You know, the truth is youse voted LEAVE, without really knowing why you were voting LEAVE. Or perhaps you were genuinely taken in by the 350 million a week for the NHS, and shocked that EU officials can get a hair cut in the EU parliament. It's being against something wthout being for anything.
Maybe it is just good old English imperialism and fear of Johnny Foreigner. What is wrong with the English?
Are the rest of the world outside of the EU complying to this legislation?.
I think it requires a global effort if we're going to make a global difference.
Yes there is much more to be done. But the EU has indeed often lead the way, lead the world in terms of environmental standards. And it does so because it brings nations together, agrees legislation by consensus and creates a level playing field that allows unrestricted free trade for members.
The way forward to global standards, is not leaving the EU where we will have no say in new EU standards, new standards that more than likely we will have to comply with, but increasingly EU standards are being adopted by other countries around the globe as off the shelf solutions, that also help align themselves economically with the EU in order to gain free trade access to the EU.
BEXIT at the end of the day is a project in self harm. Whatever route we take, we will lose sovereignty, our standing will be reduced globally, and our economy will be negatively impacted.