UK Brexit, questions from an American

[SofaKingHigh]

So, what is the deal with wanting to leave the EU? I get that it has imposed laws and regulations on you that you might not like, and I get that you don't like that the EU forces immigration on you. I mean hell, some of the governors of our states hate the federal government for some of its decisions on things that are similar. Considering that the EU has brought a lot of prosperity and security to Europe where before hand you were all waging war with each other, I just don't get the problem. It'd be like if Texas tried to secede today because of a few taxes, regulations, and civil rights mandates that Obama has made. So, my question is, why oppose a United States of Europe? Great Britain is a small and vulnerable island. Could it survive today's global economy without the EU?

Small and vulnerable Island?  5th biggest economy in the world, I hardly think so.

We joined the EU for free-trade, nothing more.  What we have now is an overly bloated, non-democratic organisation infiltrating nearly every area of our lives.  if the UK has a law that directly contradicts an EU mandate, guess which wins?

We're told that we will face economic disaster if we leave, horse shit.  The UK created more jobs in the last 5 years than the rest of the remaining 27 member states combined.  Does anybody seriously think that trade with the EU would just stop if we left?  We are their biggest customer, not China, not the US, the UK.  We love buying German cars, French cheese and wine.....they won't want that to stop, for their own sakes.

Junker and his cronies have made no secret of their plans of a federal Europe.  I want no part of a union that includes countries as Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and the likes.  This is in no way meant to disrespect any of those nations, but our economies and political situation have about as much in common with these countries as we do Afghanistan.

The UK currently has no trade deals with India, Canada, China.....we can't, because that has to come from the EU, leave and negotiate our own, anybody trying to scare us into thinking we couldn't are so far wrong it's funny.