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TOPIC: Brexit is falling apart
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Re:Brexit is falling apart 6 Years, 8 Months ago
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Voting "no" would mean admitting to being wrong.
Brexit voters: Most say economic damage is a price worth paying
"Three out of five people who voted to leave in June 2016 regard "significant damage to the British economy to be a price worth paying" for Brexit, according to a new survey by YouGov."
Majority of older Leave voters say significant economic damage is 'price worth paying', finds YouGov
"71 per cent of over-65s would accept a big economic hit – and half are willing for family members to lose their jobs"
It's not so surprising that Leave voters already in financial difficulty wouldn't care if there was damage to the economy but for anyone sitting pretty with a generous pension or more and still willing to see damage to the economy or even family members lose their jobs is really a bit sick. But perhaps when they answered the poll it was less about accepting economic damage or job losses than interpreting the question as "you were wrong to vote Leave, admit it!" and just digging in their heels. If a second referendum were called they might completely ignore the question and just vote the same way as they did the first time, especially if the right-wing press, Farage, etc. were still banging the drum for Brexit, calling a second referendum an attempt to "overturn democracy", etc.
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Re:Brexit is falling apart 6 Years, 8 Months ago
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Jo wrote:
Voting "no" would mean admitting to being wrong.
Brexit voters: Most say economic damage is a price worth paying
"Three out of five people who voted to leave in June 2016 regard "significant damage to the British economy to be a price worth paying" for Brexit, according to a new survey by YouGov."
Majority of older Leave voters say significant economic damage is 'price worth paying', finds YouGov
"71 per cent of over-65s would accept a big economic hit – and half are willing for family members to lose their jobs"
It's not so surprising that Leave voters already in financial difficulty wouldn't care if there was damage to the economy but for anyone sitting pretty with a generous pension or more and still willing to see damage to the economy or even family members lose their jobs is really a bit sick. But perhaps when they answered the poll it was less about accepting economic damage or job losses than interpreting the question as "you were wrong to vote Leave, admit it!" and just digging in their heels. If a second referendum were called they might completely ignore the question and just vote the same way as they did the first time, especially if the right-wing press, Farage, etc. were still banging the drum for Brexit, calling a second referendum an attempt to "overturn democracy", etc.
Accepting short term damage for long term benefit is perfectly reasonable, but I was expecting a staged plan to minimise the damage rather than a sudden blow.
People wanting brexit doesn't mean they want it at whatever cost.
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Re:Brexit is falling apart 6 Years, 8 Months ago
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Brexit is a 'catastrophe', says David Davis' former chief of staff
"Brexit is a “catastrophe” and “sensible” MPs should form a new party to reverse it, a former adviser to George Osborne and David Davis has said. ...
Previously, he said Theresa May's inflexibility has "hamstrung" the UK's attempts to get a good Brexit deal.
In a separate attack, the former aide also said Andrea Leadsom was the “dimmest bulb” in Theresa May’s Cabinet. ...
...he suggested some newspaper editors had supported leaving the EU as a way of exacting revenge on David Cameron over the Leveson Inquiry into the press."
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