Brexit: Do you #Regrexit? UK voters voice doubt over referendum choice

[tay]

too slow......

 

[Mowich]

 

[EagleSmack]

 

[B00Mer]

U.S. stocks down 2 percent as Brexit drags through global markets

Well Glad the UK voted with their hearts, and not their brains.. being the biggest Google EU search after the vote was "What is the EU"

The Markets and Investors sure don't trust the UK decision, tanking UK markets and many peoples retirement funds.. :lol:

 

[Blackleaf]

He is. He stated that should Britain vote to exit, he would invoke Article 50 or whatever it's called, immediately. His stepping down as PM indicates that he had no intention of invoking Article 50. Instead, he'd rather someone else take the "risk" because nobody really knows for sure what the full effects will be when it does get invoked.
However, delaying things will only make matters worse until such time as Article 50 in invoked. It still leaves a lot of uncertainty as to what is going to happen with the markets as a result. Especially now that a national election will have to be called, which always makes the market fluctuate if there's a change in leadership.
My wife just made an interesting observation about the delay. The longer the delay, the longer the uncertainty of the markets which means more potential economic instability for Britain. The Remain side can then claim that the economic woes are all the fault of those who voted to exit the EU and use it a excuse to hold a second referendum before Article 50 can be invoked.

Well some say it'll be better for Britain if it delays activating Article 50 for a little while.

Once Article 50 is triggered there's no turning back. The moment it's triggered there will be a two-year clock counting down, during which time Britain and the other 27 EU member states have to agree deals regarding trade and whatnot. Britain will leave as soon as that clock runs out, regardless of whether it has got what it wants or not. So I think it's better to wait until the new Prime Minister comes along and he sets up a new Brexit Cabinet and then let him trigger Article 50. The government needs to get itself sorted out before triggering it.

Well Glad the UK voted with their hearts, and not their brains.. being the biggest Google EU search after the vote was "What is the EU"
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How do you know those searches were done by people who voted in the referendum and not by many of the 12,947,554 people who didn't even bother to vote in the referendum?

[SIZE="6"][B]Were Brits really Googling ‘What is the EU?’ after voting to leave? [/B][/SIZE]

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In the hours after the UK voted to leave the European Union reports that Britons were rapidly Googling "What is the EU?" sparked outrage across the internet.

The news of the spike in searches fuelled claims the electorate had rashly decided to terminate its membership of the Union. But it appears that the number of people actually searching "What is the EU?" was minimal.

"It’s giving plenty of people cover to insult the entire country, when it’s likely just a few people searching for something in a way that they always search for something," said Medium user Danny Page.

Google Trends data isn't actually representative of the number of total searches for a term, but a proportion of all searches at a given time. The company highlights spikes in searches based on what else is being Googled at a given moment in a geographical area.

So in the early hours of Friday morning searches for "What is the EU" briefly spiked compared to what else was being asked. To put it in context, the search only outstripped that for "weather forecast" between 01:30 and 04:30 in the morning, but by 05:00 that had changed.

Data from AdWords, which offers more specific numbers for search terms, shows that the 250 per cent increase in searches actually correlated to about 1,000 people asking the question.

In the month before the referendum "What is the EU" was searched an average of 261 times a day in Britain, according to Google AdWords. That means if searches increased by 250 per cent, as Google announced on Friday, there were still fewer than 1,000 or so people typing the question into the search engine.

Although the Google Trends data may have included other variations of the term, such as "What is the European Union?", it is likely that it was still a tiny proportion of the country. [/I][/B]


[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/27/were-brits-really-googling-what-is-the-eu-after-voting-to-leave/]Were Brits really Googling ‘What is the EU?’ after voting to leave?[/url]

 

[mentalfloss]

Yes they really were.

This is why you need to properly educate the public on a subject before holding a referendum.


It's a perfect example of why referendums need to be tightly focused with government preparation for any possible fallout.


After this, there is absolutely no way we should be holding a referendum on electoral reform in Canada without public education first.

 

[EagleSmack]

The bitterness is so enjoyable!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Yes they really were.

This is why you need to properly educate the public on a subject before holding a referendum.


It's a perfect example of why referendums need to be tightly focused with government preparation for any possible fallout.


After this, there is absolutely no way we should be holding a referendum on electoral reform in Canada without public education first.

Yes, look what happened last election when the uneducated voted.

 

[JLM]

Yes they really were.

This is why you need to properly educate the public on a subject before holding a referendum.

How, Sir, would you propose to educate the public on a controversial subject?

Yes, look what happened last election when the uneducated voted.

Well, it's only about 31/2 years until we find out if they learned anything from that!

 

[Mowich]

This is why you need to properly educate the public on a subject before holding a referendum.

