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Of
the more than 7,000 consumers polled by market research firm
Mintel, 48 percent of Spanish respondents believed Brexit would
have a "somewhat" or "extremely" negative impact on their
economy, as did 41 percent of Italians and Poles.
Consumers in all three countries are worried that the vote will
have a negative impact on their national employment levels.
Mintel said 39 percent of British consumers saw a negative
impact, while 25 percent believed it would have an "extremely"
or "somewhat" positive impact on the economy.
"For the moment at least, five years of steady economic growth
and falling unemployment means that many people feel
well-insulated from the potential downsides of the vote," Mintel
research director Toby Clark said in a statement.
The Bank of England said on Wednesday that businesses it had
spoken with had seen little change in spending patterns so far,
but a closely watched survey by polling company GfK showed one
of the sharpest falls in consumer morale in over 20 years.
Consumer spending has been a major driver of Britain's economic
expansion over the past three years, but economists polled by
Reuters on Wednesday now see on average a 60 percent chance that
the Brexit vote will tip the economy into recession.
Link to survey: http://www.mintel.com/press-centre/social-and-lifestyle/european-consumers-more-concerned-over-brexit-economic-impact-than-the-uk
(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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