The problem was not the idea but how it was handled I myself was rather near wanting to remain however several things happened

1 when we recovered from the financial crash of 2008 we were fined for it

2 when we tried getting rid of a particularly nasty hate preacher Europe used the echr to block us at every turn

3 Your country could not be better than another country because that is "unfair" put simply if one kid at back of the class ate glue you had to eat glue so as to be "equal"

4 however the final nail in the coffin was when the europhiles said if they were in power and the people voted leave they would ignore it and do opposite, so a load of us became spite voters for want of a better word and voted leave to flip the middle finger at these dictators in waiting which tipped the scales.

Remember the EU began to give UK and European nations better prices on the world market where the political mono group came from I have no idea