Record Number of Brits Regretting Brexit

In addition, the data show that the interest to remain in the EU has increased, with 49 per cent of respondents voting to remain in the EU back in 2021, which grew to 55% in 2023. The number of people that would not vote or aren’t certain remains the same as in 2021; 13 per cent of the total respondents.

Among those that voted to leave the EU in 2021, the survey found that from 81 per cent of respondents, it shrank to 73 per cent in 2023. Similarly, from nine per cent of respondents that voted to remain in the EU, these rates doubled to 18 per cent in 2022. Additionally, the number of people who are uncertain about their decision grew by one per cent among leave voters.

British nationals are increasingly regretting their decision to leave the European Union in the move known as Brexit, which, despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying it brought benefits to the UK, more than half of the population would vote to remain in the EU.

According to the results of the YouGov survey, if the referendum was to be held again, 55 per cent of respondents said they would vote to remain in the EU, while 31 per cent said they would stay out, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

While three in ten respondents, representing 31 per cent of the total, said they would vote to leave the EU, it indicates that one in six leave voters, or 18 per cent, would change their mind and instead vote to remain in the EU if the referendum would be held again.

Currently, 57 per cent of Britons say the 2016 decision to leave the EU was wrong, which is the highest figure YouGov has recorded to date. By comparison, one in three respondents (32 %) thinks this decision was right and appropriate, while one in five Leave voters (19%) now say it was the wrong decision. On top of thousands of respondents that have changed their minds and would vote to remain in the EU, seven in ten Brits say that the government handled Brexit poorly. The trend shows that the numbers that think the government handled the exit badly has been increasing since 2021, while the number of those that think the opposite is constantly dropping, to be hitting its lowest rate at 18 per cent.

Leaving the EU has had some severe impact on the British economy, as data by the OECD reveals that the GDP growth has decreased by 0.4 per cent since 2019, while other countries have experienced increases – such as Germany and France, with 0.3 and 1.1 per cent increases in economic growth during the same period.

by Tony Mayes

There are several important areas where a country’s government can be judged as to whether it is successful or not. Most important is defence, another is the standard of education for all, another is law and order and whether everyone feels and is safe.

But right up there at the top is people’s health, and that means all people, not just the relatively few who can pay to go private –and jump an ever-growing queue.

Britain was the envy of the world when, on 5th July, 1948, the NHS was born, providing free health care for all. Prior to that people had to pay, or, if they were lucky, were admitted to hospitals financed by charities.

But that high ideal of providing free health care, or care from cradle to grave, has taken a severe battering, and never more so than during the last 13 years that the Tories have been in power in the UK, sacrificed on the altar of spending cuts.

Hardly a day passes without hearing on the news of another crisis in the NHS, massive waiting lists for hospital appointments and treatments, waiting for ever on the phone just to get an appointment with a doctor, or people with raging toothache going to dreadful lengths to pull their own teeth out.

Listening to it seems like stepping back 100 years to Victorian Britain. While other countries appear to have long passed their own Covid crisis, Britain has a long way to go before it’s back to pre-Covid hospital waits.

And what is the Government doing about it? Ask anyone caught up in the current NHS disaster and they would say absolutely nothing.

And why? Because they are all right Jack. What seems so obvious now is that a country cannot have a hospital service which is free for all plus a private hospital service available for those who have fat wallets, or those who opt to have private health insurance or are in jobs where employers pay for that luxury.

Just imagine, if we had an NHS as its founding fathers intended, millions would not have to waste money on private insurance and in so doing keeping an insurance industry.

And anyone who thinks that this dual health system is a fair and just way of providing a modern health service is either totally selfish, stupid or just couldn’t care less because they can run off to Harley Street or go straight to a private hospital.