Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
You're not confused you're starting to get it.

We had sovereignty because we could leave but if we didn't leave we had to go along with whatever the EU decided. But since we hadn't chosen to leave that was tacitly our choice. In order to exercise our sovereignty we needed to leave and make our own decisions.
No, I'm really not getting it all. We've always had sovereignty. You just want "more" of it. You think the benefits of that outweigh the cost and risk whereas I don't.