If you increase the population every year amounting to the size of a town like Bolton and you are asked to have a say in it ,you can make your own mind up about that , which begs the question where is every body going to go on this small island its unsustainable.
Your sentence is revealing in that most of the political establishment including the Prime Minister is remain as you voted therefore you are pleased the way it is going to block Brexit , even it was a democratic vote . We did survive before the EU or Common Market which only had a few countries...