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Are there really a significant number of regretful Leave voters? This trope seems to have been uncritically adopted by Remain supporters.

by _rpd 10y ago

monk_e_boy 10y ago
There were a few interviewed on the BBC the morning of the result. So I think that inflated the perception that there are millions of them.
- Normal_gaussian 10y ago
  Getting interviewees to say what you want them to - easier than you think. Getting interviewees to say only what you want them to - basically impossible.
ScottBurson 10y ago
Hard to know for sure, but there's this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24...
pessimizer 10y ago
Who knows? It's establishment propaganda built on mined quotes from vox pop interviews. Remain supporters are parroting everything uncritically that paints people who voted opposite them as morons.
objclxt 10y ago
Anecdotal as it is, I will say this: I saw a number of Facebook posts prior to the election from millennials who said they were voting leave and when challenged replied "well, remain is going to win anyway". I do think this was the belief held by a sizable number of people voting - they didn't think the vote had any real chance of succeeding, and used it as a protest vote against the current government. And on the other end of the spectrum, you could imagine somebody in their 60s or 70s whose retirement was heavily invested in "safe" stocks waking up the day after the vote and finding their pension down 20% feeling a little sore.
dbcooper 10y ago
Probably not. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/746820394217259008?s=09 https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/746820394217259008?... >Vote split // On the #EUref result (Remain / Leave): Happy: 4% / 92% Unhappy: 88% / 1% Indifferent: 7% / 5% (via ComRes)
- _rpd 10y ago
  Thank you.

Are there really a significant number of regretful Leave voters? This trope seems to have been uncritically adopted by Remain supporters.

by _rpd 10y ago

Are there really a significant number of regretful Leave voters? This trope seems to have been uncritically adopted by Remain supporters.

monk_e_boy 10y ago

There were a few interviewed on the BBC the morning of the result. So I think that inflated the perception that there are millions of them.

Normal_gaussian 10y ago
Getting interviewees to say what you want them to - easier than you think. Getting interviewees to say only what you want them to - basically impossible.

ScottBurson 10y ago

Hard to know for sure, but there's this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24...

pessimizer 10y ago

Who knows? It's establishment propaganda built on mined quotes from vox pop interviews. Remain supporters are parroting everything uncritically that paints people who voted opposite them as morons.

objclxt 10y ago

Anecdotal as it is, I will say this: I saw a number of Facebook posts prior to the election from millennials who said they were voting leave and when challenged replied "well, remain is going to win anyway". I do think this was the belief held by a sizable number of people voting - they didn't think the vote had any real chance of succeeding, and used it as a protest vote against the current government. And on the other end of the spectrum, you could imagine somebody in their 60s or 70s whose retirement was heavily invested in "safe" stocks waking up the day after the vote and finding their pension down 20% feeling a little sore.

dbcooper 10y ago

Probably not. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/746820394217259008?s=09 https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/746820394217259008?... >Vote split // On the #EUref result (Remain / Leave): Happy: 4% / 92% Unhappy: 88% / 1% Indifferent: 7% / 5% (via ComRes)

_rpd 10y ago
Thank you.