Poll reveals 7% of Brexit Leave voters regret decision

UK: A poll has found out that more than half a million Britons (representing 7% of voters) are now admitting that they regret voting for the UK to leave the WU in last week's referendum as many claim they never wished to leave but simply wanted to protest.

Many of the voters now believe Britain's position in the world (51 percent) and economy (54 percent) have become worse following the vote.

According to the Opinium research, 7% voters for Leave now regret their decision with the political system thrown into crisis and Chancellor George Osborne declaring an economic shock.

Less than a week after the result was announced the effect of Brexit is already been felt as more than a fifth (21 per cent) of Britons are feeling a downturn in their personal finances.

78 year old Barbara Ansdale, who had voted for leave, said;

she “wasn’t really voting to get out of the union”.

“I based it on a false premise really.
“I wasn’t really voting to get out of the union, it was really like a protest because many, many years ago I voted one way and things turned out to the another and I decided there and then that I wasn’t going to let that happen again.”

Ansdale said that she was “shocked” by the result of the referendum, adding that she started regretting her decision as soon as she heard the final decision.

“The way it’s been spelled out to me it’s going to affect a lot of young people who will go abroad to study and this £350m isn’t going to stretch very far is it,” she said, adding that she hoped there was a possibility of a second referendum.

Another supporter of the Leave, Mike Whittle in a letter to the editor of The Times, said he regretted his decision and had voted leave as a protest.
He said:

“Sir, I admit to and regret voting Leave; I suspect many others feel the same. Why? Mine was a protest vote in solidarity with so many in forgotten rural and blighted industrial England, disenfranchised by both a Londoncentric and European political system that offers little to the unemployed and working poor.
“I believe the protest vote was so strong that it swung the outcome.
He said that he felt neither Jeremy Corbyn or David Cameron represented the “working poor and long-term unemployed”.

He added:

“To those like myself who voted Leave as a protest, we made a big mistake, but at least we weren’t too lazy to turn out and vote. We must now accept the verdict and make the most of whatever comes next. I have made money out of this result by having money in an overseas account, but I would gladly lose this tomorrow to change this bad result.”

Other voters who regretted their decision to vote for Brexit also chose language barriers as one of their reasons to vote for leave.