The Bank of England issued new warnings Thursday about the risks to the U.K. economy from a decision to leave the European Union in June’s referendum. But for many people who want the U.K. out of the EU, the economic arguments are beside the point.

The big issue for them is to bring decision-making back to the Parliament in London and to reverse what they see as the creeping control Brussels has had over British affairs since the U.K. joined what was then the European Economic Community in 1973.

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