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> a large chunk of them have pretty much not agreed Yes, but a far larger chunk has. Every country gets the leaders it deserves and the UK is no exception.

modo_mario 6y ago
Tbh simply based on the amount of elderly voters that died since it's likely that majority is gone by now. At least so I've read in some article months ago. All things considered it was relatively close so not exactly a far larger chunk. I don't have any spite towards the British people but I do hope that the EU will act in EU interest which means facilitating the return of financial services that shifted towards London since they joined and not letting the UK and whatever the borderdeal ends up as serve as a loop to ignore single market regulations.
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  From 2018: "there are some demographic trends that will influence opinion in future. These changes will tend to pull British public opinion in a pro-European direction, and should be sufficient to produce a majority of 52%-48% for ‘Remain’ in 2021" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/05/01/demographic-trends-will-pull-british-public-opinion-in-a-pro-european-direction/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/05/01/demographic-trends...
- blibble 6y ago
  Leave would likely win by a bigger majority if the referendum was repeated today, because the UK didn't collapse on leaving also add the EU's disastrous vaccine procurement scheme, combined with its attempt to obscure its total incompetence with petulant nationalistic flailing
user-the-name 6y ago
Not really. 37% of the electorate at the time voted for Brexit. The rest have not really "agreed" to it. Also, since then, many people have come of age who did not get to vote in the election.
- Chris2048 6y ago
  I didn't get to vote in the original election to join the EU, so can we re-run that one too?

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> a large chunk of them have pretty much not agreed Yes, but a far larger chunk has. Every country gets the leaders it deserves and the UK is no exception.

by krageon 6y ago

modo_mario 6y ago
Tbh simply based on the amount of elderly voters that died since it's likely that majority is gone by now. At least so I've read in some article months ago. All things considered it was relatively close so not exactly a far larger chunk. I don't have any spite towards the British people but I do hope that the EU will act in EU interest which means facilitating the return of financial services that shifted towards London since they joined and not letting the UK and whatever the borderdeal ends up as serve as a loop to ignore single market regulations.
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  From 2018: "there are some demographic trends that will influence opinion in future. These changes will tend to pull British public opinion in a pro-European direction, and should be sufficient to produce a majority of 52%-48% for ‘Remain’ in 2021" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/05/01/demographic-trends-will-pull-british-public-opinion-in-a-pro-european-direction/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/05/01/demographic-trends...
- blibble 6y ago
  Leave would likely win by a bigger majority if the referendum was repeated today, because the UK didn't collapse on leaving also add the EU's disastrous vaccine procurement scheme, combined with its attempt to obscure its total incompetence with petulant nationalistic flailing
user-the-name 6y ago
Not really. 37% of the electorate at the time voted for Brexit. The rest have not really "agreed" to it. Also, since then, many people have come of age who did not get to vote in the election.
- Chris2048 6y ago
  I didn't get to vote in the original election to join the EU, so can we re-run that one too?