[spireitematt]

A new poll has been released by BMG Research. They asked 1,509 (odd number) people who didn't vote in the 2016 referendum. (Sounds a bit like family fortunes)

"Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?".

51% said Remain

41% said Leave

7% said don't know

1% refused to answer

Once the don't knows were made to give an answer it pushed remain up to 55.5% and leave 44.5%.

However those who did vote in the referendum in 2016, 9 in 10 leave and remain voters remain unchanged in their view.

Be interesting to know where they asked these people in the survey.

From my point of view it looks like we won't leave the EU because the vote was in June 2016 and they put off triggering Article 50 till March 2017, now if you are going to leave you leave you don't put it off for several months. Problem is the country is split and divided and if we have another referendum then its just going to make it worse.

Also the problem with referendums is they are flawed and not legally binding, all a referendum is is an opinion poll and people's opinions can change over a period of time especially if they are fickle. Where as a General Election is legally binding and we had one in June 2017 and the main two parties the Tories and Labour stated that they respected the referendum back in 2016 and would go through with the decision of the will of the people with some differences as Labour talked about staying in the Single Market in their manifesto and the Tories went on about a "Red, White and Blue Brexit" whatever that means. The Lib Dems campaigned to stay in the EU in there manifesto but they did a little better than they did in 2015 but I still think the public don't trust the Lib Dems after they sold themselves back in 2010.

Then there's Scotland. There was a poll done by Survation last week and they asked 1,006 Scots about Independence. 46% were for it and 54% against it but a week before they did the poll and the results then were 47% for and 53% against.