It appears that the leave crowd got tired of having policies and regulations shoved down their throats by the EU council and not having the option of debate or the choice to refuse the councils decisions and policies. I think this hopefully will slow the forced globalization of Europe and prevent the total disappearance of English society and culture due to the influx of third world immigrants who have no desire to assimilate to their host countries societies. I have always believed Merkel was crazy for throwing the doors of Europe open to anyone without regard to their past history or country of origin.
The EU council has all the say so as to what happens in the EU and their decisions are final and are not subject to deliberation from any of the affected member states, so it effectively neuters a country's right to control their own borders and trade agreements. An EU member country now has to abide by what the member council decides is best for the EU and not the individual member state. The poor countries and rich elitists were mostly the ones who wanted to remain because they have the most to lose.
Sort of ironic actually, seems the BREXIT vote was the English version of our Boston Tea Party. 8)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-leave-commentary-idUSKCN0ZB05Y