I voted to leave. I massively regret this decision and went into it massively uneducated on the subject. In hindsight I should never have voted. That being said, here was my logic at the time coupled with what I've learnt since.

1. Uncontrolled Immigration really upset me. Not because I'm racist, before that word is tossed at me. One of my close friends at work (a CAD engineer originally from Pakistan) is getting deported. He is polite, educated to degree level and as far as I'm concerned he is culturally British. But he is being deported despite being working in a STEM subject and paying TONS of tax due to his high income. The fact a European brick layer effectively has more chance of staying here than him saddens me and pissed me off to be honest. I realise that this is not the fault of the EU however if we had a different immigration system based on skills and education it may have been different for my colleague.

2. Levels of immigration - I have always been told that there are 'too many'. I come from a low income background and a very, very poor area of Britain. All of the senior people around blame immigrants FOR EVERYTHING. It has been ingrained in me that they are the reason the NHS is crumbling and the reason there are no school places. In the televised debate this was barely mentioned other than the fact that the Leave campaign would limit the numbers and have more control.

I have since realised it is the lack of investment in the NHS and Education system that caused the issue not immigrants. How I was naive to this I'll never know. Why didn't the remain campaign just stress how few immigrants actually move here each year? I had no idea the figure was so small. I would genuinely have assumed they accounted for 4-5% more of the population more than they do.

1. Nobody told me the EU is a good force. The leave campaign tore it to pieces and the remain just stated it needs reform. I was never made aware of the amount the EU does for the UK. They invest in so many things and we get the majority of our financial input back. When the leave campaign bombarded me with the £350m figure I sat up and listened and it never really got shot down. I never realised the investment the EU makes into both the UK and crucial areas like scientific research.

I hold my hands up guys, I got this so so wrong. Not even looking at this with hindsight in the sense of new things being revealed to me. They were there all along and I never made the effort to look. I'm so dissapointed in myself for being so naive and stupid.

Sorry Britain. Sorry EU. Sorry world.