I think we should all cut Mrsmelly a bit of slack. It seems that he served in the Royal Navy and from what I can gather and observed to a degree when I was training for the MOD a fair bit of what could be called brainwashing goes on, like being the best country in the world, the best army/navy/air force, Queen and country first, the finest democracy and so on. I can well see how he has come to believe the UK is much better on its own and being a member of the EU made the UK a lesser state.

Spot on Graham. The tiny majority were made up of a wide spectrum of beliefs. Tim represents the extreme end, the xenophobes who rabidly hate the EU. He's an extremist in every sense of the word