• A majority of Britons support rejoining the European Union’s single market even though that would mean the restoration of the free movement of workers from the bloc, according to a poll published on Wednesday.
• Polls in recent months have shown that a majority of people now think Brexit was now a mistake, and Wednesday’s poll comes less than a week after data showed that annual net migration to the United Kingdom hit a record high last year — more than double the figure recorded in the year before the Brexit vote.
> Majority of Britons support rejoining the EU single market
I should think so.
The thought of leaving the single market was stupid, even to leave supporters,
and so remaining part of the single market was promised to them, from the start.
The fact that this promise turned out to be unworkable, and ultimately a load of bollocks is one for the many reasons no-one likes Brexit now – even those that voted for it.
so 57% of HOW many as over 66m people in this country I doubt all on YouGov so 57% of what 10,000 maybe? if so thats hardly a majority is it
We never even had a referendum on leaving the single market, but they took us out anyway.
Considering how many people who voted to leave openly regret it, are we surprised in the least?
I think all the see you next Tuesdays have kicked the bucket by now
Genuine question: Who fills these surveys out? Never, ever met anyone who has.
Why though? France stayed in the single market and they have actually faired worse than we have. Germany much worse. Also, out exports to the EU are at an all time high despite all the supposed barriers to trade. So what’s the point?
Good to know. My understanding is that if we rejoin the single market we’ll also get back freedom of movement? Eg can retire to the south of France after all
So everyone wins. UK businesses can enjoy frictionless trade. I can move to France. And mouth breathers can continue to be out of the EU (after all Brexit is still Brexit)
Anther poll I’ve not been asked to take part of, I wonder if it’s just rejoiners who are asked to?
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if Britain re-joins the EU in some form within the next decade or so.
Sadly our politicians don’t want to admit they fucked up spectacularly.
Got Brexit done, now we must all move on apparently and one day we might be less poorer for it- not better off, just less poor.
But the daily mail commenters have ensured me it would be undemocratic for younger generations to support something that their dead ancestors voted for
It never even had to happen, even with Brexit. Boris just bodged the thing and brought us to the world scenario possible.
Hopefully we at least rejoin the single market, even if not the EU.
The anti EU/pro Tory minority simpletons turn up in numbers and vote, the majority don’t vote so this isn’t going to change
Majority of Britains always supported free trade with Europe.
52% of Britons wanted to lower migration and that clearly hasn’t happened, the fact that the numbers have never been higher is going to lead to another political explosion some time soon.
Truth is, if a sensible party lowered the numbers of migrants, a large portion of British politics would calm down.
Well, according to yougov 44% want to remain, 40% want to leave and 15% don’t know/won’t vote (brexit poll 2016)
If the referendum had been “and if you selected yes for leaving, which model would you like to follow?” with a couple of options, it would’ve gone down in flames immediately. The problem with a referendum is, sometimes, you only ask half of the question and then leave it up to politicians and their politicking to guess the rest.
I imagine a lot of those who voted leave have died off of old age, of covid got them.
Is the EU still really just a single market? Was it ever?
Almost half of us never wanted to leave in the first place, and even those that did vote leave regretted it swiftly considering most of the leave campaign was revealed to be lies within days of them winning.
The Brexiteers knew they would lose if the single market and customs union were discussed during the Brexit vote. That’s why they lied about their intentions
The majority of Britons supported “remain” in all the polls too, except the only one that mattered.
Pretty sure the polls said majority of Britons wanted to stay in the EU before the referendum. Turned out not to be true. Polls are meant to shift public opinion, not measure it.
If we rejoin the EU it will be a lot more than 760k showing up each year.
Sure, and who answers yougov surveys? Right wingers are more likely to vote leave and less likely to participate in yougov surveys.
Single market is great, but all of the other crap that came with it wasn’t. They are talking about full on federal Europe now, and it has a lot of support. Perhaps that’s an inevitable future but it’s not one I’d like to be a part of. If only it had just been a single market.
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• A majority of Britons support rejoining the European Union’s single market even though that would mean the restoration of the free movement of workers from the bloc, according to a poll published on Wednesday.
