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Mike Galsworthy 🦣🔥 Oof! HUGE poll from YouGov 🔥
“In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?”
Right to Leave: 32%
Wrong to Leave: 56%
Largest ever gap (+24)… and that gap has been opening wider & wider over this year.
Hyacinth Smith@mikegalsworthy The 32% make me wonder and not in a good way.
Diana Payne@mikegalsworthy
I'm on the #YouGov panel. I get invited to complete surveys from time to time, but not always. It's interesting to see the results, if and when they are published accessibly.
I'm on the #YouGov panel. I get invited to complete surveys from time to time, but not always. It's interesting to see the results, if and when they are published accessibly.
Rob WoodAt the risk of seeing the negative in everything, it's staggering that only just over 50% of the population sees what an absolute cluster**** Brexit is.
One in three people still think Brexit was a good idea. One in three! Reckon we're a long, long way from having a hassle-free return even to the SM or CU.
Inge@mikegalsworthy this is so encouraging, momentum going in the right direction!
db_1960@mikegalsworthy Too bloody late
Flaming June@mikegalsworthy @theMoor The question was “In hindsight …”
John Chapman@mikegalsworthy It's apparent that the Bank of England thinks Brexit caused more harm than good too https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/autumn-budget-2022-statement-jeremy-hunt-b2226504.html#:~:text=1%20hour%20ago-,BoE%20maintains%20its%20forecast%20of%20damage%20Brexit%20will%20do%20to%20UK%20economy,-The%20Bank%20of
Daren Chandisingh 🌱🚴@mikegalsworthy It's all a bit late now though, isn't it? The damage is done, and none of the main parties are talking about rejoining. Even if we do, it'll be a long time before we recover
@mikegalsworthy The evidence is a tad overwhelming that this was a "disaster"... I believe in understatements
Mike Taylor 🦕@mikegalsworthy The significance of this should not be underestimated. Many people who voted Leave become wedded to the idea as part of their identity. The worse things got as a result of Brexit, the more emotionally dug in they became. Ignoring the Don't Knows, 64% of those polled now say it was a mistake, compared with 48% who voted Remain. So 16 of the 52 percent who voted leave seem to have gone across -- almost a third.
Rationality is starting to bite.
Dave Hounslow@mikegalsworthy with numbers like this, I can't see why Starmer keeps doubling down on hard brexit.
Surely a more conciliatory tone along the lines of, "we can see brexit was a mistake, but we have little choice in the short to medium term to make the best of what we have and work for closer ties" could be popular.
Rather than the no SM, no CU, no freedom of movement hard line he offers at seemingly every opportunity.
Hope 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴 SNP@mikegalsworthy Official Tory government response to overwhelming Brexit poll 🙈🙉🙊
Georgie Watson@mikegalsworthy tempted to think that on the pre-EU side we need a number of polls showing these sorts of figures
Pilar Gomez@mikegalsworthy this is good news and as time goes on this will only go one way 👏🏻
Elizabeth@mikegalsworthy Normally I miss the deadline for the #YouGov surveys, but I managed to vote in this one. One can only imagine what the results will show next spring, after we endure a tough winter. If people are presently in denial, more minds will be changed 4-6 months from now.
Ken Matheson@mikegalsworthy And I bet that some of the 32% just won’t admit it.
annekekassteele 🥂@mikegalsworthy finally...it looks as if the people in the UK are wakening up
@mikegalsworthy Take out the Don’t knows and that’s 63-37 in favour of “Wrong to Leave”. Where is Keir Starmer when you need him?
William 🌱@mikegalsworthy Warra surprise
@mikegalsworthy boggles the mind that more than 30% still believe Brexit was a good thing (or more likely won’t admit to themselves it was a bad thing) after all the carnage.
Jamie Ward-Smith@mikegalsworthy Is this all voters? Do we know how many Brexit voters now think we were wrong to leave?
@mikegalsworthy Foubd it. ‘One in five people (19%) of Brexit voters now say they think it was the wrong decision. Nine in ten Remainers still believe Brexit was the wrong path for the country to take, after the 2016 vote.’
Morten Bay@mikegalsworthy More evidence that in the year 2016, some kind of brain virus causing mass psychosis infected people in large Anglophone nations in the Northern hemisphere.
Maybe COVID was actually nature's way of getting rid of that virus...
@mikegalsworthy Huge indeed. But the politicians aren''t listening ... yet.
Even the LibDems are quiet on this. with everything else going on, shouldn't we be doing what we can to ease it thro better relations with EU - eg on phyto-sanitary arrangements etc? And deal with more fundamental look later? (after all - if we were to renegotiate entry, it would likely be on significantly poorer terms than we had before!)
Even the LibDems are quiet on this. with everything else going on, shouldn't we be doing what we can to ease it thro better relations with EU - eg on phyto-sanitary arrangements etc? And deal with more fundamental look later? (after all - if we were to renegotiate entry, it would likely be on significantly poorer terms than we had before!)
@mikegalsworthy that's because brexit was sold on a lie and there are no benefits for anyone.
@mikegalsworthy This is expected, but what can we do with this information? Is a rejoin campaign worth pursuing or should we focus on getting back in the single market? Can we do anything with the Tories still in power?
Aeuropean@mikegalsworthy wait til next april!
Thomas Austin@mikegalsworthy
- MPs ALONE voted the UK out of the EU.
- There NEVER was a popular call for the UK to leave the EU.
NOBODY cast their vote in 2016.
Hoylake_trucker@mikegalsworthy thing is as much as I sympathise with you re Brexit, I don't think we (GB) will be rejoining anytime soon 😢
Simply because I don't think,
a) the British public are ready to give up the £ in particular, but also the other requirements by the EU to join the EU ..
b) I also suspect that there will be dissent from more than one EU country to our rejoining, particularly some e/euro countries who'll fear losing their workforce again to the UK, and France for political reasons.
MaggieRawlings@mikegalsworthy Have you seen the GBN poll - Daubney's face is an absolute picture