MADRID, 26 (EUROPA PRESS)
More than 60 per cent of British voters believe that Brexit has gone badly or worse than expected within a year of Britain’s formal exit from the EU.
In addition, 42 percent of the people who voted in favor of Brexit in the 2016 referendum have a negative opinion of how the exit process has developed and its subsequent consequences, according to the study published this Sunday by ‘The Observer’ and prepared by Opinium.
26 percent of those who supported Brexit believe that it has gone worse than expected and 16 percent say they believed that Brexit would go wrong and consider that it has been proven.
Among voters in favor of staying in the EU, 86 percent believe that Brexit has gone badly or worse than expected and only 14 percent believe that it has gone better than expected.
One of those responsible for the Opinium poll, Adam Drummond, has pointed out that the most surprising thing is that the supporters of Brexit are now more critical than before about its benefits. “During much of the Brexit process whenever you asked a question about whether Brexit was good or bad, all the supporters of staying in the EU said ‘bad’ and all the Brexit supporters said ‘good’,” he explained.
“Now we see that there is a significant minority of Brexit supporters saying that things are going wrong or at least worse than they expected. While 59 percent of supporters of staying in the EU say ‘I believed it would go wrong and I think it has gone wrong ‘, 17 percent of Brexit supporters say’ I thought it would go well and I think it has gone well, ‘”he argued.
“Only 7 per cent of those in favor of staying in the EU believe that Brexit has gone better than expected, compared to 26 per cent of those in favor of Brexit. So instead of two uniform and opposing blocs, we have a united bloc of supporters to stay in the EU and a more divided bloc of Brexiters, “he explained.
On January 1, full customs controls and declarations will come into force, as planned, increasing bureaucracy and costs for trade between the EU and the United Kingdom.
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