• In this essay, I will present three or more reasons, citing textual evidence that answers the essential question, “What were the reasons the British people chose to leave the EU?” and close with how it relates to today. 

     

    First of all, the EU limits a country's playing level field with other countries, resulting in making them less competitive globally. In advance to cite my textual evidence, the article “17 Reasons to Love Brexit” states, “The government was supportive, but the barrier was the EU.” The EU enforces its rules on all operations that are reported to the government, even if this has negative consequences. For instance, a person advocating for competition in banking believes that challenger banks should be subject to the same prudential regulations as larger banks. The government was in favor of this proposal as it was an excellent promotion. However, the barrier was the EU. It was exasperating to the UK’s global financial institutions, assuring its downfall/ fluctuation in international performance. To add on, this can also be an example of a centrifugal force. A centrifugal force is a force that divides things or moves them away from one another. As you can see, this example clearly divides a region as it made the UK leave the EU. Additionally, undeniably the centrifugal force won over the UK more than the centripetal force. In contrast, Brexit on the other hand, has a significant enhancement towards the UK’s bank or insurance companies and would ensure that competing with US or Asian banks on a level playing field. To sum it up, the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and the creation of Brexit were born by the EU, as it deprives a country’s ability to compete globally by imposing unbalanced playing fields with various of nations, resulting in a loss. Additionally, after Brexit, the UK is less restricted by some EU regulations. It is argued that a positive result of Brexit has been an ability to trade more freely with non-EU markets – for example, the US and Australia. 

     

    Second of all, one of the main reasons for the UK’s withdrawal is sharing their power/money with those regions that need it. In advance to cite textual evidence, the article “17 Reasons to Love Brexit” states, “David Cameron focused his brutalizing EU renegotiation on being allowed to stop paying UK child benefit payments to children who don’t live in the UK.” You see, western European regions are generally wealthier and more enhanced rather than those countries in Central and Eastern Europe. One of the EU’s long-term goals of the EU is to ensure that all of its members are on a level playing field and to reduce the money difference between the richest country and the poorest country. However, some Western Europeans object to so much EU money being spent outside their own area. Additionally, workers in Western Europe are paid higher wages than those in Central and Eastern Europe! But living costs are higher in Western Europe as well. These factors have led some Western European businesses to move manufacturing to poorer EU countries- outcoming Western Europe workers left in great anguish about their jobs, as they can certainly lose them. To add on, this also influences workers in poorer countries to immigrate to wealthier countries in hopes of finding a better lifestyle. However, once again this caused great agonize in Western European countries that too many newcomers will decrease wages for everyone else. Therefore, this impacted the UK significantly, forcing them to leave the EU and become a fully independent region. In contrast, Brexit will provide the United Kingdom with its own regulations! The UK can finally manipulate the EU rules on its own as it will be able to control its borders, immigrants, and wages. To sum it up, one of the primary reasons for the UK's withdrawal is the compelled regulations to share its power and funds with regions in need.

     

    Thirdly, the UK separated itself from the EU essentially because of sovereignty. In advance to cite textual evidence, the website “Causes of the Vote Favor in Brexit” states, “Factors included sovereignty, immigration, the economy, and anti-establishment politics, amongst various other influences. The result of the referendum was that 51.8% of the votes were in favor of leaving the European Union.” As stated before, when a country joins the European Union, it is expected to give up some power to the EU government. This leads to EU countries being compelled to obey the EU decisions even if they disagree with the given policy. This problem creates a complex problem each day for these regions. Some want to continue to make independent decisions in areas like defense, foreign affairs, and immigration from outside the EU, especially when they disagree with EU decisions on these matters. This forced the UK to leave the EU and become its own independent nation for the betterment of its economy and society. To add on, In the 1960s, Britain vividly experienced the drawback of having no control over the European market. Plus, a too small a domestic market to provide a secure base for its manufacturers. To sum it all up, the UK's decision to separate from the EU was primarily due to concerns about sovereignty as it has a fundamental rapid downfall in the UK’s economy and could lead to UK’s overall appearance in the world being less effective. 

     

    In conclusion, some reasons the British people chose to leave the EU are crucial because the EU limits a country's playing level field with other countries, resulting in making them less competitive globally, the EU shares other nations’ power/money with those regions that need it, and in the bigger perspective, the UK separated itself from the EU essentially because of sovereignty. There have been many debates about this controversial topic- if leaving the EU was a beneficial decision or not. They are debates still going on today! Moving further, how this relates to today, because of the UK’s disagreements with the EU and the majority of its people, they created a brand-new organization called, “Brexit”. This was created to earn the UK’s freedom and their control from the EU. To add on, Brexit was started three years ago- in 2020. Fortunately, it is still here today! It is very well thriving and powerful. Many of the UK’s population are beyond happy with this decision as they have finally regained the control, they should have had long years back. These were some of the reasons why the British people chose to leave the EU for the betterment of their economy and people.