OP You have valid reasons for your stance. I know Norway and Britain have very little in common, aside from both soon being outside the EU. Your reasons for leaving are in many ways similar to why Norway has voted to stay out. It has not panned out that way for us, however...
You say:
How - my personal reasons are I am fed up with being told what we can and can't do by a parliament in Brussels whom I never voted in.
Still happens in Norway. We are not in the EU, but, if we want to export goods to EU nations, we have to follow regulations which seem insane to us, just to come to the table and offer our wares for sale. Of course, we have NO influence in EU as we have no representative there, as we are not members, so get no say in anything.
I do believe we have had a terrible immigration problem in this country, other countries have better controls in place.
Any Norwegian would say the same. EU does not address our concerns, we are not a member state.
I do not see why Brussels pays our farmers (or a proportion of) not to farm. Whilst we pay more for importing vegetables from outside uk.
Norway is not self contained with vegetables/meat, we have to import. Our farmers get no EU subsidy. They have to compete with EU veg, and the government give local farmers very little compensation. It is hard to be a farmer in whatever way you look upon it.
I think our housing and NHS struggle with the amount of immigration .
Same here. Unlike the UK, we cant even lure skilled and educated workers here.... (Maybe that will change for you now you are outside the EU too)
I am horrified by the threats from other counties e.g America who now say they will support us
Not sure about this.
We should have fair trade with Asia, America, Canada and rest of world on our terms not dictated to by Brussels on how much we can import, export, spend and purchase
Will they want to trade with you? The UK has a much larger population than Norway, I am sure you will be a much better trading partner to these countries than Norway, providing you have something they want to buy, and you can get the price you want without EU helping negotiate.
I wish you the best. Despite being a lone voice, Norway still dont want to join the EU. Despite having to fall in line with insane regulations, having no say or bargaining power, and having to accept X amounts of immigrants and refugees (that we cant afford or have infrastructure to handle), or go fetch nuclear waste from other EU countries and store in our country, as part of other complicated deals relating to Nato and whatnot, we want to remain outside. I also hope your currency will stabilize and not sink so low that you cant afford to import the stuff you need for prices that the average person is willing to pay, etc. On the bright side, with the pound low (if it remains low), more people will afford coming to Britain on holiday.
I really hope you will land on your feet and pull together as the fab nation that you are!