Brexit. Why do Brits want Out of the EU?

Insults and hate crimes existed also before the Brexit and not just in UK, but in almost every country in EU.

European embassies in Britain have logged dozens of incidents of suspected hate crime and abuse against their citizens since the vote to leave the European Union

I do not think one did that a couple of years ago.

Embassies can only report was has come to their ears and eyes thro media and personal telling.

The two sides of the EU referendum debate prioritise a trade deal with the EU very differently. For Remain voters, a deal with the EU is an absolute top priority for 62%, topping their list. For Leave voters, on the other hand, the EU doesn’t even make the top five. Just 23% of Leave voters think that a deal with the EU is top priority, making it seventh overall on their list.



Surprisingly, the country that the most Leave voters want to do a deal with is Australia (47%). By contrast, only 26% of Remain voters thought that Australia was a top priority, placing it sixth overall on their list.

More than 5,000 financial services firms are "at risk” if Britain leaves the Single Market after Brexit, a senior Conservative MP has warned.

Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, revealed the scale of the threat if the City loses the right to operate across the 27 remaining members of the EU – so-called “passporting”.

A total of 5,476 UK-registered firms hold at least one passport to do business in another member state of the EU or the wider European Economic Area (EEA).

And a further 8,008 firms, registered in other EU or European Economic Area (EEA) member states, hold passports to do business in the UK, information from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) revealed.

It is the first time that the number of companies that will be hit by a “hard Brexit” option – favoured by some leading Conservative Eurosceptics – has been set out.

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The Swiss parliament has largely caved in to EU intransigence on free movement in a decision that could deal a blow to British government hopes of being able to both control immigration and retain enhanced single market access after Brexit.

Swiss MPs approved legislation on Wednesday that would promote some local preference in job hires, a modest compromise they hope will allow vital economic relations with the bloc to be preserved following a 2014 referendum vote to cap EU immigration.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/17/eastern-bloc-countries-will-uphold-citizens-rights-to-live-in-uk

EU states set to veto any Brexit deal threatening free movement

I am very sorry, that I by mistake came up with a link that you already months ago referred to.

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As a European who likes the idea of a converging Europe, I would have much preferred that the British remain in the EU. But perhaps Brexit is not so bad for the European project in the long run, even if nobody will say it out loud: European integration has long been blocked precisely by the British, and going forward without the UK might be better. Nobody on the continent wanted the UK to leave, but if that is the result, maybe the European journey can go ahead, without holdups at every turn. The UK can stay in touch at the pace it feels comfortable with.

When it comes to science, Brexit does not seem to me to be a catastrophe: scientists have never cared about political borders anyway. Still, it seems clear to me that the UK had everything to lose and nothing to gain from leaving. So why leave? Why did a country that was meant to be quintessentially reasonable vote so clearly against its own interest? Sure, internal class issues and power struggles played a part, but wasn’t this supposed to be a practical place where people would not allow such things to prevail over concrete interests? Wasn’t this the nation that not long ago ruled the planet by outsmarting everyone else?
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