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> Because a large chunk of the "Leave" voters (I don't have percentages, I expect they'll show up soon) are regretting it already. They're the dogs that chased
by wool_gather 10y ago
> Because a large chunk of the "Leave" voters (I don't have percentages, I expect they'll show up soon) are regretting it already. They're the dogs that chased a car and caught it and don't know what to do.
This was the one that really blew my mind when I started hearing about it.
Your vote does not contain the information that it was cast "in protest" of something!* It's not "Yes LOL because fuck the man (j/k)", it's just "Yes", and it still counts as "Yes" the next day.
Please, for Pete's sake, vote honestly!
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*Unless you actually cast a protest vote, i.e., spoiling your ballot.
- conistonwater 10y agoThere really isn't enough to go on to say that there were a lot of such people (beyond, like, "some" idiots). Have they based this on actual polling? It is probably more relevant to note which promises the Leave campaign pushed forward, and which promises are being withdrawn only a few days after the referendum (e.g. this bit from Newsnight by Daniel Hannan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jTRoySFfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jTRoySFfo). Then you could argue that people voted for a different thing that wasn't real. The whole "I didn't think my vote would matter" crowd might turn out to be kind of irrelevant, more like a curiosity.
- wool_gather 10y ago> The whole "I didn't think my vote would matter" crowd might turn out to be kind of irrelevant, more like a curiosity. I sincerely hope so. But like I said above, it's only about 700,000 people to swing the vote to "Remain". A little more than 1% of the population/something like 2% of those that voted.