Why is the UK leaving the EU?

How is it progress? Explain how it is progress.

The UK voted (marginally) to leave because the point of the EU is to eventually become a United States of Europe. Jean Monnet, one of the great architects of it all, said this and that it should be done by stealth if necessary. A policy which has been followed ever since 1957. Meanwhile, it is not democratic and yet makes law, and that is unacceptable. This has made the UK no longer independent since it joined in 1973.

One of the things the EU does is take money from member states and redistribute in an effort to bring all the members up to the same standard. Which means some members win and others (like the UK) lose. Countries that want to join want to get their share of the Euro-loot. And the UK is fed up with it.

Then there is the immigration issue. The EU is all one big country for immigration purposes (that's in the Treaty of Rome) so the UK doesn't have full control over its own borders. At least it never joined Schengen, which has the effect of abolishing borders completely. That's always been there but the Great British Public didn't notice until lots of eastern Europeans took advantage of it after the Enlargement of 2004.

The other big thing the UK opted out of is the euro, because it's a completely daft idea. A common currency only works if all the countries using it are "running at the same speed" economically. If one falls behind, it crashes badly. Look at Greece, where that happened. The only reason for wanting one currency is so the EU can eventually become one country.

Now a trade deal would be a great thing and that's what the UK DID have as a member of EFTA. But why does it have to be a political union as well?

So I ask again, why is it progress to work towards abolishing your country?

Why? The B.P..............

We had a referendum, (voted remain myself)

There are many reasons given. The simplest and laziest is that it was people who voted for it are xenophobic/racist and against foreigners. Personally I think that was just a small part of it, any large group will have a racist element but its not the majority of brexiters.

Some people don't like the EU, they don't want rules/laws/policies set in foreign countries and want control returned to the UK. While I don;t agree that the EUI is bad in that respect as a Scottish Nationalist I have to respect the viewpoint as I share that view for the UK union scotland is currently in.

Some people blame the EU for things that are wrong in the country, there has been a large history of the EU being blamed for something when a lot of the time its not the case. Immigration was blamed on the EU, while partially true in that freedom of movement of EU citizens is required we were free to set other immigration targets, the tory government did and failed to hit them. There is a journalist called Boris Johnson (sorry don;t feel right calling him PM) who has a long history of demonising the EU incorrectly attributing things to them.

Some people fell for the claims of more money for the UK if we didn't pay to the EU. THis is a simplistic claim as there are other non financial benefits that come from those payments.

Some people even voted in protest to the current government which had nothong to do with the EU.

I could go on but at the end of the day there were many reasons people voted for it.