It’s been greater than three years for the reason that Brexit referendum, and we’re solely a day away from truly leaving the EU, however it seems
It’s been greater than three years for the reason that Brexit referendum, and we’re solely a day away from truly leaving the EU, however it seems that among the UK’s residents are nonetheless struggling to come back to phrases with the nation’s exit from the European Union.
At the moment, the pollster YouGov launched a survey of Stay voters within the UK, by which it requested which of the 5 phases of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, despair and acceptance) closest described how they really feel concerning the EU referendum end result.
The choices ranged from the relatively sanguine, ‘I’ve come to phrases with the truth that the UK will go away the EU’, to full-throated denial, asking the survey members in the event that they didn’t imagine ‘folks within the UK actually wished to depart the EU’.
Sadly although, it seems fewer than one third of the respondents have lastly reached ‘acceptance’ of the end result, with a exceptional 63 per cent nonetheless in both denial, anger, bargaining or despair:
The 5 phases of Brexit grief pic.twitter.com/ocJxjBK718
— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) January 30, 2020
Fortunately, the variety of folks in denial and indignant has lowered within the three years for the reason that vote, though the variety of folks depressed concerning the state of affairs has elevated over the identical interval. Mr S can solely hope that ‘acceptance’ turns into extra widespread after 1 February…