I don't think remainers have to justify anything. We were happy with the status quo, we wanted it to continue, we liked being part of Europe with all the benefits that confers. Personally, I see no negatives at all to being a member of the EU.
I was 17 when we had the last referendum, and although I was just too young to vote I was involved in doorstep canvassing on behalf of the "yes" campaign. I've been European for my whole adult life and now I'm at retirement age, it's being taken away from me.
I'm extremely upset about losing my European citizen status, losing my right to vote for MEPs, losing the freedom to easily travel to and live within European countries. I can't think of another domestic political issue that's had such an impact on the way I feel, and I've been voting for 42 years now.
Well said
@Penna I have just sent off papers that will allow me to live and work in Germany which I have been doing for the last 28 years, the best thing it is going to cost me money to do this I talked today to a guy who used to work for the same company that I do he is a truck driver who has decided to get German Nationality because he often has to drive to Holland and he told me what you have to pay to become German.
25€ for the Naturalisation Test.
140€ for the language test which you have to do regardless of whether you speak fluent German or not.
255€ for the Naturalisation
Which is a grand total of 420€ and getting a permanent residence permit probably around a 100€ despite the fact that I had a permanent residence permit for EWG states that I got in 1996 until the changes due to the EU. In all honesty both the EU and the UK should have from the start discussed and created reciprocal agreements so that EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in Europe could get either naturalisation or permanent residence with as little fuss and cost as possible and being honest I trust neither to do right by people like us as we are pawns.
Just now I am firmly in the camp on Friday that the EU tells the UK your out go away and sink into obscurity as I am sick, tired and so fed up of this whole farce and will finally know one way or another where I stand, if I wish to visit the UK will I require a visa to travel through Holland etc. etc.
Another thing that has annoyed me is that I never had a vote because I have lived outside of the UK for over 15 years, as long as I possess a British Passport I am a British citizen and as such should have a say.