an independent United Kingdom
The United Kingdom was and is independent!! All talk of 'no control over our own borders' is tosh - the government could deport any EU citizen who had not found gainful employment within 3 months of arriving, but CHOSE/CHOOSES not to do so. And the rules that the EU sets - we AGREED to them all!
When it comes to security we need our own military system that is not reliant upon a political-economic entity that includes former Warsaw Pact nations that are only in it for the money.
Like Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia? Go read up on the Battle of Britain. Also, all of these 'former Warsaw Pact nations' are now part of NATO - should we leave that?
Need I remind anyone on here that it has traditionally been Britain that has come to the aid of Europe ever since the days of the thirty years war and not the other way round?
And it is largely
because of the EU that we haven't had to do so since 1945!!