• Polls in recent months have shown that a majority of people now think Brexit was now a mistake, and Wednesday’s poll comes less than a week after data showed that annual net migration to the United Kingdom hit a record high last year — more than double the figure recorded in the year before the Brexit vote.
> Majority of Britons support rejoining the EU single market
I should think so.
The thought of leaving the single market was stupid, even to leave supporters,
and so remaining part of the single market was promised to them, from the start.
The fact that this promise turned out to be unworkable, and ultimately a load of bollocks is one for the many reasons no-one likes Brexit now – even those that voted for it.
so 57% of HOW many as over 66m people in this country I doubt all on YouGov so 57% of what 10,000 maybe? if so thats hardly a majority is it
We never even had a referendum on leaving the single market, but they took us out anyway.
Considering how many people who voted to leave openly regret it, are we surprised in the least?
I think all the see you next Tuesdays have kicked the bucket by now
Genuine question: Who fills these surveys out? Never, ever met anyone who has.
Why though? France stayed in the single market and they have actually faired worse than we have. Germany much worse. Also, out exports to the EU are at an all time high despite all the supposed barriers to trade. So what’s the point?
Good to know. My understanding is that if we rejoin the single market we’ll also get back freedom of movement? Eg can retire to the south of France after all
So everyone wins. UK businesses can enjoy frictionless trade. I can move to France. And mouth breathers can continue to be out of the EU (after all Brexit is still Brexit)
Anther poll I’ve not been asked to take part of, I wonder if it’s just rejoiners who are asked to?
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if Britain re-joins the EU in some form within the next decade or so.
Sadly our politicians don’t want to admit they fucked up spectacularly.
Got Brexit done, now we must all move on apparently and one day we might be less poorer for it- not better off, just less poor.
But the daily mail commenters have ensured me it would be undemocratic for younger generations to support something that their dead ancestors voted for
It never even had to happen, even with Brexit. Boris just bodged the thing and brought us to the world scenario possible.
Hopefully we at least rejoin the single market, even if not the EU.
The anti EU/pro Tory minority simpletons turn up in numbers and vote, the majority don’t vote so this isn’t going to change
Majority of Britains always supported free trade with Europe.
52% of Britons wanted to lower migration and that clearly hasn’t happened, the fact that the numbers have never been higher is going to lead to another political explosion some time soon.
Truth is, if a sensible party lowered the numbers of migrants, a large portion of British politics would calm down.
Well, according to yougov 44% want to remain, 40% want to leave and 15% don’t know/won’t vote (brexit poll 2016)
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/15422-eu-referendum-remain-lead-four?redirect_from=%2Fnews%2F2016%2F05%2F18%2Feu-referendum-remain-lead-four%2F
Shows how accurate their polls are really.
If the referendum had been “and if you selected yes for leaving, which model would you like to follow?” with a couple of options, it would’ve gone down in flames immediately. The problem with a referendum is, sometimes, you only ask half of the question and then leave it up to politicians and their politicking to guess the rest.
I imagine a lot of those who voted leave have died off of old age, of covid got them.
Is the EU still really just a single market? Was it ever?
Almost half of us never wanted to leave in the first place, and even those that did vote leave regretted it swiftly considering most of the leave campaign was revealed to be lies within days of them winning.
The Brexiteers knew they would lose if the single market and customs union were discussed during the Brexit vote. That’s why they lied about their intentions
The majority of Britons supported “remain” in all the polls too, except the only one that mattered.
Pretty sure the polls said majority of Britons wanted to stay in the EU before the referendum. Turned out not to be true. Polls are meant to shift public opinion, not measure it.
If we rejoin the EU it will be a lot more than 760k showing up each year.
Sure, and who answers yougov surveys? Right wingers are more likely to vote leave and less likely to participate in yougov surveys.
Single market is great, but all of the other crap that came with it wasn’t. They are talking about full on federal Europe now, and it has a lot of support. Perhaps that’s an inevitable future but it’s not one I’d like to be a part of. If only it had just been a single market.