Title: Brexit: Why Britain voted to leave the EU · TheJournal.ie
Headings: Brexit: Why Britain voted to leave the EU
Brexit: Why Britain voted to leave the EU
If you’re struggling to understand how Brexit happened, here’s what the Leave side promised voters.
1. They were promised more money
2. They want autonomy
3. They’re concerned about immigration
4. They see the European Union as ‘failed experiment’
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Content: I informed myself. I read about the tampon tax and I was really shocked that we in this country have to go to Brussels to get an agreement about getting VAT scrapped on a tax that we feel quite strongly about.” (David Cameron vowed to scrap VAT rates on tampons, but this decision was delayed by EU rulings which mean that all tax changes have to go through Brussels.) “It got me started about the notion of democracy. If you’ve got elected representatives in this country, who we’ve elected at the ballot box, why do they have to go to Brussels?” 3. They’re concerned about immigration
UKIP party leader Nigel Farage holds his passport as he addresses media and party members during a speech on the EU referendum. Source: Frank Augstein/Press Association Images
The European Union’s freedom of movement policy has been at the heart of the EU referendum debate. The law, which guarantees citizens of the EU the right to travel, to work, and to live in other EU countries, coupled with the financial crisis in 2008 has brought a surge of immigrants from poorer EU states to the UK in the years since the recession.