One year on, most voters say Brexit has gone badly

[turbinetree]

An Opinium poll also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how it had turned out

More than six out of 10 voters believe Brexit has either gone badly or worse than they expected – a year after the UK left the EU, according to an anniversary poll for the Observer.

The Opinium survey – coming a week after the minister in charge of Brexit, Lord Frost, resigned from Boris Johnson’s government – also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how Brexit had turned out so far.

26% of Leave supporters said it had gone worse than they expected, while 16% of those who voted for Brexit said they had expected it to go badly and had been proved right.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/25/one-year-on-most-voters-say-brexit-has-gone-badly

They were warned.....

[DFW]

1. Well, since it was a bad idea to begin with.........

That just indicates to me that some voters know it.

[Boomerproud]

2. LOL...

[regnaD kciN]

3. And now it's too late...

Even if Brits (or at least the English and Welsh; the Scottish and Northern Irish were overwhelmingly against it from the start) came to their senses and passed a new referendum calling for the U.K. to rejoin the E.U., each and every one of the twenty-seven member nations of the latter can exercise a veto that would single-handedly kill any petition to rejoin -- and you can bet at least one of them would at any given time.

[Grokenstein]

7. I'd like to think that the EU will take the high road.

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Brexiteers have been/are jackasses, but Britain represents a market that the EU could do without, but would rather not. Maybe they'll be a little spiteful and kill the first petition or two, but that would be just to make sure Brits learn their lesson...

NEVER. VOTE. TORY.

[Takket]

4. committing economic suicide is a bad idea. Who knew!!!!!!!!!!!

[vanlassie]

9. And it's way more than a year in.

The stupid referendum was in 2016. That’s when the slow suicide started. Nothing but a clusterf*ck since.

[Mr. Scorpio]

5. I feel pretty bad for my Brit pals who voted to stay

They’re taking it pretty hard

[Pas-de-Calais]

6. Sounds familiar to another voter nightmare innit?

[moondust]

8. Lord Frost

"a Brexit purist and fanatical deregulator"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/25/brexit-one-year-on-so-hows-it-going

He resigned a week ago, just ahead of the one-year anniversary on New Year's, probably so he could hide out in a cave somewhere and avoid the blame.

I always assumed Brexit was driven by greedy Tories like Farage and Frost who wanted to get filthy rich by getting rid of all those damn EU regulations that kept them in check.

[LoisB]

10. I could have told them that in the beginning.

[Poiuyt]

11. If only they had had some kind of warning

[NCjack]

12. Who would have thunk it?

[budkin]

13. BUT NIGEL FARAGE!

What a character, am I right??

[ancianita]

14. It's called learning the hard way. Which comes with the freedom to be stupid.

[monkeyman1]

15. lot of that going around nowadays ???

[Klaralven]

16. But the EU is probably happy that the Brits are out

Poll shows Anglo-French antipathy on rise amid post-Brexit bickering

Data from YouGov’s EuroTrack survey shows the proportion of French people saying they held an unfavourable view of Britain surged to 42% in November from 33% in August, while the number holding a positive view fell from 53% to 46%.

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Fully half of Spaniards said they had an unfavourable opinion of Britain, sharply up from 38% in August, while Germany showed a more modest increase of 41% to 45%, mirrored by a four-point drop in favourable opinions of the UK to 43%.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/08/poll-shows-anglo-french-antipathy-on-rise-amid-post-brexit-bickering

[malaise]

17. It won't end well for Johnson either