:lol::lol::lol:

I'm sorry but I read that line, MF and it just broke me right up. There was no lack of information about what would/could/might happen should the Brits choose to leave.

Just as there will be when Canada holds a referendum on how we will vote in a Federal election. Trouble is, if people don't want to listen and learn there isn't a darn thing you or anyone else can do about it. It is up to the individual to properly inform themselves on the issues.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

How, Sir, would you propose to educate the public on a controversial subject?

MF's idea on education is propaganda for whichever side he is on. If people vote against his position, they are uneducated. For all we know the people who voted to remain are now googling what is the EU?

 

[Cliffy]

Yes, look what happened last election when the uneducated voted.

You think dumping a fascist PM was an uneducated thing? More people showed up to vote because they were educated enough to know they had to get rid of Harpo. You be like sour grapes, dude.

MF's idea on education is propaganda for whichever side he is on. If people vote against his position, they are uneducated.

That is pretty funny after your last statement.

 

[JLM]

You think dumping a fascist PM was an uneducated thing? More people showed up to vote because they were educated enough to know they had to get rid of Harpo. You be like sour grapes, dude.

Ooooooooooooooh, Cliffy..........................I'm pretty sure we leaped from the frying pan into the fire!

MF's idea on education is propaganda for whichever side he is on. If people vote against his position, they are uneducated. For all we know the people who voted to remain are now googling what is the EU?

Yep, maybe he falls into the same category as a couple of others on here who I've requested politely for them to send me the correct opinions!

:lol::lol::lol:

I'm sorry but I read that line, MF and it just broke me right up. There was no lack of information about what would/could/might happen should the Brits choose to leave.

Just as there will be when Canada holds a referendum on how we will vote in a Federal election. Trouble is, if people don't want to listen and learn there isn't a darn thing you or anyone else can do about it. It is up to the individual to properly inform themselves on the issues.

Or as quite often succinctly put..................."If it ain't broke don't "fix" it".

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

You think dumping a fascist PM was an uneducated thing? More people showed up to vote because they were educated enough to know they had to get rid of Harpo.

Electing the pot king was done by a bunch of druggies who wanted legal weed. Nothing more.

You be like sour grapes, dude.

Like the many years of sour grapes you had before?

 

[Danbones]

How, Sir, would you propose to educate the public on a controversial subject?

brainwashing
and bribes

 

[Mowich]

Ooooooooooooooh, Cliffy..........................I'm pretty sure we leaped from the frying pan into the fire!




Yep, maybe he falls into the same category as a couple of others on here who I've requested politely for them to send me the correct opinions!




Or as quite often succinctly put..................."If it ain't broke don't "fix" it".

I was thinking more along the lines of..........'you can lead a horse to water......':smile:

 

[B00Mer]

S&P cuts United Kingdom sovereign credit rating to 'AA' from 'AAA'

OUCH

 

[EagleSmack]

 

[pgs]

Yes they really were.

This is why you need to properly educate the public on a subject before holding a referendum.


It's a perfect example of why referendums need to be tightly focused with government preparation for any possible fallout.


After this, there is absolutely no way we should be holding a referendum on electoral reform in Canada without public education first.

So you are in favor of a political union with America ?

You think dumping a fascist PM was an uneducated thing? More people showed up to vote because they were educated enough to know they had to get rid of Harpo. You be like sour grapes, dude.


That is pretty funny after your last statement.

Did Harpo the Facist change the voting system to favor his party without consulting the people ?
Did that pig facist little man do anything to change gay rights or abortion ?
Is the CBC still operating dispite the efforts of that dirty rotten stinking dictator ?

How did that secret agenda play out ?

P.S.
Have the liberals ( that are presently proposing to change the way our country votes , without consent of the people ) acted on legalising mary jane yet ?

 

[Blackleaf]

I think it's quite funny how the British media are desperately trying to portray many of the 17,410,742 people (I remember the number now off by heart) who voted for independence from the EU as having "regretted" their decision. It's sheer desperation from them, trying to portray many Brexiters as not really wanting to leave the EU and who only voted to do as merely a protest vote but not expecting to win, or portraying them as somehow stupid and that they voted to leave the EU but they didn't really know what they were doing.

I think it was on Saturday that Sky News was urging anyone who regretted voting Leave to contact them. They probably assumed that their phonelines would be jammed with hundreds of Leave voters saying how much the regret voting they way they did. Instead, almost everyone who phoned in took the opposite view, saying they voted Leave and DON'T regret doing so, that they think Britain is going to be far better off outside the EU. The female newsreader ended up saying something like "Come on! There must be more people out there who regret voting for Brexit!" It was hilarious. They could hardly find anyone who regretted voting for Brexit.