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1. To share vital information regarding security
2. Educational qualifications which are Europe wide
3. Investment in deprived areas from EU funding
4. Not being a very small country but being part of something bigger
5. To enhance our lives by being linked up with others.
Informed Brexit voters know:
1. Vital information regarding security is shared worldwide it is not EU specific.
2. UK educational qualifications are generally equivalenced worldwide. The same cannot be said for many EU qualifications, even French and German.
3. The EU does not have its own money. All grants made by EU are made from taxes you and I send to them. The EU then skim off a large % for admin purposes, then UK has to submit a bid to receive part of our own money back. The amounts we have been receiving has been declining over the years as more money is diverted to increase the industrial bases in Eastern Europe.
4. The area of a country is irrelevant. UK is one of the big movers and shakers in the world. Founding member of UN, Nato. Centre if worldwide banking Industry, Member of the Commonwealth group of countries etc.etc. Much of the technology industries emanate from UK i.e. management of bandwidth and satellites. This is part of the reason EU want to keep EU, because of its global influence.
5. We would not be cut adrift from Europe. Brits have and always will continue to live, travel and work in Europe, as they also live, travel and work worldwide.