I know several people who voted 'Leave'. The small business owner with an Egyptian husband, a life-long labour-supporting solicitor I knew at university, someone who moved here a few years ago from Canada, a number of relatives-in-law.
Some of them have been pretty eloquent about their reasons. They are not racists. I don't agree with all of them, and I think some of them voted for reasons that I find frivolous or unfortunate, but that's democracy.
I wasn't an automatic 'remain': I considered voting 'leave', I researched, and concluded that since there was no coherent or realistic plan for it and that the side-effects (not least for the rest of the EU and people in the countries aspiring to join it) could be pretty bad...
The amount of abuse that Leave voters I know report bothers me quite a bit, although not as much as the 'go home' comments I've seen /heard reported from Leavers that I don't know: both are so sad and divisive. I really hope the 'go home' people are a minority and something can be done to encourage them to change their minds.
I thought, actually, that I'd be OK with a democratic vote to leave if it happened: But when it actually did, I realised it worried me more than I'd expected. :-/
Some of them have been pretty eloquent about their reasons. They are not racists. I don't agree with all of them, and I think some of them voted for reasons that I find frivolous or unfortunate, but that's democracy.
I wasn't an automatic 'remain': I considered voting 'leave', I researched, and concluded that since there was no coherent or realistic plan for it and that the side-effects (not least for the rest of the EU and people in the countries aspiring to join it) could be pretty bad...
The amount of abuse that Leave voters I know report bothers me quite a bit, although not as much as the 'go home' comments I've seen /heard reported from Leavers that I don't know: both are so sad and divisive. I really hope the 'go home' people are a minority and something can be done to encourage them to change their minds.
I thought, actually, that I'd be OK with a democratic vote to leave if it happened: But when it actually did, I realised it worried me more than I'd expected. :-/
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