Why Brexit vote won

NOW returned to the UK after four most enjoyable weeks in Simon’s Town and reading the Cape Times daily, I have been concerned by the strange views about Brexit.

The voters were influenced by several factors to varying degrees. The outcome of the vote was not solely due to the working class. Younger voters had never experienced life before the EU with free travel for leisure and work when a job was secured, which swung them towards Remain, although the Remain campaign contained nothing about the benefits of being in the EU.

Uncontrolled immigration has overwhelmed our housing, health, education and other services. Running at over 300 000 a year, this is an unabsorbable number for our society.

There is a misfit between British case law and the EU Roman law, yet the highest appeal court is in the EU. Our country has been fully democratic for many years. The EU is not democratically controlled by the European parliament, leading to feelings of frustration by voters.

The majority of Leave voters wished to regain sovereign control of our country from a failing organisation which, for example, has been unable to master the migrant problem.