Brexit: Poll suggests just 9% of Britons think decision to leave European Union more of a success than failure | Politics News
by niki_sun
Brexit: Poll suggests just 9% of Britons think decision to leave European Union more of a success than failure | Politics News
by niki_sun
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The poll doesn’t ask how many people would reverse the decision.
It is maybe a representation. Maybe not. I don’t really find these polls trustworthy.
And of that 9% what success have they seen to balance out the abject failure?
It hasn’t really been implemented so how can people think it’s been successful? Half in half hour out is worst of all possible outcome.
Articles like this, pop up now and again to try and keep the remainders arguments relevant and contemporary, but it’s over & needed to be accepted!
I predict that in 10-15 years, joining EU to some capacity will come back into the political conversation when it becomes a viable option again.
The way British media frames this shit. That means 91% of people polled thought it was a failure. The way they treat readers as if they’re so mindless and stupid, is infuriating.
That’s fairly inconsequential though. You will have people in that group who think that Brexit has failed while still believing that it could have somehow been a success and that’s even discounting those who have a totally different view on what success or failure even is. Some people will find any cost acceptable if they are not directly impacted (or think they don’t). Some will think it was a mistake but won’t support rejoining, and so on.
What matters is how many people support realistic measures to repair the damage that has been done by Brexit and the way it was implemented, and whether the UK’s political system is willing to represent those views. This is difficult to gauge since there is no real prospect for any policy proposals in that direction for the foreseeable future. If any are made and they are realistic representations of the trade offs involved, then it will be possible to have a clearer view on what direction the UK will move in (if at all).
Funny how quickly we went from “Brexit is the will of the people, if you’re against it you hate democracy” to basically nobody defending it anymore and the Tories never bringing it up if they can avoid it.
I’ve been saying it for years but just like the wars in the Middle East eventually most of the people who were very vocally supportive of it at the time will claim to have been against it all along.
The single market and free movement of Brits in Europe is nothing compare to getting our roofing laws back.
Seriously what kind of a total moron do you need to be to still believe that leaving the world’s most powerful economic and industrial trading block, for an inward looking nationalistic and isolationist strategy in an increasingly globalised world, is better! It just beggars belief!
Only a small percentage of the public made the decision that led to Brexit.
That’s 9% we could do without…let’s fund our NHS instead
Won’t lie, I wouldn’t trust the tories to polish a turd correctly. Beyond the innumerable reasons I voted remain, my belief that there simply wasn’t the political ability to make a success is amongst the most important.
I guess one way to cope is to write your own press and then congratulate each other in your own little world.
For the sake of balance, although the U.K. joined the EEC/Common Market in 1972, and held a Referendum in 1974, what percentage of the electorate voted in any subsequent Referendum to join any mythical EU?
Rhetorical Question.
One day people in this sub will read the whole article instead of just the click bait title and knee jerking away, but while it appeals to people’s cognitive bias I suppose they’ll just be happy with the headline
Of that 9% how many will oof in the next few years?
Pls be all of them
I wonder if the 9% were asked why it was a success.
Before the vote a lot would not say why, surely that has changed now they can point at the tangible evidence.
I campaigned for Brexit. I disliked the EU and wanted the Tory party destroyed.
I got what I wanted, so I’d call that a success.
Brexiteers are thick as fuck. Same as those that voted for Bojo.
Get over yourselves.
We joined in the 70’s and took time for changes to be made.
It is what it is and the government needs to get on with things. The whole system needed changes even if was part of the EU. Focus on that instead of what could have been 🤦
Leavers didn’t really understand what type of Brexit they wanted, so they flipped flopped between staying in the SM and CU, Swiss-style deal, No deal and Norway-style deal.
More and more people are waking up to the fact that there’s a lot of benefits in the EU and they were conned into voting Brexit because Leave politicians such as Farage, Hanaan, Boris, Gove and others lied to them about the benefits the country would get if they vote leave.
What’s the percentage of the mentally deranged? I’m guessing it should account for at least half of this.
I consider Brexit a great addition to my “I told you so” collection.
It would have been a massive success if it wasn’t handled by a civil service and MPs who were rabidly pro EU. Taking years for simple changes and putting millions of miles of red tape, taxes, and arbitrary rules in the way of progress, not to mention arguing for argument sake with each and every negotiating body. Deliberately messing up and obfuscating every step of the way.
You’re all like the Japanese on that little island, 20 years after the war had ended.
I mean I still have running water, that is a success I suppose…. Oh no, wait, I don’t.
It’s likely that those who think that Brexit was a success are now politically irrelevant, as the people and groups who pushed for Brexit have got what they wanted. As soon as there’s more profit to be had in trade with the EU than can be saved by sending money to tax-havens, I expect that they’ll be overriden and ridiculed by the same newspapers who coined the word “Remoaner”.
Brexit worked the way it was intended: no more Italians, Poles and Irish who are legally equal to the Anglo-Aryans. Now, only immigration from (former) colonies that you can legally treat as an inferior race.
Those 9% got what they voted for.
I do enjoy all the explanations as to why this doesn’t mean that any politician should suggest that perhaps leaving was the wrong choice
And everyone here probably still thinks the thing was safe and effective
9% are happy with sovereignty in making their own rules on trade.
91% understood that if they diverge from EU rules, you lose a market of 500 million consumers.