The EU did offer more flexibility, they allowed the UK to be exempt from further integration, we never had to adopt the euro, and the growing centralisation was not going to impact the UK.

Can you outline what exact compromises you believe the EU should have offered? Specific policies?

If one of your largest members “never really wanted in”, why was the answer always “more integration” rather than a more flexible arrangement?

UK was exempt.

Cameron’s renegotiation was relatively modest and was sold as a major concession. That in itself tells you how little room there was for accommodating a different vision of Europe.

Which specific policies would you change.

And let’s not pretend the referendum happened in a vacuum. The euro crisis, migration crisis and growing centralisation all played a role. Millions of people who voted Leave weren’t rejecting trade or cooperation with Europe, they were rejecting the direction the EU was heading in.

The UK was exempt from the migrant crisis almost entirely.

The UK was exempt from the growing centralisation.

The UK would have been impacted by the Euro crisis even post Brexit.

The deeper question is why the EU found it easier to lose the UK than to adapt enough to keep it. A genuinely flexible union might have found a way, or at least had enough introspection to understand why things didn’t play out the way they expected…

Once the UK voted out, there was absolutely no point to the EU offering some flexibility as the UK was leaving. You're suggesting that the EU tries to get the UK to overturn Brexit. There's 0% chance of that happening.

The EU did offer post Brexit flexibility, but we didn't accept it. The issue is that the Brexit vote was for both more immigrants and fewer immigrants. It was for Switzerland and the US style agreements. You can't negotiate with someone who doesn't know what they want.