#619

I’ll have a bit of think about the rest of your comment in a bit.

#620

there is SURELY enough regret to chip away at the tiny majority that the “yes” vote had.

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#622

But also the most over-qualified.

#623

Impressive work xylo - didn’t you only move there a couple of months ago?

#626

Actually, AggPass welcomed me to the boards. I never claimed to be new to them.

#628

I was alerted by the username that you’d be a tired troll but your posting has seemed fine from what I’ve seen, sure you can understand the scepticism though

#629

Thanks. Just here to add to the debate in a (hopefully) positive manner.

#631

Links to one well known member and a couple of others none of whom are dodgy FWIW

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#633

Definitely not my intention to cause any alarm.

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#635

:thinking:

#636

:+1:

#637

But also this, from a week later…

I think that people don’t like the handling of Brexit, but they want it (“it” being their magical fantasy land) nonetheless

#638

Those statistics seem even murkier there’s it seems like a fairly significant number of people stand by their votes in the 2016 referendum although with enough margin of error to lead to a complete change in result (91% Remain 88% Leave)

But I wonder how this squares with only 54% of Leave voters saying that Brexit is a great idea in theory but is being badly implemented. Unless 46% of people actually think that brexit is actually being implemented well…

#639

There’s so many of these polls (that also often get passed about leave and remain groups) that it becomes almost meaningless. Like this from Dec last year

#640

Back to the glory days of the 70’s

#641

I mean, normally they show a slight swing either way, from what I’ve seen. We’d need a drastic change in opinion for people to demand that the government puts an end to it all, so I just ignore these polls

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#642

Unfortunately, I don’t think any major backlash in the general population (unless the press changes it’s tune) will happen until it’s too late. Far too many people think it’s already happened or are confused why more hasn’t changed yet.

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#643

To answer the rest of your query, I suppose one of the things that makes me slightly more optimistic are the results of the last election. Yes the conservatives won, but this was largely done by consolidating a solid vote from people in the late 40s/50+ age group.

Whilst Labour’s language has unfortunately not been has anti-brexit as I would have liked it does point to looking at austerity and economic mismanagement as the source of the country’s ills rather than say lax migration and democratic deficit.

I would agree with the idea that we do have issues with education but I would actually posit that class consciousness is actually rising hence the rising popularity of political models that aim to tackle the inequalities born from class struggles.

#644

plus… you’d have thought the complacency of the non-voters might be nudged in the direction of actually participating were there to be another vote

#645

I’d still be too chicken to have another referendum in case we somehow voted for something stupider.