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A decade on, 57% of Britons believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU

Right to vote to leave: 30%
Wrong to vote to leave: 57%
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum

It's polling nostalgia for an imagined yesterday, and contemporary disappointment.

The 55% for rejoin the EU collapses to just 35% though if it required joining the euro and Schengen and losing our previous opt outs

I know. And, even before getting to that, people don't want to give up sovereignty to the ECJ, or join the single market or customs union, or restore full free movement.

It's not testing the real fundamentals, and they are not good for Rejoin.

Interesting that the Tory vote is pretty evenly split between Rejoin and Stay Out.

My prediction that it will be the Tories reverting to their pro-EU position of pre 2016 that will take us back in.

A decade on, 57% of Britons believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU

Right to vote to leave: 30%
Wrong to vote to leave: 57%
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum

Before we get to a Join conversation, what does this do for our local politics? The fact of having left is unpopular, and neither "you're wrong, the Brexit water is lovely" nor "it may be dismal, but reversing it will be worse" feel like statements that will endear Parties of Leave to the general public.

The More In Common map of Brexit opinion is interesting as well;

https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/research/brexit-10-years-on/

The "only eleven constituencies would vote Leave" finding is a bit showy- lots of narrow outs flipping to narrow ins. But look at the list:

South Basildon and East Thurrock
Dagenham and Rainham
Castle Point
South Holland and The Deepings
Romford
Hornchurch and Upminster
Dudley
Bexleyheath and Crayford
Aldridge-Brownhills
Boston and Skegness
Rayleigh and Wickford

Three of them are in the London Borough of Havering, another three are in South Essex. We're not talking abandoned Red Wall, or Channel coast places overrun with small boats. Whatever the problems these areas have (and yes, life's not perfectly peachy), it's not totally obvious what they are, let alone why Brexit helps.

Nowhere north of Walsall.

It's one of the central mysteries of Reform and its supporters. Everyone looks for them in decaying Northern towns. And yes, they have voters there, there are understandable reasons why, and people in those places have genuine problems that genuinely need solving.

But the easiest place to find Reformers- because it's where most of them are, frankly- is second-tier Home Counties.

In the "decaying Northern towns" it is the relatively well off that vote Reform. Male Gen X and boomer homeowners rather than those who are skint.

In all three of Caerphilly, Gorton and Denton and Makerfield the key was getting the vote out. I am sure team Burnham noticed that.

A decade on, 57% of Britons believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU

Right to vote to leave: 30%
Wrong to vote to leave: 57%
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum

It's polling nostalgia for an imagined yesterday, and contemporary disappointment.

The 55% for rejoin the EU collapses to just 35% though if it required joining the euro and Schengen and losing our previous opt outs

I know. And, even before getting to that, people don't want to give up sovereignty to the ECJ, or join the single market or customs union, or restore full free movement.

It's not testing the real fundamentals, and they are not good for Rejoin.

Since when do the specifics matter? People voted for Brexit in 2016 with no real sense of what they’d actually get, the same would be the case in another referendum.

Er, no. The terms of Rejoin would be very clear, and totally on the table.

Nah, we’d hold all the cards so would be able to achieve a brilliant settlement.

https://x.com/camillahmturner/status/2069447965853249989

Lord Glasman, the Labour peer and founder of the influential Blue Labour group, said he is supporting Al Carns to be the next PM.

"He's a soldier, he understands defence and he understands the next war," Lord Glasman told the Telegraph.

Al_Carns has about as much chance of getting the MP nominations and defeating Burnham with the members as his near namesake, Northern_Al.

I dunno. I'd vote for you as Prime Minister even though I'd have some reservations about your line on the DfE.

Cheers mate. I hereby offer to recuse myself from any DfE or associated education decisions. In fact, I may even abolish the DfE, just for you.

How do you feel about abolishing VAT on cat food?

Absolutely not. But dog food, yes, as there are two in my household, both belonging to my better half.

"You keep dog food in your fridge???"

Mr Dog’s food is mostly in the freezer. He has so much in there that sometimes I struggle to fit in my own Waitrose frozen herbs and the odd pizza or two. If I want to splash out on something like handmade frozen Bradford curries (a shout out to Chef Akila) I have to very carefully choreograph the delivery date in relation to his food delivery dates and then live on curries for the fortnight thereafter, with complete disregard to the gastrointestinal consequences.

They do sell chilled dog food now. I don't know any brand names (not having a dog) but it's there (at least in Sainsbury's).

Freshpet ad had the lady saying "You keep dog food in your fridge???":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp0KBkum8Ug

A decade on, 57% of Britons believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU

Right to vote to leave: 30%
Wrong to vote to leave: 57%
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum

It's polling nostalgia for an imagined yesterday, and contemporary disappointment.

Bullshit! Apart from a few on here I've hardly met anyone in the last ten years who didn't think it a disaster. I got so pissed off listening to the various programmes on it that I took myself off to France.

If anyone has any doubt just go and wonder why all the young bar staff are having such a great time and learning languages and wonder why there are no young English boys and girls.

...........and how they must hate all their old fogie grandparents who denied all this to them