1. What opportunities? Can you describe them?
2. Imagine if West Virginia decided to leave the union, what would be its opportunities?
3. the “vote” was a non-binding, advisory referendum, not a US-style referendum where action MUST be taken.
4. Also in that non-binding, advisory referendum, it was a 51.48% win for “a type of Leave” - what leave was never specified nor asked. Since then the disagreement is over what type of leave.
There would most likely be a big opportunity with President Trump/USA trade deal.
And couldn’t the UK also do deals with Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, India, and others? Is there some reason why not?
And surely West Virginia is part of one country—USA. But the participants you speak of in the EU are each separate, individual countries. Each country can stand on its own and has for hundreds of years before the EU existed.
Cedar has answered most of your points. The opportunity of not being under the thumb of a monstrous dictatorial beauracracy that the EU is rapidly becoming is reason enough. Being free to negotiate trade deals with dynamic free-market economies is another opportunity.
I big to differ about “non-binding referendum”. Britain has an unwritten constitution where traditions govern. One of those traditions is that if an election is held on around a particular issue, then the outcome of that election is a mandate to implement that issue. That is why a prime minister who couldn’t in good conscious implement that mandate resigned. That is why the current rump parliament, despite clearly desiring to undermine Brexit, doesn’t dare simply say “that was a non-binding referendum”.