YouGov: Few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything | Even Leave voters struggle to point to the benefits
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51500-few-britons-think-brexit-has-been-good-for-anything
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YouGov: Few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything | Even Leave voters struggle to point to the benefits
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51500-few-britons-think-brexit-has-been-good-for-anything
Posted by 1DarkStarryNight
36 Comments
6% of Brits think Brexit brings benefit to our immigration, yet Farage and his lot promised something completely different. Our country just got grifted by the grifter of the century.
Exactly as they were told at the time of the vote….. Stupidity, racism and xenophobia from the little Englanders, dragging the rest of us stuck in the UK down with them.
It’s been an absolute shambles from referendum to the present. It’s done nothing but shackle our country to the ideologies of old boomers and bugger everything up. It’s about time someone just said you know what let’s rejoin forget the pensioners it’s not them that have to live with this mess for much longer. Just re fucking join!
“Even Leave voters struggle to point to the benefits”- that doesn’t stop them from trying to justify this mess.
Simple thing to ask the EU is this. Can we rejoin for 5 years and compare it to the last 5 years? Ha
Remember Farage did this and NEVER give him your vote
That’s only because it wasn’t a proper Brexit (whatever that means) despite BoJo and co getting elected on that sole issue, otherwise the NHS would have its extra billions and everything would be great! There needs to be another referendum about, what are we hating on now, the European Convention on Human Rights, that’ll get rid of those silly EU rules and bring the real magical benefits of Brexit that totally exist! We might even get curvy bananas soon and Farage won’t just find something else to hate on when things don’t magically improve!
It’s harder to convince someone they were fooled than to fool them
The benefit is we fucked the country off a cliff by popular demand, its class
– economy damaged
– trade relations damaged
– Small businesses damaged
– health and safety damaged
– immigration increased
But we have those blue passports
If only there were several glaring signs, economy experts and large ammounts of common sense that pointed to Brexit being a bad idea.
Hell, even just noting who thought it was a *good* idea, should have clued people in on it being a bad idea.
I have been trolling leave voters by saying that Brexit has been great.
We have made it more difficult for white christian europeans to come here, and alot easier for Africans and Asians to come here. Brexit has made this country so much more diverse, and thats a good thing!
Although having a major interest into re-entering, do not expect prices to be lowered again, even if we were to re-enter the EU market…
One of the benefits is it has showed how incompetent politicians are. David Cameron should have made it his life’s work to make it work.
The benefits are the tax avoidance for the wealthy.
Brexit was and still is an utter clusterfuck
the referendum was “advisory” yet treated as legally binding. if it was actually legally binding, it would’ve had to have been re-cast as it would’ve been too close to give a mandate.
the lies of vote leave were utterly reprehensible.
nobody voted on the terms of brexit. everybody, literally EVERYBODY i know who voted for it, did not vote to leave the single market, they all wanted a soft brexit, what we got was the hardest of hard brexits that has done generational economic damage to the country.
vote leave broke campaign spending laws with a massive disinformation campaign and the promise of unicorns – far too many people fell for it and the vote should’ve been annulled and re-run 6 months later, or, this should’ve defaulted the “deal” to a new referendum on the terms of leaving.
the whole process was dogged by dodgy deals, backroom handshakes and lobbied massively by people shorting the pound.
heads should fucking roll for the economic and societal damage it has wreaked. instead, those behind it made massive piles of money while the rest of us suffer the consequences.
i will never forgive Farage and the entire conservative party for making this happen in the way it did. (Farage has been the driving force behind brexit since forever and the tories feared losing more votes to ukip, so David Cameron made an EU ref part of his manifesto and pretty much won on it)
and all the people who think brexit was never done properly, get fucked. you’re idiots.
It was great news if you were from South Asia wanting to find work in the UK, great for European companies that faced stiff competition from the UK, great for Moroccan farmers, as for anyone in the UK…. not so sure.
I’m not even joking, not one person has ever pointed to a single thing that I have perceived as a benefit of Brexit.
