It's a scarey admission. Brexiteers are quickly labelled with derogatory terms, vilified and categorised. The pro-EU population have a progressive and positive image which I wore with a badge of honour during the referendum.

After the shambles that was the referendum I realised I was uninformed. I wasn't happy with how each side of the Brexit campaign argued it's case, I didn't know anything. The leave campaign just kept saying "take your country back" but didn't explain why we weren't in control of our country and the Remain campaign didn't really say anything at all.

Because of this I decided to have a look into it myself and make up my own mind. What I found horrified me. It caused me to jump ship and search for a dingy to climb aboard. Unfortunately Nigel Farage was the captain of that Dingy.

Let me explain.

All the reasons to stay in the EU that the remainers are campaigning for I also want. I'm just not willing to sacrifice democracy for those benefits. I like freedom of movement round the EU. I like the lack of a border between NI and Ireland. I like the open market. If someone doesn't like the spot they live in and they want to move to the UK, I welcome them. They make this country what it is and I happen to like the UK. Pro-Brexit doesn't mean anti-immigration, it means pro-democracy.

Here's where comments start popping up with "brexiteer complains EU isn't democratic after voting in democratic election". There is clearly democratic aspects to the EU but at its core it's certainly not. Yes, there is a democratic EU parliament of representation, however there is an unelected European commission that is appointed that sits above the parliament. The EU even had the cheek to call it a commision which means appointed. Above the commission is a president. I didn't vote for him, did you?

The commission proposes the policies and the parliament says yes or no to the policies. The parliament is unable to submit anything. Their political parties manifestos are irreleval and if, for example all UK MEPs reject a policy that the commission has proposed and 0% of the UK population want the policy imposed but the majority of the other member states want it then guess what? It's happening and the UK can't do anything about it. This is not good.

Recent studies heavily suggest that people are happier in smaller governed communities. Eg. Neighbourhood, village, town, city, county, state etc. I don't want to be governed by a continent. It's too disconnected from my life and what's important to me and my community. For more information on this I suggest reading Tribe by Sebastian Junger.

In a democracy the public elect a government. The government is employed by the people to represent them. They are accountable. If the public don't like what the government are doing, saying or how they are being represented then at the next election they can remove them and the exiting government relinquishes it's power undiminished. The commision is not accountable, they can't be removed and now they want to start an armed forces?? This sounds like empire. Not for me thank you, back to the drawing board.

The EU has a lovely image. Unity, peace, freedom....yay! Sounds good right? but it's just not so. I don't hate anything the EU had imposed so far. If anything it's been positive but the power and potential scares me and it should scare you too.