Voted remain and still want to.
I just don't see the upside to leaving?? Can anyone give me a single decent reason? Main reason a lot of leave voters went that way is I believe they think they're getting their sovereignty back.
Well, Britain never really lost it in the first place. Sure in order to be part of the single market it has to comply with certain rules/laws etc but there was nothing stopping them from deciding not to follow them. It would have consequences but we're not forced to do it at gun point or anything.
Now we still need to trade with the single market so pretty much all of these laws/regulations for products and people coming in and out we'll STILL have to comply with. We'll also have to pay a per capita price same as I think the Switz and Norway (I think?). Roughly working out I heard to be pretty much what we paid for full membership, if not more.
Except the kicker now is we have zero say in ANY of these laws, no vetos, nothing. So where is the upside? Am I just being dense?
When it comes to renegotiating they'll make sure we're worse off than before (not enough to cripple) as not making it punitive would cause other countries to leave if it turned out you can have your cake and eat the thing too. They'd be crazy not to.
Leaving the economics - folks who just want the power residing in the UK (where it never left) and voted for nationalistic reasons may just have started the ball rolling on the nation pulling itself apart. So again I ask, where was the upside to leaving if the end result is Scotland split and possibly northern Ireland 10,15, 20 years later (if Britain ceases to be the impetus will be for a united Ireland eventually, something I'd quite like to see actually!)?
Immigration, well it turns out most of that was external to EU anyway - last I checked Syria, Iraq, Afghan etc are not part of the EU!
Edit: Most MPs across all parties were in favour of staying. This sort of thing should never have been given over to joe public, clueless in most things who're easily swayed by a tabloid headline.
If you want out you vote for an MP who also holds that view at the GE or their party if it has it in their manifesto.