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6% of leave voters regret their choice according to an academic study published about a month ago, enough to swing the vote the other way.... And as the effects of a potential Brexit continue to bite, this percentage will only increase

http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resources/brexit-bri...

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There are also remain voters who wish they'd voted leave.

Source?

Edit: The study linked above [0] showed the following for voter regret (specifically "do you have doubts about the way you voted?"):

Remain

Yes / No / Don't Know

98% / 1% / 1%

Leave

Yes / No / Don't Know

90% / 6% / 4%

[0]: http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resources/brexit-bri...

I for one. I voted remain, but having actually gone partly down the brexit path, would be comfortable with it now.

The treatment of leavers by remainers has been frankly disgusting. Accusing them of being racists, stupid, and various other things. Brexit has made them lose their minds. They simply refuse to believe their are people who would vote brexit for reasons other racism. I know many people who voted for brexit on informed reasons, that have nothing to do with racism.

> having actually gone partly down the brexit path

What do you mean exactly?

> The treatment of leavers by remainers has been frankly disgusting

Completely agree. The whole thing of people taking sides, rather than discussing a political issue, has been absurd and awful.

> voted for brexit on informed reasons

Unfortunately this was badly communicated, the media's fault no doubt. It was genuinely quite difficult to find a reasoned, balanced view (especially on the leave side I have to say).

This suggests that brexit is still supported (can't judge quality):

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/696760/british-no-reg...

The express is so low on quality that it doesn't even feature in most mainstream discussion.

I'm surprised more people don't want to vote leave, it's like they want the UK economy to continue to die by remaining just so they can country hop.

Other way round: the single market is extremely critical to the UK econonmy, as we've been seeing.

What have we been seeing? Lower pound is probably a major advantage to working class people.

We have such a high pound because we are a country driven by financial industry, people keep their wealth in pounds because of this. Ultimately it screws over other industries resulting in the south/north divide.

I've got a lot of sympathy for this argument, but without wage inflation coming as well there's going to be a short-term nasty squeeze as food and fuel jump 20%.

We saw this play out in Greece. The situation there was far worse, both at government and private level, but there still wasn't enough support for jumping out back to the Drachma and devaluting. And meanwhile the shortage of hard currency caused medical shortages.

The UK economy was/is doing fine? Not sure you read up on all the facts.

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