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.

  • @[email protected]English
    -7•11 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•11 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•11 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•11 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•11 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•11 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…

              • @[email protected]English
                1•11 months ago

                How complex is it really? You don’t think British people are smart enough to understand being a member of the EU vs not being a member? Are British folks too stupid to govern themselves?

                • @AceticonEnglish
                  2•11 months ago

                  The evidence of its complexity was all around when the exit treaty started being negotiated - kinda hard to miss the trully gigantic mass of details that were there and needed to be agreeded upon merelly to exit, unless you’re a bit of a simpleton.

                  Only a fool would think they know everything and can thus decide on everything without the help of domain experts.

                  To put it in really really simple way: would you grab a random Briton of the street and have him or her do brain surgery on you? Because your “we don’t need any experts” “logic” implies that anybody would be fine to decide on anything, which includes the detailed choices in brain surgery. Surelly your brain is simpler than a massive international treaty covering just about anything related to the human economic activity of 520 million people and more.

                  Even experts need other experts for things outside their domain of expertise

                  • @[email protected]English
                    1•11 months ago

                    You’re complicating it. The choice is to be a member or not.

                    Negotiations are are possible outcome to the answer of this question, not a requirement.