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garblegarbleyesterday at 6:01 PM1 replyview on HN

>In June 2025, 56% of people in Great Britain thought it was the wrong decision

It's not so clear when you consider that 48.1% of the original referendum voters wanted to stay in the EU. I'm honestly very surprised by this poll, 8% change is pretty minimal considering the turmoil the country has gone through since 2016.

How much of this can be explained by older voters dying in the intervening 10 years, I recall that demographic skewed much more heavily Leave in 2016


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lostloginyesterday at 7:02 PM

Half the issue is the definition of ‘voter’. Turn-out is abysmal and polling has been crap in major ways. Calling someone eligible to vote a ‘voter’ is probably only right 50-60% of the time.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/general-election-2024-t...