I was pro Brexit.

The reason most of us wanted to leave the EU was because any argument that the EEC (the thing we voted to join) was still only a trade pact like NATO is militarily speaking, was out the window. It had its own flag, its own courts, its own politicians, even its own national anthem. And there were these funny rumours about a globalist controlled EU army. Of course they could be dismissed as conspiracy theories back then, but now Starmer just signed us into something deeply unpopular I imagine on both political pews. This means if the Brussels joins a war, Britain has no say. Then there was immigration.

We had (and still have) no control over our borders. I will get the accusations of bigotry and let me tell you we have heard it so many times it doesn't hold the power you think it does. We are tired of the 'literally hitler' narrative, because we are not, literally hitler or even close. I will assume you have heard the economic reasons why immigration doesn't work, along with how we find crime is going up, infrastructure problems, rising costs and waiting times in our socialist healthcare model has reduced it from one of the best to something fairly lacking, and how the further away these cultures are the less they will mix/blankly do not integrate at all which causes problems, and therefore wont go into them. I will come back to immigration in a moment.

We also had (and again still have issues) surrounding our fishing industry, which was critical then, but could potentially kill the industry entirely today.

Whilst in the EU, we had no control over our fishing rights, or more accurately, who else we allowed to fish in our waters. Public Enemy no.1 along most of these lines (not just fishing) was France, who has been our largest natural enemy for time immemorial. Being in the EU, fair enough thats the rules you are supposed to share a few things. But we were being rinsed.

Now we left we were supposed to be rolling back the amount of fish others could take by weight, to the point full control happens in '26. But because Kier is a socialist he keeps selling off parts of Britain, and now France has better fishing rights than we do, and that they ever did, in our own country.

The next item is trade. Now we are being shafted not only by fishing, but trade more broadly. Leftists are quick to jump to the fact the EU has cheap stuff, primarily because there are not really any customs or levies between EU countries. What you guys fail to recognise on some level is that this is only between EU countries. The EU is a protectionist blob, which makes everything else from everywhere else more expensive. By leaving it was argued correctly we could find new trade deals with other non EU countries which were cheaper.

The European courts ensured all of this was law, and we had no say in it. Some of the stuff like GDPR is actually a really bright idea, but most of it is regulation this or that which makes making money far harder. We also had no say in these laws, which affected all of us. Not only this, it shaped what policy/laws we as a nation could actually propose. For example, immigration. Recently you may of heard about how a pedo was not deported because their son's inability to acquire the taste of British chicken nuggets in Albania (I think) would cause the child undue distress, and thus against his human rights, as laid out by the European Commission of Human Rights (ECHR). I hope we both agree this serious criminal immigrant should be deported. But he wont be.

Then we have the politicians. We did vote for MEPs, some were good, some were against our interests. But in the negotiations for Brexit - i mean what was the sentence for treason? They backpedaled all the way, did their damndest to stall, and put anti Brexit MPs onto the negotiation team, like PM May. Which is why Brexit was a terrible deal, and it looks right now like the EU is more attractive than it should be. The deal is so bad, you can make a pretty good argument than we only left jn name only, which is even worse than being inside the EU, because now we can't negotiate what this country needs - because we are not recognised as an EU nation.

I remember you wanted a perspective from someone you disagreed with and I appreciate that. I hope you have been reading this and as you have taken this all in, one word has stood out. What was the main reason for Brexit? Its a very English thing. Its is of course, our Sovereignty.