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Was it the right decision to leave the EU

Pinkorchid

Pinkorchid

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Well we know you can never please all the people all the time and it seems the decision to leave the EU did not please the young people who apparently overwhelmingly voted to stay in and the biggest number who voted to leave were the over 65's. All of us voted for the future generations and what would be best for them but we don't really know what that is.
How many people I wonder between those two age groups did not really know why they voted the way they did but voted just because they thought they should and it was a ...stick a pin in it.. moment.
Some older people who were spoken to were delighted the way it had gone "now we can get back to how Britain used to be before the EU" they said but it is a different world now things will never go back to how they were years ago you can't turn back time much as we would like to sometimes. So do you think it was the right decision to leave
 
Pinkorchid said:
Well we know you can never please all the people all the time and it seems the decision to leave the EU did not please the young people who apparently overwhelmingly voted to stay in and the biggest number who voted to leave were the over 65's. All of us voted for the future generations and what would be best for them but we don't really know what that is.
How many people I wonder between those two age groups did not really know why they voted the way they did but voted just because they thought they should and it was a ...stick a pin in it.. moment.
Some older people who were spoken to were delighted the way it had gone "now we can get back to how Britain used to be before the EU" they said but it is a different world now things will never go back to how they were years ago you can't turn back time much as we would like to sometimes. So do you think it was the right decision to leave
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I'm horrified and heartbroken by the decision. I have 3 children, 2 of whom are old enough to vote and they feel very strongly that they have been let down by an older generation.
 
I am happy with the way the voting went and I, m in my 50,s. What ever way it went, there would always be people that would be unhappy
 
An unqualified no! Aged 58... Living in Remain area of Cambridgeshire.
 
If you are going to jump off a cliff it would be nice to know how far down the ground is. So far any Leave politician who has been asked what their policies are don't seem to have any idea. I keep hearing, "We are going to have to have very calm and frank discussions" but they have not yet said what these discussions are about. I think they don't know.
 
I said I would not vote because I simply did not know what was the right way to go in the end I did vote because my family and everyone said I should...my husband still refused to vote though.. I still do not know why I voted the way I did. I put my cross on the paper then immediately wondered if I should have gone the other way and how many people thought that I wonder
 
I have always been clear that I would vote to remain, both because I believe in the principle of a united Europe and also because I wanted my children to have a prosperous future in the UK. The leave campaign seems to me to have been run principally by trying to trash our membership of the EU, without having any constructive proposals as to what will replace it. Between that and the overtly racist nature of much of their campaigning, I am ashamed to be English today.

Whatever the feelings each of us may have, and no matter how many people are now regretting having voted leave as a protest, or not having voted because they didn't seriously think the referendum would go the way that it has, I guess we have made our bed and we must lie on it - but I fear we are going to find it very uncomfortable.

I am making my own plans, even as we speak.

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I'm not happy or sad about the EU referendum result, it's what's called democracy. I voted in the losing side in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and haven't regretted my vote or been sour about the result. People should have known what was at stake. :)
 
Its all been a bit like the war mongers taking us into the gulf war, looks good on paper but they have no Brexit strategy to follow on as to what we do now, saying keep calm is fine for those whose jobs don't rely on EU funding or EU companies, but for those whose jobs do they are now in a kind of limbo I wouldn't wish on anyone.
The EU countries aren't going to give us 2 years to negotiate anything they want us out now..................
 
eddie1968 said:
I'm not happy or sad about the EU referendum result, it's what's called democracy.
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Agreed.

In answer to your thread title @Pinkorchid, we will know the answer for sure in 5 maybe 10 years time, but I'm quietly optimistic that we can weather any storms that comes our way as a result of the referendum.
 
Pinkorchid said:
Well we know you can never please all the people all the time and it seems the decision to leave the EU did not please the young people who apparently overwhelmingly voted to stay in and the biggest number who voted to leave were the over 65's. All of us voted for the future generations and what would be best for them but we don't really know what that is.
How many people I wonder between those two age groups did not really know why they voted the way they did but voted just because they thought they should and it was a ...stick a pin in it.. moment.
Some older people who were spoken to were delighted the way it had gone "now we can get back to how Britain used to be before the EU" they said but it is a different world now things will never go back to how they were years ago you can't turn back time much as we would like to sometimes. So do you think it was the right decision to leave
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Whilst the majority of youngsters that turned out voted to remain, the actual percentage turn out of youngsters was low. So it seems many of them didn't care enough, one way or the other.
 
I'm 67 and devastated about the Leave vote. All my oldie friends are also depressed. We are European and proud of it.
What I don't appreciate is young people blaming my generation for the actions of a cross-section of the voting public. Things are never that simple, as they'll learn when they are more mature...
 
I am Canadian so did not get to vote. I always believe in unity is strength. A strong united EU is better than a divided broken one. Now Britain is on its own and they asked for it. They will have a long and uncertain future unless someone brilliant can figure out how best to move forward and not take the country down. I wish nothing but the best for the British people and hope they do not regret this move. Who knows what the future holds.


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I am an OAP, well to be strictly accurate I get my State Pension from next week, but I voted to Remain as did ALL the older people I know. I do feel sorry for the younger generation who face many more problems than my generation did.
But it does seem that a lot of young people didn't register to vote, or didn't use their vote.:(
 
What upset me was seeing and hearing people who'd voted Leave saying they'd vote Remain if they're was a second referendum. It was an important decision and I can't believe people didn't do any - or enough - research. So that makes me uneasy about the result.

I'd be interested to know how many people now regret their vote (whatever that may have been).

As for the question of if it was the right decision, no one can see the future, but my instinct says No. I fear that we'll end up in a recession and I'm very worried about that because I have no financial 'cushion' to protect me and my children. I worry about rising prices.

I also fear that we'll end up having to agree to many of the EU rules in order to get their trade. So if we have to agree with Freedom of Movement, which seems to have been a big issue for many voters, then all this division and argument will have been for nothing. We'll be outside the EU but still bound by many of the rules and with a far less good deal than we have now. So it'll be a pretty hollow victory.
 
Although the population has voted to leave the process hasn't been started as the government has to submit an Article 50 notification to the EU. That could be in 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years, and until it's done the uk is still a full member. Once the process is started there is a maximum if 2 years to untangle the complex arrangements, but the longer it takes the more uncertainty there is. We've made our beds, rightly or wrongly and now we and future generations will have to deal with the consequences

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Oh well, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal may all struggle in the future and then we will be well out of it eh? That's me looking on the bright side. :D:bag:
 
zand said:
Oh well, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal may all struggle in the future and then we will be well out of it eh? That's me looking on the bright side. :D:bag:
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To be honest they are struggling now with social unrest in Greece and very high youth unemployment there as well as in the others.. I somehow don't think that the UK will be the last to vote to leave if others are offered the referendum option. It's very interesting how the EU mandarins are already making their threats very public as if to frighten other member states to toe the line. They don't seem to have realised that threats from the unelected galvanise anti-EU feelings.
 
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