Most people now believe that the UK should remain in the EU, that it was a mistake to vote to leave and would vote to remain, given the chance.“The momentum toward remain started almost immediately after the referendum,” he said.“The disparity has continued to grow to a point where the gap in favour of remain is now up to 12 points, compared to before the referendum when it was around 3-4 per cent in favour of leave.”Chisholm thought that people quickly saw through the “false” claims by leave campaigners that the UK sent the EU He added: “The argument that a referendum based on untruths two and a half years ago is still valid is nonsense. “After two years of failed negotiations the Prime Minister still has no credible plan and has just suffered “That is why Labour is trying to bring some order to the Brexit chaos with a sensible alternative plan that would work for Scotland and the whole of the UK, and put jobs, workers’ rights, our economy and the environment first.”If, like us, you understand the power of a fearless, independent media, please consider supporting The Ferret.The Ferret is a unique media project powered by people like you.
If we end up leaving the EU, it will be as much about the silence of remain as the noise for leave.”Chisholm has studied the results of over 200 opinion polls on Brexit by different pollsters since the 2016 referendum.

If Westminster is unwilling to protect our interests then Scotland must find a way out of this mess ourselves.”The Scottish Greens highlighted allegations about the lack of transparent funding of the leave campaign. European patience for Brexit … Leave won the majority of votes in England and Wales, while every council in Scotland saw Remain majorities. The people saw through the con-trick over 18 months ago, and the majority wish to remain.”Chisholm sent his analysis to the opinion poll guru and Strathclyde University politics professor, But Curtice pointed out that this does not necessarily equate with people changing their minds. We have no ads, and we're not owned by shadowy hedge funds or off-shore oligarchs. One was on whether they thought it was right or wrong to vote to leave the EU.Immediately after the referendum, 2-4 per cent more people said it was right to vote to leave. Then when the real vote happened it showed the polls were wrong.

One asked whether the UK should remain a member of the EU or leave, while the other asked how people would vote in another referendum.The resulting picture is “irrefutable”, Chisholm argued. Data from Great Britain The Brexit Vote: Right or Wrong? “Much of the movement since 2016 has been occasioned by the seemingly increased pro-remain views of those who did not vote two and a half years ago rather than because of switching from leave to remain,” he told The Ferret.He added, though, that there had also been a small shift to remain caused by a reduction in the relative loyalty of leave supporters.

When an election comes, and it must, a Johnson-led majority would owe its position to a prime minister who has a mandate to take the U.K. out. One series of polls indicates that the number of leave voters who think the economy would be better after Brexit has dropped since May 2018.“All the analysis and all the polling and all the data shows that opinions on Brexit have shifted significantly since the referendum over two and a half years ago.”He added: “With a clear majority of people now in favour of keeping our current deal in the EU, the politicians in Westminster must listen and give the public the final say through a People’s Vote.”According to the Scottish National Party (SNP), Scotland’s support for staying in the EU had strengthened, and people preferred Scottish independence to Brexit.“The best future for Scotland – and the UK as a whole – is as a continued member of the European Union,” said SNP Europe spokesperson, “It’s therefore hardly surprising that support for remaining in the EU has increased since the Brexit referendum in 2016.”There was overwhelming evidence that leaving the EU would be bad for jobs, living standards and the economy, he argued.
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