Because they've had 25 years of anti-EU propaganda blasted at them, mostly by Boris Johnson. By his own admission, when he was a journalist in Brussels in the

Because they've had 25 years of anti-EU propaganda blasted at them, mostly by Boris Johnson. By his own admission, when he was a journalist in Brussels in the 90's, he fabricated stories from whole cloth - he compared it to chucking stones at the neighbour's greenhouse for fun. He was fired for this repeatedly, and therefore entered politics.