• "The University of Sussex research team surveyed more than 3,200 British expatriates immediately after the 2019 general election via the Britons Voting Abroad Facebook page, the EU-wide citizenship rights group British in Europe, its national sub-groups, and the three main parties abroad.

    The survey showed a definite trend from EU-based expatriates away from the Conservatives who suffered a catastrophic drop in a share of the vote from a fifth in 2015 to a sixteenth in 2019.

    The survey reveals that 95% of EU-based expatriates who voted in the 2016 referendum favoured Remain over Leave while three-quarters of EU based expatriates claimed Brexit definitely influenced their voting choice in 2019.

    Many Remainers defected to Labour or the Liberal Democrats with fewer than one-fifth of Remainers who supported the Conservatives in 2015 voting for the party again in 2019."

    I thought that might've let them off too but it was a Facebook survey. Are the actual Brexit voting figures available for Brits abroad?

  • Ah I was suckered in by "Sussex Uni" and skimmed past the Facebook data source... slightly more dubious now.

    Read somewhere else that 80% of brits in the EU are of working age, think we can #debunk the little englisher brexit voter, down the cafe wearing a union jack stereotype.

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