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While some news outlets will undoubtedly cast the vote as a reactionary move against immigration, one poll of over 12,000 Britons tells quite a different story.
For decades, U.K. citizens have watched their right to govern themselves erode at the whim of internationalist bureaucrats, which was actually the primary driver of the leave vote.
According to an exit survey of 12,369 voters conducted by Lord Ashcroft Polls:
Nearly half (49%) of leave voters said the biggest single reason for wanting to leave the EU was “the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK”. One third (33%) said the main reason was that leaving “offered the best chance for the UK to regain control over immigration and its own borders.” Just over one in eight (13%) said remaining would mean having no choice “about how the EU expanded its membership or its powers in the years ahead.” Only just over one in twenty (6%) said their main reason was that “when it comes to trade and the economy, the UK would benefit more from being outside the EU than from being part of it.”
For remain voters, the single most important reason for their decision was that “the risks of voting to leave the EU looked too great when it came to things like the economy, jobs and prices” (43%). Just over three in ten (31%) reasoned that remaining would mean the UK having “the best of both worlds”, having access to the EU single market without Schengen or the euro. Just under one in five (17%) said their main reason was that the UK would “become more isolated from its friends and neighbours”, and fewer than one in ten (9%) said it was “a strong attachment to the EU and its shared history, culture and traditions.”
Take a look at those reasons. Let them sink in.
The primary driving force behind the desire to leave, according to these findings, was the basic desire for the fundamental right to be governed by one’s own consent.
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Admittedly, I don’t know a lot about this, but it occurred to me that perhaps another reason for leaving the EU may he that Britain and other more prosperous members of the EU are being called upon to prop up financially strapped nations ike Greece. It’s admirable to help one’side neighbor, but having to repeatedly bail out another country that won’t help itself gets tiring, not to mention draining financial resources needed for a country’s own people. It’s like public assistance here in the states. You can only do so much, but sooner or later, you have to put your own needs first and stop enabling the lazy slackers.
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