Are you really a Brexiteer, OP?
I am not a Brexiteer, far from it. I am an EU-national based in the UK, feeling very uncertain of my future here because I don't know if I will be able to stay here. I was not allowed to vote, but that does not make me feel less devastated about what is happening in my country. My passport is not British, but I have chosen to live here, work here, to integrate here and the UK is my country.
It is heartbreaking to get comments from people telling me to go back to my country asap, or asking me why on earth I am in the UK. It is heartbreaking to have someone say these things to my face - and many people are getting far worse comments than I.
But it hurts just as much to hear these things on TV and radio, and I am not the only EU-national who feels sad to hear these things - many of my fellow EU-nationals are leaving the country that they had made their home.
On a less selfish, and far more important note, I think it's incredibly sad that we are leaving the EU.
The EU have given us a lot of rights and security (workers' rights, consumer rights, product safety).
Selling products in the EU has become easier because there is only one standard across the 28 member states, rather than 28 standards to adhere to. That means a company only has to produce one product, rather than make 28 different versions of the products to sell to all member states. It also means that we as consumers know the shampoo, lipstick and toothpaste we buy when in Spain or Italy are as safe at the products we buy here in the UK.
Now we're looking at getting rid of the red tape - which is exactly these rules and regulations which were put in place to protect us as employees and consumers.
I personally have enjoyed freedom of movement of people, and so has my British partner. We have lived and worked in different EU countries. In the UK, we have benefited greatly from FoM because we have had people coming from abroad to work in the hospitals, schools and doing a lot of the jobs that aren't very popular.
I completely understand why some people feel that immigration levels have been too high, but I think that leaving the EU is the wrong way to deal with it. The government have had options to deal with immigration levels while in the EU and they have not. They could use the rules and regulations for EU-nationals with regards to access to benefits and so on, just like many of the other EU member states have done.
2. We will have more control over our laws, especially the opportunity to work outside EU human rights laws which were contentious. This is debatable, though, because the EU are very wedded to the idea that the UK should continue to be answerable to the EU Court of Human Rights - it's a huge bargaining chip. That also works both ways. It would take away the opportunity for UK citizens subject to human rights violations to have a higher level of recourse than the UK courts. Let's hope none of us never need that. And it won't make sense, given our close trading relationship with the EU, to have our trading laws very divergent. So we'll probably end up adopting a lot of them anyway.
The only issue with this is that the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution. The European Court of Human Rights is a body of the Council of Europe, which has 47 members, including the UK. The Council of Europe was founded in 1949 and the European Court of Human Rights was established in 1959.
All in all, I simply cannot think of one single tangible benefit of Brexit, and unfortunately I don't feel any closer to having a list of benefits of Brexit after reading this thread.
We are not getting wealthier by leaving the EU - the £350m/week to the NHS was a lie, the pound has dropped, inflation is up, products are getting more expensive.
We are likely to get rid of the red tape, which means lowering standards and getting rid of some of the protections we have had as workers/employees, and that surely is not a benefit to us.