Voters express buyer’s remorse in Brexit-backing Barking: “I’m depressed. I’m properly, really depressed. I can’t sleep.”
by marketrent
Voters express buyer’s remorse in Brexit-backing Barking: “I’m depressed. I’m properly, really depressed. I can’t sleep.”
by marketrent
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Jack Peat/The London Economic:
*The 2011 census revealed that the white British population in Barking and Dagenham decreased from 80.86 per cent in 2001 to 49.46 per cent in 2011.*
*By contrast, there were substantial increases in the African and Bangladeshi populations, as well as a considerable number of Lithuanian immigrants.*
*In a nationwide referendum in 2016, Barking and Dagenham was one of just five of London’s 32 boroughs to have voted to leave the European Union.*
*Four years since the UK left the EU, the leave-voting constituency Barking says they’ve seen no benefit from Brexit.*
*“I did vote Brexit, but with hindsight, if I could change my vote, I would change it now because I think I was mis-sold the information to begin with”, one lady said, while another person said it has, “quite frankly been a disaster”.*
*“I’m depressed. I’m properly, really depressed. I can’t sleep.”* [[Times Radio](https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1752728581430452499)]
You were warned repeatedly what the outcome would be.
You still went for it, and dragged the rest of us along with you.
You don’t get to have “buyers remorse”.
If less than half of Barking and Dagenham is White British, yet 62% of them voted Brexit, there must be a sizable minority of minorities which voted Brexit too.
I’d be interested in hearing their reasoning for voting for Brexit.
It sounds harsh but the evidence to disprove the lies of the Leave campaign was available for everyone to read. It might not have been what people wanted to hear but facts do not care about your feelings.
“I can’t get past France and Germany, don’t like them never have done”. A vote made there complete un emotionally I see
Good. Serves them right.
They were told repeatedly what would happen.
You weren’t “misinformed” the CONSERVATIVE government sent literally everyone in the country a very well researched and plainly worded booklet about why Brexit was a bad idea and these clowns still voted for it.
I voted Remain and always thought it was destined to be a disaster based on the rhetoric at the time. And it is, and it’s going to get worse. Rather than raking the coals about it now, we just need to get on and do something useful. There was and still is clearly a problem with the press in this country and (I mean this tactfully), education and critical thinking. The other disaster has been politicians lining their pockets at our expenses, and the endless shock-jock partnership of media and politics. We need to change those if we’re going to get out of this.
Far right nationalists who knew they’d be quids in spent millions in convincing people who didn’t understand politics how to vote.
That’s an educational failing going back generations.
But rather than admit they don’t know, people would rather embrace tribalism. The hard left and hard right will die on their hills now before ever giving even an inch of compromise.
Wait, you mean now there’s much less of a massive propoganda machine feeding people misinformation and lies people are suddenly realising they made the wrong decision?
It’s a christmas miracle.
People in Britain have a track record of voting against their own interests. They’re so good at it in fact that even the Labour Party is now having to pretend to be shite to get more votes. #Takebackcontrol ha ha ha ha
They shouldn’t necessarily be upset about their vote as for many it was clearly some kind of cry for attention, a desire to “send a message” and were politically illiterate and misled. It happens. At no point were we ever compelled to *actually leave*. We could have had a second vote or be told quite plainly it was unworkable.
All of these people will willingly follow Farage and Boris down the gutter again if given a chance and a fresh lie.
Hey, but we got back control of our borders 🤟
Oh, wait….what? https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingjune2023
Repeat after me, for the next time:
COMPLICATED PROBLEMS DO NOT COME WITH SIMPLE ANSWERS
>I’m too old to care whether we go back or go forward. I got my pension, i can live quite happily on it.
Good for you.
Stewart Lee makes the observation that not only racists voted for brexit; c*nts did as well. The movie Brexit: an uncivil war, explains in detail how the Brexiteers manipulated the voters. It also explains how they lied so often and so shamelessly that the Remainers lacked the resources to effectively refute all the blatant falsehoods. Stewart is my favourite comedian but I think his assertion, whilst funny, is unduly harsh.
Oh dear, what a pity, nevermind. Think about what it’s like for the people that voted remain
Credit where it’s due – anyone who admits having voted Leave, but now believe it was a mistake and say so should be congratulated on their honesty and being open enough to change their minds.
However there are still people arguing in favour of Brexit, but deny having voted for it. They obviously think we are all stupid and they really should just fuck right off.
I have a friend who was very fervent Brexit at the time of the vote, but for some quite odd reasons which did not make much sense at the time, but anyway when I asked him the other day, what exact benefits has Brexit given the UK? He could not answer
Everyone else who I ask this same question to cannot provide an answer either
That’s because there has been no benefit to the UK of leaving the EU
For all of us that voted to remain, I get sick of hearing people say “we were missold Brexit”. Well yes you were, but it’s still not good enough. This was never a plan that could be executed well. We were essentially choosing to impose economic sanctions on ourselves. All for the nebulous idea of “control”.
I remember a caller on the James O’Brien show saying how “Starman let BMW move all the Fowd Twanseets to Turkee because Bill Gates wanted us to have his 5G vaccine instead of the one invented by Bowwis, innit”
I think it was the twat with the flat cap.
YoU kNeW wHaT yOu WeRe VoTiNg FoR
You were warned of the consequences. You dismissed it all as Projekt Feer
You chose to listen to a bunch of con-artists.
But you fucked it up for all of us.
You won, get over it.
This may be petty but: good.
I was 6 months too young to even get a vote so I am glad that you are miserable with your decisions
Fucking idiots. Ruined it for everyone else，now crying over the reality they were repeatedly warned about coming true. Cunts.
