The option to change was not feasible. Every single leading Remain campaigner advocated staying in a "reformed" EU but they all had a different vision of what that reformed EU might look like.
We've been hearing about reform of CAP, CFP and devolving decisions back to national governments for years. Cameron asked for little and got less. So little it was hardly mentioned in the debate.
The Remain argument was in basic terms, let's stay in this flawed organisation in the vain hope that we can reform it.
In terms of leave it was set out to:
Bring legal primacy back to the UK Supreme Court.
Leave the customs union in order to set up bilateral trade deals.
Leave the internal market necessary to be able to both the above.
Seek to agree a free trade agreement.
Seek to continue working with the EU where we have common ground eg environment, security, science.
Devolve some of the repatriated powers down to the national assemblies.
I'm not sure what more information you needed Mike. It was out there.
I can understand if people couldn't get their head around it.
I can understand if some had difficulty sifting through the BS that was flying around.
But I can't understand what more you needed to know.
In terms of Davis, he hasn't even sat down with his EU Counterpart yet. Of course he doesn't know on many issues.
He doesn't know if the EU would like to work towards a free trade agreement for example.
I watched the whole of the select committee hearing the other day. To be fair to Davis the questions were pretty poor from both Remain and Leave advocates.