Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge

Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.

The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has benefited them or the country.

Just one in 10 believe leaving the EU has helped their personal financial situation, against 35% who say it has been bad for their finances, while just 9% say it has been good for the NHS, against 47% who say it has had a negative effect.

  • @anlumoEnglish
    28•9 months ago

    No, the referendum was non-binding, it was passed by executive action.

    • @[email protected]English
      -5•9 months ago

      David Cameron, who was against it, and therefore the will of the people, resigned because of this referendum.

      It would not be good to pass a referendum and then have its result ignored by executives. What would have been a better outcome? Exercise democracy and then ignore the results??

      I’ll say it again. If the people of the UK want change they should do another referendum, see if it passes, and if it does: apply to join.

      • @PrinceWith999EnemiesEnglish
        11•9 months ago

        Yes, it would have been better to take the results of the non-binding referendum, create a study group that would have had sufficient time to prepare an actual exit plan with multiple options, forecasted results for each, and then make a decision whether to exit or not based on the study.

        There’s nothing inherently good about putting up something for a vote and proceeding blindly on it, and to put something so fundamental and world changing up for a simple majority vote while swimming in disinformation and ignorance was beyond stupid.

        • @nogooduserEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          I think that the key part is that the government tried to come up with a Brexit plan on their own but couldn’t. They even started negotiating with the EU before they knew what they wanted and could get passed Parliament.

          They wasted the best part of a year coming up with a single plan only to get it shot down because it didn’t match what most MPs wanted. It couldn’t because there were ten or twelve different versions of Brexit ranging from leaving in name only to just not even doing a deal with the EU at all.

          Had they created a study group to analyse the options and the consequences of each they could have come up with a coherent plan with Parliament so that they’d know what everyone wanted before starting negotiations with the EU.

        • @[email protected]English
          -7•9 months ago

          yes, the people can’t be trusted to make decisions. we must have experts make decisions, with study groups etc, for the people.

          • @PrinceWith999EnemiesEnglish
            7•9 months ago

            That is a strawman because it’s not what I said.

            I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you explain why you think a vote makes a decision inherently good? Break down the philosophical case for me, and show me how it leads to optimal outcomes and under which circumstances if such should be applied.

            • Rikudou_SageEnglish
              2•9 months ago

              Not the one you were asking, but I agree with them, so might give it a shot!

              You know how sometimes you do something stupid and then have to live with the consequences and then next time you don’t make the same mistake?

              For example, when you fall off a bike. Or grab the very hot stove. Or when you vote to leave the EU.

              If you weren’t allowed to make mistakes, would you learn anything? Would you have learned to ride a bike if you only ever used it with the helping wheels for fear of falling?

              Saying that people’s will should not be respected is very far from what democracy is. The will of the people is ultimate in democracy. And in the beginning, people will make mistakes. The only way to stop making mistakes is by practicing further.

            • @[email protected]English
              -6•9 months ago

              you said do a study because of the referendum and make the decision from there.

              Who would make that decision after a study if not experts?

              why do we need experts if we trust the people?

              you’re an enemy of democracy and the free world

              • @nogooduserEnglish
                5•9 months ago

                But “the people” didn’t decide on the deal because they were only given two choices and the interpretation of “leave” was down to the Government and Parliament.

                It would have been much better to get experts together to decide what options there were and how each one affected us and for that information to be made available to everyone so that Parliament could have had a complete view of the various options that Government was considering.

                Instead they hid away and came up with a single version of Brexit that got shot down and then they still triggered the leave process anyway.

                They should have taken years to come up with a leave plan before triggering the leave process instead of the mess that happened.

                Edit: and if this process determined that it really was a shit idea then act on that by either having a second referendum or just deciding that it was a bad idea and not doing it.

                  • @AceticonEnglish
                    2•9 months ago

                    Yeah, because reducing an extremelly complex subject to a binary choice for the public, and then having people whose only qualification is being loudmouths figuring out what the option selected by the public actually maps to in the real world and hammering out the details of its implementation, is such a superior way and is working so well…