<human>:  Why did the UK vote to leave the EU?
<bot>: The UK voted to leave the EU because the European Union was not a democracy. It was a dictatorship of the elite. The people of the UK did not want to be ruled by unelected bureaucrats. The UK also did not want to pay into the EU budget, and the EU did not want to give the UK a say in the rules and regulations that were being created by the EU.