yes, definitely. Change of heart? Maybe some, but definitely not the majority. Not even remotely.

Originally Posted by Dave999

I think leave won becouse poeple in general like the music the loved in their early years.

And now many older people want to have it like when they were younger.