Why a Hard Brexit is the only Logical Option (Opinions from a Remainer)

What's the point of having the worst parts of being in the EU and the worst parts of being out the EU? i.e. a Soft Brexit. There isn't. Hence a Hard Brexit.

With Theresa May’s majority (and consequently authority) having been removed in the latest general election, people have called for the Prime Minister to provide a Soft Brexit rather than a Hard Brexit. I voted Remain yet I don’t want a Soft Brexit.

I voted Remain not because of the economy or a European identity, but more for preventing the long, convoluted process that leaving would be. There are better things to do with government’s time. Plus people using it as a protest vote against the UK government makes little sense (which I have complained about before at length). But as this is what we now have, I am happy to live with it.

Many see Soft Brexit as a compromise between Leavers and Remainers. I don’t see it that way. Sure, the UK would retain access to the Single Market and all those benefits with a Soft Brexit, but the UK would no longer have a say in creating EU laws, laws which the UK would still have to follow. Plus the UK would have to contribute to the EU budget and, most likely, lose the substantial rebate that Margaret Thatcher arranged for us. What sense is there in following rules when you have no power to make or change those rules?

Further, the reason most people voted to leave was for the UK to regain full sovereignty of itself. So a Soft Brexit, a Brexit where the UK would regain no sovereignty, would be ignoring what the people voted for and that would be a major mistake for any politician to make.

Like I said before, I wanted to Remain. I was more than happy for EU to have authority over the UK. It didn’t bother me in the slightest and I would be fine for it to continue, but ONLY if we had some control over the authority. Being a member of the EU means regulating EU laws whereas a Soft Brexit means no power to regulate EU laws yet still have to follow them.

A Soft Brexit would give the UK a relationship with the EU akin to one between child and parent. That’s not a sensible position to be in. That would make the UK worse off than it being a member so, in this eventuality, the UK, gaining nothing but losing everything, should logically remain a member of the EU. If the UK is to the leave the EU, it should fledge the best rather than staying to hold its hand. 

As I said before, there's no point of having the worst parts of being in the EU and the worst parts of being out the EU like a Soft Brexit would provide.