[spireitematt]

I voted Remain in 2016 even though I am Eurosceptic and don't particular like the EU (or the Tory Government come to that) and I don't like the red tape and the bureaucracy or the direction that the EU want to go in but I voted Remain to oppose a Tory hard Brexit. I believe we should trade and work with the rest of Europe on things like research, science etc and co-operate as we are stronger together and as John Donne said 'No man is an island' but I believe the political side should be left up to the nation state.

Over the past few days I've see the views from both sides of the argument and I believe that both sides didn't know understand what they were voting for. The 'ultra remainers' seem to have trouble distinguishing Europe the continent from the European Union which is a political and economical union. On the other side you have the 'hard brexiteers' who think the last 10 years of austerity were the EU's fault and not the Tories. They spoke to one woman in a voxpop on the BBC who said she voted Brexit to get our industry back but our industry was sold off by Thatcher and the Tory Party of the 80's and 90's. Someone else said we are taking back control and we will be an independent country again but the thing is we've always been an independent country and if they wanted to take back control then they should have voted for Labour in the December General Election as Labour wanted to bring public utilities, railways and infrastructure back into public ownership.

Our railways, public utilities are owned by foreign companies who are mainly based in Europe and they will still remain in the hands of those foreign companies whether we are inside the EU or outside the EU.

The worst thing about Brexit is it will enable the far right and the racists who think they can say what they want.