Thank you. The first sensible bit of analysis in several pages.
I voted Brexit. Partly because I thought the EU was undemocratic, unaccountable and expensive. But partly just to give the establishment a kicking, and I suspect that this was a major part of the Leave vote. But they deserved it - they were given countless opportunities to keep us on different terms but they said Non.
It doesn't actually make much difference. Those who are still moaning about it will blame everything that goes wrong on us leaving. The fact is that we're a crappy little country that's way past its best days, EU or not. We've got little industry, massive debts and a poorly educated, lazy population. We weren't a booming success inside the EU and were never going to become one. The fact that we're not having a great time outside of it proves nothing. Those good old days that happened to coincide with being in the EU were an illusion - we were living on ever-increasing debts, the EU did very little for us other than take a big chunk of this borrowed money from us.
Sadly many appear to be falling for the propaganda put out by the establishment that Britain will be great again if we re-join. It won't, as the country had already collapsed decades ago but we masked it with borrowing.
