People still don't get it - Brexit isn't going to pay measurable dividends for a while, but when it counts, your children and grandchildren will be glad enough of us had the foresight to see the EU for what it is - a gingerbread house. It was NEVER about what we gain today or even tomorrow, but about what we don't lose; our nation, willfully given away by the delusional and the blindly stupid; worse still, just a few generations after millions gave thier lives to prevent. The slow but inexorable creep and amassing of powers of control for the EU which are absolutely undeniable when measured against the original remit of the free trade agreement from the 70's, and if the EU survives, because of it's sheer size would swallow the UK wholesale at some point further down the road. There's only two ways this is going, it'll implode due to infighting, or it'll become another USSR with all member states becoming vassals to the strongest among it - Germany.
You can accuse me of tinfoil all you want, but the EU IS a hostile takeover, an invasion by erosion; a law here, some compliance required there and so on; just really really slowly until every country is all using the same currency, with the same laws and same method of governance, and I do mean governance - not government. You either comply, or suffer.
Never has a saying been more true "you will get the government you deserve", and if you think things are bad now, think back to the implosion of the USSR and all that came before it. History is going to repeat itself, because the delusionally blind and stupid seem to think humanity is less power hungry and greedy than it was 100 years ago.
No they are not, they've just got better and smarter at it.
Naive fools.