Democracy is more important to me than somebodies holiday costing a few more quid.
Regarding immigration, we've enough here already and on top of the N.H.S cracking and there being a housing shortage. Having unlimited immigration is a fools game. Tighter rules are needed. Too many come at once and do not get assimilated like the Chinese, Italian and Pakistani immigrants from before.
The rest is speculation. We'll see how it pans out. I'm certainly doing alright.
As for what I want. I know I'll never get it. I also accept that I lost (the first referendum) but have moved on. Throwing tantrums won't solve anything.
While I'd argue the state of the economy is far more important than misinformed people voting to get rid of something they don't understand, with no idea of the utterly unpredictable consequences of doing so. This is generally why civilised countries elect accountable, informed representatives to unravel such complex issues, and why "direct democracies" don't work and barely exist. Nobody's throwing any tantrums, nor am I predicting Brexit to be nailed-on disaster. But it probably will be to our extreme economic detriment, mainly because continued investment in the economy requires the assurance, stability and efficiency that the EU provides and Brexit is destroying.
Not saying this is necessarily why you did, but he vast majority of idiots who voted for Trump and Brexit are undoubtedly looking for the same, simple "blame the foreigner" answers that just don't exist, to complex
domestic problems, that none of their own previous governments bothered to address. The issues you raise of housing shortages and the NHS are perfect examples of this. It's not a relatively small number of low-earning, home-renting EU migrants that are pricing British families out of buying homes. It's a succession of British governments who've failed to build affordable new ones, coupled with an out-of-control, unregulated, predatory buy-to-let market, fuelled by reckless bank-lending. Nor is it young, healthy, tax-paying migrants putting a burden on the NHS, many of whom work in it. It's mainly the size of an ageing population that wasn't envisioned, who now need to have their meals hand-fed and arses wiped, most of whom haven't contributed to the economy for the best part of a generation. That and the fact a cradle-to-grave, 100% tax funded, one-stop shop, for all your medical needs is simply utterly unrealistic in this day and age. And if you generally feel the place is simply too full, families that can't afford them should stop being encouraged to have kids that the state ends up paying to keep, long before we shut the doors to eager workers, keen to pay tax.
As for your comments of integration, I used to regularly go drinking and socialising after work with a variety of Eastern European colleagues and had a great time. I also have several Indian friends. Can't say I've ever even been on regular speaking terms with even a third or fourth generation Pakistani, though. And that's despite living on the southside of Glasgow where in many such areas a you're a visible minority. White Europeans will always assimilate far more easily into any British population than most Pakistanis, whose backward interpretation of Islam and culture, partly thanks thanks to Saudi-funded mosques, still actively deters it.
You also speak of democracy, while many Brexit supporters make the EU out to be some evil, interfering foreign dictatorship. At least the European Parliament has a genuinely representative PR voting system. Here it's commonplace for a government with barely just one third of the vote to have a majority, and thus, absolute power. Then there's the fact we can't even elect our upper house, or head of state (biggest dole claimant of the lot). Additionally, 10 times more people (and that's just registered voters) didn't vote in the referendum, than the size of the majority which Brexit won by. Not exactly a convincing mandate for such huge legal and economic upheaval with such an unpredictable, insecure and possibly volatile outcome.
