Just a few reasons for Brexit....
1) To stop giving Brussels and it's many unknown and overpaid bureaucrats power over us, 2) to prevent us being drawn into a power bloc and our forces becoming an EU military force, (the European Federation) 3) to remain a self-governing country, not a 'member state'
4) to not have to pay the EU billions of taxpayers money every year and 5) to enable us to have closed borders to prevent anyone in Europe who fancied it, without contributing, entitlement to the British benefits system, British schooling, NHS health care and housing, all of which have contributed to a dreadful strain on all services. The taxpayer has funded this 6) as a protest at what the Common Market we joined decades ago had morphed into. Feeling we were being swallowed up and losing our identity alarmed many and remains a valid concern.
Before people protest, let us not forget that EVERY major party in the UK knew it would lose votes if they did not address those growing major concerns regarding the EU, which for years our governments had swept under the carpet.
The outcry was loud, services were under strain, the UK seemed to have to agree to Brussels' dictats and the call was that we should be at the very least talking about it. Labour and the Conservative party then HAD to. All party leaders had to acknowledge there were huge concerns regarding so many aspects of EU policy.
The cost of our membership was also ludicrous given we were not addressing needs at home. Official data from the Office for National Statistics, found that in 2014 alone Britain's contribution was £19.1 billion. Remainers talk of a rebate on that, the small percentage given back, but our spending was allocated and governed by Brussels.
From the Telegraph, 2015 - "The figure is equivalent to half of England's schools grant and 56 times greater than the budget for NHS cancer drugs."
"It said that according to HM Treasury forecasts Britain is expected to pay a further £96 billion over the next five years."
"The analysis found that in today's prices Britain has paid £484 billion since joining the European Economic Community in 1973."
That's almost half a TRILLION pounds of taxpayers money, which is desperately needed in the UK.
From the Guardian - 2003
David Blunkett (then Home Secretary in Blair's Labour Government) has said there is "no obvious limit" to the number of immigrants who could settle in Britain, but added that there needs to be a "balance" between "different forms of entry, migration and residency".
People were concerned, and rightly so, as services were swamped. Budgets did not allow for new town building, overspill towns with new roads, hospitals, schools, homes, reservoirs, transportation systems and all the necessary infrastructure needed.
Money has to be spent to accommodate a growing population and to maintain standards. Many thought the money we gave to Brussels would be better spent here.
It was not a protest at immigration but at open door immigration, which no party with sense would see as a good or sustainable idea.
Looking at the key skills we need and the benefits of immigration to the UK has to be the way forward. It also means we decide on our overseas aid budgets and given we are a compassionate nation, asylum seekers with genuine needs will not be ignored.
Remainers will of course decry these reasons for Brexit.
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) negotiations are never concluded until the 11th hour so this one has a way to go yet.
