hey I'm just saying what I see. I am not respectful of your views or your choices, and I am not respectful of what you and people like you have done to the rest of us. I am angry and I see no reason to give you any respect; you don't deserve my respect.
Then there is little point in talking to you is there? You expect Leavers to respect your choice. Why? What quantifies 'people like you'? Dh and I are both postgrads who have done our research and voted Leave.
I noted Leave, and said so outside MN loudly, which was very amusing as I was living in Brussels (where dh was working) at the time. He was not, I hasten to add, working for the EU. He had been there and done that, which is what drove our vote to leave, having seen it up close and personal. We were not the only ones.
The EU is not about trying to make life better for the average citizen; it is about aggrandisement; it is about the Acquis and the ratchet that once the EU has claimed a right/made a law/acquired a power or a competence, it does not let it go. Ever.
It is about the concentration of power into the hands of a very small cabal of people, whom we do not have the power to vote out.
It is about the direction of travel and the slow death of the nation state within the suffocating embrace of the EU.
My time in Belgium was educational, and yes, some things there are better than here, and some things are worse. I wouldn't say that the UK is badly run; there were things in Belgium that raised my eyebrows sky high and had me giving thanks that we don't do them here. The difference to me is that in the UK I can do whatever I want as long as it is not specifically prohibited. In Belgium, and other European nations, you can only do what is specifically permitted. It's a subtle difference, but it is there, along with the need to carry your ID card with you every time you left the house there, but being able to go for a walk with no documentation or money here.