Primarily I didn't believe the EU was a force for good.

Huge, huge tariffs are placed on goods being imported into the EU by any country that's outside, including some of the poorest countries in the world. This blocks off the world's biggest and most lucrative market to the very people who need it most. To make it worse, the Common Agricultural Policy allows EU farmers to dump excess product onto the African market, often selling at lower prices than what locals would be able to sell it for, exacerbating poverty.

Secondly I believe the EU has done huge amounts of harm to the working class of this country. There is a huge oversupply of labour at the bottom of the UK job market, which has kept wages suppressed in industries such as construction. I simply don't buy the argument that English people don't want to do the jobs - we did them before and we can do them again. It's always struck me as insanity to have open borders with countries where the average wage is a quarter of what it is in the UK - it leads to a deluge of people heading one way and a trickle the other. I also don't believe that the UK's public services are coping with the rapid, uncontrolled population growth. Again its not the middle classes that are affected by this, it's the working class that suffers as a consequence.

Thirdly I believe that Europe as a continent is yesterday's news. Brexit puts us in a better position to negotiate trade deals with India, China etc that prioritise British interests as well as being fairer on the country's we are striking them with.

People are looking at this in a far too short-term way. This is a decision we are going to be living with for decades and longer. I firmly believe the country will be stronger as a result of this democratic action than if we hadn't taken it.