[Margaret Pilkington]

Although you say your financial situation did not change….in actuality it did. Imagine how much better off you might have been if we had not the responsibility to commit to the EU budget.
It also impacted on jobs and wages……it impacted on the products you bought, they told us which fish we could catch and eat, which apples we could grow….we could not buy bent cucumbers…there were so many intrusions into our lives.….VAT…..you may not have noticed these things, but believe me they were having effects on how people lived.
There was the Working Time Directive the European Commission of Human Rights….and many legal eagles got fat on that one.
It was not as if there was no bill of human rights until the EU came into being.
People came from the EU…..worked here, but sent the money back home to Poland where it would buy more things, build new houses…..so it did not even help our economy…..well, you might say that these worker paid taxes….yes, they did, but they claimed child support for children that did not even live here…..so what they paid in tax was given back….and probably a bit besides.
So, MH that is my reasoning for the disagreement……but I can identify with you not wanting to buy an Austin Allegro.
I also voted to leave because it was getting like we were going to become a ‘shire’ of the EU