29 Dec 2018 1:42 PM:
I voted remain purely form a selfish point of view living in Spain and wanting an easy life, but I am disgusted by the comments from other remainers who make disparaging remarks about leavers, assuming they were all idiots, or the vote was not democratic, and I've seem abusive remarks on social media.
Of course there were lies told leading up to the vote, but let's get real people, politicians always lie leading up to elections and we never call for another election or if the vote was close to elect your MP the best you can hope for is a recount just in case.
I was very surprised by the result, as was most of the country but I accepted it was the will of the people, and was willing to wait and see what bilateral agreements would be worked out between Spain and UK with regard to health etc. I was happy that I had fulfilled all my legal obligations here with regard to residency etc.
The other thing that annoys me is the assumption, that now that the electorate know all the facts, (nonsense of course as many are not clever enough or bothered enough), that somehow the outcome will be different in another referendum, but, surprisingly, some polls are showing that if "leave with no deal" was an option, the majority would tick that box.
I'm thoroughly fed up with it and would tick the "leave with no deal" box now. It seems the EU are treating the UK like a naughty child and the deal is weighted heavily in their favour.
The fear campaign in 2016 clearly was a mistake but the lesson hasn't been learnt, so if there is a second referendum, at least try and show the benefits of staying in EU and not the negatives of leaving.
I also believe the referendum was a mistake, and Cameron was quick to disappear afterwards leaving politicians from both parties in a very difficult position, some obviously out of touch with the electorate. I also think that the referendum gave ordinary people the opportunity to stick two fingers up to politicians to show their dissatisfaction with the political classes in general. We can see this happening in other countries as well when politicians ignore the fears or concerns of a huge raft of the electorate.
The British are not good at demonstrating unlike some of our European neighbours and we prefer to moan amongst ourselves so when an opportunity came around to do something anonymously I believe many took it just to show them.
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