The most moronic reason to vote Leave?

SurryAmps tweeted: ‘A caller to LBC said he voted to Leave because he just didn’t like the thought of the EU. With this in mind, what is the most fucking moronic reason you have ever heard someone give for voting for Brexit?’

I don’t know if the following responses are hilarious, tragic or both!

·      Keeping 3 pin plugs. The caller to James O’Brien thought the EU were going to force us to change to 2 pin.

·      A friends’ dad is concerned about the number of gays at the BBC, that’s why he voted to leave.

·      I overheard an amoeba say she can’t wait to leave Europe because it’s a pain having to buy euros when she goes on holiday.

·      I have a friend who voted Leave because “I don’t make those decisions - my husband tells me what to vote for.” [the Suffragettes must be very proud.]

·      Because the EU is going to ban the Royal Family.

·      She thought the statue of the girl and bull outside the EU buildings was anti-Christian. Didn't seem too worried after the vote when she was told the statue was on Wall St, New York.

·      Bringing back a poisonous red food colouring that the EU had banned.

·      "I voted Leave. Not having my kids grow up with sharia law."

·      “They gang up on us in the Eurovision.”

·      "I just wanted a change.” - much as if she were going to the hairdressers.

·      "To bring house prices down." (given by a woman who owns a house).

·      There was a guy who when told the UK could leave on WTO rules, asked what WTO was, after being told he said "I thought WTO was the factory in Wigan that made tractor parts."

·      A young woman voted leave because she was fed up with her boyfriend going on about England in the Euros.

·      The girl from Grimsby who said she voted Leave because her Gran said the Germans weren’t very nice people

·      “We won’t have to take part in the Euros any more. I don’t like football.”

·      My friend voted leave because she didn’t like laws that restrict how many hour’s lorry drivers can drive. She’s not a lorry driver and doesn’t know any lorry drivers.

·      My Gran voted leave because the EU banned cheese rolling.

·      “I don’t want my children to have to learn Indian in school. I don’t mind them learning French though.”

·      Tossed a coin.... yes its true someone said that!

·      Because we fought the Germans in World War II

·      A co-worker voted leave because he heard that the EU was going to put a tax on e-cigarettes.

·      A woman told me today that the blue flag with gold stars '”Annoyed her.”

·      “The roads in Spain are too nice.” - British immigrant in Spain. [Believed to be Katie Price’s mither]

·      Because a 'sort of old foreign man got served before (them) in A&E'.

·      “They need us more than we need them. We saved Europe twice.”

·      “They don't have our standards.”

·      "Because the council had closed the local public toilets."

·      Jeremiah 15 told him the EU was the devil incarnate which was why he voted Leave in 2016.

·      Me: why did you vote Leave? Mother: [slightly baffled look, two second pause] “Well...we won the war.”

·      “I’m glad we’re leaving, I’ve never liked the United Nations.”

·      “I don’t want to go to France.”

·      Not liking regulation of toilet design.

·      “Because when you go to Europe it’s all kilometres & you have to travel further.”

·      “My ex-husband had an affair with an East European. There must be more like her. They should all be deported, and we should stop them coming here.” After further questions, it turns out he had several affairs, the last one with a man. I suggested we deport all men, too...

·      “Too many foreigners” - he’s married to an Italian.

·      "To get rid of the Asians."

·      “So I don’t have to queue at passport control when I come home from holiday.”

·      “Because they forced my dad to have a plastic wheelie-bin instead of his heavy old galvanised steel bin.”

·      I heard a caller on LBC about a week after the referendum say she voted Leave because she didn't like Chinese food.

·      My hairdresser voted to leave even though she owns a holiday home in Cyprus she wishes to retire to.

·      A friend has a village shop in the Lakes. 24/6/16 customer arrives, goes straight to the pie shelf, selects steak & kidney. At the till, he announces he voted Leave because the EU banned S&K pies; now we’ve left, he can buy them again...

·      The "expat" that wanted to reserve FoM for "proper Europeans" like him not just anybody ... he's now worried that his British dog will lose its passport to freely travel to Spain.

·      1) "To give the kids a chance", and 2) "Because of something I read in the Bible" (apparently making a link with EU funding of projects in Palestine)

·      Because they didn't like EU citizens coming over and working in the NHS. Whilst they were sat across the table from me, an EU citizen.

·      Regulating our cucumbers.

·      "Bloody Indians coming over here..."

·      So she could buy New Zealand lamb again!

·      My neighbour didn’t like the way the other leaders looked at David Cameron!

·      Stopping the brown people coming in. Stopping all those people who steal our jobs whilst living on benefits coming here. [Schrödinger’s Immigrant]

·      A woman I met at a wedding said she voted leave because she wanted her grandchildren to speak English not foreign.

·      A Team Leader at work voted 'Leave' because of the way some Russian football fans had behaved the weekend before

·      Getting back duty free when travelling to/from Europe.

·      “Too many people wearing turbans in the local market.”

·      “It will do us good to go without food & medicines for a few days.”

·      Tuition fees.

·      My mother said she voted leave because of some noisy Romanian lads she had seen once.

·      "The EU have passed a law stating that the cucumbers I buy in the supermarket must be sold in vacuum sealed plastic wrappers."

·      A client with a house in Italy voted leave because the EU were bringing in emissions regulations and he has vintage cars that wouldn’t pass.

·      My top 3 from Street Stalls - 1. Because you can’t buy pork chops with kidneys anymore 2. If we leave we will be able to buy bananas from Madeira 3. We need to leave the EU, it says so in the book of Jeremiah.

·      “The bloody EU took away my wife’s Motability car.”

·      The EU banned smoking in pubs.

·      “Too many Muslimics.”

·      "Too many human rights."

·      Too many Chinese restaurants in Clacton!

·      Because the word 'Brexit' sounded good, like 'biscuit'.

·      “Before the EU we had multi-coloured fire extinguishers for different fires.”

·      Not fair that student friends can have free internet through ‘euduroam' while she had to pay for phone data.

·      “Because 'they' haven't cut the verges!” (pointed out long grass on verges).

·      To buy British eggs.

·      “The EU was invented by the Nazis.”

·      “You don't see British cheese in French supermarkets.”

·      Council tax had gone up and, by the same woman, the Mayor for Merseyside never goes to the Wirral.

·      "It's not about benefits, it's about feelings."