I don't agree because I don't think you followed a rigorous enough process to arrive at your decision.
You had an opinion on the current state of the European Union as at 2016. How did you arrive at that, what sources did you use?
Your arrogance is an ongoing feature.
You have no idea what "process" I went through, or what "sources" I used.
You appear to believe that you can assess whether people have the right to hold a different opinion to yours and no doubt then whether they are well informed enough to have a voice/vote.
I have been against "ever closer union" for a long time. I support close economic cooperation, but am sceptical about broader integration and highly cynical about full political integration, especially of a much broader membership.
I understand that the UK had the most opt outs of any member state (Schengen, EMU, Fundamental Rights, FSJ and Social Charter). I understand we had the rebate and why and how it came about. I know we were not in the Banking Union.
I am fully aware that Cameron did obtain more clarity about our right not to support further Political integration and our right to be excluded from further Treaties embracing "ever closer union". He also communicated all this really poorly.
I understand how the Council, Parliament and Commission work. I understand the vetos and how the voting works.
I do understand the budget principles too.
I also fully understand that you can not cherry pick, you can not take yet not give, and that we had a special arrangement.
Yet my concerns were and are about the rapid evolution of the EEC into the behometh EU it became. 28 member countries of massively varying states, challenges, capabilities and needs. Others looking to join what had already creaked under crises of financial collapse and mass migration - and went on to creak on pandemic and Ukraine.
I believe countries will always ultimately cooperate in crisis without having to be bound together on absolutely everything in the way the EU demands and I think will move towards.
I dislike the Commission, the fact it is completely unelected, has 32k extortionately paid civil servants without accountability, but license to shape/do so much.
The opt outs and vetos and rhetoric tells me we can theoretically resist what we fundamentally oppose, and I am aware of the 2011 European Union Act; yet the UK population was frog marched through Maastricht, Lisbon and expansions without so much as a nod to our electorate, let alone the sort of referendum other nations had. In a nutshell that is why I don't trust the relentless progression from 9 nation Common Market through 28 nation EU to the US of E.
I don't feel "European", have greater affinity to other nations and identify strongly as British.
I fully respect that others feel differently and respect their position.
I'm aware that Brexit is part of our current economic difficulties and of course I regret things are (unnecessarily) even tougher.
I didn't vote for this version of Brexit and don't think we will end up with it for very long.
But please don't attempt to put me down as having not thought/read/talked about it, or as how you stereotype other people who were "stupid", "racist", "selfish", "ignorant" etc etc.
I was given the chance to vote and did, just not the same as you.