Common Sense: Brexit
If I lived in London and could vote, I would have voted to leave the European Union. Personally, I think national identity, self-determination and the direct effect this has on democracy out-weighs the counterbalancing monetary argument every time.
On my visits to the continent, I have always been amused by how much each country, its people and governments really did not like each other — amused but not surprised since European history is filled with tensions between various nations and ethnic groups.
And these tensions have only been aggravated in recent years with the many different approaches each member of the European Union has utilized to deal with the enormous refugee problem. Frankly, the present arrangement in the European Union makes a refugee problem in Germany a problem in France and as such a problem in Belgium and so forth and so on.