How could Brexit be a legitimate Yes or No decision?

On the 23rd June 2016 the people of the UK were asked to vote for whether they wanted to leave the E.U. or remain. But how could it ever be so simple?

A liberal’s reasons for leaving the E.U. would be different from that of a conservative, a left-winger far different from a right winger. And in the same way, a socialist’s reasons for remaining would be far different from a capitalist’s

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn might want to leave the E.U. in order to introduce an even greater level of environmental protections, human rights, animal rights and workers’ rights. I think it’s a pretty badly kept secret that he did want to leave, I wish he had been brave enough to speak out from the very beginning.

Whereas a conservative such as Boris Johnson would want to leave the E.U. to help businesses increase profit, to compound the myth of safer boarders (I have a friend who works at the Home Office and says it will make no difference at all, and in fact may get worse as a result of leaving the E.U.), sovereignty and, very probably, to make Churchill a saint.

The problem is that the party of power at the time (many would argue the party that got the country into this chaos) was the Conservative party, with capitalism at its heart. Indeed the decision to take it to the vote was in an attempt to appease the more right-wing element of that party, not a carefully thought through action for the benefit of our nation and it’s people. Therefore any Brexit deal led by that government would be more aligned with the right-wing views of the party leading it.

And this led to view that a vote to leave was the right-wing choice, and to remain more left wing. And that was largely how I made my choice, because overall that felt like the moral thing to do. But if there had been a clear liberal argument for leaving the E.U., I may have voted differently.

And perhaps there should have been even more options.

A liberal remain

A conservative remain

A liberal leave

A conservative leave.

Or perhaps even more.

A fascist leave.

A socialist remain.

A humanist leave.

A centrist remain.

Could something so complex, so important have been put to such a simplistic and legitimate yes / no vote? (Yes or no?)

Latest polls show Remain at 52%, Leave at 45% and Don’t Know at 38%

Current cost of resourcing Brexit: £1.5 billion. Estimated cost of resourcing Brexit: £4.5 billion