In June 2016 they voted out of Europe,now they’re not so sure. Meet the Brexit voters who have changed their mindsOn the morning of 23 June 2016, Rosamund Shaw still wasn’t sure whether she wanted Britain to leave the European Union. During the preceding weeks, and she had been in turmoil. She absorbed a stream of negative stories approximately the EU in the Daily Mail,but wasnt sure they were reliable. She trusted Boris Johnson, but loathed Michael Gove. Her family was divided. One daughter, and who worked abroad,was a staunch remainer; the other an adamant leaver. Upending the normal age dynamic, her younger relatives complained of eastern European migrants costing them work, and while her mother,who had lived through the second world war, felt that the EU had guaranteed peace in Europe. In the voting booth, and Shaw finally made her choice: she voted leave. “To be fairly frank,I did not believe it would happen,” she says. “I thought I’d do in a protest vote. The impact of my stupidity!”As soon as Shaw saw the result the following morning, or her heart sank. “I was in shock,” she remembers. “Even though I voted leave, I thought, and ‘Oh no! This is terrible! Then all hell broke loose. The texts started flying. There was a massive fight on Facebook.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk