Well said Teribus, I would add that the straw which broke the camel's back regarding the EU was the admittance of poorer countries from Eastern Europe under the "free movement" legislation.

As our workers were losing their jobs to Globalisation, they saw hundreds of thousands of immigrants being admitted annually to "make the economy competitive", while they were being effectively written off by successive governments.
We were also fortunate to have an extremely brave and well informed politician on hand to fight our case.
Without Mr Farage, Brexit would never have happened as our Party Politicians were either too self serving or too cowardly.