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the EU offers a lot more than your over simplification.
Sure, we should have stayed on the single market, there was no need for any disruption
But there was no way out of the environmental disasters that are the common policies without leaving the EU.
But, Tories gonna Tory
we could have influence the EU from within. Instead we are flushing raw sewage around the coast and asking people to stop consuming sea food.
Yeah, the CAP has required reforming for 40 years. I'd given up hope way before they spent all of our net contribution on poorly implemented and failed biodiversity policies, according to the EU's own auditors.
https://www.arc2020.eu/cap-billions-spent-on-biodiversity-with-little-impact-auditors/
The CFP is also a cluster fuck that's based on fish quotas to satisfy boats, not fish. The bycatch and discards are a decades long failure. The herring population is about to collapse as a result, and over 10k dolphins are killed each and every year.
https://www.intrafish.com/fisheries/critical-northeast-atlantic-herring-stock-at-risk-of-collapse-warns-msc/2-1-1527500?zephr_sso_ott=dw7lvo
https://seas-at-risk.org/press-releases/european-commission-must-stop-france-and-spain-from-killing-thousands-of-dolphins-warn-ngos/