Has anyone changed their mind about Brexit?

Filo25

No change for me, still a Remainer largely because I don't believe we can achieve a trade deal with the EU remotely as comprehensive as many on here seem to believe in the current environment.

But team Brexit won and will now get their chance to deliver on their promises and we'll see how that goes, its in all of our interests that they succeed.

Public opinion can be a fickle thing at the margins, and if there is a massive shortfall in what is delivered against what people felt was promised, then the mandate for Brexit from the people could start to slip away, this country is divided enough as it is without going through that again, so I will hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

vivatifosi

I voted remain then and would do so again. However I'm disappointed by the attitudes of some in the EU, not least of which its drunken Luxembourgois head. I felt at the time that we should have given the Cameron deal a crack before leaving and still feel the same. However had that not worked, then at that point we should have left.

I do however understand many of the arguments for Brexit and feel that the landscape since has changed, with the Trump election in the US and the potential changes coming in countries like NL and France.

On a personal note, the fall in the £ against the dollar has cost me at least £600 and probably closer to £1000 in currency transactions in the past year. I spend between a month and six weeks a year in the USA and was there at the time of both the election and the inauguration. They are certainly interesting times there too.

mayonnaise

No, haven't changed my mind.

Not at all.

Thrugelmir

Little point in over analysing. Life itself is a series of choices. Each one determining ones own future.

My hope is that the EU radically reforms. Though unlikely in the foreseeable future. As those at the helm seem intent on their own vision of the EU. With little concern for the general populace. Power breeds contempt.

Sapphire

wymondham wrote: »

My view has changed. At the time I was moderately for it, now I'm definitely for it! Mainly as its becoming clearer what we're leaving...

Yes, me too. I am absolutely horrified about the attitude of the EU – the contempt for democracy, for Britain and for nationhood in general (some countries have rich histories of thousands of years, so obviously their citizens will care much more about sovereignty than those in countries such as Belgium, which as far I've seen has not much interesting about it, and probably less so than it did), and for their insulting manner towards Britain, which has just put people's backs up to a great extent. The EU is causing massive stresses among European countries, and is completely unwilling to change. It is horrible organisation. It has bankrupted several countries already, and spends shedloads of taxpayers' money (our money) on its luxury jaunts (including Drunkard's wine).

Before the migrant crisis, I had no idea that the aim was to take away the sovereignty of European countries without consulting the citizens over such a project, and to impose unelected petty bureaucrats over whom there is no control to rule over those countries. I thought the EU was basically a rather over-bureaucratic trading organisation.

If that ugly Belgian fanatic is to be put in charge of negotiating with the British, I doubt anyone will get far with him.

I want us to be out of this 'club', as they call it, as soon as possible – exit from a club is not normally difficult. I want us to have control of immigration and our own laws. Given the way the EU has been exposed, why any Brit would want to stay in the sinking ship is beyond me (the affluent who have vested interests in it don't care, of course).

wotsthat

If the UK is so brilliant then why, after 40 odd years of UK membership, do people point out how crap the EU is?

What the hell have we been doing for that time in the EU?

Not sufficiently engaged would be my view. You reap what you sow.

Sapphire

wotsthat wrote: »

Not sufficiently engaged would be my view. You reap what you sow.

Perhaps that's because there has been never been any enthusiasm about the EU in Britain's population, and no desire to be a part of some European superstate (that is turning into a dictatorial empire)?

The flaws, corruption and lack of democracy for citizens of European countries made to join the EU 'club', with absolutely no say, have become all the more visible as they have been exposed in the recent year or so.

Citizens of other countries would dearly love to leave the EU, but those countries have unfortunately become trapped (dependent on Germany economically or bankrupted by it), so this will be difficult for them to do – it will happen, though, eventually, I fear with more trouble to come. There are nations in Europe to which sovereignty is much more important than anything else (ancient nations with long and rich histories and traditions, which know what it is like to lose their freedom).

mayonnaise

Sapphire wrote: »

Citizens of other countries would dearly love to leave the EU

No they wouldn't. Stop spreading fake news.



(September '16)

mystic_trev

wotsthat wrote: »

Not sufficiently engaged would be my view. You reap what you sow.

Try telling that to the Greeks!

Sapphire wrote: »

Citizens of other countries would dearly love to leave the EU, but those countries have unfortunately become trapped (dependent on Germany economically or bankrupted by it), so this will be difficult for them to do – it will happen, though, eventually, I fear with more trouble to come. There are nations in Europe to which sovereignty is much more important than anything else (ancient nations with long and rich histories and traditions, which know what it is like to lose their freedom).

Ditto!

prosaver

mayonnaise wrote: »

No they wouldn't. Stop spreading fake news.



(September '16)

Polls have alays been wrong.. that doesn't mean anything