UK to leave EU

[Edwardo Piet]

Brexit (short for British Exit) is a movement within Britain to leave the EU which somehow managed to get a national referendum. While both sides have at least some valid reasoning, the eurosceptic side (with the help of the mostly right-wing UK tabloids such as The Crazy Mail) has created a widespread distrust of the EU that essentially amounts to a mass hysteria over a mostly harmless bureaucratic body. Leaving the EU is unlikely to solve problems such as improving the economy, and the UK only contributes about 0.5% of its GDP to the EU per year. Rather, the exit will more likely set Britain further back in having to renegotiate perfectly functional agreements from scratch.
The main politicians sponsoring the Leave campaign are Michael 'I hate teachers' Gove (the current Lord Chancellor) and novelty human Boris Johnson whose hair and politics approach Donald Trump's more and more with each passing day. Other prominent leavers are inevitably Ukip's Nigel Farage, the Conservative Party's handsome young Zac Goldsmith and grey old Iain Duncan Smith, and a very few Labour Party people including Kate Hoey. Crank magnet George Galloway also got in on the action. Of course.

Poor Brexiters have RationalWiki against them.