Show respect

I don't know Kitty ......people cannot accept democracy can they? It's always ' the other view is wrong' we wuz robbed, we should have won! Etc etc.
It has to be accepted because it has happened,and if you voted Remain, you don't have to like it ( why would you?) but you do have to accept that people have voted for Leave.Far too many insults still flying around I see, on here as well as elsewhere.

This one doesn't seem to be the brightest:

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eu-referendum-man_uk_576cf8e4e4b08d2c5638ee29?k8b1k6wvy7evzpvi

Exactly, trisher!

And Boris has said he doesn't mind immigrants. They're all squirming.

Boris tried to reassure people that there's no need to rush. The EU has told the UK to stop mucking about and just get on with it.

More than 50% of the UK population have not voted to leave, only 51% of those who voted. They may not be 'thick' or 'uneducated' but they have been conned, even Farage now admits there won't be 350 mill for the NHS.

GG, but that is how a democracy works.

Elegran, GA, that's was what I was trying to say. Thank you

On holiday last year in Tenerife I was speaking to a local who was attempting to get me on a jet ski (the utter fool).

I asked him if I looked like I would go on one? He laughed at me but then we fell into a conversation about people from the UK, and he said we were regarded as a pushover in Europe.

'Anyone can go there and get benefits and them come here on holiday' he said. His words stung.

I do believe the rest of Europe is shocked that we actually got the backbone to say 'Enough'.

nina what did you say to him when he told you? I think there's many reasons why people don't vote and these should be investigated (I'm not not just referring to the referendum).

Only one thing makes me smile today: Farrage and his cohort of MEPs will lose their totally undeserved salaries and expenses.

That's ok J'snan! I appreciate that my comment was a bit outlandish!!!

Kitty

Your OP shows you are ' Ever the Optimist' obviously.

Willma my son's excuse for not voting was he couldn't make up his mind

And.. better to have made a vote than not.

Lord I am being wise today

Four times in a week I was phoned by polling surveys. Four times I told them I was not commenting on how I would vote. So I am not in their statistics for over-70s. That is why I never believe pre-vote polls - they can only count those who are happy to give them information.

Nobody has won anything. This was never a competition.

Nigglynellie apologies if I misunderstood your intent

Icyaliitle YouGov poll predicted a substantial Remain vote. I cannot see how they can accurately predict the voting age demographic when there is no means of verifying this other than canvassing a small pool of voters who would be engaged enough to respond. Trying to forge wedges between the generations is false reasoning.

What's the point in sniping at each other? It won't change the result. It is what it is. We need to turn our attention to Parliament and make sure what happens next is best for the UK.

The government's job is to bring the country together again. The opposition parties need to get themselves organised and form an effective opposition to the government. Parliament must look inward and outward and act in our best interests.

The turnout was higher than for a general election, but one in three of those eligible to vote did not vote. So the majority of people eligible to vote did not vote to leave the EU. Why did so many people not vote? The politicians have had a very loud wake up call and now more than ever need to get their act together.

Icyalittle so who was that professor on BBC last night who kept reiterating that older people (pensioners) were most likely to vote Remain - the professor who couldn't work out a percentage (Laura K had to do it for him)

Well, the peasants may be revolting (I did understand it was tongue in cheek nn) but they will now be relying on the despised politicians and elite to forge the way forward

Hope said professor is not involved!

What I said Joelsnan was tongue in cheek as I would have thought was obvious! I did go on to say that perhaps it would be better to listen to peoples concerns, even racist ones, whatever your own feelings are, sooner than dismiss the same people with arrogance and destain.

Elegran I agree.
I do understand the disappointment felt by many this morning, and I share it, but the divisiveness caused by this nasty campaign needs to be healed. I hope that once people have expressed their disappointment and fears we can try to make an effort to behave kindly.

But if we make it "us" and "them" the country will be divided which would be a disaster. Regardless of who voted for what, we are all in the same boat, sink or float, and we all have to take a turn at the oars, tiller, or baling bucket.

It isn't we kittylester nearly half the population didn't want to leave. The majority may have carried the vote but that is not the same as all of us.

Daphnedill
Perhaps it is more correctly that 50% of the population did not receive an adequate level of education. However, the measure of educational intelligence IQ, does not define a worldly, hardworking, astute person. There are some wealthy, socially minded, happy folk around who keep this country going who technically could be classed as below average intelligence.

Surely, it isn't 'they' who have voted to leave, but 'we'. The people who don't agree with you are still part of our country. It's a flipping democracy

Nigglynellie never underestimate a peasant, or give him the vote ?
So are you suggesting the return of servitude? Strip the workers and especially the
women's democratic right of say,? We became the first democratic country because of the peasants, we achieved decent working conditions and community welfare because of the 'peasants' and the development of unions.
Sad that the struggles of our 'peasant' forefathers are so diminished.

So the young who strongly supported Remain, and whose future is rubbished by the result, have been hammered by those whose lives are least affected by their choice.