Actually once I have read I feel more positive about it. I think the problem is that leave was split in two the Vote Leave and Leave EU, one Johnson and Gove the other Farage.
I can be on board with the fact that the European Economic Market went too far and that the idea of a Single Market with free movement of goods and people went into being a bureaucratic nightmare where perhaps too many laws were at a European Union rather than National level. Rejoining the single market and getting more control sounds ok to me - I would like to see the Conservatives appoint Theresa May rather than Boris Johnson.
Now the downsides - immigration is not going to change, at no point have Gove or Johnson (or indeed the COnservative party as a whole) said anything to indicate the Norwegian model of single market without EU membership would not be followed. This means the free movement of people continues, the EU immigration continues. So all those people who voted because of that point are going to find that NOTHING will change.
Those who felt that the EU were taking too much power and becoming a little bit too unwieldly and undemocratic will be happy - but how many Brexit voters voted for that and not due to immigration. This Brexit viewpoint I am fine with and indeed will not effect me who lives in London.
Now the other downside - the areas that will lose EU funds - this is the bit I struggle to comprehend, that areas that take a lot of money from the EU (cornwall,Wales etc) voted out. Yes we will no longer be paying out and the Government will have control over the money but who knows where that will go. If it goes to the NHS as promised, great for me living in Surrey rubbish for those areas that voted out.
It seems to me that the one area in England that strongly voted to remain (London) may be the one area that benefits, Westminister gets more power, the single market is quickly sorted so that the financial and economic sector is sorted, London probably gains a few more powers at the Mayorial level and life goes on.
The areas that voted for Brexit still get immigration coming through (EU sorted by the Single Market agreement all other never covered by it in the first place) and they lose the EU funding that they got.
Its things like the lack of European Social fund as well - things that if you believe the make up of remainers and brexits those who voted to remain probably dont need anyway.
Its madness that this will hit the hardest the people who thought that they wanted it. People like me who wanted to remain in the London suburbs who work in London will ultimately stay the same or benefit.
Im angry at the rightwing press and Nigel Farage who deliberately sold people a vision of something so untrue.