“Cheer up Mate, I’m selling London bridge if any of your fellow morons want to buy it”
I have no sympathy for brexiteers with remorse tbh. It was well predicted that this would be the outcome, but people cared more about picking a side to fight in a moment of civil unrest than the did about actual consequences. The fact remainers were said to be a part of ‘Preject Fear’ says it all, it became a war of facts vs feelings.
At least you had the chance to vote on it you muppets, some of us adults now didn’t have the chance and are left with the shit you caused.
The results of brexit after almost a decade now have taught the rest of EU countries to not repeat the mistake. UKIP’s EU extensions were at their high peak power in 2015-18. they have since dampened down. ppl were expecting it to be a snowball effect to EU’s dissolution, turns out it actually made them stronger.
Mixed feeling about this..
I’m pissed off the leavers think they deserve our sympathy while we have to face the shit show with them.
But sympathy doesn’t mean shit if we’re all suffering with them.
I’m more pissed off that they’re not pissed off.
Some of them were lied to. It was a stupid and obvious lie, but lied to nonetheless.
The tories lied. They lied and stole your future security from you. All the while smiling, telling you that our problems are because of foreigners, the Europeans.
You should be pissed, you should be angry. Your depressing sadness isn’t going to help.
Vote out these assholes.
These smooth talker, these liars, these thieve. Vote them out. Be angry. Be very angry
I dont feel bad for them at all
We warned them this would happen, we told them they were being lied to
They called us fearmongerers.
They wouldn’t listen to us why should we listen to them now?
How nice of you to drag us all down with your foolishness
It would be much easier to feel sorry for them if they hadn’t been such gobshites in the run up to and immediate aftermath of the referendum. The number of nobheads being patronising and condescending to people who saw that the emperor had no clothes was astonishing. As if *they* were the enlightened free thinkers and remain voters were being conned.
Love the guy who is happy he has his pension and can survive comfortably. Not fussed what we do now we he’s ok.
I won’t ever retire or see a pension!
I do love these threads. People who haven’t got a clue jump straight to it. ‘white nationalists, racists, far rights blah blah’
Barking is maj non British white. And it’s a complete shit hole. With or without Brexit. It’s a dead old London/Essex boundary town.
“This isn’t the Brexit I voted for” – All Brexiters now. TWATS.. What the hell did they think would happen.
I remember the day the results came out and I was stood behind two Brexiters who were well pleased. “I voted cause I wouldn’t ever vote for anything Cameron does” one said to the other.. No research, no thought, just ignorance of the highest order. Thanks you muppets, you’ve fucked us all.
what really got me was “I am too old to care I have my pension” and its exactly that sentiment and way of thinking that has put us in this mess. I personally blame people like him for the things we are going through.
The public should never have been given a vote on Brexit. Cant be trusted. Least a GE is 4 years before you can boot the party out, Brexit is a lifetime
Most annoying thing is the people that generally voted Brexit wont be around in years to come when we have to pick up the pieces from the fallout
I voted to remain, but I don’t like the ‘we told you so’ mindset.
Many people want to cast Brexit voters as knuckle dragging racists and idiots, which I think is unfair. Did racism and xenophobia play a part? Very much, but there seems to be little appetite in examining the other reasons behind their choice.
Large parts of our population felt and still feel disenfranchised from our political system. People have seen their hometowns bled of industry and jobs, shuttered, and their quality of life has nosedived. The Remain camp and it’s rhetoric seemed like more of the same patronising, elitist talk they’d heard for years. So, they felt they could stand up and be heard this time.
One in the eye for the establishment.
Also, Brexit support was especially high in old industrial heartlands and in age groups over 55s. The cohort that would have seen their livelihoods and community disappear and would have been in the union movement, which were eurosceptic for the most part (euroscepticism being baked into the hard left for a very long time).
While it would be naive and misguided for anyone to think Brexit would restore what was lost, I suspect many thought it couldn’t be any worse than what had already happened.
And so, it seems to me that working class Brexit voters get the sharp end of the stick. They again feel cheated and lied to and are derided by Remain factions, while those with the real power and nefarious motives to push Brexit are the ones who deserve the ire.
If we want to stop any burgeoning nationalist party taking advantage of this and making things much worse, the sneering and derision has to stop.
I hope they fucking wallow in the misery that they have condemned the rest of us into.
There’s reports in the news about numerous UK councils being either in or on the brink of collapse with massive deficits, dwindling services and the prospect of harsher cuts to basic services just to survive another 12 months. Services are collapsing and infrastructure is crumbling with no budget to get these back to where the public expects it to be. Actual and perceived cost of living is intolerable for much of the tax base making increasing revenue hugely challenging.
This isn’t related to Brexit. As much as I hated Brexit these issues predate Brexit – these are symptoms of a country in terminal decline. Decline resulting from ideologies manifesting in political decisions: shrink the state, reduce investment, lower wages. The UK isn’t here by accident: this is the end game of decades of incompetence and dereliction of duty by the Tories. Yes Brexit was a disaster but it simply reinforced existing fault lines in the British economy. The GFC really killed Britain and its never bounced back from that blow. But it’s the repeated blows that have knocked the stuffing out of the country.
Who would have speculated 20 years ago that in a few years time Polands average per capita income would surpass the UK’s? That’s astonishing given where the respective economies were at the time
I feel so sorry for them /s
I blame both the voters and the politicians, they’re the reason things have gotten worse.
I for one feel no remorse in thinking they should go fuck themselves.
A little overlooked fact: Brexit vote was held during Ramadhan where a sizeable non-white population was in no mood to go to the voting booth due to a significant lifestyle change. If they did then Brexit would not have happened. To all those who did vote to leave, ya twats.