Even the very notion of taking certain elements of lawmaking and putting them back into the hands of British politicians made my skin crawl.
Yeah there’s really nothing you can point to at all, an absolutely resounding failure. Unless your goal was just to get out the EU, in which case it’s a huge success I suppose.
Many of us went blue in the face trying to warn our Leave-voting friends and family about the consequences of Brexit.
The amount of “I told you sos” that I’ve dished out since 2020 is staggering.
The country is objectively worse off as a result of Brexit, and I am so thankful to be half-Italian and have a route out of this dump.
Brexit was the biggest introduction of red tape ever in the history of the UK. Happy to be proved wrong in the unlikely event that anyone can disagree.
Oh finally people have just realised they are brain-dead?
I was 19 during the referendum… 19! I was a dumb kid with no knowledge… I still knew that remaining was the only sensible choice.
I said at the time “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” and our relationship with the EU certainly wasn’t broken.
Leaving the biggest free trading agreement between an entire continent (plus peripheral countries) where we called virtually all the shots economically and politically is like the King abdicating his throne and then wondering why the guards no longer listen to him or protect him.
And yet still we’re in a situation like this:
– vote right wing, things get worse
– complain about things getting worse, vote right wing, things get worse
– complain that the government doesn’t care about the working classes, vote right wing to teach them a lesson, things get worse
– get absolutely furious about how bad things are, lash out in fury at the establishment by voting right wing, things get worse
When the solution to right wing politics is always to go harder and harder to the right, you’ve got to question whether the electorate are actually thinking clearly.
“No, we want change! We’re going from the right to the far right! And if that doesn’t work, we’ll go VERY far right!”
“If this bucket of petrol doesn’t put my burning house out, I’ll throw on two buckets of petrol! Take that, ivory tower elites!”
“even leave voters”, any leave voters that were note based purely due to racism, were lied to at every single opportunity. Id guess anyone who voted leave that isn’t clouded by pure racism, wishes they hadn’t in hindsight
It was fuelled by rising hate, the NHS being on its arse and the government breaking promises and running the country like shit. So the so called brexiteers just had to lie their way through it to an already untrusting public. Probably the easiest propaganda campaign ever committed to.
As quoted by Billy Bragg: “Not everyone who voted for Brexit is racist, but I do believe that every racist voted Brexit.”
Still waiting on my “Brexit Dividend”. Anyone get theirs?
Probably got lost in the post, I guess…
The EU is far from perfect, but Brexit was always a con. It was seized on by career politicians to advance their careers. It was never met to actually happen. The country was far more stupid, racist and gullible than even they bargained on. Combine that with a remain campaign which was a combination of late, half-arsed, arrogant and ineffective and we had all the ingredients for a shit show.
Tell that to farage seen it today he wants brexit to be delivered if he becomes pm. For the 17.4 million people who voted for it who a portion is likely deceased by now whole what 40+ million didnt want it?
Farage himself can’t even say when (rarely) asked in TV & Radio interviews.
Brexit was a political power grab move by folks that didn’t even fully truly believe in it.
Yet a good chunk of our uneducated racist population idolises the man who wilfully sold people into it and he now either laughs about it or dodges questions. It is his legacy. Fuck Nigel Farage.
Not voting in brexit is something I regret. I was 18 and didn’t know enough to vote. I wish I had the mentality of if it’s not broken don’t fix it
I’m only semi-serious, but some people just shouldn’t be allowed to vote on certain issues if it’s estimated by every measure to be detrimental to our country.
They cannot name any benefits bc they don’t exist. However a few of them will say that they don’t care because they have sovereignty and other crap that they cannot prove. At least we know the majority backs EU but I don’t think it is a big majority yet. Even in 2016, Leave won with a small difference despite the massive propaganda and lies
It made Boris and Mogg lots of money, that’s all they cared about
The people who voted Brexit *thought* it was a good idea, but the people who actually *ran* Brexit were just robbing us all blind and feathering their own fat-bastard nests