In hindsight just 35% now think it was right to Leave the EU

Hindsight is a wonderful thing as they say. It's done now though, as is the damage, so anything done to undo it is not going to retrieve all the advantages we had as part of the EU.
If the end result of the changing opinion on Brexit is that we see the end to this decades long Tory ideological destruction of the country then it might be considered a price worth paying.
 
Not many of us change our minds easily, once they are made up.

We will usually spend time testing the idea we might have been wrong, with a view to demolishing such a notion. So it generally takes time, we change our position gradually and then we misremember just how certain we were in the first place, qualifying our decision a lot. It's part of the process of dealing with cognitive dissonance.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Still see the stalwarts on Facebook and Twitter that think Boris unjustly ousted and brexit had given us back our freedom, mapping up all this fastest vaccine rollout, strongest economy rubbish
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It's depressing isn't it how blatant lies can be repeated enough to fool some people
 
To break the figures down

Of those who voted Leave in the 2016 referendum:

15% now think it was wrong to Leave, 10% now don't know. (Just?) 75% still think it was right.

6% of Remain Voters now think it was right to leave and 4% don't know.


Of those who voted Tory in the 2019 GE:

71% think it was right, 22% think it was wrong, 7% don't know.

Of those who still intend to vote Conservative:

75% think it was right, 19% think it was wrong and 6% don't know.


I wonder if that means 3-4% have been put off voting Tory because of Brexit now?


The over 65's are still 59% think it was right to leave, 37% wrong.

In 2016 it was 61:39 of those who voted, so not much change in that demographic, which is almost 1/4 of the voting population and they have an 80% turnout. The over 65's constitute 30% of the voting public.

It is unlikely that the EU will welcome the UK back with open arms until there is a consistent period of polling that shows significant support for EU membership, so, unless there are some very cold winters and the energy crisis is prolonged, it would seem like it needs a good 10 years before rejoin is on the table, on the basis the gap needs another 5 years to widen more and then 5 years to show we aren't going to change our minds like a flighty teenager.

Starmer's approach is pragmatic. Say we aren't rejoining, since it's not going to happen for a while anyway, while all time put everything in place to make it possible with the added benefit of mitigating the damage.
 
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B_G said:
There was probably only 35% who actually wanted Brexit in the first place, however they passionately turned up to the ballot while the 65% sat at home thinking they didn't need to bother
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Probably a fair assumption, 35%.

There were 46.5m eligible to vote, of which 17.4m voted Leave, which is 37% of those who could vote. We do know a lot voted Leave not because they felt we should, but because they didn't think Leave could win but wanted to lodge a protest vote against the Cameron Government.
 
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B_G said:
There was probably only 35% who actually wanted Brexit in the first place, however they passionately turned up to the ballot while the 65% sat at home thinking they didn't need to bother
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Another way to interpret it is, that a significant number of that 35% felt they were 'sticking it to the elites' by turning up for the first time in their lives to vote in support of a UK elitist policy, PR funded by elitists, and designed to shift capital to a small number of wealth funds managing elitists investments.
 
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