Pete, you still don't get it ( or maybe you do ). Please, give we who voted leave some credit.
You try to say we had a simplistic approach in reaching our decision to vote out. I have been a working man all my life ( voting Labour, pint with my mates and for my sins watching Boston on a Saturday ) I may not have gone to university but I know when something is wrong. The EU is so wrong on many levels,
It is a bully, controlled by two nations. It is corrupt, controlled by un-elected pen pushers on salaries and pensions that are obscene ( that is why we will never leave, there are too many fingers in the pie). It is a democracy in name only. The same as this government when May sells us down the line. I was sick to death of Brussels bringing in laws to suit some German or French minority at the expense of 1000's in the UK. I was fed up with the UK giving our money away to fund bird brain ideas in some Eastern European back water. It peeved me when I heard every year that the UK was one of only three net contributors. My blood boils when I have to wait four hours in A&E (in an hospital which I helped pay for ) because of a 30% increase in our local population due to the migrant influx. I hated the fact that Westminster was only a puppet, passing laws that were overturned in a city 100's of miles away on main land Europe.
I voted for self government
I voted for control of our finances
I voted for freedom to trade with ever we thought fit
I voted for control of our borders
We opened our borders to all. Our little town was swamped. No new doctors, no new schools, a hospital struggling to cope, a smaller police force, no new houses and very little support for migrant workers.
We were given NO extra money to address these problems.
THAT IS WHY I AND MANY OTHERS VOTED LEAVE.
The deal has already been done. We have been sold down the line. May will keep us in a transitional period. We will pay £39 billion to line their coffers and have no say in anything. The Bullies have won.